Little Mac Has To Reach Up

Hey guys! Happy Friday. I couldn't be happier to be facing the weekend after doing over 10,000 manual adjustments at work today. I am all kinds of weird, so this post is gonna be all over the place! Before I expire though, I'm gonna give this crazy posting a go....  As you probably know, or guessed I have been all over Super Smash Bros Wii U since it's launch.  That Friday 2 weeks ago was dubbed Nintendo Day, something I didn't know until getting a flyer.  I had taken the day off and I was the only one looking for the game at a local Wal-Mart.  Gosh, even Kirby 20th anniversary had a larger crowd then that! (Beating the Smash crowd by 2.)  I guess Ontario is lacking in Nintendo love.  All good for me though.  I got first pick of the Amiibos as the lady in electronics opened the boxes for me. How lucky, considering they have been collecting dust in most stores I have gone too. :P 

Anyway I think the game is pretty fun. More of the same, really, but what isn't broke, don't fix it I guess.  For an old schooler like me the biggest thrills was at first finally being able to play as Little Mac for the first time in the series. How it took them 15 years to finally do this is just beyond me, considering he was Nintendos first true brawler.  Bitching aside, he is lots of fun to play with.  A real challenge to, as he is not very good in the air.  Kinda fits well with a character who has always had to struggle against overwhelming odds to succeed.  So, in honer of Macs inclusion I asked FallenAngel to draw him up. All sexy and naughty for you guys to enjoy.  As part of his special promotion he had going, Fallen did this at a discounted price. 1/3rd off his regular prices!  I think he did an immaculate job. His line work is super sharp!  Mac is nicely tanned and very gloriously muscled.  I wonder if that is Mike's dick? I thought it would be funny to have the short boxer reaching up to suck the dick of a boxer that is high above him, since he is constantly having to reach up in his games.

Here is my copy of the game with the Amiibos I chose. I picked up a Marth the day after getting the game. There were tons at the Toys R Us I went to.  

Another piece of Nintendo merchandise I picked up around the same time! 

As much as I liked the inclusion of Mac, nothing could have prepared me for the inclusion of Duck Hunt. Oh lord, those Christmas 1987 memories came flooding back when they hit the screen.  Incorporating other gun games like Wild Gun Man and Hogan's Alley really hit that special spot.  These guys are a love letter to 80s zapper kids and adults alike. I miss Ice Climbers, my fellow Canadians, but this really helped heal that wound!

While I wait for Nintendo to release a Little Mac Amiibo figure, I often search the net for any Punch Out Merchandise. I only have a few things, like some stickers and a trash can.  I never had any of the Punch Out Trophies. I do have a Zelda in a box somewhere. I have to say, this one of Mac fighting E. Honda is pretty well detailed. It's creepy that the orange background is actually heads. Looks like the audience is imprisoned in it.  Nice ass on Mac though.

 Come to think of it, I may just have owned a King Hippo, or Mac figure, but not for very long.

 The packaging on this Bowl a Ball game is about the coolest thing about it.  None of the boxers along the sides are featured in the game. Not really sure how this one works, but a very awesome packaging job nonetheless. 

While searching for Punch Out, I cam across Punch Out Popeye Standies!  Hey, this may seem random, but Popeye was one of the characters that helped put Nintendos name on the Map.  The character had already appeared in many Nindendo products long before they made games and once they did, he appeared in no less than 4 of them! (2 Game & Watches and 2 Famicom games.)Honestly, that would have been the thrill of thrills to see good old Popeye come back to teach these youngsters a thing, or two about fighting!   (In full 8 bit glory of course.)  You guys know how I like to share these little cut out characters.  So have fun printing them and placing them! 

Popeye Arcade Gay Advertisement

I was going to touch on this yesterday, but that Popeye post was already running long enough! People to this day pine for Nintendo to any sort of port of their classic, all but forgotten Popeye arcade game. This game was the shit back in the day. There's a ton of history to it, including the fact that you can thank Popeye for the creation of Mario! (Look it up!) Anyway, I found out last year that they did a cell phone version, released by Namco, and a company called Project Next a mobile gaming company from Europe. I thought the video the marketing team released on Youtube was pretty um..interesting. The music doesn't say Popeye, or arcade to me, but rave at a gay club. Even the announcer sounds so out of place. XD Sigh...No wonder I never heard of it till 2 years after it's release.



Maybe they should have stuck to something closer to the original Parker Brothers adds from the 80s....I guess they had a very limited budget and had to use someones boyfriends demo tape. >__<

Sexy Till the Finich By Aneros

The story of how this awesome piece came to be is pretty interesting. So last week Thursday, just before I got really sick, I spent an evening chatting with Aneros. At one point the conversation fell to Popeye. I remarked about how popular he was back in the early 80s. How the character and game was a strong influence on me growing up. Then how one day Popeye just sorta vanished from Canadian TV. I showed him some of the intros from the old cartoons I watched on Saturday morning, mostly thru reruns on Global TV, when I was very young.

Popeye's Treasure Hunt Intro. Awesome stuff.

1979 All New Popeye Hour Intro.

1980 All New Popeye Hour Intro. Love how Hanna Barbara would include both shows in one intro. Gave the whole thing a feeling of togetherness. Nowadays shows like Scooby Doo don't even include characters from their past, never mind other HB creations. It's sad. No one has ever uploaded the final seasons intro which featured Prehistoric Popeye and Olive in the Army. It was called the Popeye and Olive Oil Comedy Show.

He really got me thinking. Something popped into my mind and I did a random item search on E-bay. What I uncovered was something of a treasure. A piece of Popeye memorabilia I had not seen since Halloween 1985, when I got what was surly the last of it's kind in my trick, or treat bag. The Hilroy Popeye Drawing Pad!

With numerous covers and instructions on how to draw my favorite characters, I would sit for hours and draw on my Popeye pads. My mom would gladly buy me these from variety stores. Anything to prevent me from drawing more Pac-Man on her Bing Crosby Christmas Albums. :P When I was done, I would cut out the characters from the how to page and make little cardboard figures with them. I have no doubt these pads, given to me at a young age, fueled my love of art and drawing. So when I did find the pad, overwhelmed with nostalgia, I purchased it right away. Once it comes in the mail, I will post better pictures of it. I searched for years for these things. I have a funny feeling they were only sold in Canada, making them very scarce. I have Aneros to thank for two things today. ^O^

Then Aneros asked me what kind of foreskins I like the most. I was in retro land at that point and didn't put two and two together. I got up for a bit and when I came back there was a very childhood rocking e-mail waiting for me! Yup, it was the image way above! XD He completed the image some time yesterday. It's really cool. Just check out that fantastic coloring and shading. When do you see Popeye get that much attention even in production art? I thought the exaggerated low hanging balls were pretty sexy and very fitting for Peopeye. It's great how he made Popeye in his style, giving him a hot sexy body, but still keeping in tune with cartoon characters key characteristics. I never thought I would be turned on by the spinach scarfing sailor man! :P Thanks so much Aneros. Getting this certainly gave me a jolt that confirmed, the only weakness I had left was an inability to keep my hands out of my pants! XD