In 1 minute it will be Saturday where I live. I was planning on getting up early tomorrow and getting some chores done. For a moment the small child in me thought “Tomorrow is Saturday. I get to watch cartoons!”. Then I realized that Saturday morning cartoons don’t really exist anymore. There are some cable stations the run cartoons, and ABC seems to have a pretty good selection of kids programming, but man has it changed. I slowly have realized that my kids will not have the pleasure of choosing between watching The Smurfs or Peanuts on Saturday morning.

No, my kids will wake up on a Saturday and choose which video they want me to put in the player. Then we will watch that same video over and over again until I am forced to buy the next favorite DVD for my kids. My kids will also never have the pleasure of waiting to see new episodes of their favorite Saturday morning shows. I always loved catching new episodes of The Real Ghostbusters, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, and Garfield and Friends. Writers bringing new shows every week. Even the commercials were great as they filled me with ideas of which Transformer or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to force my parents to buy next. All this while eating my choice of cereal. If it wasn’t Corn Flakes, it was some form of video game cereal. I remember eating Donkey Kong cereal while watching Pac-Man the cartoon. Oh happy days!

Times really have changed. It’s too bad we can’t all turn back time and relive those Saturday mornings, or even experience them as an adult with my kids. I guess new memories will be made with what is available now, but there’s no way it can be better without Saturday morning cartoons.

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I Miss Saturday Morning Cartoons

I remember when I was young. I used to sit in the floor with my NES and play Super Mario Bros. 3 with a friend. We would play in 2 player mode and switch off between levels, one being Luigi, the other Mario (I always had to be Mario). It was so much fun to play this game with a friend. Now I see the Mario games coming out for the Wii and they don’t have a true 2 player mode. How hard is it to add Luigi to the game Nintendo!?!?

I don’t know how many times I’ve been to the store to find a good multiplayer game that 2 players can play and failed to find anything. The new Wario Shake It game looks cool, but it’s only one player. What is my girlfriend gonna do while I play? Just watch? Sure we could switch off between levels, but it’s really not as fun as if you had your own score and character.

Another beef I have with Nintendo is that they screwed up the buttons on the classic games that are available on the virtual console. I downloaded Super Mario Bros 3. and the button configuration is jacked. It just doesn’t have the same feel with the classic controller as the real NES controller. You can’t reconfigure the buttons to your liking either either.

The Nintendo Wii is a great system, but the system and many of the games lack the features that you would think would be available by default in a 7th generation system.

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Verizon just sent me a message that says that the BlackBerry Storm will be released at a price of $199. I was skeptical at first, but I had a chance to try this device out for myself, and now I think it might dethrone the iPhone as the top smartphone. Especially at the price of $199. The device is quicker than the iPhone or any Windows Moblile device I’ve seen. I might have to get one.

See the official Verizon site for more details.

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BlackBerry Storm To Be Released On Nov. 21st At $199

InfoWorld – A beta version of Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 released this week adds developer features to technology intended to reconcile differences between Linux distributions, the Linux Foundation said.

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Linux Standard Base boosts developer features
(InfoWorld)

CNET – Nothing is much of a secret about Apple events these days.

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Three things Apple won’t do
(CNET)