Mario Kart 8 - Koopa Was a Race Car Driver

He had one too many cold beers one night and wrapped himself around a telephone pole...

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Mario Kart 8 - Escape From The T-1000!

Super Robot Tyson's Koopa narrowly escaped a huge explosion on his bike!

Come with me if you want to live... 

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Two Crude Dudes - Episode #8 - Exposed Aliens

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"In space, no one can hear you scream. In Super Robot Tyson's basement, they can hear you burp from space! Broadcasting live from the Alien hive on LV-426 is Episode #8 of the Two Crude Dudes podcast! Hitman Tommy and SRT have returned from another trip to the Calgary Expo with a trunk load of stories! The 2014 Expo was all about the reunion of the cast of the 1986 film Aliens, and we were there to meet them! Bill Paxton, Sigourney Weaver, Lance Henriksen and the whole gang were on hand to thrill the crowds with stories from the set of the classic film. To ensure we made all of our plans on time Tyson used his new Nintendo Game & Watch and Tommy opened boxes of Game of Thrones blind box figures to keep his mind sharp! Who knocked up Tyson's wife in Calgary? Was it Michael Rooker's rapey hug, or Bruce Campbell's sexy handshake? The boys also stutter and slur their way through a recap of the amazing retro and modern video games they have bought in the last few weeks. Don't miss an inside look at "Drunken PS1 Night 2" where we learn how the NHL rocks the rink with the power of Buttsecks! The Crude Dudes also discovered the DVD sale of a lifetime and stocked up on horror movies! You'll wish Kane Hodder would rip off your head when you hear about our scores! This is the podcast express elevator to hell, going down!" 

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Buyer's Remorse #32- Post Calgary

Hey everyone! I had been planning on posting an entry that detailed some of my finds prior to heading out to Calgary but I think we've pretty much covered that off on the upcoming episode of the Two Crude Dudes podcast. So I figured I'd just take a few moments to show off what I've bought since coming back.

I've actually only bought two gaming related items in the last month. Tyson and I have hit the circuit a couple times but what we've mainly come home with have been horror dvds. We're both huge fans of the genre and recently a liquidation outlet had bought the remnants of a video rental store that had gone out of business. Video stores which unfortunately have gone the way of the dodo are an excellent source of horror nutrients. The two of us wasted no time getting down there and attacking what they had to offer. We did so well that we promptly made a second trip to the location to take a chance on some more titles. The big bonus with these purchases is that I've had the time recently to watch a good chunk of these movies. I'll probably go into more detail on what I've bought another time but if you're interested to see some of what I watched check out my Instagram profile "hitmantommy" as I've taken pictures of some of them.

Moving on to the game side of things. After our second trip to the liquidation place we stopped in at value village. After checking the usual departments we ended the visit off in the toy department. After looking in the boardgames at a D&D game I put it down and saw the edge of a box at the bottom of a pile and moved like Neo in the Matrix to make sure I grabbed it before Tyson saw it. Here's what it was:

A boxed Lethal Enforcers w/Justifier for a whopping $3.99. Once I opened it I saw that the game itself was missing but it's not very expensive to pick up. It was worth it alone for the minty Justifier, manual and box itself. Not to mention as you can tell in the picture it's a nice big box and a wonderful display piece for my collection. It was a rare opportunity for me the "catch Tyson slipping" as they say. Looking forward to picking up a cart so I can complete this bad boy.

Lastly this weekend like a good number of people I picked up Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U. I know the Wii U has gotten a lot of bad press and there's rumors galore that the system is dying etc etc. But I am so happy with the amount of excitement that I've seen from people who have picked it up. Not to mention the people that picked up the Wii U console bundle with Mario Kart packed in. It'll be interesting to see if this helps get the Wii U some better press if they can get a good household penetration increase. Either way I love my Wii U and am looking forward to spending lots of time playing some of Mario Kart 8 in the next couple days.

Mario is here to Penetrate you on Nintendo's behalf

That's all for now. I do have a couple potential online purchases in the works that will hopefully come to fruition. But until then remember It's not hoarding if you alphabetize your games!

Buyer's Remorse #31 - Bianca Amor and The Deathly Hoarders

Hey Blogamaniacs!

Whatcha gonna do when a stack of Xbox games falls over and crushes you, dude! You better say your prayers and take your vitamins if you wanna feel the power of Tysonmania in your veins, brother!

It's that time again where I've bought too many games and I need to dump all the pictures of them onto this blog before I lose track of them! Tommy and I are planning to excrete a new episode of Two Crude Dudes soon that will cover our exploits at the 2014 Calgary Expo, so I needed to get this pile up here so I could refer to these pickups to avoid talking about them too much on the podcast. The 2014 Expo was amazing, but I won't spoil it here. Basically it was a wet dream for Aliens fans and was also blessed by the presence of the immortal Bruce Campbell. There were many times that I needed to change my shorts from explosive premature fanboy-jactulation. Here's a couple pics to tease some of the awesomeness. 

 

I did pick up a few games while I was there, but not the massive trunk load that I did last year. The games I looked for were priced pretty far out of my range, so I concentrated on meeting celebrities and collecting art. I also ate my share of Vietnamese food, deep dish pizza, and drank new types of beer. The day before the expo, we hit a few Value Villages and I scored some PS1 games and a great find in a complete boxed Donkey Kong Hockey Game & Watch from the 1984 Vs. Series! It's in pretty sexy shape and I can't wait to school Tommy and Jimmy in the 2-player mode. Nintendo Game & Watch units are becoming pretty collectible and finding a minty boxed one at a thrift store is pretty crazy. 

 

 

 

These two games I got in Moose Jaw. Now there's nothing good left in that town.

One of the other interesting developments we had back in our home town was that a new department store opened. It's called "Bianca Amor's Discount Sweatshop Asian Liquidation Warehouse Bazaar Superstore of Remarkable Shiny Values" or some shit like that. It's a chain of stores opened by a woman from Calgary who was a CEO at age 16 and opened these warehouse liquidation stores across Canada. They all contain blowout products that she bought from distributors in Asia. It's like a flea market, dollar store, and Giant Tiger all got mutated into one unholy behemoth. Why am I telling you this? They stocked a few cubes of hundreds of recent Xbox 360 games for $9.00 each! Most of the games had the UPC cut off the case, but if you took your time looking, you could even find a few that had not been circumcised by the box cutter.  I also snagged some games from Kijiji and lucked out on a couple cheap collector's sets at GT Boutique.

 

 

Future Shop deal! Poor Wii U...

 

 

  

I can't believe the sheer amount of games I picked up in the last few weeks, but I kept running into some really amazing deals at the pawn shops and thrift stores during my travels. It was pretty freakin' hard to contain myself. I also managed to do a decent amount of gaming and I've really enjoyed Tales of The Abyss on 3DS, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Forza Horizon, Split/Second and some of the Xbox Live games that I downloaded during their weekly sales. Fez is damn cool...

I also hooked up with my "dealer" Zach and he passed on some good shit my way. I have no idea when I'm gonna get around to playing Saints Row IV and GTA V, but the guides look great on my shelf! 

I used dimes and nickels at a garage sale to get these.

 

I must find a Gameboy Player now...

Finally a good deal at Value Village! Anyone need an N64? Now I have two...sigh...

 

This has been a pretty picture heavy blog because of the sheer volume of new items in the collection. Not a bad thing, but the more I acquired, the more I knew it would take a damn novel to explain the stories and deals behind them. Now that they occupy the blog I can tell the tales on the podcast and it will all make sense.  

I've been such a generous giver of content to River City Retro lately, that I'm feeling pretty good about myself. I might need to change the name of this place to "Super Robot Retro" or something. Hey look! I also posted a collection video on You Tube too! Is there anything I won't do for our fans? 

One of my wedding pictures.

After you finish watching that, you can look at more pictures of games! Here's even more stuff I picked up! I'm out of control! I'm going to build a fortress made only of video games and live inside! 

Now I just need Kwanzaa NiGHTS and Hanukkah NiGHTS!

 

Phew! I think that's everything from the last few weeks! I'm quite proud of all the amazing additions to the addiction...I mean collection....

It's a beautiful time for RCR as spring has finally sprung and the thrift stores and garage sales will be blooming with even more bounty in the coming weeks. Epic Jimmy's Gamecube Quest has been moving along nicely and Tommy took down a few more NES needs recently. I think we should all get together and celebrate as only we can! Here's a pic of what we plan to do: 

OOOHH! SCISSOR ME JIMMY!

Okay, I'm done now. I promise. 

Later everybody! Keep fit and have fun!

Super Robot Tyson  

* DISCLAIMER: Tommy and I are heading to a CWE wrestling show tonight, so there's a good chance that we might just give up on video games and go back to collecting wrestling DVDs again. If that happens, the blog will probably change to "River City Ring Report" or something equally lame...