General

Game: Kirby Superstar. It was a game that really stood the test of time and I find it to be almost a masterpiece on the snes console.

Movie: Shawshank Redemption. It's kind of crazy that it's a stephen king story adapted. Whats more wild about the lore of it was it was in theaters at the same time as forrest gump. star wars and jurassic park.

Book: I don't read much.

Video Games: Secret of Mana, Super Mario Bros. 3, Blaster Master, The Messenger

Movies: Back to the Future, Thor: Ragnarok

Books: Ready Player One

Game- Castlevania SotN
Movie- Inception
Book- The Brothers Karamazov

Game - Okami
Movie - ??? I dunno
Book - "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" by Vicki Leon

Favorite...
...book: "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis
...movie: "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" by George Lucas
...music: "Water Music Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 348: VIII. Bourrée" by George Frideric Handel
...video game: "Metal Slug 3" for the NEO•GEO AES by SNK

Games: The Last of Us Part II, Xenogears, Secret of Evermore and most roguelites

(Recently, I’ve been really enjoying Marvel’s Midnight Suns. I’m 30+ hours in and only a third of the way through the game, as I’ve had fun tweaking different decks and exploring.)

Music: mostly emo (The Get Up Kids, Mineral, etc.) and melodic hardcore (Counterparts, The Ghost Inside)

Movies: Inception, Clerks

Books: I mostly read sociology-related stuff for work, but I’ve really enjoyed the Game of Thrones books, and my favorite classical book is Dante Alighieri's Inferno.

nonamesleft wrote:

I love most RPG's for SNES mainly made by Square and Enix (I liked them better when they were separate companies) and great games like Lufia and the Castlevanias side scrollers. I also love to listen to music playing games such as Castlevania Bloodlines and the song Glorified G by Pearl Jam, Donkey Kong Country listening to Liz Phair F and Run, and listening to the entire album of Counting Crows August and Everything After while playing the entire game Super Metroid. Without playing that music I just can't enjoys those games. F and Run just has the perfect beat as you are rolling barrels playing Donkey Kong Country I can hear it in my head as I'm writing this.

As far as books back when I did read often up through about 2008 it was most anything by: James Patterson, John Grisham,John Saul, Dean Koontz, and Stephen King. I wish I had the patience to still read but most of that time has passed. Back then it was easy to read for 2 to 3 hours and really escape into those writers worlds and then feel like a few minutes had passed. My favorites were the Gunslinger/Dark Tower books by Stephen King as the first 2 books were a difficult read but no books other than this series has ever transported me into that entire universe of craziness. Sadly the movie they made about it was absolutely terrible and thankfully they are looking into doing a series of movies or tv shows based on them. The Dark Tower movie was completely miscast and you needed probably 4 three hour movies to bring that world of books to life. I always could have imagined a present day Harrison Ford playing Roland the gunslinger with little other name recognition needed to play the the other roles. He is around 80 now and would be perfect as the gunslinger and would show the proper age for that old withered guy. Anyone who is a fan of Stephen King would know that The Man in Black has been pretty much the same character representing the same human being playing the Devil in all his books over the past 50 years.

I wish I could remember the book but there was a book by Stephen King that had this little demon in it that would come around and use scissors to cut your balloon that meant you were going to die shortly. The balloon is what kept your soul attached to you. I believe this book came our between 1995- 2003 and I would love to try and read it again. The story centered on a person who could see other peoples balloons and would notice that they would die shortly afterwards and this little demon was going around cutting them too soon. It was part of the characters psychic ability. So if anyone remembers this book I would love to find it again and appreciate it. I may still have this book buried somewhere on paperback.

As far as movies I still love Better off Dead and One Crazy Summer both great 80's movies especially if you like John Cusack. I don't watch either movie often but when I do I always feeel like I'm back in the 80's watching them. I try to watch both movies at least once a year and I'm always finding something new ( and remembering why I love those movies in the first place)to enjoy. And the animation in each movie was also pretty good for the mid 80's that still holds up well against the newer animation. P!us if you love Van Halen you would really enjoy the burger scene in Better off Dead EVERYBODY WANTS SOME.

HEHEHATE wrote:
I haven't played Superstar, but Superstar Ultra on the DS was great.

And something interesting about a scene in Shawshank, the way he just walks out with the shoes. People really aren't generally paying that much attention to others' shoes. You'll notice if you change something about your shoes, that people who see you everyday might not even notice. Some might, but I think that many don't.

ManiacMadman wrote:
Haven't seen either. Worth adding to my to watch list?

Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:
Ah, Secret of Evermore. Around 12ish years ago I was on a forum looking for some Super Nintendo games. Found someone who claimed to have some great games at great prices, including Secret of Evermore. So I reached out and made of a list of what I was interested in. Everything seemed too good to be true, and it was. Nothing came of this. Complete waste of time. Why say that you have things and offer them just to waste someone else's time?

I don't know if I had joined GTZ yet. If I had, I'm sure I would have gotten some great games here from some great people.

Inception was good. Watched it more than once. Some powerful music too. I hope they never make a sequel. The ending was fantastic, imo. There are plenty of great movies out there, but really great endings in movies aren't as common.

Feeb wrote:
Symphony of the Night has been on my backlog for quite some time. And I've heard others praise it too. What makes it great to you?

The Brothers Karamazov? Never heard of it.

Scott wrote:
I knew that Ready Player One was a movie, but I didn't know it was a book. Hmmm, will keep it in mind.

The Messenger. You've recommended that one numerous times. I have to get around to it sometime. How's the soundtrack?

ManiacMadman wrote:
I tried to find out for you what book that might be that you mentioned, with the balloons. Someone told me that they think it's Stephen King's book titled Insomnia.

It's about someone named Ralph Roberts who lives in Maine. He has trouble sleeping and so he takes late night walks. He notices ribbons connected to people's heads. He also sees two strange men wandering around the city in the dark.

Does any of that ring a bell?

@Alaisiagae

I didn't get to play Okami on the Wii, but I guess it was popular enough because they did port it to the Switch. Maybe one day I'll finally play it :) (I'm slowly trying to get through my backlog)

Uppity women of ancient times? The author used the word uppity? Sounds like it would be a witty read. Is it?

Yes if you love 80's movies you will enjoy both Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer. Underrated movies that get don't get much love IMO but are perfect showing of how the underdog gets the girl and great 80's animation and music. Overall two feel good movies that captured a simpler time in life. I think Better off Dead may still be available if you have Showtime as they don't show either movie often on TV anymore.

But if you love Castlevania and side scrollers Symphony of the Night is a must play. They really ruined it went they tried to change it for N64 and PS3. They tried to change something that wasn't broken with those systems. Side scrolling is what made the first 3 on NES and then they added an element of rpg that made it easier to just level up on PS1 and the DS. They also added the ability to go back to things you may have missed in the earlier stages in the PlayStation and DS games which made the story for me. Playing as that son of Dracula who curses his fathers ways made playing Alucard of great interest to me in Symphony of the Night.

Thanks you for looking into that Stephen King book. I may still have that one but a lot of his stories are similar and deal with demons. So there are a lot to choose from.

I also remember they had Better off Dead for $5 in September and October on DVD at Wal-Mart and I was really surprised in a good way. They may still have it online and definitely worth owning.

nonamesleft wrote:
Okami is terrific! When you get to it, it should be a treat!

Yes, it is a witty read. It contains bite-sized humorous biographies of women from, well, ancient times (mostly all in years BC). From a master beer-brewer in Egypt several thousands years BC ago, to sassy Sumerian slaves, to accomplished Greek poets. It's a fun read, each bio is 1 or 2 pages (and the pages are small) and bursting with personality. There are three additional books in the series, covering Medieval era, Renaissance era, and the New World. But I like Ancient Times the best.

Noid wrote:
I think I may have read some CS Lewis books, but not that one. What about it makes it a favorite of yours?

nonamesleft wrote:

I know it?s a cliche to say it but the book is far better than the movie. The story is more fleshed out and just more fun to experience because there are a lot more 80s and 90s pop cultures references and inclusions than the movie. The movie I believe was a lot more limited from using certain IP because of licensing issues.

nonamesleft wrote:

The book and movie are very different, unfortunately. I didn't care for the movie very much, but the book is incredible. I wish they had done a mini-series instead of a movie, so that they could have made it more like the book.


Yes, you definitely need to play it. It's easily one of my favorite games of all time. Some weirdos like kommie don't like the soundtrack, but most of us agree it's awesome. It's one of the video game soundtracks I listen to most often.

I agree about the Inception ending. I can?t see them making a sequel to it either. It?s a perfect wrap-up.

nonamesleft wrote:

I was really just reminded of Better Off Dead when I was watching South Park. They really played homage to that movie with the season 6 episode 2 called Asspen. If you liked it you would see a lot of familiar story lines to movie. Not really the best episode because they dumbed it down but the plot was similar to the movie. The acting/characters and music made the movie especially if you like Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. He was in both Better off Dead and One Crazy Summer and played interesting characters in both movies.

Another movie people should see at least once is Pump Up the Volume. It stars Christian Slater as the pirate DJ radio host Happy Harry Hardon. Which just shows the strife kids put up with as they get older. It perfectly showcased for me the kinds of things my friends dealt with in high school. I'm sure its even worse now because of the internet with kids still not knowing what to do or where to go. Definitely worth watching once.