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Mainly Wednesday's BaD is full of the usual crap about games and stuff.

You know when I was a kid I got the joys of awesome cartoons. And some of those cartoons were cartoons that were older. You see before Boomerang became a pay to watch program...you could watch cartoons from classic Hanna Barbera free on basic cable Cartoon Network...you know the old Cartoon Network...before it got shitty. Anyways today I review a game that fails to do a classic series justice...today: Wacky Races: Crash & Dash

Pixlbit what day is it? Yeah sorry I really do like that commercial. Anyways yesterday I went over my love for the PSP and today I figured we keep it with the handhelds and talk about my first new handheld, the Sega Game Gear. I think I got my Sega Game Gear right around the time of my 7^th or 8^th grade year for my birthday. I didn’t know much about Sega because at the time we were a Nintendo house, but when everyone had the Gameboy I wanted the one with a color screen and single handedly kept Duracell in business (that thing ate batteries). I had that handheld going from 7^th or 8^th grade all the way up to my freshman year of college when I didn’t have a TV yet so at night before I went to sleep I would play a game or two Madden. I had maybe 6 or 7 games total on the handheld. For a long while this was my favorite handheld. I bought a couple of different cases (the official Sega one was crap, so I went with a padded Case Logic or something similar), and thanks to Walmart’s Clearance endcap I bought a 3^rd party battery pack that screwed into the back of the handheld. This was better than the Official battery.

 Don't expect any realistic simulation here! Train Conductor tasks you with getting numbered trains onto the watching numbered tracks by drawing tracks to connect the two. It's a simple concept but executed very well and things can get really hectic once a bunch of trains are going at once. It starts with just three tracks but I'm up to five now. You can tap a train to stop it, with another tap sending it on again, but you have to watch for anything coming behind it. Keeping the trains from crashing into each other can be difficult! That's an instant game over. If a train makes it across but is on the wrong track, you merely lose points. You don't have to "beat" a level to move on though. That just nets you an achievement for getting through your shift at that city without any crashes. The game is set in Australia (Blake should appreciate that lol) and the different levels are different cities. You have to achieve a certain cumulative score to move on, and it's visualized by laying track to the next city.

I'm sad. No one likes me or Nintendo. I wonder sometimes. Most of the Miis I've gotten seem to be from adults. Are kids still playing Nintendo devices or are they all growing up on phones and tablets? I can say that's mostly true of my neice and nephew. One of them has a DS, but I've hardly seen him use it. Him and his sister are almost always on an iPhone or iPad playing games. Is Nintendo doomed because kids aren't into Mario anymore?

 Kirby Kirby Kirby, that's a name you should know, Kirby Kirby Kirby, he's the star of the show...