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).

1/29 - Self-Explanation
Happy so-very belated new year. Today a File Cabinet article on why The Modern Pip & Flinx Book Covers Suck. That was worth a month's wait, right?

I also redid the File Cabinet main page. I was a bit annoyed with all the images on the left of the article link being different sizes, so I went and made them all into same-sized bars and got some new pictures for each while I was at it. It looks a little more professional now!

I also changed the name of the Condemned article because what I originally called it made me want to find my past self and punch me in the face. I still couldn't find a great title for it, but the new one makes me hate myself less.

UPDATE UPDATE LATER THE SAME DAY: Tinkered with the File Cabinet page a little more, bumping up the link font one size. And holy crap, that Nightshade article was a mess. I reformatted it and took out or rewrote some embarassing sentences.

12/25 - Christmas Cleanup
In the Lemmings music I made a few minor changes. First, it had been brought to my attention a long time ago while checking my site reports that the song I called "Take Good Care of My Lemmings" was actually Pachelbel's Canon. A really sped up, cut down, and altered Pachelbel's Canon, but I still went ahead and changed that. I was also informed the Win95 "Keep Your Hair On, Mr. Lemming" took you to the Cancan. I fixed that.

It also seems I scared my stalker away, but not before he (she?) left this gem in my reports:

codiekitty.com -needs more -cowbell

How about of using funky math to tell me my site doesn't need more negative-cowbell, you just tell me my site needs more cowbell?

UPDATE UPDATE 12/26: Flying Omelette just posted the PSX soundtrack, so instead of stealing her thunder by posting those on my own Lemmings music page I'll just have you steal her bandwidth by adding a link to her.

UPDATE UPDATE 12/27: More touchups to Lemmings FOREVER, this time the Tribe Test. I realized a while back when I updated the result pages I didn't even finish writing the page for the Space tribe, some other results pages were lacking, and there was an unfinished sentence on the test page itself. I worked on that some.

12/15 - We Don't Want Stalkers on the Lawn
More Book reviews: Equal Rites, A Wizard of Earthsea, Mort, For Love of Mother-Not, and Sourcery.

Also, could whoever keeps searching things like...

codiekitty is a boulder

codiekitty is a sexy beast

codiekitty is such a great boulder

codie kitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hope you had a happy b day codiekitty! :

... just email me if they want my attention already? And while they're at it explain what the hell it means to call somebody a boulder?

11/22 - Holy Crap
Review Quickies today, and it's... books? Well, that's a first. And those books are His Majesty's Dragon, The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic, A Spell for Chameleon, and No One Noticed the Cat. I'd actually read Holes between Color of Magic and Light Fantastic, but when I went to write the review I'd found it hadn't left any impression on me one way or the other, so instead of struggling to write some kind of review I cut that one.

Also, in the 10/03/09 game quickies, I had somehow switched Agony and Prince of Persia in the review page. Not a big deal, but I had to update that page to put in the 11/22/09 link anyway so I put them back in the order all the links say they're in.

10/31 - Boo
Got some review quickies to clear out in the future, but for now get your iPods ready! Or don't, I don't care. I've got some music today:

Agony (4 songs)
Shadow of the Beast (7 songs)

UPDATE UPDATE 11/01: So last night after I made this update I found out Nero could read my TG-CD Shadow of the Beast disc like a music CD, and I could have dumped the soundtrack that way instead of recording it with AvRack while running the game through Magic Engine and using the Sound Test. I also found the songs are all five to six minutes long, if not even longer. Okay, I like this game's soundtrack, but even I don't want to listen to those songs that long. I threw them up anyway in case somebody out there does, but left the short versions up. I also added a few songs I dumped in the process but hadn't made short recordings of.

And for a few hours after I made this update, I failed to notice I had the extended version of the Savanna song linking to the short version. That's fixed.

10/03 - We Don't Want Zombies on the Lawn
Again, not dead, I've just been busy with school and pissing away more free time than I care to admit on Plants vs. Zombies. Today I'll clear out a backlog of Review Quickies. Today it's Fable 2, Banjo-Kazooie, Agony, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Resident Evil 4, and Halo.

8/30 - Aftershock
In today's MOREC article, I discuss something I wanted to mention in the Bionic Commando 360 review, but left out because I wasn't sure how to smoothly fit it in and I felt there was already enough off-topic bitching about the plot, a look at Ladd Spencer: Organic Commando.

8/19 - Spitting on a Grave
So GRIN shut down a week ago, and I figured it was about time I got around to Bionic Commando: Raped, Pt. 2. Now if Team ICO would die too I'll have some of my faith in humanity restored.

Oh yeah, and I changed "Updated Stuff" to "Highlights" because I never seemed to change what was under there either out of lazniess on non-necessity, and also to have my favorite review I've ever written and, judging by my site tracker and linkers, my two most popular articles showcased on the front page.

8/01 - Chain Linking
I cleaned up the Links page. I added Greybob's Igloo, Super Galvatron's Corner Shop, and Scary Crayon, as well as descriptions for the links themselves. I also removed some sites that were either dead links, or didn't link to me and I didn't really care about anyway (and in mosts cases the only reason I linked to these sites in the first place was because they emailed me for an exchange only to take it back down. Screw you too, guys).

7/14 - List-ening
MOREC may have been meant for bile-spewing, but the heat is kept on low today with Five Top Five Lists. If you go to Flying Omelette's forum, these should look familiar, as they're taken straight from the Top 10 Lists topic with some changes.

Also, I just realized I was putting my 2009 updates under the 2008 updates. And when I moved the Smash Bros. Bawling article I forgot to go in and change the addresses. Woopsy daisy.

7/03 - Moaning Stones
New site section: My Opinion Ruined Everyone's Christmas. This section will be for nitpicking, sport-spoiling, flame baiting, ranting, venting, soapboxing, mud slinging, and basically whatever the hell all I feel like using that section for and isn't long enough or suitable for the file cabinet. My first article was the SSB: Brawl email (which I decided didn't need its own folder, so it's been moved). For my second article I'm going to go into why Banjo is a Dickhead.

6/10 - The Diamond in the Rough
Five turds and one gem in my review quickies for LocoRoco, LEGO Indiana Jones, Legend of Heroes: Tear of Vermillion, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Mirror's Edge, and The Secret of Monkey Island..

Yes, I got a 2600. A while ago actually. I guess expect a Game Collection update before too long.

5/30 - Email Adventures
In this unexpected turn of events, I've taken a cue from Flying Omelette's RAU Gallery and decided to share with you all an email in a short article I like to call Super Smash Bros. Bawling.

Unless something else pops up (which I doubt. I waited a while to see if any more amusing emails would roll in in response to that review, but I guess not), I should have something more solid next time.

5/18 - Yaaaay
Now that school's finally out, maybe I'll finally have the free time to accomplish more on the computer than burning some TurboGrafx-CD games I wasn't paying $80-$300 a pop for. So let's start by clearing some of the backlog of Review Quickies: Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Shining Soul, Doom 2: Hell on Earth, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, and PREY.

I also updated the link to Sweetbee's Game Hive.

4/12 - More Fun With the Hotlink Block
If you tried to access this site in the past week or so and got a "Forbidden" message, that was because I screwed up my hotlink block something fierce and somehow had it set to block .htm files. Thanks to Flying Omelette for pointing that out.

Still don't have a real update, but I'm working a couple things here and there.

2/28 - I'm Not Dead
Just having more frantic school fun. Not sure why, maybe it's taking two art studio classes, but I've been so much busier this semester, so updates might be scarce until I get out for the summer. I did some changes to the Lemming Tribe Test. First, I rewrote all twelve result pages. Secondly, I reworked some, but not all of the scores and responses. No new questions this time.

Okay folks, I guess this is why you should double check things BEFORE you upload them. Now the test isn't working for some reason. I'm trying to see what I did wrong, but I'm not sure if I can do it before they day is out. *sigh* Got it. The problem was a single missing plus sign in one of the answer tallies. And yes, I tested it this time.

1/16 - Sculpey
Wee, I got that new title banner I wanted! I had a second idea, but I guess there's always the random image code for that!

I've also got my first update to the Music Downloads since I first launched the new site back on Halloween 2006, was it? Unless you count that overhaul to the Lemmings Music Station I did a while back. Today I've got music for:

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (4)
CIMA: The Enemy (4)
Doom (9)
Elemental Gimmick Gear (1)
Elemental Master (6)
Tyrian (1)

In other news, I've rebought Earthbound. Found it at a local Play N Trade for $36. As I said at FO's forum, I've shaken hands and made up with this game. I still don't like it, but if Earthbound were a person I wouldn't mind sitting next to him in the lunch room if it was the only available seat, or if the alternatives were even worse. I'd be happy to chat with him, but he'd have to start the conversation.

UPDATE UPDATE 2/18: Gah, I mixed up the Earth and Wind stages in Elemental Master. That's been fixed.

1/08 - More Filler
A few things. I got a PSP, and I guess a Wii as well. Officially my mother got the Wii for the both of us since she wanted Wii Fit, but she hasn't used the thing at all since she got it on Christmas. I didn't actively want one, but since it's here I'm not ashamed to use it. Zack and Wiki's decent so far, but it does reinforce my preconceptions about the Wii by shoehorning pointless and often unresponsive motion controls into gameplay.

I updated my game collection accordingly, but hell if it's totally accurate. I've gotten so lazy about keeping it updated I don't know if I need to keep better track of it or just forget it completely. It doesn't help I've no idea how to categorize collections and compilations, digital downloads (Steam, Xbox Live Arcade), or some Sega CD and Saturn burns I ended up with because the guy in the eBay auction didn't make it clear the copy of Snatcher he was advertising wasn't an official one. From now on, I will only update when I get a new system. Even then, I will only update for that new system and any others with fairly small collections (say, less than a full screen on my monitor).

I've got such a backlog of actual material. I still need to finish that Ultraverse article, I have two movies I've wanted to write about for some time now and some songs to add to the music downloads, an idea for a new site section, and I've been meaning to redo the site banner for a while. The one I have now is badly drawn even by my standards. I think it's time to stop phoning it in and do some actual work on the place.

12/25 - See How My Opinion Ruined Everyone's Christmas!
I have Review Quickies for Psychonauts, Azure Dreams GBC, Operation C, Illusion of Gaia, Fable: The Lost Chapters, and Super Mario Sunshine. I really need to get back into the habit of Forum Ramblings to jot my thoughts down, or writing the review soon after finishing the game.

You may notice I haven't updated my 360 Gamercard in a while. Part of it is because of what a pain it is to unhook my 360 from my room, drag it out all the way to the computer, and hook it up, then unhook and carry it again when I'm done. But mostly it's because of that new interface with the Mii knockoffs they came out with in November, and it sounds like it's mandatory if you connect to the Internet. Could somebody email me, and tell me if there's a way to turn that off if I decide I don't like it? Otherwise, something really awesome is going to have to come out for the Live Arcade before I connect to Xbox Live again.

What I originally thought I'd be updating with today fell through because I lost communication with somebody. If a Toby Zuijdveld is reading this, could you email me again? I tried to respond to you twice, but both times got got one of those Email Delivery Failed messages.

12/19 - FREEDOOOOM!!
Finals are finished, and I've got a month before the next semester. Let's see what I can get accomplished.

I have Review Quickies for Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Kid Dracula, Doom, Braid, Donkey Kong '94, and Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals, and I updated the link to Random Hoo-Haas.

I may have another, more satisfying update coming very soon.

11/23 - Keep On Truckin'
I'm sorry, since the beginning of the month I've been in the school season known as "All the teachers dumping their big projects on the students all at once." Two research papers, one research presentation for Japanese that had to be delivered IN Japanese, reading short stories from my entire Creative Writing class, having to spend a lot of my between class periods and whatever parts of my weekend weren't spent on the other things in the metal workshop trying to get my little cage together, bleh. I've barely had time to do anything recreational like gaming, much less any work on the site. Hang with me, folks.

In other news, I believe I have found the recipe for the WORST GAME EVER MADE.

10/31 - A Spooky Treat
This Halloween I've thrown together a report on how I've Been Condemned.

10/17 - Crap
Still not much. I did get Review Quickies for Super C, Portal, Painkiller, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario: Master of Disguise, and Bioshock. Trying to get another full review article prepared.

9/26 - Taking a Backseat
A thought occured to me while I was trying to get Thief 2 to run on my computer - there was one additional step to getting System Shock 2 to work on XP I had forgotten about, about adding a line of code to one of the files. I've added that step to the Running the System Shocks on XP Guide.

I'm very sorry about the lack of updates lately. There's four people in the house right now, and while there's two computers everyone wants to use the same one, i.e. mine, especially my brother who's often on it all damn day, probably playing Thief or some other game if the rearrangement of a stack of games by the computer one day was a sign. And half the time I finally get the computer, somebody else kicks me off because their email is more important than my homework. When the other two people go back out of town I should have the computer for more than ten minutes at a time and be able to prepare something. Until then...

9/06 - I Guess It Was Still Better Than The Arcade Game
Instead of giving it a Quickie, I've written a full review for Bionic Commando: Rearmed, or as I prefer to call it, Bionic Commando: Raped.

UPDATE UPDATE 9/07 - From the BCR article:

"But trust me, if somebody ever releases a picture of the NES Ladd, I'll be on it like the family dog on an unattended plate of hamburger. Heck, I'll even settle for that image of him done in the BCR character portrait style I saw in some trailer."

Actually, no. No I wouldn't.

8/25 - Maybe You'll Thank Me Later
In lieu of some actual content, I've written a guide for getting the System Shocks to run on XP, partially to help others, and partially for myself if I ever change computers and have to go through getting them up and running again.

For those wondering what I thought of Bioshock but don't want to wait for me to bang out a Quickie, check my forum rambling.

8/20 - I Am The World's Greatest Condemned Player!
For the five of you reading, I arrived back yesterday. I didn't haven't had time to unpack, much less prepare much of an update for the site, so you'll have to settle for my 360 Gamercard. And in my haste to upload the Links update and run out the door I... erm... forgot to upload the little buttons for the three that needed them. So that's been taken care of.

While I was on vacation, I took a look at the p0rn Sigma article, thought it was a mess, and tidied it up from there.

Anyone out there playing Doom on Live Arcade and need somebody to get those two Achievements where you have to kill 50 and 100 enemies with somebody online? Drop me an email and let's see what we can work out.

PS - Before anyone feels the need to email me explaining how the ranks work, I am well aware I am sharing the #1 spot with everyone else who got all 970 points in Condemned.

7/03 - Bugger
Prototype's still not done.

I did, however, get Review Quickies for Gaiares, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Equinox, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, God of War, and Sam and Max: Season One.

And I added links to Comics Curmudgeon, Random Hoo-Haas, XKCD, and Zero Punctuation, and finally got the button for the forum made.

I'm going out of town for a month tomorrow. I need this break. It was easy to update every ten days when I had a backlog of stuff to work with, but I'm starting to feel pressured to update on time, and this may be my problem with getting Prototype written. I need a break to relax and resupply.

6/18 - Hotlinking
When I launched the Forums, I disabled my hotlink block because it was being uncooperative when I added new sites to the allowed list. Well, I put it back after working out that bug, because it's already being abused.

I have a summer class, so my work on Prototype has been slow. Sorry, folks. Maybe when I get the next Ultraverse update up I'll do two books.

6/07 - Bah
The Ultraverse is getting a break because Prototype pulled a Power of Prime on me and concludes in a seperate miniseries I don't have, which I think I may skip and do a writeup on what I did read since it doesn't seem like anyone ever puts that miniseries up on eBay. So for now, it's a Game Collection update. My focus this time around was on making my PC collection a little more respectable (and I was hoping to have gotten the Orange Box in time for this update, considering I ordered the damn thing two weeks ago!), building up collections for the Xbox I got back at Easter and the 360 that's coming soon, and taking advantage of whatever diehard Sega fan unloaded his goods on a local used game shop.

5/24 - Hell Hath Frozen Over
Back in the Ultraverse, we visit Mantra.

But more importantly, Codiekitty.com now has a Yuku forum. I finally decided to start a forum because I wasn't getting the feedback I wanted/needed through email. I'm still working out some kinks (if anyone know anything about Yuku setup, I'd greatly appreciate your help in the Help topic in the Questions forum) but if you already have a Yuku account, come on in, and if you don't sign up.

And yes, "TaroSH" is me.

5/13 - No More Crack!
I've reworked the Comics Corner. First, I went through the random images and trashed four of them that I thought sucked and replaced them. The four I left may not be great, but at least they amuse me instead of piss me off. Then I moved the Blaster Master Comic and Prime Time there, the latter I'm hoping to have finally gotten the final draft for written, and added a new article: Return to the Ultraverse. I originally wanted to do one grand-spanking article (multi-paged, of course) with every Ultraverse book I care to read, but that's going to take a while since there's about eight total, and I really wanted to get the reworks to Prime Time and the Comics Corner uploaded. So for now it only contains Hardcase (as an aside, the very last sentence is supposed to link to Mantra, which I'm only halfway through right now).

4/28 - Back to Basics
After a break from it, I've got some more Bestiary stuff: Mutant Arachnae, Bioweapon Scurge Queen, Bioweapon Doppleganger, and Supernatural Hiboshi.

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.