SNK’s Baseball Stars did for video game baseball what Tecmo bowl did for video game football. Actually that isn’t right. Tecmo bowl merely made video game football more fun and realistic. Baseball Stars not only made video game baseball more fun and realistic, but it also introduced features that were unprecedented at the time. By being one of the first video game sports titles to feature built-in memory, it contained some features that were unseen in other sports titles at the time. It is considered by many to be the best baseball game ever released on the NES, and many of the features it introduced still impact sports games today.
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Filming has just wrapped up for the Green Lantern movie and the long process of post-production is about to begin. To tease us all, the first image of the Green Lantern Corps. drill instructor, Kilowog, has been revealed. Click the image above to enlarge. This is a bit different than those original concept pictures we saw a while back. Looks like they softened his features more.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

Weezer announced they’d have a new album called Hurley a while ago. Any fan of LOST thinks first of the character Hugo Reyes played by actor Jorge Garcia, knicknamed “Hurley”

Apparently as the band was considering titles and covers, one photo of singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo with Garcia was a clear favorite. As a result, the cover of the album will simply be a closeup of Garcia’s face with no text.

Says Cuomo, “I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.”

Even though theres no connection for the songs themselves (Cuomo says he’s only up to season 2 on dvd), Lost Executive Producer Damon Lindelof none the less was excited: “New Weezer album title had to be a coincidence. Then I saw the cover. So. Damn. AWESOME.”

Hurley will be released on September 14th, the first single “Memories” is making the rounds on rock radio.

With the release of Grand Theft Auto 3, the GTA series went from a cult hit to a pop culture icon almost overnight. However, as titles such as Vice City Stories painfully illustrated, the series was beginning to run its course. Though it was far from mediocrity, it was becoming obvious that the series would need to be reinvented if it was to maintain its relevance in the new generation of game consoles. Thankfully, this was a fact that was not lost on Rockstar, and they went right back to the drawing board for GTA IV and came back with nothing less than a masterpiece.
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Update: SailorMoonWorld.it reports that this is a commercial for reruns of the old Sailor Moon anime from 1992. This information is confirmed by a Chinese fan who offers a translation of the commercial.

I wish this was a joke. At this point, I’m not sure what to believe, but basically this trailer for a new Sailor Moon show in Hong Kong popped up on YouTube today. I had not heard anything about this show until then. In an attempt to verify this was real I went to the web site listed at the end of the commercial to check out their schedule. Checking every day at 6 I found that Friday, August 13th, at 6pm is listed “?????” or, as that translates to English, Sailor Moon. The show is not listed as having played this past Friday, so it looks like this Friday will be the premiere!

It just looks so horrible. The girl playing Sailor Mars is completely obese. The actresses appear to change when transforming. I wonder is this even an official show or some kind of cheap knockoff? The music in the video is from the Sailor Moon anime, but that doesn’t mean much. After such an amazing live action Japanese show a few years a back a show would have to be pretty amazing to top it, and this show does not appear to be at any risk of doing that.

Powet.tv will be keeping you posted on more information about this horrible looking show as it becomes available. Leave a comment and let us know if you think this show will be bad, horrible or downright unwatchable.

Sailor Moon Transforming

Worst Rei Ever

This Dashing Fellow is Tuxedo Mask

Source: Moonie Addict via Senshi from the Genvid Forums

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In 2002, it all started out so innocently. Takara was reissuing some of the original line of Transformers. As an E-Hobby exclusive, special variants were made of brand new characters that never appeared in the original show. The result was Road Rage and Crosscut. After that, what followed could only be described as a wave of repainted G1 molds as new characters with new stories inserted into the Generation 1 canon. This is what we may call a ‘retcon’ since the books were more or less closed on new stories from the original canon up to that point. Repaints of Hound, Sideswipe, Starscream, Grapple and more would follow with new color schemes, names and bios. If a mold had been part of the Diaclone or Microchange line, that original paint scheme would be used as an option as well.

Read on to learn about Flipsides!
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The fourth season of The Venture Bros has been split into two 8 episode arcs. The first 8 have already aired and the series will continue with “The Diving Bell VS. The Butterglider” on September 12. As with last year, we have a teaser for whats in store this fall.

See Sgt Hatred in the Optimus Prime Voice Changer Helmet, Brock as Cobra Commander, White and Billy on a motorcycle, Shore Leave talk about his ass, and more clones than we can count.

The Venture Bros is still the most amazing show on TV and its only getting crazier.