R. Monkeys and I both realized we liked Pokémon a lot c. 1998, so we decided that it's on over the holidays. And because my response to challenges is to dump a lot of energy into areas that are tangenitally-related at best, I had to craft a Game Boy of untold power to wield, and it will slowly corrupt me like the Soul Edge. So It has the buttons and de-labeled back of a Pokémon Edition, the front of a yellow regular one, replacement little rubber button pads from a DS Lite, and the frontlight from an Advance SP. So I guess it's going to shoot a stream of energy into the sky and start using me as its host.

At least it didn't cost money that wasn't spent years ago. I used to collect handheld game thingies, and while the good stuff was sold in, like, 2003, stock Game Boy Colors and a Pokémon Edition in rough shape are among the things still around. Those and a Game Gear. Hm, there was rarer stuff, like the Turbo Express, but I think the funnest were the Nomad and Neo Geo Pocket Color. The former was just a Genesis, and the latter had a bunch of weird Japanese RPGs and Match of the Millennium. There aren't enough submarine RPGs.

Too bad I can't find my old Red cartridge. My crack team of killers probably died long ago. I'll have to do a "getting the gang back together" montage.

Found out that the drawing program I like on the iPad can export videos. Funsies!

I'm making an iPad game in the style of a SNES RPG, and there's a part where the player has to spend some time in a sort of abandoned Detroit-y place and go find something in a factory. So I had to make a background track for that, and this cover seemed to come out well…

Then I got bored and made a Rock Lobster one.

Then I put them here and gave them lame names. I know it's sort of a cliché, but I like doing that too much. After hours and hours of fussing with my keyboard, it's nice to have a stupid naming formula to adhere to.

 

This thing's great. It's a little nose-heavy with the 18-55, but the sensor is phenomenal. Compares well with APS-C DSLRs costing a thousand bucks more. As long as you don't like buttons and dials too much.

When you burp into Google Voice Search, you get this: