Tony, Mike and Derek ground bridge to the interwebz to discuss a massive 354-page ‘production bible’ created by Hasbro to define the Aligned Continuity— but does the Binder of Revelation really lay out a unified Transformers history? Listen and find out!
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The Fanholes get together to discuss the first dozen episodes from Season Two of Gargoyles!
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Didja miss Part 1? Well, here's the rest! This part's a little longer, since more modern games are more complicated and demand more complicated write-ups. I've also got my usual special "0" entry at the very end for favorite "bad" video game! So plug in the controller again cuz here we go!
26. Spider-Man (Playstation, August 2000)
Surf the web, surf the web!
Shut UP, Brock!
The progenitor of the modern Spider-Man game- some would even go so far as saying the bedrock of modern superhero video games in general. Certainly all Spider-Man games from this point on take their cues from this one, all the way up to the Insomniac Games series.
This game arrived at a time when my interest in superhero comics was starting to wane, and delivered a more satisfying Spider-Man experience than most of what I had read or seen for a couple years at that point. Sure, the graphics don’t quite hold up (the later Dreamcast release shines them up a bit) but for the time, they were spectacular, perhaps amazing.
The gameplay still holds up and kinda feels a bit ahead of its time even now. They basically perfected web-swinging traversal for Spider-Man in this game, and every game since has merely tweaked and fine-tuned it. Combat is fun and pretty much a breeze, aside from some wonky camera moments that are few and far between. Spider-Man feels as agile and powerful and versatile as he should be, and that’s mostly why this game is still held in such high regard.
The plot and voice-acting are a little suspect in places, but in retrospect I’m now willing to overlook some silly nonsense compared to what has come after this point in Spider-Man history. At the end of the day this is MY Spider-Man- an experienced young adult who has matured enough to be taken seriously by his peers, and happily married to Mary Jane.
Venom’s role in this game is pretty emblematic of his erratic portrayals in the 90s. He goes from Spidey’s deadliest foe who kidnaps Mary Jane in one level to Spidey’s comedy sidekick for the rest of the game once their “misunderstanding” has been hashed out. "Oh, that crazy Eddie Brock and his attempting to drown my wife, what wacky adventures will we have next??" Also, the Punisher joining Spidey, Daredevil, and Captain America in what seems to be a regular weekly game of Go Fish at the end will always be bizarrely funny.
Comics Discussed:
Justin: JLA #16
Mike: Avengers #4
Tony: Young Justice #1
Derek: Gambit #1
The Fanholes get together to discuss some of their favorite Amalgam Comics on the 30th Anniversary of this unprecedented event!
Comics Discussed:
Tony: Magneto And His Magnetic Men
Mike: Dark Claw Adventures
Justin: Iron Lantern
Derek: Spider-Boy Team-Up
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Join the Fanholes as they discuss the twenty-first episode of the series that started it all, Mobile Suit Gundam, on what is now Fanholes tradition, Mobile Suit Mondays!
Time for me to start a new list, and this one's gonna be a biggie. It's my TOP 50 Favorite Video Games Of All Time! It'd be hard to rank these based on favoritism alone, so I'm just gonna go in chronological release order. I spent a significant amount of time just choosing these 50 and narrowing stuff down. I'm splitting this list into two parts to be a bit more manageable.
Each of these games hold great sentimental value to me aside from just enjoying playing them. I had to make some cuts and eliminate games that were too similar to each other. At the same time there are many games on here that are from the same franchises and obviously the same genre. Hopefully I will properly elucidate why games that seem similar deserve their own spots on this list.
So enough preamble, there's games to play!
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1. Gauntlet (NES, July 1988)
Red Warrior Needs Food Badly!
Join the Fanholes as they discuss the second season of the phenomenon called Dan Da Dan!
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The Fanholes celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the 08th MS Team! They discuss the OVA series, Miller's Report and the short Battle in Three Dimensions! YOU WANNA LIVVVVVVE?!??!
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The Fanholes get together to discuss the very beginning of the IDW Transformers line with Transformers: Infiltration on its 20th Anniversary! Part of #SciFiComicsMonth!
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The Fanholes get together to discuss a variety of Comics from the Science-Fiction Genre! #SciFiComicsMonth
Comics Discussed:
Justin: Lost In Space #1
Mike: What If #54
Derek: Evermind #1
To support Evermind, check out 247 Comics, here!
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Justin and Derek are back to talking the live-action tokusatsu series Android Kikaider!
