Oh my god... Not only was 8bitfetish nice enough to send me the usual awesome poster but also included a new Super Mario 3 T-Shirt! I can't thank them enough for this partnership where I get to review their great posters. Now I am getting a kick ass T-shirts? This blogger is flying high with a P-wing.

Mario 3 is well.. My favorite NES game ever and.... THE BEST MARIO EVER. One day I will have to do my top 10 Mario games as this would easily be number 1 for me. The cover art its self while might not be as pretty as SMB 2 it is way more iconic. Mario showing off its best power up ever in the raccoon tail. 8bitfetish's print is beautiful and the yellow just pops off the paper. If you would like your own you can find it here. Any Hardcore Nintendo fan needs this poster in their house. At $11.99 and free shipping saying no is just a crime.
The shirt is pretty damn awesome. Already a few people know its the SMB 3 and have gave me props. You can find the shirt here.

I remember the Christmas I got SMB 3 from Santa. I was pretty pumped since the game was hard to find do to it being so popular and if you were playing this game it meant you were pretty damn cool. As I played it through the Christmas break I would discover the flutes and what not. That is where the bragging would begin at school.
The game its self is I think is the most challenging of the Mario games. Its such a peer joy playing worlds 1-7 but once you get to world 8 you better hold onto your pants because this game has no mercy. You think its all fine too since you have built up so many lives... Its not fine... You will use them all more then likely. Hope you saved those P-wings. About a year ago I played it all night with a cousin of mine since he stated it was the only Mario he never beat. Around 4am in the morning we were battling for out lives. The tank and boat levels don't care about your feelings. Finally got to the castle and Bowser was kicking our ass(the hardest bowser battle easy). On guy zero I beat him.

There was a Mario 3 cartoon and I even loved that. Might have been one of the few kids to tune in every Saturday morning.
I really can't wait to play this game with my son. IMO might be the best video game ever or at least tied with Zelda OOT. I again want to thank 8bitfetish for the amazing shirt and poster and I would like to congragulate them on earning their 100th feedback on ebay with 100% satisfied customers! Christmas comes once a month in this household thanks to 8itfetish. Make sure you check out all their great posters and now... T-shirts!


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I want publicly apologize to 8bitFetish for not getting this up sooner. With me coaching varsity basketball and the kids I just got behind. Now with basketball over with I have way more free time to make it the store to get frames for these bad boys.
On to the poster! Next up is the black sheep of the SMB family. Super Mario Bros 2. The cover art is easier on the eyes then SMB3 with the blues and yellow letters. Of course 8bitfetish again has outdone themselves with high quality. The blue and yellow pop very nicely. I always thought the "Mario Madness" was sorta odd to put on the cover but pretty much anything and everything to do with SMB2 is pretty odd.
I remember the hype was pretty insane for this game(nothing like 3 though). Kids at school were all bragging they had the game before it even hit the stores. What we got was....well odd.. But not bad.. Just.. Not what we were expecting. Come to find out is pretty much a rip from Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Pani.. So there is that. I spent the whole game not playing as Mario as I always used Princess since she floated. I beat the game twice in my life and never have played it much since. I do enjoy the ending of the game that explains the oddness of it. WARNING 27 YEAR OLD SPOILER A HEAD!!  ITS JUST A DREAM!
I like to thank 8bitfetish again for sending me another great poster that I could share with everyone. You can find this poster here for $11.99 and very fast FREE S&H!

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A few months ago I decided I needed to track down some NES cover art for my "me room"(Still no pictures..I know) and looked at some auctions on Ebay. I thought some had some pretty crappy looking quality. I found 8bitfetish which had a huge selection. The quality looked way better than the other options. They even have some classic video game scenes! I can't wait to see what more scenes they decide to push out. I decided to take the plunge and ordered the original Super Mario Bros and TMNT II The Arcade Game.

Got my order in a few days. The posters were a 13 x 19 and were full of 8 bits of awesomeness. Great colors,great quality poster and didn't break the bank($11.99+Free shipping). I am huge sucker for Nintendo box art from the NES and SNES days and I couldn't wait to get more.
The other day I was thinking I needed a NES Knight Rider poster to complement my Knight Rider display and I thought why not ask 8bitfetish to be my Friend?!?!? I mean I love Nintendo box art,their stuff is outstanding and its fast and cheap(oh yeah!). I contacted Steve the owner of 8bitfetish with the idea of getting one poster a month sent to me to review on SD80sK. So did he say yes?........ YES! I am excited to announce that SD80sK is partnering up with 8bitfetish! Reviewing Nintendo box posters sounds like a dream come true and the Knight Rider poster should be here any day! So please welcome them to the blog and go check out their amazing posters and their website(still under construction) and Ebay Store!




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@theAFICIONAUTO did a great youtube video with the Hoff and a kitt replica
Its fun to see Hoff and Kitt together again but I am purest at heart and I am not a fan of the LED scanner and the tinted windows. Outside of that I will say it is a beautiful replica since they are hard to complete since finding a good Trans Am is tough and the part are crazy $$$.

The Ghostbuster ride that didn't happen.. Why god?!? This thing looks like it would have been a ton of fun.

Looks like the Disney Toy Story ride. I rode it and was great. Would have been even better if it.. WAS GHOSTBUSTERS! To bad the project got lost in the shuffle.

Batman-News has some nice news on the upcoming Batman vs Superman film. Nolan is helping with the project and Jena Malone as Robin? This is looking more and more like the Dark Knight Returns. The more it is the better.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the terrible NES Beetle Juice game. He also did a two part James and Mike Mondays on one of my favorite SNES games Castlevania 4!
There isn't much to not like about this game. If you never played it, please do. Its a perfect play in October.

IS this true? Yes its true... This movie has no Dick
Ughhhhhh.. I'm sorry this just sounds like a GB spoof. I was hoping for a reboot or almost anything but this. This news is pretty much the same level of disappointment as hearing Bay was doing TMNT.

Over at the Sewer Den they checked out the Turtles in Time art.
Some outstanding pieces of tmnt art. So many different styles.

5 spooky action figures from Dino Dracula. Branded goes Monster Squad crazy. CFC does Streets of Fire. Need a Sweet TMNT Turtle Head Key Chain? 

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Cover Art: 4 bits out of 16

16-bit: Standard beat em up. Can't touch the likes of TMNT in Time and Final Fight.
15-bit: Playing the levels in the pre-morph can be boring since your ranger does very little cool(besides Zack spinning on his flat top in a dancing move while kicking foes).
14-bit: Zack spins on his flat top.

RIP Trini

13-bit: Fighting styles do match their TV counterparts.
12-bit: Putties don't offer much of a challenge. If anything they are cheap. They hit you during mid attack.
11-bit: Bosses are cool but way easy.
10-bit: No story whats so ever.
9-bit: Besides strike and tossing putties there isn't much to do to them.
8-bit: Morphin effects are pretty great and its all you want since the levels are such a bore before it happens.
7-bit: You get this bomb and it explodes into some sort of power ranger bomb... Its very Golden Axeish. Nothing like this in the show.
6-bit: Graphics are ok. I would say the rangers look good. Everything else(Angel Grove) looks very bland.
5-bit: bulk and scull in the juice bar!
4 bit: Platforming is a bit tricky. Rangers feel like they have weights in their feet.
3-bit: Weapons are included in the attacks which is cool.
2-bit: Where are the zords? I know.. Play the zord fighting game.
1-bit: Again I could have landed on a lot worse but this game feels a bit mailed in and I am sure they just wanted to get it out to make even more money off the Rangers at that point. I remember renting this game and blowing through it in a hour or so on a Friday night and being pissed. It can't hold a candle to other beat em ups and I have yet to play the movie edition which "looks" better. Fun to play to laugh at but not fun to play...to play.

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I have a odd love for game art. Maybe its from my days of rushing to the toy department at my local Meijer or Toys R Us(which had the pictures you flip to look at the back.. Oh wait they still have it.) to see the latest games. Back then you didn't really know release dates. The games just showed up in the case for me to drool over.

The cover art used to be your whole choice if you were lucky enough to be buying a game that day. A few games I can remember buying solely based on the cover are:
-Final Fight
-Mortal Kombat 2
-Michael Jordan Chaos in the windy city
-Any of the three Star Wars games
-WWF Royal Rumble
-Bulls vs Blazers

I am glad I still own these boxes.

I think cover today is just awful. Just a bunch of faces most the time.

Here is some honorable mentions.
-Zelda: Link to the Past. Very simple but the black border with the gold Zelda logo just screams greatness at you.
-Bulls vs Blazer. My favorite NBA team on a SNES box? I'm in.
-Super Metroid. Its a great cover but I never played the game through until last year so the effect isn't as great on me
-Royal Rumble(its still real to me damnit!). All my favorite wrestlers(Bret Hart!) with a terrible looking chair photo shopped in with the classic Royal Rumble logo. Man wrestling used to be awesome.

10.Super Punch Out

How this works: I have all the NES and SNES roms(if you would have given me such a machine in 1992 I would have locked myself in my room and lost touch with reality) on my wii. I close my eyes and scroll through the list and whatever I land on I play. 

Cover art rating: 3bits out of 8bits.

1-bit: The game is like Contra but in a car. Dodge this, power up this and impossible boss fights.
2-bit: There are cheap moments like when the screen isnt fast enough and you jump in the "deep" part of the water and your boat/car sinks? It makes no sense... I know its a boat.
3-bit: You can change your guns positioning. Front,sides and back. You have to be quick but its pretty cool and works well.
4-bit: They are more then fair with power ups and lives to keep you going.
5-bit: When you take these turns the game does this thing disorienting thing that throws you off
6-bit: Music is ok... Nothing to wrote home about.
7-bit: Game is challenging but not over difficult. The boss battles are a bit cheap but keep you coming back for more. Not a power off frustration. 
8-bit: I was pretty lucky to pick this game. There is a ton of shit on the list and this was fun and some what addicting. I've never played it before I'll be coming back to this one for sure. I didn't really touch on the graphics but its a great looking game. Pushed the hardware pretty well here.  
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