A Text Review of Super Mario Kart

What is a hardcore Mario Kart player? That was the question i found myself pondering as I watched yet another “Mario Kart World Sucks!” video on YouTube the other day. Skimming the comments i saw this pearler: “It’s because Nintendo doesn’t care about the die hard, passionate fans who grew up with these games. Nintendo’s biggest market right now are casuals and newbie gamers. That’s who they’re making games for now. Not You.”

Transformers Legacy eDgEloRd - AKA Tarn

 

Having previously described this guy as abusive in my yearly wrap up post of 2023, I've finally taken some time to tale some pictures of the guy.  In that yearly wrap up, I said

"OOoh, this is a tricky one.  I remember loving the look of him in pictures, and on the box and initially when I got the toy, but somewhere I came to the conclusion, he looks all right, but he just isn't very Transformer-y.  The lean robot mode does feel very comic book, but not quite Transformers.  The tank mode falls entirely into the horrible category of "Folded up robot, that makes a space tank" and while that is kinda Transformer-y, it's also lazy and disappointing.

I like Tarn for being something different, but also dislike it for the same reason.  It's weird, I'm not able to reconcile my feelings for him.  

What an abusive relationship we must have."

And I stand by that statement.  Now though, I would like to delve deeper into my thoughts.

SEGA Shop, Capcom Shop. Tets goes to these as well.

 On the same day that I went to the Transformers meets Japan popup shop, I decided to hit up the newly opened SEGA shop, as it also happens to be in Shibuya, hiding within the Parco building, which was just around the corner.

Incidentally, on the same floor was the also relatively newly opened Nintendo shop, a Capcom shop and a Godzilla shop.

Tourists were everywhere!

 

I have updated the Black Arachnia / Black Widow page with a cleaner translation.

Link is here:

Tets' Toys and Shenanigans: Legends 17 English comic Translation Black Widow / Arachnia LG17

Tets goes to Transformers Pop-up Store (again) Aug 2025

 

As you can tell by the title, there was another pop-up store made for the wonderful money vacuum we call the Transformers.  I went to it and will now share what I have.

This one was cleverly called: 

"Transformers Meets Japan"

Age of the Primes Megatronus The Fallen - A text review

 

Well lookee here, my first Age of the Primes figure.  This line is apaprently going to have a focus on the Thirteen Primes, essentially the first guys of Transformers.  Or whatever.  TBH, I care very little about the Thirteen Primes, but they do have some interesting toys.  Er, Well, one?  Is Star Convoy one of the Thirteen?  I have no idea, also I believe they've called him Star Optimus Prime.  Yeah, I know that Str Convoy was a reborn G1 Convoy, so I guess Star Optimus Prime makes perfcet sense, but it just sounds unwieldy.  When I get mine, he will be solely called Star Convoy.

However this is a post about the also unwieldly named "Megatronus The Fallen." So let's have a look.

Misc. Brawlers That Didn't Make the Cut.

(yes, I realise I used an image from the SEGA game "My Hero" but I used it because it looks super generic.  Which describes many of the following games well.)

Continuing my series of brawler flashback reviews, here are the rest of the games on my list that didn't neatly fit into any of the previous categories. 

This post will cover these remaining games:

• Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja
• Double Dragon
• Double Dragon II
• Ninja Combat
• Sailor Moon
• The combat Tribes
• Ninja Warriors
• Ninja Warriors Again
• Crude Busters
• Under Cover Cops