I am, of course, a sheep. I haven't touched this blog in days yet when I do it's a bloody 30 Day Challenge, a meme on tumblr/Twitter/Facebook that has blown up like an A-Bomb. And why not? It's a waste of time! Yet a waste of time quite unlike any other in that it actually makes you think about stuff, and write stuff that could be of worth in, say, ten years time when you need to remember what your favourite Doctor Who quote is. You know, in case you forget.
Anyway - I am going to blindly follow long with a Doctor Who Challenge and an Otaku Challenge, which my friend is doing too so we can compare notes and stuff I guess. I'll also do this Video Game Challenge, because I freaking love videogames. Which makes me think, how is this really a challenge? If it was a 30 day math equation challenge, maybe, but remembering stuff you like ain't no challenge! Unless, of course, your senility prohibits you from remembering things, and if you're that old, you're probably off trolling nursing home staff and too busy to be hanging around tumblr. Anyway, off we go.
Doctor Who Challenge, Day 1
Your Favourite Doctor Who Quote
Tom Baker, you crazy old git! You sure do love your jelly babies. You offer them to friends, companions, acquaintances, robots, guards, the Dark Lords of Evil, empty medieval suits, your own time-clone, your mortal adversary, and Belgium, and yet you never seem to learn that jelly babies are inferior to jelly beans. However, through honest logic - any quote from anything that I can listen to ad infinentum without getting sick of it is probably a good one. And it takes the cake for me; though I'd argue that Eccleston's cheery "fantastic!" is ingrained in my brain slightly more rigidly.
Otaku Challenge, Day 1
The first manga you ever read.
This is probably the most embarrassing geek story I have. After developing an interest in anime only a few years ago (two at the most), I became quite a fan of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series. And so, I resolved to get the first three volumes of the manga - titled, well, Volume 1, 2, and 3. So I ordered (from Amazon.com) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Volumes 1, 2, and 3.
After weeks of waiting, the mangas arrived, and I opened the box in a rush to read the first Volume of the exciting science-fiction series and I found... this ain't no Volume 1. This is volume 1 of the light novel series. In other words, it wasn't the manga - it was the novel which the anime and manga is based off of. Is it good to have, as a fan? Sure. But it ain't the manga.
The confusion was this - the manga and the light novels have the same cover. Sure, they differ in the finer details but they're just both of Haruhi making a pose. It's an easy mistake to make! (I swear). Anyway, after that dissapointment, I sucked it up like a man and just read the light novel. I liked it. It was the whole story arc that Volumes 1 -2 of the manga followed, though. So, my logic dictated that I could skip the manga Volume 2 and skip straight to the continuation of the story - making the first manga I've ever read The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Volume 3. Long story, but useful to make me not sound like a madman. Or, the opposite.
Video Game Challenge, Day 1
Very first video game.
Oh boy, this is a relic. The first video game I actually remember owning for my very own self is probably this N64, uh, "classic," Chameleon Twist 2. What is Chameleon Twist? Why does it have a sequel? It's a platformer, much in the vein of the insufferably popular Super Mario 64 mould, in which you play as a chameleon with a long, stretchy tongue, which he can use to swing around poles and stick onto walls. When you extend the tongue, you control its trajectory with the analogue stick, and when it touches a pole or platform, it pulls in. It was actually pretty nifty, but playing it again nowadays, you'll find it's incredibly stiff, and bafflingly easy. With only six levels and no plot, it defines the bright, kiddy-friendly platformer genre of the mid-90s. But hey, to a discernible young mind, it was pretty damn entertaining. I did, however, think it was the old PC platformer Bug for the longest while, so my opinion on it may be skewered somewhat...
Tune in tomorrow for my favourite classic Doctor Who episode, my favourite band in an anime, and favourite video-game character!
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