Retro Gaming Torture: Wild Thornberrys Chimp Chase for Gameboy Advance

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I justified my purchase of The Wild Thornberrys Chimp Chase for Gameboy Advance by reminding myself that it was cheap; I found it at a local pawn shop that I haunt, looking for inexpensive movies, videogames, and movies to try. In reality, I bought it because I'm sucker for anything from the Nickelodean "golden age" that produced Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, Jimmy Neutron and, of course, The Wild Thornberrys.  I knew it could be bad, but I just had to try it...

It's as Good as You've Heard - Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Since the broadcast of it's sequel “The Legend of Korra,” Avatar: the Last Airbender seems to have spiked in popularity. Pinterst is jam packed with posts about its characters. Tumblr is host to hoards of gifs, images, and jokes, based on the show. And I must admit that I was skeptical. How could a little kid's show live up to this level of popularity? Surely, everyone was seeing it with nostalgia-colored classes, enjoying a trip back to their childhoods when they thought about the showing. My sister finally talked me into watching it, and well, I was wrong. It was as good as they see it is, maybe better. I'm here to tell you that it really as good as people say it is.

Background:

This Nickelodean animated fantasy series, which played from 2005-2008, is 62 episodes long and is broken into 3 books. It's rated TV-Y7, which surprises me because it's fairly heavy in the violence category. However, there is no blood, gore, etc. There is, of course, no bad language, and little to no crude humor. However, it takes a lot of elements from Eastern religion, so viewers who might find that offensive should be aware.

The Plot:

This show is set in a world divided into four nations – the Earth kingdom, the Fire Kingdom, the Air Kingdom, and the Water kingdom. Select people from each kingdom can bend, or control, their respective elements. The Avatar, who is the only person who can learn to bend all four elements, 9is entrusted with the job of keeping balance, safety, and peace in the world. Our TV show opens when a brother-sister duo from the Water kingdom, Katara and Sokka, discover 12-year-old Aang, the latest reincarnation of the nearly immortal Avatar, frozen in the ice. He emerges into a world that is 100 years older and now at war; the Fire Nation has been conquering each of the nations. He and the brother-sister duo set out to help Aang to learn to bend all four elements, so he can stop the Fire Nation before they take complete control.

A Blast from Christmases past: “Nick Picks Holiday” Review

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While I was nosing around Wal-Mart a couple days ago (doing a little grocery shopping, a little gift shopping, a little window shopping), I came across this beauty : “Nick Picks Holiday,” a DVD of seven old school Nickelodeon Christmas episodes for just under $4. In tribute to the hundreds of happy hours I spent watching Nicktoons when I was a little kid, I had to pick it up and make its review the post with which I launch my blog. I'll begin by giving you the basic run down on the DVD. Then, I'll talk briefly about each episode before summing up with my thoughts on the product as a whole.

Product Specifications: According to the description on the back, it is 172 minutes or 2 hours and 52 minutes long. That being said, a significant portion of that time is taken up by beginning and end credits. The collection first hit shelves in 2006 and, unsurprisingly, is not rated.