As of 6/05/06, I've started keeping track up my updates. You won't find logs for anything before that (which was quite a bit, but I never kept it because I was stupid).

4/14 - Maxi-Man and the Heroes of the Universe
A couple updates ago I said I wasn't going to do an article on the Sega CD. Well, I'm not. I am, however, going to do one on something I probably never would have heard of had I never bought the thing: Ultraverse Prime. I could summarize my thoughts on it here, but then what would be the point of having some Prime Time? As a warning, this is probably my most vulgar piece yet, although I wouldn't call it too raunchy. I think I've been watching too much Yahtzee Croshaw.

Update Update: 4/19 - I tinkered with the Prime article a little, and I probably still will over the days (I was looking back over it, and I feel like the first half is too vague and needs to be fleshed out more). I've also updated the Q&A, revising the answers to the questions regarding when the site is updated and my email. A while ago I had added a question about adjusting existing pages, though I never mentioned it. I guess now's as good a time as any to bring it up.

4/02 - Yes, I AM the Bringer of Ruin
I finished the Street Fighter 2: Look and Find. Added to the Review Quickies is Gargoyle's Quest, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Neutopia 2, Rez, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, and Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest.

3/16 - Woops
Okay, I got lazy with my site again. I don't have any real updates prepared, so I'm just updating the Collection for now. You'll notice I got a Sega CD (or at least games for as I have Xbox games, but I don't actually have an Xbox. But I have the Sega CD anyway). No, I'm not doing any kind of feature on it, because I don't have a whole lot to say about it

2/28 - It's a Sad Thing That Your Adventures Have Ended Here!
I decided what I'm going to do with the Street Fighter II: Look and Find is spend the next week or two finishing it, then upload the rest of it at once. I'm halfway through it, anyway.

For actual updates, I've added Elemental Gimmick Gear, Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, Killer7, Contra 3: The Alien Wars, Miracle Warriors, and Shadowgate to the Review Quickies, and I've finally added added Next/Previous links to the bottom of each page.

2/14 - BECAUSE I WUV U
For the Bestiary, I've decided I'll take a break from adding entires and work on updating old ones. So, I've added images to Native Ornith, Myth Chimera, Myth Draco, Bioweapon Erinshill, Bioweapon Scurge Queen, Supernatural Hiboshi.

2/01 - Guuuhhh...
So, school's back in session, and due to scheduling and travel arrangements I'm spending more time at campus than I was than last semeseter. I'm not sure how much time I'll have to work on the site, but I'll try to keep steady updates. It probably just won't be as much per update.

In the meantime, Guile has been added to the Street Fighter 2: Look and Find.

1/18 - Souryuken!
Blanka and Chun Li have been added to the Street Fighter 2: Look and Find.

Added to the Bestiary is Machine Charybdis.

1/05 - Wrapup
It's a two-for-one deal in the Bestiary! Bioweapon Scurge and Bioweapon Scurge Queen.

The Game Collection has been updated, and the new system is... the Sega Master System! Let's take a look at it!

Sorry, there's no update for the Street Fighter II Look and Find. I'll have two up next time.

12/25 - Merry Christmas
Because it's Winter time, I added Supernatural Skol to the Bestiary, and Native Ornith though it has nothing to do with Winter. I also added an image each to Bioweapon Erinshill and Myth Griffin.

I've also started a new File Cabinet article: The Street Fighter 2: Look and Find! I'm going to upload this in parts so as not to make it too overwhelming, especially since I'll be working on another article for a game system I got for Christmas. I won't say what it is, but here's a hint: it's the only system known for having worse game cover arts than the TurboGrafx. There's something else I've been meaning to write about, but I'd have to rewatch the movie first.

I updated my links, adding links to Aqua Bunny and Rocket Worm, two really nifty fanart sites, and I'm not sure why I didn't have a link to I-Mockery but I added that too. I also removed VG Cats and Ctrl+Alt+Del. I should have done that a long time ago, namely when I realized VG Cats and CAD weren't funny. I also removed Rayman Ultimate because it doesn't exist anymore.

I'll update the Collection later, probably next update, but for now, I bought a couple of games (Over Horizon and Zelda Outlands) from NES Reproductions, and I was really impressed with this guy's work. So, if you're not into emulation and want carts of some unreleased games and ROM hacks that are serious attempts at making a new game instead of some kid thinking it's cute to put male genitalia on everything, I'd definitely recommend it. And if you actually want a cart of Dick Dug or Bastard Master for some reason, I guess you could ask him, but I do hope that he either refuses, or when you send the donor carts he sends you back a bobcat.

12/13 - Robots
For the Bestiary, it's Supernatural Clauss and Myth Griffin. Also added images to Supernatural Merugid and Supernatural Lyuset, and I fixed the clock's shadow on Bioweapon Erinshill.

And while I said that was all for the Review Quickies, I should have specified video games. I decided to do one on TV shows: Blackstar, Futurama, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken. Yeah, sorry, there's only four, but they're all a reasonable length.

Update Update 12/14: Oh man, I was looking through the Review Quickies, and realized how awkwardly the Kid Icarus review was written. I fixed that.

12/02 - Happy Birthday to Me
It's a Collection update! Not all of the new games were for my birthday. Many I just acquired "normally" but never updated into the Collection until now. I also removed the comic intro. I haven't been told I've only played Blaster Master and Lemmings in a long, long time, and the rest of it just felt pointless.

Added to the Bestiary is Supernatural Agatha and Bioweapon Erinshill, and added one more image to Mutant Galamara.

Added to the Review Quickies is Kirby's Dream Land, Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Bonk's Adventure, Scurge Hive, ChuChu Rocket, and Gate of Thunder.

Also, I made a mistake in the Contra: Hard Corps one from the previous update. I had actually only beaten both of the paths leading from the Research Lab and got full, so I set it aside for a while. It's not so much four routes, but four endgames. If you choose to go after Deadeye Joe at the end of Stage 1 you get a different Stage 2, but then 3 and 4 are the same. At the end of stage 4 is another fork, and 5 and 6 are different from the Research Lab endgames.

And that's all for the Review Quickies for now, because I've only beaten one more game (Elemental Gimmick Gear on the Dreamcast). So I'll have to beat five more games before I write another page. I might be able to squeeze in five games by the end of the month, but I'd like to avoid games like D and Bonk's Adventure that I can beat in an hour or three as much as I can. I'll probably do some kind of Award thing at the end of the year.

11/22 - Gobble Gobble
As a Thanksgiving treat to you all, when I removed the ads from Lemmings FOREVER I took the opportunity to put together a massive update to the Music Station with near-complete soundtracks for the SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, and Win 95 versions of the first Lemmings. I left off some songs I thought were so obnoxious I didn't think anybody would want them, like "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" for every version and the Genesis version of Menace which sounds like a bunch of buzzing and random percussion. Some kind of bug me, like Twang in every version, but I figured what the hell. I also added an Oddity.

Also, I got an email from Dreamhost saying on the 30th the server my site is on is going to be down for about eight hours for maintainence. So, if you come here on the 30th and the site doesn't come up, don't worry.

Added to the Review Quickies is Mega Man 6, Okami, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean, Psychosis, Neutopia, and Contra: Hard Corps.

Surprise! No Bestiary update, but I'll have one next time.

11/13 - Of Drakes, Ghosts, and Lawyers
New to the Bestiary is Myth Draco and Machine Scylla. I also found something that's simultaneously interesting and embarassing on my hard drive, my first draft of Mutant Galamara.

I removed the ads from Suito Homu and fixed some spelling errors.

Added to the Review Quickies is ICO, Contra, Final Fantasy 7, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All, D, and Monster Party.

11/05 - Holy Crap, Steady Updates
New to the Bestiary is Native Malroc, Native Piffin and Bioweapon Death Adder, and I added an image to Mutant Galamara and fixed the eye for Bioweapon Doppleganger.

Added to the Review Quickies is Metroid, Kid Icarus, Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Splash Lake, and Darkwing Duck. I also changed the "Meh" rating to "Eh". The expression "Meh" has started to bug me lately, and "Eh" better conveys indifference and mediocrity.

10/29 - We've Got Movie Siiiign!
Another new section: MSTCK. It's for movie-related stuff. I moved Suito Homu and Fifteen Questions About the Master of the Universe Movie there, but don't worry about updating your links because I left those two articles in the File Cabinet folder. Aren't I nice? And to commemorate what the name of the section is a take on, there's an article on my Ten Favorite MST3Ks.

I changed the name of "Ranting Reviews" to "Review Quickies" and added Ducktales 2, Plok, Legend of Zelda, Ys Book 1 & 2, Pokemon Diamond, and Rocket: Robot on Wheels.

I'm also in the process of removing the ads. They never had anything of relevence, sometimes they were disturbing like how the Suito Homu ads were always about Bankruptcy, and in the year I've had the new domain and those ads, I've earned a whopping six bucks.

10/12 - Heaven or Hell, Round One, LET'S ROCK
I changed the "Demon" section of the Bestiary to "Supernatural" and added Supernatural Lyuset. Also added is three more covers to the TurboGrafx Cover Art Bonanza and to the Ranting Reviews is River City Ransom, MDK2: Armageddon, Mega Man 5, Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, and Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando.

9/29 - Freaks!
I've started a new section called The Bestiary. It's a collection of critters, beasts, and monsters I've drawn over the past year or two. Some are doodles, other are more developed designs. There isn't much there right now, and some of the monster descriptions aren't even complete because I didn't want to overwhelm myself into never getting this done, and for the time being just wanted to find a layout that works. But unless I get lazy, that section should expand quickly (some of my class notebooks probably have more doodles than notes). I was holding off this update until I could get ahold of somebody who never showed up on AIM, but Jack Sheen yelled at me : (.

I also updated my Game Collection again, and added three covers to the TurboGrafx Cover Art Bonanza.

I haven't updated the capsule reviews in over a year because I was planning to just post one big page with every game I beat in 2007 on January 1st 2008. Don't ask what I was thinking or on. I've broken it up and I've started by posting Adventure, Mega Man 4, Drakengard, Dynowarz, Rockin' Kats, and Puss 'n Boots.

8/10 - Drinking Games
As well as another update to my Game Collection, I was emailed something interesting about Yamamura's song in Suito Homu Chapter 11.

And finally, I turned off hotlinking, because I was so very tired of finding my images plastered on the Internet, even on "professional" blogs, sapping my bandwidth and giving no credit whatsoever to me or my site. It's especially annoying with other websites which clearly have their own webspace and bandwidth for this.

6/20 - Ladies and Gentlemen...
The Twenty Most Overrated Games I've Played. Commence the flaming.

Also, I changed the site's background. I kind of like how it makes the site look like marble slabs in leaf litter. We'll see what I think about it in a week.

5/24 - Games and Covers Ahoy!
Probably the first "real" update since I moved the site back in October. A hefty update to my Game Collection - I've obtained more than 50 games since my last update. The highlight of my new entires is the TurboGrafx, specifically a TurboGrafx-CD, and I already own more games for it than the Dreamcast. To commemorate that, I'm taking a look at some of the more interesting game cover arts for the system. Maybe soon I'll finally get around to that Phantasy Star one I promised.

And I finally added the link to He-Man and the Colossus to the File Cabinet page.

I added a link to Crawl's Review Site. I'm not sure why I never linked him sooner, other than I'm really lazy about maintaining that page.

Something's coming folks, but I'm not sure when it'll be ready.

4/28 - Three More Months
No, I'm not dead folks. But I've got some things to announce.

One of our computers got infected with a Trojan. It wasn't the one I keep my website on, thank goodness, but it means two things:

A) The one I DO keep my website on is now in the house where I can easily and comfortably access it, so maybe I can actually get some work done now.

B) There is only one way I can think of that I got that virus, and it was through an email I opened with a subject about a link exchange, and the actual email only referred to me as "webmaster". This means that unless I personally know you, I WILL NOT open emails that don't have "CK.com" or "Codiekitty.com" in the subject, even if the subject sounds like it has some relevence to me. No exceptions. And really now, I've only got two email links on this site and both have "CK.com" in the auto subjects, and if somebody's typing the email address by hand and can't be bothered to type an extra six characters in the subject, I don't think I even want to read their email.

No actual updates today, but I've got a few things planned and in the works, but I haven't been able to put much time into them.

1/31 - Three Months
Hey folks. I'm sorry about the absence of updates. I've been kept from really doing anything because of weather, health, and motivation problems.

As some of you may know, the computer I update the site with is in a shack in our backyard. There's not much climate control or insulation, so in Winter the shack is really, really cold and in Summer it's really, really hot which explains why Winter and Summer have always been lite on updates. This year the weather's been nuts, what with rain and snow turning the backyard into an ice rink or a muddy bog, so I've had trouble even getting to the shack at times.

For health, since several months ago I've been having occasionaly breathing problems. Coughing fits with the sensation that I'm drowning (if this is asthma, it'd be strange to not have it as a kid then get it when I'm older). The last few times I was in the shack I started having this problem big time after less than an hour, perhaps caused by the dust and/or dampness of my surroundings.

Finally, I haven't had any ideas for this site. I've completed many games, but for the above reasons never got around to writting short reviews for them. I have plans for a future article, but it won't be ready for quite a while. In the mean time, enjoy the visit to the edges of my sanity with He-Man and the Colossus. There's no link on the File Cabinet main page because I haven't made a little picture for it yet. Yes, I'm sorry that's all you get after three months.

And I updated my Game Collection with birthday, Christmas, and misc additions.

Lastly, I noticed the Sweet Home ROM download was getting a lot of failures. I found out why that was and fixed it. It had to do with case sensitivity, and my computer not having it when I tried it from the files on my computer.

10/31 - Overhauls
Trick or treat, folks! Welcome to the new site! You'll notice a few changes about it. First, the site's changed hosts. SMBHQ was a nice host, but I still felt limited by it. The site's also changed names to "Codiekitty.com". There were a few reasons for the name change, but the main one is the site's no longer soley about video games, much less soley about Nintendo. It's more about my overall interests, and having a .com named after yourself is generally a good way to name a site like that (plus, I couldn't come up with anything else >_>).

I've also made a layout change to the front page. Instead of the tacky looking sprites with a horizontal rule and the name of the section, I tried to make something a little more uniform and original. Okay, the images are rough, but it's the best I can do with the software I have, and I acutally kind of like the gritty feel to them. I'm eventually going to put images for the titles of the sections like what I've done for the Comics, except only Comics is going to be the way it is (I'll let you see what I mean by that), but for now I just thought I'd get the main page taken care of.

And yes, it's Lemmy Chapter 8! But before you get your hopes up, read the rest of this paragraph. You'll notice something is very different about it; about a third of it is text. After almost two years and no rekindling of my interest in sprite comicing, here's what I finally decided to do with: Set up all the frames I had made, then copy and paste my script where I had no frames for it. And as you read it, you'll realize my will to do this was killed by not just my losing heart in sprite comics, but the fact the story sucked and I had no idea where I was going with it. It's lazy, but there's just no way it would have gotten done otherwise. I deeply apologize for you all waiting so long for something that's complete crap. As for what I'll do in the future, maybe I'll just post some basic outline of where it was going.

So, to make it up to you all, I've done something I've always wanted to, but couldn't because somebody atSMBHQ or VGF would have screamed at me for the strain on storage space and bandwidth. I've created a Game Music page where you'll currently find music from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, PC Earthworm Jim, Final Fantasy 4, PC Garfield: Caught in the Act, Mega Man X 4 and 7, PS2 Shinobi, Wario Land 3, and Wild 9. More games and music to come.

While I was putting the ads in, I took a moment to fix some typos and rewrite some captions for the Suito Homu article.

I also made some updates to the Links page, which I changed a while ago but never announced. Removed and fixed some broken links I missed and added a link to Absolute Mario.

I also started keeping an Update Log. I already decided it was time to start one, but I especially didn't want to lose that thing about Steve Irwin.

Lastly, I updated my Game Collection. You'll notice I got a into kick of pumping up my Dreamcast collection.

9/07 - Rant, Rants, and Bitch
I've got not one, but two presents for my children. The first is that article I've been working on, Fifteen Questions About the Masters of the Universe Movie! The other is an update to the Ranting Reviews with Super Mario 64 DS, Skullmonkeys, Sigma Star Saga, New Super Mario Bros., and Vagrant Story. I also did some tinkering with Yoshi's Story in the previous page.

I also cleaned up the Links page, removing dead links, or sites that were just a complete and unbearable mess.

And now I have to blow off some steam about something. As you all know, on Monday, "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray ran its barb through his heart. It shocked me and broke my heart, and I actually cried during Jay Leno's tribute to him on Tuesday. But the past few days I have seen people on message boards and blogs saying things like "DEATH TO STINGRAYS!" and "I bet Steve Irwin is in heaven beating up all the stringrays!" Spewing garbage like this only serves to show the world you have no idea who Steve Irwin was or what his work was about. It was not about getting an adrenaline rush by tempting fate with a cobra or crocodile, but teaching us to respect these dangerous creatures we'd slaughter otherwise. And if you'd ever actually seen an episode of Crocodile Hunter, you'd see how many times he got maimed and never once blamed the animal, and even chastised a staffer who got bitten by a venomous snake (which was luckily for him a dry bite). Oh yes, he's so happy knowing people are demonizing stingrays over this.

Another disturbing thought is the possibility of people saying he got what was coming to him after the Baby Bob incident. You may think I'm pulling that fear out of nowhere, and maybe to an extent I am, but I have honestly seen people say Brandon Lee getting killed on the set of The Crow was him making up for the comment about Lundgren's manhood in Showdown in Little Tokyo. Yes, it was questionable, but anyone who wants to say he deserved to die for it can burn in hell.

7/25 - The Horror!
A new entry to the file Cabinet: The Blaster Master Comic. This actually is not the entry I had planned for a while. I'm still working on that one. I just found these comics on my hard drive and had to write about them.

I'm wondering what to do with Lemmy. Six months ago I really had it going with Chapter 8, but due to complications with a "fan" who wouldn't leave me alone about it and badgering me about announcing who the cellmate was BLOWING THE ENTIRE SURPRISE my interest croaked and I've yet to rekindle it. At the rate it's going it's going to take me ten years to complete it. I don't know if I should force myself to continue, just can the entire series, or leave up the chapters I've done and put up an outline of what I planned to do. Whichever I do, I'm retiring from sprite comics afterwards. It's quite obvious my heart is simply not in it anymore.

6/05 - Games
So, two things: first off, I got that Rants section uploaded, along with a new section for Kirby Canvas Curse, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Final Fantasy IV Advance, and Yoshi's Story. I should look into a way to jump from page to page, like what I had in Suito Homu, but I'll do that later.

I also updated my Game Collection.