Jedi Fallen Order

I really like the concept of Google Stadia and online gaming rather than spending $600 on a console.  (Post coming soon) and FINALLY Star Wars is coming to Stadia.  Jedi Fallen Order will arrive on 11-24-2020.  

Check it out below.

More announcements today at 11 AM featured a PacMan demo and Hello Engineer.  
Here's to hoping family share is coming as an announcement this week!

The Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer & Reaction

  This is the way.  October 30th get here fast!

Season 2 Trailer

Trailer Reaction

Mandalorian Season 2

The release date of Mandalorian Season 2 is out!  October 30th!  I wish we could binge this but love what Disney+ does with the weekly Release.  

I'm excited about the rumors coming for this season, Ahsoka & Boba Fett!  Hopefully we get a trailer coming soon.

 

Wide Right Hall of Fame – Second Class

As the first class had a feel of the season (baseball’s first pitch) the second class follows suit with football season approaching. 

Kinnick Stadium – The Empire Strikes Back – Hayden Fry – Back In Black – The Tiger Hawk – Tecmo Bowl

Kinnick Stadium – As with Wrigley Field in the Inaugural Class, Kinnick Stadium is my other of my 2 favorite places in the world.  I’ve been to close to 100 games there and every time I walk up that old tunnel still in the shadow.  Looking up you can see the sun and as I still get closer to that point every time I get goose bumps.  Once you hit the top of the ramp the brightness of the sun hits you, the green grass (turf) and the Hawkeyes in black jersey’s and the black helmets.  It’s one of the favorite things in my life.  I’ve seen many games there with my dad and mom and I can’t wait to take my kids there for games.

The Empire Strikes Back – Star Wars started my love of that galaxy far far away, but Empire continued it.  Luke grows up, Han & Leia’s relationship starts and the 2 coolest guys in the galaxy are introduced, Boba Fett and Lando! 

Hayden Fry – Hayden is a first ballot Hall of Famer, but wanted to save him close to football season.  He’s one of my ultimate heroes.  At Iowa games I’d always scope out the white pants where they were on the sideline.  I’d listen to his radio show every Thursday with my dad.  I even dressed as him a couple Halloweens.  I got to meet him during the 93 spring game and got a picture with him. 

Back in Black – Just watch this!

The TigerHawk – The symbol of my child hood and life.  It’s one of the first things I learned to draw and I used to draw A LOT OF THEM. It’s one of the first things I taught my kids what it is, when they see one they shout “Dad, Hawkeyes!” 

Tecmo Bowl – The first great football video game!  I can’t count how many hours I played it.  I used to keep stats manually since the game didn’t do it, and I’d make my own “Big Peach” sports pages.  Bo Jackson on it is LEGENDARY too! 

  

Who's in your 5? Star Wars Characters

Ok, so I was having trouble thinking of a Who's in Your 5 to think of writing since I didn't like the ones from SoundOff to copy, and after having a few emails with a fellow Star Wars fan while she was building a Lego Ewok Glidder (which is just cool too!) I'm going to go with this. Top 5 favorite Star Wars characters.

Before I get into it I thought do I even include the prequels? Lucas I think hurt the original 3 by trying to incorporate every character from the orignals in the prequels. Really, Darth Vader built C3PO and R2D2 was Amidalla's astro droid and hey by sheer chance in all of the galaxy far, far away they both end up in Luke's hands, who happens to be their kid?

So here are my top 5 Star Wars Characters.

Honorable Mention - Princess Leia ( in the gold bikini! :P ), Han Solo, Darth Maul

5. Lando - some one had to be the player in the galaxy. Lando was that man. He ran a city and was a gambler. And he can fly the hell out of the Millenium Falcon

4. Admiral Ackbar - the coolest curstacean. It's a trap!

3. Luke - yea I admit when I played Star Wars when I was younger, I was Luke. Who didn't want to be the hero? And the Green Lightsaber was just cool!

2. Darth Vader - if you make the top 5 of all time movie villians you're a bad ass. I don't think there is a more menacing figure in movies ever. He is the epitimy of evil and is AWESOME! And you know right now you can hear his breathing.

1. Boba Fett - Outside of Vader I don't think there is a badder ass in the galaxy. He got eliminated from ROTJ pretty easily but in the expanded universe, the Sarlac doesn't kill him.

Who's in your 5? Movies

Ok, so I've done Who's in your 5 for SuperHero movies, now I'm going to do movies in general. So the following are my top 5 favorite movies. Feel free to comment, and give me your 5!

5. Gladiator - "Are you not entertained?!?"

4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy - My Precious....2nd Greatest Trilogy in film history

3. Shawshank Redemption - Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.

2. The Dark Knight - WHY SO SERIOUS?

1. Star Wars Double Trilogy - The Force will be with you...always...

Who’s in your 5? Video Games

So the wonder of video games have been around since well like 1986 in my mind when I got my Nintendo. From NES to Super NES, Sega, PS1, PS2 and then Xbox and 360 and then also computer games, I’ve played a hand full of games. What are my favorite. Here we go.



T5. Civ series on PC – If only my computer could process it as fast as I wanted so it would run smoother and quicker. I could get lost for hours in that game building up my army and civilization, then trying to take over other countries.




T5. Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 – The first real Action/RPG game I played, and getting immersed into the Star Wars universe was awesome. And then building my lightsabers and not only having 1, but 2 going and killing sith! I hope another game comes out from this series for 360!

4. Contra – the best weapon ever on this game. The Spread gun.



3. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 – the game that got me hooked on online play. Loved spending hours upon hours at night playing this with the now defunct mwcgamers.com clan. If I could have only got my mic/ear piece to work earlier!



2. Tecmo Bowl/Tecmo Super Bowl – the first great football game, and the home of the best video game athlete ever, Bo Jackson. I remember playing with the Bears at my parents old house, and I’d keep stats on the original when the game didn’t, and then draw and create my own BIG PEACH (what the Des Moines Register used to call it’s Sunday Sports) Great memories.

1. NCAA Football series by EA Sports – I don’t even want to know how many hours I’ve spent playing a dynasty on here, or the classic matches vs. Fouch before the bus would leave for basketball games. Add in the new feature of creating your own school online and all the advances up uploading your own highlights. SWEET! I’ve owned ever game in the series but one.