roocadillac85's reviews

As an animation fan, I enjoy shows with cute animals. I like various types of animals, and raccoons are certainly one of them.

The series centers on Carl, an anthropomorphic raccoon, who, as the show's title implies, likes collecting stuff. Besides collecting stuff, Carl would at times use his collections to solve problems, and help others.

Things that bring up the score for this show are the cute characters. The fact that Carl is autistic makes him a more interesting character. Those on the spectrum may show great knowledge in some fields, but struggle in others. In Carl's case, he knows a lot about the things he collects, but tends to get in shock when he sees someone have an accident he never saw before. Nevertheless, his friends are willing to help him in some challenges.

What can I say of this series? Well, when it comes to collecting things, and using them in situations, I see it as a clever concept.

I remember when I first read a Peter Rabbit book 29 years ago. The book was an adaptation. However, I did get to read the original version nearly a decade later. If the adaptation and original share one thing, that is they both feature Peter having shoes.

But if there's anything I don't understand, that is other versions of the character portray Peter being shoeless, I don't know why, but that was the case of the Nick Jr. Series. I'm glad that one only lasted a couple of seasons. Then we have this episode of Super Why! Featuring the famous fable bunny. I was excited upon checking the TV listings. But to my disappointment, the rabbit is inexplicably shoeless.

Racing video games are common in the market. But unlike most racing games, Spirit of Speed features vintage race cars. If you ever wonder what early auto racing was like, this game is a realistic example.

I remember playing this game on PC. Although I did get to play it, I sometimes experienced unwanted stuff like my car stopping permanently due running out of fuel which I knew nothing about because my copy did not come with instructions. I then got another copy, this time a complete set in a box. But by then, my PC, that could play the game, broke down completely, and my new PC at the time was incompatible.

Years later, I got myself a Dreamcast and the console's version of Spirit of Speed. Because my Dreamcast copy has instructions, I gained adequate knowledge of the game. As something a lot of gamers like to fuss about, the Dreamcast version has load times which are common in console games of the time. The load times are probably the main reason gamers judge this game for which is unjust. Well, if you're obsessive compulsive in any way, doing some rituals would help pass the load times.

As for the game, pretty decent. The visuals are standard, and the music fits the period of which the game is set. In most racing games, making sharp turns only requires letting go of the accelerator, and brakes are just for the pits. But in this game, some sharp turns require braking when approached. One bizarre thing about the game is the high difficulty of the AI. The computer opponents may mess up early in a race, but as the race progresses, they become significantly skilled, leaving no room for error for the player. If a computer opponent gets ahead of you, it's hard to tell if you'll ever catch up. Nonetheless, I find the game addicting, and I find riding through the scenic landscapes pleasant.

While I've been knowing Caillou for about a decade, I never connected with the character until this year. Caillou is someone whom I came across in ads a number of times, and I even briefly got hooked on about two episodes of the original series because of the vibrant colors. But I did not take the franchise seriously until I read about the five TV specials.

The five TV specials are the first media in the franchise to be in CGI. Each special features the story itself, a story told by a character relating to a scenario in the main story, and a song accompanied with highlights of the special. So far, I saw the first two.

What do I appreciate in the special? Three things: the combination of realism and fantasy, the obvious transition to CGI, and the studio's more natural decision in choosing who gets to be behind the microphones.

These days it appears cute animal character are en vogue when it comes to educational shows aim at young audiences.

The show centers on four young dogs (Phinny, Tank, Roxy, and Luna) who are a construction team. Occasionally appearing in the series is their foil Lickety Split, a building group consisting of older cats (Bobby, Scratch, and Sniff) who favor speed over quality, thus resulting in flimsy builds.

What do I appreciate from the show? Two things: the expressive theme song, and the adorable characters.

As a Spectrum user, I must say that I lament the provider's decision to remove Disney Junior from its channel list as a result of their dispute with Disney over financial reasons. But anyway, it wasn't absolute loss as I still get to see the episodes at some first-party site.

While this cute and vibrant animated show never reached Uncle Sam's TV set despite having a dub with North American actors, I got the chance to see a few episodes online.

The show centers on the titular raccoon characters who come in multiple colors, have different passions, and have names that reference the notes of the scale. Faf and Soh are the only boys of the characters. Ti is the youngest raccoon who can only speak her name, but is shown in one instance to have super strength.

What can I say about the series? Like I said earlier, cute and vibrant. I must admit that I am sort of a raccoon fan. I also own a raccoon beanie coming from a theme park in Pennsylvania that seems to be gaining prominence.

I first saw panels of the Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip in a newspaper about two decades ago. Because of its title and I only saw a few panels, I thought the strip was a combination of Mother Goose rhymes and the tales written by the Brothers Grimm. That was what I thought for a long time.

Later in 2020, I was doing a brief research on the fictional author Mother Goose on Wikipedia. As I scrolled to the bottom of the article, I found a link to the Mother Goose comic strip. Upon entering the link, it was there I found out the strip does not at all reference the Mother Goose author or the Brothers Grimm. Instead the strip is about a silly dog owned by an elderly anthropomorphic goose. And when I scroll to the bottom of the strip's article, I discover that the strip has an animated adaptation. I would go on to watch one episode of the series online a few days later.

What can I say about this series? I would say its a fine animated show of the 1990s. Fine in terms of graphics, humor, and acting. I also have a feeling Grimmy's personality probably inspired that of Courage the Cowardly Dog who would debut several years later.

In the 1950s, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera first made a name of themselves in the production of the theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons. After a few years, they, for some reason, decided to go independent and make cheap television cartoons of which the duo became most famous for.

In the mid-1980s, a toy company by the name of Hasbro released the first of their G.I. Joe series, a high-tech military themed animated TV adaptation of the company's action figures. The series was probably successful that it would have three later incarnations over the decades. And because of the series' success, Hanna Barbera decided to create a G.I. Joe style series which would be Sky Commanders.

Sky Commanders is a show about two opposing teams, the Sky Commanders and the Raiders, who battle each other on a new continent. The leader of the Raiders wants to obtain and exploit a powerful new element from the continent to rule the planet, but the Sky Commanders are determined to prevent that. I best remember the show for the backpacks used by the characters which shoots a cable that connects between two mountains, and allows them to travel on them like a zip line. Like those G.I. Joe shows, the characters shoots lasers instead of bullets, and they also have other high-tech equipment. Anyway, this show still has some originality. Although it's been decades since I last saw this show on television, I was able to see all the episodes online recently.

The show centers on two cats, Ollie and Moon, who are best friends. On each episode, they travel to a certain country by plane. I sometimes wonder where they get money for their air fares. I guess air fares are more affordable in the show than in real life. Anyway, let's go with this review.

Ollie is the boy cat who prefers a peaceful environment with no hassle. He's also quite reasonable and at times would come up with the smarter decisions.

Moon is the girl cat with a more upbeat and adventurous personality. Sometimes, she would do something foolish, thus getting her and Ollie into some trouble. She can also be stubborn in trying to do something that can't be done which would prompt Ollie to make her think otherwise. However, she also comes up with ideas called "brain storms" which leads them to wild adventures that would either result in trouble or a solution to a problem.

Whenever things between them get uneasy, Ollie and Moon would sing their cool theme song to remind them that they are friends, and that they could deal with any situation.

When I was reading about fictional cats in Wikipedia, I came across this game, and it got my attention. Because production and retailing of this game ended years ago, I had to get this game through eBay which I did a year ago. While only a little over half of Xbox games are compatible with Xbox 360, Blinx: The Time Sweeper is fortunate to be part of the compatible club. Thus I played it on my Xbox 360.

The game focuses on a cat named Blinx. Blinx uses a vacuum cleaner which sucks up objects. His vacuum can also shoot out those objects like a gun firing bullets to attack enemies. In each level except boss stages, there's a circular platform where if you jump on it, you complete the level, but you need to defeat all enemies in that level to activate it.

Game sources have often described the game as very challenging. I too find it a little challenging but I was able to get through the stages and finished the game which lasted almost a year.

Nintendo has Mario, Sega has Sonic, and Sony has Crash Bandicoot (albeit for a short period). But Microsoft never had a mascot. Well, a certain game magazine came up with a suggestion of making Blinx the mascot for Microsoft. Microsoft, however, declined the suggestion, believing the character isn't popular enough. Anyway, I do think Blinx should be Microsoft's mascot, considering the character is a package of coolness and decency.

I saw clips of this game in one of those Game Sack episodes on YouTube. When I noticed how cute the character is as well as the game's decency, I would later ask my sis to buy me the game online.

As 3d video games were already sweeping the planet at the time, side-scrolling games such as this one still had a great deal of popularity. I still have a liking to side-scrollers as I grew up playing games in that era.

The game centers on a Skunk named Punky. As a skunk, he attacks foes with a puff of his skunk spray. When going on certain adventures, Punky would either use a pogo stick, a paraglider, roller skates, a snowboard, or special claws to dig tunnels.

After playing and finishing the game, I sometimes wish this game had a sequel. If I were the one to design the sequel, the new game will be in 3d. Also, Punky will have cuter yet cool makeover, and Kelly will be a playable character.

The first circus-themed video game I played was Circus Charlie. I first saw that game in an arcade, and first played it on a later incarnation of the NES console. After playing it a few times, I didn't think there would be another game with a similar theme.

This was until I played Aero the Acro-Bat which was released on the Sega Genesis. Like Circus Charlie, the game is set in a circus but with more essence. The game centers on Aero, a red bat who performs stunts. Enemies in the game include clowns which Aero defeats by doing corkscrew moves or hurling stars at them.

Besides a circus, the game can also take place in an open carnival or in the wild. Those levels are either during the day, sunset, or even at night.

The best circus game.

We all know that some protagonists from certain Disney feature films have pets. But whoever thought those pets would get to have a show of their own? Anyway, whoever came up with the idea certainly had such a decent one made.

The mini series centers on the young pets and their activities in the kingdom. They even have a blue bird who gives them advise in their acts. The comical stuff in this lighthearted show is adequate. And the acting is done properly.

When seeing it one way or another, the show is, in some aspects, not just for girls. If there's a character whom boys can embrace, it's that little tiger Sultan.

So far, ten episodes have been made. I just hope they make more.

When the Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001, I wasn't much into video games or consoles like I was years earlier. This was until I read game articles in Wikipedia, and later bought an Xbox 360. Because the Sonic Heroes game is created for an original Xbox, my Xbox 360 needed a special hard drive to play it.

When I began playing the game, one thing unique about it is that, I get to control a team of three characters instead of a single character. I find this a little unusual at first but I still enjoy the game. Like good Sonic games, it has nice graphics and music.

Although various other Sonic games have been available when I got Sonic Heroes, I prefer this one for a reason. Sonic Heroes is the last Sonic game where Tails is voiced by a boy (William Corkery). In games released after this, Tails would be voiced by three whatever they are which is kinda sad. So here is perhaps the last game of the series where things are done the appropriate way.

There was a time when the U.S. once lead the video game industry, particularly during 1970s and early 1980s. Some time after that, Japan overtook the U.S. in the industry, and it has been that way ever since.

As Japan ruled the gaming scene from then on, they conceived characters that we all know and adore: Mario and Sonic.

Although the U.S. no longer rules the industry like it used to, the country still comes up with decent games and characters. And one of those characters is Bubsy. Bubsy is a character built on the essence that make up well-known characters of the 1930s. Truly American. And this game was well-received initially.

Years after the release of this game, Bubsy has been branded by some reviewers as a Mario- clone or a Sonic-clone which I believe is unjustified. Other characters like Megaman or Rayman are both played in games that involved moving and jumping from one platform to another but why aren't they being given similar bashing? Perhaps all that negative stuff Bubsy has been receiving might be a reference to his last game (Bubsy 3D) which was poorly constructed and therefore produced a lot sour notes from gamers and reviewers. Again, this is unjustified, and games should be judged separately. What's wrong with one game doesn't apply with the others.

What can I say about this game? Me and my nephew played it on a burnt CD which was played on a Dreamcast. And we liked it. The things I enjoyed in this game are the cute character, the catchy music, and the colorful backgrounds.

The Sonic games date back to 1991 but this one is the first where the characters each have a voice. Originally an arcade game, SegaSonic the Hedgehog never reach consoles because the game involves a trackball. Perhaps trackball games are difficult to convert to standard console games.

While Sonic and Mighty continue to show up in later games after this point, Ray hasn't made any game appearances for more than two decades now. Nevertheless, Ray is slowly gaining some popularity. I mean I see some online videos of him running in scenes that appear to be from 3D Sonic games. Some fans even released a modified version of the first Sonic game featuring Ray as the playable character.

Well, I certainly look forward to Ray's next official game appearance. And when he does, I hope a guy would be selected to provide his voice.