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Sonic Superstars



Adventure through the mystical Northstar Islands in this all-new take on classic 2D Sonic high-speed action platforming. Play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and harness all-new Emerald powers to move and attack in dynamic new ways.

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    STAR WARS™ Episode I Racer

    Two Engines. One Champion. No Limits.

    Also knows as just “Star Wars: Racer” this was a game from my childhood that I believe I owned on a fancy pants CD-ROM and I don’t think I finished it at the time, but having just played through it completely I’m not sure I’m remembering that correctly. It’s a long enough game, but I was able to knock it out in just a few nights of playing on my xbox. It’s still a competent racer game, one of the best from it’s time period. The graphics are dated, but the track mechanics and the actual feel of the race itself are amazing and have significant replayability.

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  • $1.99 – Star Wars: Convergence (The High Republic) by Zoraida Córdova

    The next adventure in the High Republic begins expanding the new era of Star Wars, with a story set generations before Light of the Jedi.

    It is an age of exploration. Jedi travel the galaxy, expanding their understanding of the Force and all the worlds and beings connected by it. Meanwhile, the Republic, led by its two chancellors, works to unite worlds in an ever-growing community among near and distant stars.

    On the close-orbiting planets of Eiram and E’ronoh, the growing pains of a galaxy with limited resources but unlimited ambition are felt keenly. The two worlds’ hatred for each other has fueled half a decade of escalating conflict and now threatens to consume surrounding systems. The last hope for peace emerges when heirs from the planets’ royal families plan to marry.

    Before lasting peace can be established, an assassination attempt targeting the couple tilts Eiram and E’ronoh back into all-out war. To save both worlds, Jedi Knight Gella Nattai volunteers to uncover the culprit, while Chancellor Kyong appoints her own son, Axel Greylark, to represent the Republic’s interests in the investigation.

    But Axel’s deep distrust of the Jedi sparks against Gella’s faith in the Force. She’s never met such a puffed-up, privileged party boy, and he’s never met a more self-serious, relentless do-gooder. The harder they work to untangle the shadowy web of the investigation, the more complicated the conspiracy appears to be. With accusations flying and potential enemies in every shadow, the pair will have to work together to have any hope of bringing the truth to light and saving both worlds.

    The Last Starfighter

    The Last Starfighter: Directed by Nick Castle. With Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Lance Guest, Dan O’Herlihy. High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

    Recently released by Arrow Video in 4k / HDR and originally released in 1984 this film still holds up by ever measure that I could apply to it. The music is still unique and interesting, the plot is captivating, and the special effects are obviously from the beginning of the CGI era, but they still look great.

    The basic story is that a young man in a trailer park so far away from civilization that there’s no light pollution from city lights gets good enough at a video game that an alien organization takes note and recruits him to be a Starfighter. There’s a bunch of trailer park shenanigans, including a 80’s era trope of a young kid looking at playboy magazines, but for the most part this is a timeless movie that’s going to hold it’s appeal for a long time. I remember as a kid myself being freaked out by the clone’s freaky face, the laser drilling into the spy’s head, and being moved by the “victory or death” chant.

    It’s definitely a kid safe concept, but there’s a whole bunch of un-kid safe stuff like the playboy and brain laser thing.

    I get some very strong Wing Commander vibes from most of the in space stuff, not sure if WC did that intentionally or if they were both in the same genre. It wasn’t until the end of the film that we get a good sense of just how large the GUNSTAR really is. 10 stories? it’s huge!

    The disk comes with some pretty cool special features:

    interview with Catherine Mary Stewart, the main female character
    interview with composer Craig Safan: intention to stay away from star wars music sounds
    interview with writer Jonathan Betuel: struggle to stay away from star wars concepts, “bigger’s not better, emotional works every time”
    interview with special effects supervisor Kevin Pike
    interview with sci-fi author Greg bear about CGI production: he has a emotionally gushing explanation of the computer generated graphics and the company that made them “Digital Productions”
    interview with arcade game collector Estil Vance on reconstructing the Starfighter game, which never actually came out.

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    Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4

    The support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

    Star Trek: Picard: Second Self

    A thrilling untold adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!Following the explosive events seen in season one of Star Trek: Picard, Raffi Musiker finds herself torn between returning to her old life as a Starfleet Intelligence officer or something a little more tame—teaching

    Following in the foot steps of most of the other “Star Trek: Picard” novels, this story doesn’t follow Picard at all, he’s more of a book end character and one of the supporting characters from the show are the main stars in the books. In this case it’s Raffi who gets the spotlight and we sorts find out why she’s such a broken person when we first meet her in the show. This is necessarily mostly in flashback, then there’s flashbacks within the flashbacks, so it gets somewhat confusing after a bit. I was happy with the way the book was written, it was captivating, but I’m not a fan of how some of the characters were treated and Raffi’s actually issues still seem to be stemming from a deeper trauma than what we learned about here. I’m also exceptionally unhappy with how another legacy character is treated and I’m going to consider that aspect of the story as a non-canon situation in the hope that they’ll be treated better in the future.

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