#glee dreamcast

[fcsources]

Hi, Do you have any alt faceclaims with acting resources for Noah “Puck” Puckerman from Glee, please? Thank you so much!

𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙯𝙚𝙥. 𝙞 '𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚. i'll be the first to admit i don't know how much i love any of these. a big element of puck, rachel, and jake's characters is that they're jewish so i didn't feel entirely comfortable suggesting fcs who aren't jewish themselves. that being said, the age also makes this a challenge. i hope you can find an option you like!! ♡

Aaron Taylor-Johnson ( 1990, actor, white/Jewish )

Blake Michael ( 1996, actor, half Puerto Rican && half white/Jewish )

Griffin Gluck ( 2000, actor, one quarter Japanese && three quarters white/Jewish )

Jack Dylan Grazer ( 2003, actor, white/Jewish )

James Maslow ( 1990, actor, white/Jewish )

[jast-art-stuff]

Sonic Spryware

By now you all know my usual routine of getting a game on Thursday from my local unnamed thrift store and I’ve even introduced you to some of the regular staff who have come to know me well, expecting my visit every other day when I got the chance.

But today already started out strange when I walked into a single man at the cashier’s desk, the rest of the store seemingly devoid of any other worker.

“They’re on break” was the cashier’s response when I asked about the lack of staff.

“Every single one?” I asked inquisitively.

It did not and it still does not make sense. There was nothing particularly special about that day and I certainly didn’t trust the man at the register either, whom I had never seen before in town and certainly not in the store. He seemed out of place with the locals of my town. Portly figure, a large shaggy neckbeard, and glasses that were too small for his large eyes. It was uncanny to even look at him. So I didn’t.

“Look kid I don’t know why no one else came in so do me a favor and just pick what you want or come back tomorrow, I’m sure they’ll be back by then,” he said with a scowl, though I recall a slight hint of glee in his voice.

Unnerved I decided to just look around and see if I could find anything interesting, which is when I came across the game. It was a Sonic Adventure CD with the Adventure part scribbled out with a black pen spelling the words, Spryware.

I took it to the cashier at which point he looked up at me, looked at the game I was holding, and for a brief second, he smiled. Not a happy smile, it felt off, like he WANTED me to take the game.

I ignored it for the most part and it wasn’t until I got back that I started to reflect on the creepy encounter I had with him. already there were signs that I couldn’t really trust this guy, I had never even seen him around the town and he didn’t look to be local. His unknown identity and his reaction to the game are setting off more alarms now that I’ve played the game and it’s mainly the dread of having to confront him again if I want to find out more about this game.

 I didn’t start playing the game until it was late at night. Sitting in the family living room with Roko(my golden retriever) by my side, snacks, drinks, and no parents for the night because it was Friday and they had gone off on their weekly outing, it really was the perfect setup. It was the highlight of my week, free time to myself and whatever new game I happened to come upon.

I loaded Spryware into my Dreamcast, setup my camera to record any interesting footage of the game and waited for the usual screens to play before it sent me to the file selection screen, where I came across the first unusual aspect of my gameplay – 2 of the 3 save files were already taken. It didn’t really strike me as odd at the time, I just assumed the game was returned without wiping the saved data, but I was curious to see how far these players had progressed.

The first save file was complete with all the characters unlocked. But the second save file showed the player had last saved in an area called “Ataweyihtam”. The play time was crazy as well, totaling up to 23:17:45:32. I decided to try opening the file to see this new area since I’d never heard or seen it in my time playing the games years ago when it came out.

The game froze for a second but eventually started working. I’m mentioning this because I think this was my first instance with the game’s biggest bug or virus – upon starting the game I was met with the intro cutscene with Sonic perched over the building before moving on to the Chaos 0 fight. I paused the game and exited it to try and reopen the save file, but no matter how many times I tried it brought me back to the first level of the game. This eventually got annoying so I went on to just play the game.

I won’t discuss the details of the gameplay as I’ve already covered Sonic Adventure before, and Spryware’s gameplay was no different in that regard. That is until I reached the Chaos 4 fight. Nothing had happened before it and I was honestly getting bored of the game for not having anything new or interesting, the only thing really keeping me going was the strange second save file.

 Then the Chaos 4 fight started and the feeling of unease washed over me. It was my least favorite part of the game, the uncanny and monotone texture of the trees surrounding the lake seemingly bottomless, pitch-black lake. I always imagined a hand reaching out and grabbing Sonic down to the depths. Or a face to pop up and yell at the player. Anything really, my mind always wandered everytime I stared at the empty lake and I’d come up with all sorts of horrifying fantasies about what could possibly be at the bottom.

 The fight went on normally until I beat Chaos at which point the game didn’t send me to the statistics screen to end the fight.

Instead, Chaos sunk to the bottom of the lake, probably the game’s way of unloading the sprite so I wasn’t too disturbed by it until I was just there, left alone in that small lake surrounded by forests. I waited for the game to do something, anything, all the while trying different keys and inputs like moving around. Everything was working as usual but there was nothing to do. I suddenly got the feeling that I was being watched and this made me jolt in my seat, startling Roko as well who was watching the game, unusual for his normal behavior. I started looking around the dimly lit living room and hallway, though I wasn’t brave enough to venture deeper into the unlit house without Roko, so I went back to grab him.

He was just staring at something on the screen, Roko never does that, usually minding his business with his toys or simply dozing off. But something in this game had gotten his full attention and he wasn’t budging at all. I scanned the screen for a while and didn’t notice anything unordinary in my already unordinary situation until I looked at the lake, and I thought I saw something.

So I looked deeper into my screen, getting closer to the TV to see whatever it was better.

Deeper…

 Deeper…

  Deeper……

 Deep…

  And I saw what Roko did…

  The second instance.

 A sonic sprite hidden behind the Sonic textures. 

It might sound odd, but I think it knew I saw it because the second I looked at it, it was gone. The only proof I have of this instance is this shoddy screenshot.

Suddenly the boss’s music blared as… something began dashing toward Sonic. I thought the game might have restarted the Chaos 4 battle but I couldn’t see anything in the water. I ran to my controller and dashed away from the lily pad I stood on, which sank. I waited for it to come back up, but it never did. I kept dashing from one lily pad to another, terrified of the blaring music that seemed to ring in my ears even when I tried shutting the TV volume off. The thing was still invisible, only notified by the splashing of water in its path. Eventually, I ran out of lily pads, and with nowhere to run I let Sonic drown.

But he didn’t, as soon as the last lilypad went down Chaos’s scream echoed from the speakers forcing me and Roko to cover our ears due to how loud it was. In my haze, I saw a Chaos sprite lurch toward the sinking Sonic before it opened its maw. Chaos doesn’t have a mouth but I swear it opened its jaws and bit down on Sonic dragging him deeper and deeper into the lake as the camera slowly panned down to face the inky depth.

 The audio left me in a sort of shock and I didn’t move until I was sure it had stopped. I slowly lurched up and noticed the camera knocked onto the floor when I ran for the controller. As I reached out to grab it I looked back at the game, shocked, angry, and confused at what the hell I had just purchased.

 There were eyes in the lake. Nothing like any of the sprite’s eyes. Individual white orbs floating in the inky void of the lake. The images of hands reaching out and screaming flashed through my head and I quickly grabbed the remote to turn the TV off and to my joy the screen obeyed.

I stared at the blank TV for a minute, going over everything I had just witnessed and trying to grasp what I had seen grab my Sonic sprite. It looked like Chaos 4, but if he was wearing skin. Skin that was too small, and not his. That sunken maw, had no teeth, no semblance of gums, just another black void rushing towards me.

I forced myself up eventually and removed the cartridge to place it in its box. I’ve found something cursed all right, my dream came true and the rush from the game filled me with wonder and dread.

I didn’t see Roko on the couch when I turned around so I’m assuming he went to his kennel. In the meantime, I cleaned up after calming down for a bit and I haven’t touched the game since that night. I’m going to try and find a better way to capture footage of this game, maybe getting a better camera or something.

Until then, does anyone know what Spryware is? If it’s intentionally scary is there lore the new developer added or is what I’ve witnessed something completely new? I haven’t seen any conversation about the game so the prospect of having discovered something brand new is exciting but also concerning if I’m going to run into more encounters like that.

 That’s everything I’ve got until now, I’ll upload a full recording of everything I managed to capture regarding the easter egg and I might leave the audio of the final encounter (of course reducing the volume).

 Thanks for reading and I’ll see you guys when I get back to the game.

[common-grackle]

Hi! You reblogged my post about my dreamcast for my musical I'm writing, and I just wanted to say that I do not recommend watching glee unless you can look at it through the lens of an lgbtq theatre nerd teenager in 2013 who had never seen any representation. If you can do that then I highly recommend it, it's ridiculous and terrible and great. The writing is absolute shit and the acting is overdone and the music is wonderful. I enjoy watching it while slightly tipsy and reminiscing over my love-hate relationship with high school choir.

AHFJDSHKJDH this is important information!! i think most of the people who have watched it feel the same way which is really funny to me

thank you for the ask, friend, this made me laugh shdfjk

[sunnysynthsunshine]

Blue Blur Buddy (Sonic Tribute)

I've been interested in the Sonic series since I was a kid and recently getting back into it, has made me feel a lot of emotions, so I put some of it into a poem. (I occasionally write poetry, I hadn’t written one in a while, so I wrote one about Sonic)

written on the 10th May 2022:

The clouds float up in the sky As Time flies by When I’d run across the playground The blustery winds overshadowing the sound Feeling adventurous Reminiscent of my blue pal Zooming past each path He’d feel so illustrious Collecting gems Spending time with his friends Defeating evil robots His free-spirited attitude never stopped Once upon a Dreamcast A particular release was Soaring in popularity A Steadfast protagonist With his furry buddies Teaming up to save The Galaxy Escaping from The City Serious subtext And kickass Soundtrack Years later I had awoken At last Entering the world Which I’d observe Finding out about Toys, music and Television I’d find my new Obsessions Most of which From a interesting Nation Through these channels I found my blue pal His journeys felt So free His look and Personality Filled me with Glee A compassionate Pixel creature Also quite the Teacher Warning me About pollution Road safety evil scientists And misuse of power His popularity For some Went sour Different graphics Rushed projects Weird associations Despite this This azure fella Is one of my Favourite fiction Creations Time to move On to another level Getting more into Anime and Metal The Teenager zone Had a different tone No longer in the sunflower filled Green hill I felt so arcane It wasn’t the same Watching the animations made me Nostalgic It Got me to think When I got into The hobby of Collecting gems It reminded me Of them When I got glimpses Of his face It was like he was Reminding me to Smile Made me remember The good old days Even if it was just for a while On bad days Listening to his music Is like rain being Interrupted by the Sunshine A positive sign There’s a lot I love About video games But the spiky speedster Running down those lanes He’s a character that means A lot to me He helped me figure out Who I wanted to be A chill kind rebel confident and sarcastic his shows and games Are such classics He provides such Fun escapism If this was a video essay I’d have so much more to say In my head, when I feel Overwhelmed and stressed Thinking about him Reminds me that I’m not a mess He also looks amazing In a dress The snarky fav Of most 90s gamers With abilities so powerful He is beyond gender While I didn’t join until The millennial My love for him Feels so ethereal Makes me cheerful Catching rings Racing cars Energized in his Super form Bright like a star He’s so sweet and cute We even have similar boots Exploring his world Made me feel seen Smiling at his picture On the monitor screen Remembering my Treasured memories Of this character and series He’s like a childhood friend Our great times never end Blue and sketchy my digital hedgiebestie The little guy I adore Blue blur speeding off With the air His emerald green eyes Glisten against the Space background Looking so cosmic The iconic…Sonic

[animaniacs16]

okay but naya rivera as reyna avila ramirez-arellano 

naya is part puerto rican too

and she also plays a headstrong Latina lesbian (let me have my gay reyna headcanon)

NAYA AS REYNA

[d-criss-news]

Although the dates have yet to be announced, Disney is planning to reboot “The Little Mermaid” in live action form. The movie will purportedly include songs from the OG, as well as some additions written by composer Alan Menken, and “Hamilton” writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda. While there have been whisperings of Zendaya playing the title role (YAS, we hope this is true!), none of the casting has officially been released. So, with that in mind, we decided to take a shot at casting the film ourselves. Scroll through to see if you agree with our picks for the new live-action version of “The Little Mermaid!”

2. Prince Eric

Darren Criss: Let’s be real, Darren Criss just LOOKS like the animated Prince Eric. He’s got the charming smile, and lots of acting and singing experience from his days on “Glee,” and on Broadway.

[anais-mitchell]

hi i love you!! 20,22,30,31, and 33 for the musical asks if you’re up for it, also any of them that you want to do!!

Ahh thank you you’re so sweet!

20. dreamcast [show]?

You didn’t say a show so I’ll do Hadestown minus Hades bc who tf knows.

Orpheus: Jordan Fisher

Eurydice: Solea Pfeiffer

Persephone: Karen Olivo

Hermes: I once saw Billy Porter and tbh that seems like a respectable stuntcast

Fates: Jen Sese (Clotho), Lexi Lawson (Lachesis), Brittain Ashford (Atropos)

21. best love duet?

I’m doing this one again because I cannot BELIEVE I forgot Sunrise from ITH. I’ll also throw in a For Good from Wicked for extra measure.

22. worst love duet?

I don’t have many that I hate but I thought of three 1) More is Better from Mean Girls 2) As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked and 3) If I Could Tell Her from DEH. The first two are for the same reason which is that they’re just too underwhelming to make me care about the couple and the third is because I think the situation of the song is SUPER uncomfortable and I just can’t get behind him trying to tell her he loves her in the same breath that he’s telling her lies about her abusive dead brother.

30. is there a book you’d like turned into a musical? talk about it

I’m still thinking about @oklahoma2019’s Raven Cycle musical with lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell and Adam’s deafness portrayed Deaf West style....

31. already done!

33. is there a tv show you’d like turned into a musical? talk about it

Not really? TV shows are hard because they’re longform so it’s harder to condense into a two hour show. Not gonna lie though my first thought was Glee.

[onewordshy]

Top ten dreamcasts

I still like my idea for Ann Harada and Jenna Ushkowitz (the girl from Glee) playing opposite each other in A Catered Affair. I genuinely like that show and I want Ann to get material that matches her talents.

Anika Noni Rose is the right age now to star as Caroline in a revival of Caroline Or Change and I think it would be funny if Sutton Foster played Rose.

Barbara Walsh as Helen in Fun Home

Oddly specific but Mary Testa as Felicia in The Witches of Eastwick

I would genuinely like to see Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Lovett, Idk why.

Ana Gasteyer as Auntie Mame.

Reba as Dolly.

Lady Gaga as Mrs. Walker in The Who’s Tommy.

Ruthie Ann Miles as The Baker’s Wife.

Uzo Aduba in anything, what happened to her?

[redrackham87]

5, 7, 16, 17

5. what’s yourdream marvel casting?

That’s tough, because pretty much everybody has been perfectin their roles! I will say tho: firstthat I know Jensen Ackles was a possibility to play Cap and/or Hawkeye at one point, but didn’tmostly because of Supernatural. I love Chrevans and Renner in those roles, but man it would’ve been amazing to see Jensen, and then more ofthe world could see how freaking amazing he is as an actor (and to that end, asmuch as my world would explode with glee to see him as Hawkeye, I’d pick himfor Cap solely because Cap has more screentime. XD) Maybe they can get him for somethingelse amazing down the road?!

Second: the drunk Asian guy in whatever episode of Iron Fistshould have been the real Iron Fist.

Third: I don’t know enough about the comics to pick somebodynew and dreamcast them. XD (But basically any fancast I’ve seen for Kate Bishop is A+.)

7. if you couldremove one film from the mcu canon, what would you eliminate?

That’s easy. Incredible Hulk because it p much doesn’t existin my brain anyways, nor does it really have any effect on the rest of the MCU. 

16. is there a characteryou liked originally that you grew to dislike?

Hmm…not that I can think of? I can think of the other way around (started out dislike but have turned around on them). Pretty much everybody in the MCU I am anywhere from neutral to like to love. I guess maybe Ultron himself, since the first time I watched I really liked how sassy he was, but I’ve since kind of realized I actually don’t like 95% of that movie as a whole, him included. (but the party scene is a gift I will enjoy till I die.) I still enjoy that he’s sassy, but it also doesn’t really make sense… and calling it “Age” of Ultron doesn’t actually make sense either when it was really all of twelve minutes. XD

17. favorite mcu style moment?

 OH LORDY– THERE ARE ACTUALLY SO MANY UM. 

I mean, the firstthing that jumps to mind if Wanda, because she’s got the cool red coat andblack nails and rings and I’m lowkey obsessed with the way she moves her hands.I also want everything Peggy wears ever, esp in Agent Carter. And I’ve spent anabsurd amount of time studying Loki’s outfits from movie to movie, and Gamora’soutfits movie to movie (HER BOOTS IN GOTG 2 THO. I WANT THEM SO BAD?!). AlsoOkoye and her warrior outfit is just heart eyes for days. AND the moment at theend of Black Panther when her and T’challa and Nakia come strolling in lookingfine as heck. 

THERE’S A LOT OF GOOD STUFF.

[daleisgreat]

25 Years of PSone - Flashback Special!

I am back with another videogame anniversary special this week. In last week’s flashback on the Saturn & Virtual Boy I ran down all the other platforms that had milestone anniversaries this year. Of course I realized I neglected one days after posting it, and realized last month marked the 15th anniversary of the PSP in North America. I was originally going to combine my PSP memories with the PSone as we approach its 25th North American anniversary, but as you will soon see, I have quite a lot to say about the PSone, so it looks like the PSP will be touched on in the near future. With that said, hopefully I can grant you a brief reprieve from the real world times we are in if you indulge me while I reflect back on Sony’s unforgettable console debut in the gaming world.

I will start off with the PSone, which was originally abbreviated to the 1990s stateside gaming press as the PSX. When the PS2 hit in 2000, Sony retroactively changed the PSX branding into the PSone with the requisite late-gen slim design having that official branding. The PSX was later a whole separate PS2 variant only available in Japan, so the PSone labeling helped clear up any potential confusion with the Japanese PSX. As I mentioned in my flashback last week, I was initially not on board with the dawn of 32-bit systems after the initial polygonal games like Star Fox and Virtua Racing appeared ugly to my then 11 year-old eyes, and after trying the Saturn and PSone at retail kiosks shortly after their launches, I was bamboozled at the concept of ‘loading’ and being forced to wait for gameplay after not experiencing that on nearly all 8 and 16-bit games. The only bright spot I can recall in the first couple years of the PSone was having fun at my cousin’s blasting each other to bits in the excellent combat driving game, Twisted Metal. For the first few years of the PSone’s lifecycle in America, I easily dismissed it and stuck with my NES, SNES and GameBoy in those early years of the PSone because that was all my family had back then and they understandably did not want to cough up a few hundred more dollars to upgrade to a whole other platform. For the Christmas of 1997, after enough pleading with them to upgrade to a new gaming system I made my case for the N64 and was delighted to see it awaiting under the Christmas tree. That was due to my gaming preferences at the time and it being a four player powerhouse that worked ideally with my family and friends and also due to not getting my first job late in that console cycle it lead to me siding with it as my preferred console that generation. I do not regret it, but I did not miss out entirely on the PSone during this era as I had a couple friends around this time that got PSones instead and I wound up playing a fair amount of Sony’s first console hanging out at my other friend’s households.

The early NFL GameDay and Madden titles were the first big PSone games I played regularly against a friend. This video does a nice quick job explaining how the two were fierce competitors in early years of the PSone. In 1998 my friend Rich upgraded to a PSone and the bulk of my PSone playing the next two to three years wound up being at his place. We played a ton of 16-bit Madden in the years preceding, so naturally the first PSone game that was our go to was Madden NFL ‘97. It only looked like a slightly touched up version of the 16-bit games and still stuck with marginally bigger and detailed sprites (or incredibly weak looking polygonal footballers, it is hard to tell when looking at videos) when compare to the 16-bit Madden titles. I recall us then switching the football games up with Sony’s NFL game, NFL GameDay ‘98 for a little bit of variety, and being impressed with its superior polygonal graphics. That all changed a few months later when Rich got the then-brand new Madden NFL ‘99 that holiday season. That was a landmark game for the series, and it righteously blew us away when EA Sports delivered a brand new polygonal graphics engine to compete with GameDay, and its graphics and gameplay blew GameDay away. Madden NFL ‘99 also debuted the multi-season Franchise mode that is a staple in single player Madden features today, and was revolutionary back then. Rich and I played Madden NFL ‘99 regularly and it was our new favorite pigskin game that gen.

Rich and I would play a lot of other competitive multiplayer games over the next couple of years. I have good memories of us renting games on a weekend night and tearing each other up in games like Knockout Kings 2000 and NHL Rock the Rink. After I got my first job the next year I would occasionally purchase a PSone game I wanted to try to bring over to play. The N64 AKI wrestling games we played to death, and I wanted to try out what the PSone grapplers brought to the table. I recall us detesting the unplayable trash that was WCW Nitro (minus its laugh-riot of character select screen taunts), but having a pretty fun time with the deep roster and gameplay options available in the first WWF Smackdown game. I remember getting really into ECW after discovering their first wave of DVDs in 2000, and eagerly picked up ECW Anarchy Rulz. Looking back, that aging game engine from Acclaim was barely playable, but we managed to have a blast with the absurd gameplay modes available at the time like barbwire and brimstone deathmatches. After hearing how the gaming press was giving it game of the year-caliber buzz, I took a chance and picked up Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 on PSone after I could not track down the harder-to-find Dreamcast version, and it worked out for the better because that game became an institution with Rich and I as we played countless bouts of Trick Attack and HORSE against each other. I could not hold a candle most times against Rich, but could care less since the gameplay was that lethal combo of accessible and fun, and that THPS2 had one of the all-time best licensed soundtracks, with a few selections like “Bring the Noise,” “Blood Brothers” and “Guerilla Radio” that remain in my running playlists today. I know, I know, you probably do not want to read entirely about sports and wrestling games, but for most of the 90s that made up a majority of what I consumed, but rest assured I am now moving on to some of the acclaimed single player titles the PSone is renowned for. My friend and podcast co-host Chris is a big fan of RPGs and I would chill at his place and enjoy watching him play through the story of Final Fantasy VII, Star Ocean, Grandia and Final Fantasy Tactics. Chris tried to help me wrap my head around them and guided me through first couple hours into FFVII and Tactics, but I did not have the attention span for those steep learning curves of their complex battle systems, especially Tactics. I recall watching my brother get wrapped up in FFVII and Legend of Dragoon and will never forget his anger at repeatedly failing against Seipheroth in the final FFVII boss battle, but will equally never forget his glee at finally conquering him. I finally made an honest effort at putting time into a new FFVII playthrough a couple years ago on my Vita, and I managed to make it out of Midgar which I considered a huge accomplishment. I only made it a little ways past that however and never got past that tall creature in a marsh I later found out was one of those battles you were not supposed to win. Speaking of FFVII, I played the demo recently for the newly released FFVII Remake and it looks dazzling and it sounds like that first installment of the Remake is getting high marks all around, which is great to hear for one of the most identifiable and best-selling games on the PSone.

I re-uploaded this podcast from my archives where we breakdown nearly all RPGs on the PSone. Brought on a lot of RPG-vets for this episode which yielded one of my favorite episodes in our near-200 episode run! I remember hearing the legendary FFVII vs. FFVIII fan debates over the years. For the first couple of years after its release, Final Fantasy VIII was almost universally panned by gaming mags and the newly emerging online gaming media at the time before it slowly built up a vocal contingent of defenders similar to how Luigi’s Mansion got its fanbase once the ‘it is not Super Mario’ hubbub at the GCN launch gradually died down. I remember when my brother finished FFVII and with his birthday approaching understandably wanting to play the next one right away and him pleading with my mom for FFVIII for his birthday. This was a year or two after it was already out and I remember warning my brother it was not received that well, and he blew off my warnings and persisted with his birthday wishes for it. He eventually procured Squall’s journey for his birthday, and I will never forget it asking him several days later for his first update on it and him furiously responding, ‘That game sucks, I already traded it in to Gamestop!’

To put a bow on RPGs on the PSone, I would like to nudge you towards another podcast I recently uploaded from my archives in time for this flashback where we did a multi-part history of RPGs special, with the PSone getting its own episode since it had so many highly-rated RPGs. As you have read by now, I am no expert at this genre, but Chris and a few other friends I brought on are and it lead to a thorough discussion breaking down nearly every major and minor RPG on the system! It was a fun roundtable I will never forget with the first half dedicated to passionately dissecting all the Final Fantasy titles on the system to the back half making sure nearly all other PSone RPGs get their due. I have embedded it in this article for your convenience, or you can click or press here to queue it up for later. Another multi-episode special of On Tap saw us focusing on the history of comic book games. I brought on longtime friend and comic book expert Matt for the perfect co-host for this series. He took his research for this line of episodes remarkably seriously and tracked down and bought any comic book games he was missing for each system to fill in any gaps and by the time we wrapped up our comic book games history series he purchased nearly every comic book licensed game there was. When it came time to cover PSone and Saturn comic book games we spent a weekend trying out many of these games Matt tracked down online. With the exception of the excellent Marvel-licensed fighting games by Capcom and a handful of other titles, a vast majority of the rest were a dumpster fire of barely playable platformers. I vividly recall Fantastic Four, The Crow: City of Angels, Blade and Hellboy: Asylum Seeker standing out as the cream of the crap. We suffered through a lot of dreck that weekend, but it was worth and it culminated in an episode where a lot of ragging was done on some atrocious games. I do not have that episode re-uploaded from the archives as of this writing, but I plan to eventually and will embed it here soon so you can experience our pain!UPDATE 6-23-2020 - I finally uploaded the podcast covering PSone comic book games to my YouTube channel; it is embedded at the bottom of this special, or you can click or press here to check it out!

The primary reason I never got a PSone during its lifecycle was because when I landed my first job in 1999 and finally had disposable income, it was either announced or much-rumored by that point that the highly anticipated PS2 would have backwards compatibility with the PSone library so I held off on getting the system. I would however purchase a handful of PSone games in the year leading up to the PS2 launch knowing that they would work on the PS2. I loved SNES Street Racer, so PSone Street Racer was one of my first PSone games, and it had a nice bump up in visuals and somehow pulled off split screen multiplayer for up to eight players! The 3DO version of Road Rash got a nice performance boost on the PSone, but like the 3DO version also does not have support for its killer licensed soundtrack during gameplay. Sadly the PSone’s exclusive follow up, Road Rash: Jailbreak failed to deliver, and the beloved franchise has rarely been seen from since. Street Fighter Collection: Volume 2 was how I first experienced the turbo speed and hyper combos of Super Street Fighter II: Turbo that I fondly remember doing regular match-ups against my classmate Josh! The wrestling nut in me experimented with a couple other exclusive wrestling games on the system. Power Move Pro Wrestling was a decent early polygonal wrestling game, which I could have seen being addicted to if I played it when it originally released in 1996. WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game and WWF In Your House were mildly entertaining Mortal Kombat-esque takes on wrestling games, but needless to say I stuck with the N64 for my main wrestling games fix during this era. I loved both Destruction Derby titles on PSone back during this time, but I revisited them briefly in prep for this flashback and am sad to report they have not aged the best and I forgot how loose they controlled and how some inadvertent spinouts could lead to a quick demise. Another oddball title was the Kurt Warner backed Arena Football Unleashed. It is Midway taking the Blitz engine and giving it an Arena-rules makeover, but with more vicious hits and tackles that the NFL would not endorse in their games.

I want to make sure to get a couple other quick props to a few other assorted PSone memories. Loaded was a fun overhead two player action title to mindlessly blast away in coop. I was impressed with Blizzard’s port of Diablo and how well it surprisingly handled the co-op action with not too many performance hiccups. Another PC hit series my brother and I dug, Delta Force did not make as smooth of a transition to PSone with Delta Force: Urban Warfare being a bit of a choppy mess. The hit multiplayer series Worms I first discovered on PSone with Chris introducing me to the series with Worms 2 and I instantly became a fan of its fantastical weaponry like Banana Bombs and exploding sheep. One of the scant few times I got my mom to play games with me was knocking out several rounds of Jeopardy 2nd Edition where it was then impressive to hear every question…errr answer audibly read by studio host Johnny Gilbert. On one of the annual 24-hour Extra Life charity drives I participated in, a friend brought over one of the strangest PSone titles ever in Incredible Crisis, to begin to describe its zaniness would be impossible, so I will point you towards this video instead. The aforementioned Capcom Marvel fighting games you cannot go wrong with, but a decent alternative was the pair of X-Men: Mutant Academy fighting games from Activision.I remember they had Professor X as a hidden character and going to town dishing out damage with his array of wheelchair attacks! I never got into the hardcore sim Gran Turismo titles, but it was another title that I would be fine watching Chris show off its then best-in-show graphics and presentation of realistic cars and driving physics. Finally, the Tekken 2 and Tekken 3 were in regular rotation at friends. Like Virtua Fighter 2 on Saturn they proved that polygonal fighters were here to stay, and I remember being stunned how good Tekken 3 looked when next to its arcade counterpart and how Namco squeezed everything they could out of the PSone with that title.

It was a different time for WWF games in the early years of the PSone as this video elucidates how a Mortal Kombat take on a wrestling game came to be. PSone and PS2 owners were spoiled with a constant supply of demo discs courtesy of OPM and Playstation Underground. I remember Chris keeping up with the demos and him constantly popping in the latest one whenever I swung over. The Playstation Underground discs especially stood out since they were essentially a virtual magazine, complete with mini-documentaries and interview features, cheat codes and content unlocked save files. I have been able to experience these again with Giant Bomb doing an exquisite job regularly reliving this era with their ‘Demo Derby’ video series I give a high recommendation for everyone to check out. I also remember the final years of PSone’s lifecycle that introduced the concept of the $10 budget game that saw dozens of low-budget games release brand new for at that price point. A lot of these were utter trash like All-Star Slammin’ D-Ball where I discovered it is possible to screw up a dodge ball game, but there was an occasional gem sprinkled in there, and it was part of the fun chancing one when randomly perusing the racks at Best Buy on a routine payday visit back then.

My last dive into PSone gaming was downloading the various PSone classics released digitally on PS3. According to good ‘ol reliable Wikipedia, there were 265 PSone Classics released for PS3 download in North America. I downloaded around 30 of them. Most of them were $6 each, with a few multi-disc games going for $10 I think, but they frequently went on sale for half off and it was a great way to track down games I always wanted for a bargain, and having most of them being cross-compatible on the Vita was a handy bonus too! I booted up a few of them prepping up for this, and a big standout for me were the five volumes of the NAMCO Museum catching my eye with their impressive explore-able museum filled with all types of fan service that made me get a lot more than I expected when revisiting arcade classics like Galaga and Pole Position. One day I will make time for the other downloaded PSone Classics in my PS3 library I have long neglected and heard nothing but great things about like both Mega Man Legends titles and the pair of Suikoden games. Speaking of PSone Classics, that brings me to Sony’s entry into the console-mini market a couple years ago with its critical and commercial flop, the PSone Classic. I love my NES, SNES and Genesis mini consoles, but I avoided Sony’s version with its surprise amount of issues that are far too numerous to breakdown here. From what I understand, a lot of it can be resolved by modding the system, but ultimately I prefer having my PS3 be my own personal PSone Classic. My PS3-slim model still plays all my PSone discs, and combine that with my own curated PSone Classics I have downloaded on it and I see no need to upgrade to the PSone Classic and its Dual Shock-less controller.

I will wind down here by stating how I went until three or four years ago unexpectedly stumbling into procuring a physical PSone. I was helping a longtime co-worker move an old couch, and afterword we were having a quick breakfast when she suddenly had a lightbulb-turned-on look dawn on her and she exclaimed, ‘hey, you like games, right?’ I responded that I do, and she went on to say how her son left a couple boxes of games in her closet and insisted I take them for helping her out. I felt it was a bit much for moving a couch, but she persisted and double checked with her son after a quick text. Upon opening up the couple of shoeboxes when I got home I discovered it wound up being the PSone-slim, with two controllers and about 20 games mostly of the Crash Bandicoot and alternative sports variety which was fine by me! The PSone/Saturn/N64 generation I remember being a crazy ‘fanboy war’ era. Aside from the standard lunchroom verbal jabs that were exchanged, that generation in the mid-to-late 90s was when the Internet, online forums, boards and messenger programs became ubiquitous and only fueled the fire. As stated above, I remember sticking by the N64 during this time, but over the years as you have just read, I came around on the PSone over the years. I may have touched on an unorthodox lineup of games compared to what people that were playing the PSone during its active retail timespan, but I do not regret any of the PSone ‘classics’ I experienced one bit. Please check back here later this year for more Sony platform flashback specials on the PSP and PS2, and if you want more retro gaming flashbacks then please take a look underneath here for a list of my previous flashbacks!

Here is the podcast I did covering all of the comic book games released on the PSone, along with other systems from that era like the Saturn and N64. My Other Gaming Flashbacks Dreamcast 20th Anniversary GameBoy 30th Anniversary Genesis 30th Anniversary Saturn and Virtual Boy 25th Anniversaries TurboGrafX-16 30th Anniversary and 32-X 25th Anniversary

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tumblr’s aladdin live action dreamcast:

zayn (or avan jogia) as aladdin 

freida pinto (or gigi hadid) as jasmine 

aziz ansari as abu the monkey

riz ahmed as jafar

melissa mccarthy as genie

the principal from GLEE as the Sultan

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do you have any alts for lea michele? not necessarily rachel berry

𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙯𝙚𝙥. 𝙞 '𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚. ooh, definitely!! the height of lea's fame was obviously in glee where she was in her 20s, so i gave some younger suggestions as well. these are all based on vibes and facial similarity more than anything else! like if i would consider both actresses for the same role.

Anya Chalotra ( 1995, actress, half Indian )

Camila Morrone ( 1997, model with acting resources, white/Jewish )

Conor Leslie ( 1991, actress, white/Jewish )

Diana Silvers ( 1997, actress, white/Jewish )

Gigi Zumbado ( 1996, actress, Cuban )

Greta Onieogou ( 1991, actress, half Black )

Kaia Gerber ( 2001, model with acting resources, white/Jewish )

Katie Parker ( 1986, actress, white )

Kira Kosarin ( 1997, actress, white/Jewish )

Laura Kariuki ( 1998, actress, Black )

Meaghan Rath ( 1986, actress, half Indian && half white/Jewish )

Olivia Rodrigo ( 2003, musician with acting resources, half Filipino )

Rachel Matthews ( 1993, actress, white/Jewish )

Rachel Zegler ( 2001, actress, half Colombian )

Simay Barlas ( 1999, actress, Turkish )

Stella Maeve ( 1989, actress, parts Blackfoot-Cherokee && white/Jewish )

Sude Zulal Guler ( 2001, actress, Turkish )

Yasmeen Fletcher ( 2003, actress, half Lebanese )

Yvette Monreal ( 1992, actress, half Chilean && half Mexican )

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Mrs Lopez- Dream Cast for Glee

Okay, so before Mrs. Lopez was cast there were some Dream Cast for the part. There was a GIF of one where Mrs.Lopez was 'mad' at 'abuela' and was shouting that abuela didn't deserve to come to Christmas anymore to see Santana. Can anyone help me find out who that was?