And All Was Right With the World
From the team that brought you DuckTales as a slow jam, here’s that very same treatment applied to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme. I’m happy to know that I still snicker at the line “Donatello does machines” like I did when I was ten. Sunday Morning Slow Jams' other two offerings—Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and Pokémon—are behind the jump.
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Sometimes Some Crimes Go Slipping Through The Cracks
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Disney has optioned a pitch written by award-winning commercial director
Robert Rugan (who is
apparently most famous for
this condom commercial) and produced by Mandeville Films/TV for a live-action + CGI
Chip 'n' Dale movie about the origins of our favorite Rescue Rangers. Mandeville, of course, is behind the new
Muppets movies, so this news isn't entirely terrifying.
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Over the years, video games licensed from other mediums have slowly slid into a sort of batting slump where anything licensed from something -- like comics, for example -- is immediately assumed to be terrible. At least, that was the prevalent attitude until games like
Batman: Arkham Asylum came back on the market and destroyed those expectations.
It’s not like said expectations didn’t have a foundation in truth.
Superman 64 is often mentioned in the same breath as “worst game ever,” among other more unfriendly phrases. So, considering that the sequel to the best
Batman game ever made is coming, it’s time to take a look at licensed games that, unlikely as it might seem, were and -- still are -- awesome.
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Gadget Hackwrench. Animated mouse from the
Disney animated series
Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers. Pilot. Mechanic. Inventor. Central figure of worship in a Russian cult.
Wait, what?
Yes, apparently their love for Gadget burns with such unbridled passion, a group of people in Russia have built an entire religion around her likeness. They pray to posters of Gadget, write songs about her, and places stickers of her anywhere they can. But really, we'll let their (dubiously translated) words speak for themselves:
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