05/03/2004:

Ah, another year, another update. If I keep this site running at this pace, I may just be a praised as an Internet celebrity by the time I buy my first box of depends. My River City Ransom review, which would have actually been all indie and underground had I written it two months ago when I got the Japanese rom after someone was yelling about it in #finalfight, is finally completed. Surprisingly, it still sort of stands alone as the one good review of the game to be found in English on the entire web unless you count any of that uninformative claptrap about the game you can find on one of the many "professional" video game review sites that clog our browser windows these days. I guess it has to do with the fact that the only other true fans of the Kunio-kun series who aren't Japanese belong to the webpageless masses. There's always Johnny Undaunted, but his pages makes the Technos Samurai look like the most up to date personal page ever crafted. I wrote it mostly just to get back into the videogame humourist saddle which I believe is important if my latest pipe dream is to be a success. But I'll talk more about Coffee Quarters after it takes a few steps closer to reality. I have a lot of big ideas for this place that relate to this retro gaming, child of the 80s community I find myself a part of. My plans involve evolving this site into the cafe's site and making it a lot more of a site than it is now.

On a side note that I'm sure no one will care about, there's a new mp3 in the music section.

07/01/2003:

While my recent updates have completely shocked many of you with their relative increase in frequency, I was hoping that I could continue that pattern of an update a month that I had going for a glorious... two months. But here I sit, at one in the morning on the first of July, defeated. I have however, finally completed the second chapter of Attempts at Swordsmanship. It nearly killed me to finish it for some reason but there it is for all your highly critical eyes. It can be found in the Gamography section if that last link frightened you with it's implusive purple colour and crass underline. I've also added another site to my links page. A fellow Kunio-kun fan came to me with glowing words about my work here and I just can't turn that sort of person away. He's inspired me to write some more Nekketsu material for this site and thus I plan on writing about that new River City Ransom remake that's heading to the Gameboy Advance some time this winter. That's still a long ways off though, so until then you can read my current thoughts on Altus' proposed game on Sharkey's boards.

04/20/2003:

Now that all the traffic that Thor's generous and God-like mention of my site stirred up has safely subsided, I may once again update my site without fear of anyone actually reading any of my pathetic ramblings. That being the case, I have decided to start writing what will be a continuing saga of reviews and articles that I call Attempts at Swordsmanship. It will chronicle my ill-fated quest to find a video game that truly recreates the thrill of the samurai duel that I experience in real life about five times a year with other geeks whenever there is a kendo tournament in southern Ontario. As long as there isn't an anime con on the same day *snort*.

04/01/2003:

Maybe it's just because my procrastination in other areas of my life has reached a new, never before seen high, but I have finally decided to update this site again. It's not the cartoon that I promised what seems like forever ago, it's just an article for the --until now unopened-- Gamography section. I was thinking of starting Live journal a few days ago but then I remembered I had this site already. So I think I'll be posting a lot of rants, reviews and essays on this page during the next few months. If I get any traffic out of it I may even continue after that. For now you can belittle my work and ideas by taking a look at my thoughts on Nekketsu Hockey-bu.

08/21/2002:

I've had this page sitting here advertizing a Kunio cartoon that has never fully come to be in any tangible form for about a year now. I'm sure anyone who was pulled in by the original hype is long gone now, thus making my chances of making this site a popular one all the more slim. The reasons are many; problems with my flash software, other more appealing ways to spend my time flaunting themselves in my face, and of course there is always IRC. Another reason is my staff position at the loved and hated RPGamer. But I've decided to screw that page and though I have not officially quit, I have stopped doing any work for them. They're nice people, I'd just rather work on this site. Anyway, there will be a kunio cartoon. I swear it. Previous attempts were hampered by a failure to create a real script of any kind before beginning the animation process. This time I will actually come up with something that's worth more than a slight chuckle before committing to constructing layers and objects and all of that inane yet lovable stuff. So, rest assured, I am actually working on an episode in my fleeting spare time. No longer will this webspace simply be used to run my webcam and store strange hentai pics I find and want to show idiots in #finalfight. I have nothing to show you all now of course... making this update rather frivolous I must admit. However, in this web of blogs and 'cool link' pages that make up the self-replicating apocrypha of the Internet, who really cares?

06/22/2001:

Well it's been five long months but I'm back to practicing the time honoured samurai tradition of ACTUALLY UPDATING MY PAGE! There were people who doubted this notion and some who even tried to stop me. But in the end I knew it was the right thing to do (poorly of course). Any who, because so many people bugged me to (ok like 3 people in #finalfight asked me to get on with it and make a Kunio flash cartoon series) and Since my Exams finish next monday, I've decided to finally start making Kunio flash cartoons. So without further ado I give you the Downtown Nekketsu Animated trailer!

01/23/2001:

Well I've completely redone the site. Sadly GeoCorp is no more. No longer Is an environmentally friendly - yet evil - empire my best idea for a page theme. So in GeoCorp's place I give you yet an other classic gaming site. Now before you rip my head off and feed it to Seanbaby, I promise that this site will actually serve a purpose and not just add to the already supersaturated pile of 'old Nintendo game' web pages currently out there. It is my hope to make this page a hub for all of the English-speaking Kunio-kun fans out there. As you read this I am probably trying to get other Kunio-webpage authors to join me in this crusade. Perhaps, on one shining day this site will truly be the high trafficked Kunio/Nekketsu center of the internet. We can only hope. I will get the page running full swing soon.