OLDER PLASTIC CANVAS/CROSS-STITCH PROJECTS (HALLOWEEN, BERRIES, ETC.)

Three Halloween-related canvas/stitch projects I'd worked on while I was into the time-consuming hobbies: two plastic canvas coasters, one cross-stitched Halloween bear.  I'd used the same template/fonts as the strawberry/blueberry/raspberry and made my own elderberry pattern (probably my favorite wine flavor and the Amish elderberry jelly is great too, I use it for baking).  

And a couple extra things:  one I'd finished while pretty much the first and only time I'd ever been infatuated with a person LOL and if you've played Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the Atari 2600, you'd recognize the cow skull.  I have other pictures of past canvas/stitch projects, will post any when I locate them.

ANOTHER NEW 5-SKIT COMPILATION OF SHIRLEY Q. LIQUOR

A local friend had introduced me to comedian/radio personality Chuck Knipp AKA his character Shirley Q. Liquor, her best friend Watusi Jenkins, and all their off the wall and tragic hijinks seven or so years ago, and I'm still a fan.   Never caught Chuck Knipp and his live act yet, mostly does smaller gigs at clubs and bars. 

This time around in the new compilation below, a couple outings with Watusi, plus Miss Liquor on her obese neighbor lady and she and Watusi paying a visit to Shirley's new Filipino neighbor and her kids.  

If I actually drank malt liquor AKA that piss water (CORONA WITH LIME ONLY!!), I'd have one to go with Miss Liquor's predicaments. 

TWO MORE CLASSIC NES/NINTENDO GAMES: WRECKING CREW + HUDSON'S ADVENTURE ISLAND

Two more 8-bit classics I'd meant to post with the other three NES gameplay clips yesterday, but the videos for these two were so long, it would have all together ran over 30 minutes in one sitting.  So here they are, including Mario's first appearance since after the first two Donkey Kong games, and the original Mario Bros. FROM 1983ish, with Luigi, fighting turtles, crabs, floor-freezing icicles and fighter fly's.  Plus in Adventure Island, it's Higgins' first appearance in a game by Hudson Software that surprisingly got a cult status and spawned 3 or more sequels.  

WRECKING CREW (1985)
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HUDSON'S ADVENTURE ISLAND (1987)

THREE WEIRD CROSS-PROMOTIONAL GAMES FOR THE ATARI 2600: KOOL-AID MAN, ETC.

The ridiculous amount of video game titles released in 1983 was overwhelming - so many horribly-programmed games, so little time (and back then, Atari 2600 games cost about the same as PS3 games will cost you today - but when the gaming industry crashed that same year, most titles at Kay-Bee Toys and elsewhere were clearanced off quickly).  

Because anybody who was anybody could make a game for the Atari 2600 at that time, including pervy so-called "XXX games" by non-mainstream companies, a few well-recognized companies must have assumed they had to jump into the quicksand known as Atari right then and there, too.  Oh boy.  Good thing that when the Nintendo/NES platform came along, the rules were much stricter and had to get the Nintendo company's approval first before being released on the NES system (other than Sega, the only other major platform in the mid-late 80's).

PEPSI INVADERS
Never a commercial release, was given to approx. 100 Coca-Cola employees and didn't include any box or manual.  Nothing more than an almost identical port of Space Invaders, with the aliens replaced by the letters spelling "PEPSI", and the bonus points ship flying across overhead is replaced with the Pepsi logo

KOOL-AID MAN

If you drank enough Kool-Aid in 1983 and sent in 30 proof of purchases, you'd receive probably the best (or best-looking) promotional Atari 2600 game of the bunch.  To this day, I never really figured out how to play the confusing and brightly colorful game.  Apparently the demand was high enough to later merit a commercial release of Kool-Aid Man, for that week or two it lasted until Atari and the game industry crashed.

CHASE THE CHUCKWAGON
Also in 1983, apparently if you ate enough dog food and sent in the required number of proofs of purchases you'd receive this now-kinda-rare and slower than turtle-slow maze of an abomination.  It came with the box but the instructions were only printed on a sheet of paper (no booklet).  The game was loosely based on the cute Chuck Wagon commercial, with the dog chasing the stop-motion cowboy steering his chuck wagon through the house and into the kitchen to the dog's bowl LOL  In the game, try (GOOD LUCK!) to avoid the cat head or whatever that's bouncing around the screen and freezes you upon touch - happening MANY times on each boring level.  It can take you as long as 10 minutes to reach the top of the damn maze!

Screenshots courtesy AtariAge

FAN-MADE REMIX OF M.C. SAR & THE REAL McCOY'S "MAKE A MOVE"

Way back when Yahoo Groups was the pre-Facebook and Myspace, along with the Supremes 70's Reissues group I'd began/moderated, also had another one for my favorite Eurodance group, Real McCoy.  It was just a small group with a few still-"rabid"-after-the-90's fans, and even better, the group founder O-jay, had joined and later told us a LOT of unknown stuff.  Like it wasn't Patsy Petersen singing on their Grammy-winning CD from 1994, Another Night - but an uncredited singer named Karin Kasar (similar to how big gull Martha Wash sang the female vocals in all of C+C Music Factory AND Black Box's early 90's hits, even though the groups were fronted with a slimmer and younger woman, or what they call in the music industry, puppets.  

One of the fans who joined, under the DJ alias Wild Ace, had remixed "Make A Move" even better than the original (I think by using an acappella version from a 12" single, performing the music himself).  Before Real McCoy came out of nowhere around 1993-94, along with MANY other Eurodance groups appearing all over America at that time, in Germany/Europe, they were known as M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy.  The early beginnings pre-McCoy, when O-jay was a professional breakdancer in Germany, and later formed the group in its' first of many incarnations.  On their first international/American album, their name was shortened to just Real McCoy.  

Even though Patsy didn't record a single note on the Another Night album (was with the group otherwise, in videos, etc.), this was her real vocals on "Make A Move".  When they were M. C. Sar, four or more female singers would each single on a particular album cut or two, making McCoy back then more like an organization like the disco group CHIC.  

M. C. SAR & THE REAL McCOY 
(featuring Patsy Petersen and O-jay)
"MAKE A MOVE" (1991) 
[A WILD ACE REMIX]

SHALAMAR MEGAMIX (*NOT* BY ME)

A decent megamix of Shalamar's hits, starting with the singles when Howard joined the group, up to around their Friends album.  Not sure who made this megamix, but it was included as a bonus track on this expensive-ass 2-disc import I found a couple years ago, which included the LP's The Look and Heartbreak, plus several extra 12" extended versions, instrumentals, single mixes, this megamix ("A Mix To Remember"), and even four of their hits performed and recorded live (around 1982ish).  

I loved the song transitions used in this megamix and is pretty much the same style of mixing I've always done (AKA oldschool mixing, no frills or fancy tricks, and pretty raw, unconventional and unrefined LOL).

"WOULD YESTERDAY BE BETTER? I THINK YOU'LL DO JUST FINE."