3-2-1 Contact

Though I certainly remember the show existing, and its catchy disco porn theme, I don’t really remember anything specific other than “I watched it sometimes”. I think it was maybe even most of my showings were in the classroom. You know, when a teacher tried to be hip by letting us watch TV like this or Mr. Wizard when I would’ve rather watched You Can’t Do That on Television, Today’s Special, G.I. Joe or He-Man. But oh well. But oh well, at lease we got to play computer games such as Spellavator and Oregon Trail.

Here’s the classic theme to the show. And by the way… RIP Rembrandt

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WWE Royal Rumble 2009 Predictions

My 2nd favorite PPV of the year is nearly here! The Rumble match has always been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, as I loved (and still do love) seeing all the wrestlers mixing it up and battling it out. This is also why I’ve always loved the Survivor Series elimination matches and WCW’s old BattleBowl/Lethal Lottery gimmick.

As for the rest of the matches, the only one I think will be of any worth will be Hardy/Edge. It should be a great “story” and sports entertainment-style match.

I haven’t decided if I’ll be ordering this though, PPVs don’t come cheap these days! And it’s a darn shame it’s taking place right down the road from me and I wasn’t able to afford tickets.

Bold is the predicted winner!

WWE Women’s Championship Match
Beth Phoenix © vs. Melina

I don’t think it’s time for Beth to relinquish the title just yet. Her “fan” has just come on board and I think they’ll be working together for awhile, successfully, before that inevitably falls apart.

ECW Championship Match
Jack Swagger © vs. Matt Hardy

The truth is, WWE doesn’t seem to care about Matt. And while that’s not fair, I applaud them for taking a chance on Swagger. The guy has a lot of potential and I see Swagger’s dominance and Dreamer’s quest for gold before retirement coming together by June.

World Heavyweight Championship Match
John Cena © vs. JBL

This is a mid-card match, let’s be honest. JBL/Cena has been done to death and never with very good results. This whole match hinges on whether HBK helps JBL wins the title or costs him the match. I think this is where HBK turns on JBL and we get that Wrestlemania showdown we’ve *ALL* been clamoring for between the two.

WWE Championship Match
Jeff Hardy © vs. Edge

Jeff’s reign has been a wreck, no pun intended. It’s not the “honeymoon” reign most fans would have liked to have seen.  HHH will find his way into the Smackdown main event at WM against Edge and Christian will take up most of Jeff’s time. Hopefully, he’ll debut on this night.

30-Man Royal Rumble Match

Winner: Randy Orton

There’s a number of ways this can go. I guess it all really depends on what they want to do with Orton. One rumor is Orton/Cena at Wrestlemania, another is Orton/Austin. The only other option I see in this match outside of Orton (on the RAW side) is Jericho, but it looks like they’re done with his #1 heel push for awhile. Maybe Jericho gets Austin at WM while Orton gets the title shot? If a Smackdown guy wins, it’ll definitely be HHH, but as said above, a main event title match is always reserved for him at Wrestlemania, so there’s really no need to waste this match on him winning.

As of right now, there’s only 21 guys announced in the 30-Man rumble on WWE.com, but I’m sure most if not all of those slots will be filled by the time Smackdown goes off the air Friday night. The only notable who doesn’t have a spot yet is HBK, but it’s not really necessary for him to be in the Rumble this year considering where this JBL angle is going.

www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble

WWF Wrestling Buddies

Anyone else remember these? They were awesome. Of course, being the wrestling freak I was (and still am!), I wanted all four, but I ended up only with Ultimate Warrior for one Easter (my #1 “want” was Hulk). ‘Tis a shame I never procurred Million Dollar Man or Macho King for the Warrior to fight against!

My only gripe about the Wrestling Buddies was that they were too small to do many of moves I had learned from watching WWF Superstars and WWF Prime-Time Wrestling… Or maybe I was just getting too old to play with them.

Good intentions

A couple of things:

First, I’m gonna be transferring all my posts I did exclusively at TheMetalMisfit.com to this blog and then we’re gonna get down to some scanny goodness. I think I’ve got a couple of things you folks might enjoy. And THEN we’re gonna get back down to some long-winded articles. Sound good? Otay!

Go read The Retroist and Saturday Morning Central until then.

See you soon!

The Metal Misfit joins the Guitar Hero revolution!

I just bought Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero World Tour last night for Wii… WOW. I’ve really been missing out. I wanted to get my hands on the WT guitar bundle, but Best Buy was all sold out.

I was heartbroken and even considering buying the GH III bundle (which has the better pre-packed songs, IMO, anyway), even though I knew there was no DLC for it on Wii. The ability to download new songs was a big reason I decided to jump into the GH world with World Tour.

But then, I had an epiphany! I had a $50 Best Buy gift card thanks to points I had racked up on my debit card and since I was expecting to spend around $50 of my own money anyway, I opted for the GH III bundle and picked up the WT game itself. Two GH games, one guitar, $60 total. Not bad!

I spent most of the evening playing it, time really flies on that game. Of course, I started the career mode on Easy, and Slash gave me a lot of trouble (never did beat him), but I’m still having fun all the way through and ready to take it up to Medium.

I now finally see why Guitar Hero is the phenomenon that it is. I just hope they release the drums and microphone for World Tour separately at some point. They did have the band bundle in stock, but that would’ve been $150 out of pocket and more than I was willing to spend.

And yes, I’m back on WordPress… for the time being at least. I wasn’t happy with the set up of the other blog for various reasons.