'Ello Poppets! It's me again with the 2nd part of my 3 part TV.com List series. I'll be continuing my list of my Top Ten favorite games with #'s 7-5. But first, the news reel:

Update on Nephew: I want to thank everyone who kept the little guy it their thoughts. He is alright now and the only thing left for him to do is heal. The way he smiles, it's hard to believe he got hurt. Toddlers are so fearless and yet so fragile, it's insane. *sigh* I'm getting all soft.

Red vs. Blue: I don't know if anyone else besides Dominator have seen this, but I watched it two weeks ago and I'm freakin' hooked. It's a computer show based off of Halo about two teams (Red and Blue) out kill each other, but cause more damage to themselves in the process. It's a show that I classify as "Stupid Funny" because it's so stupid, you can't help but laugh sometimes. Here's a link to the website if you are interested: http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?sid=rvb&id=861&more=1

Now, onto the countdown!:

At #7: Street Fighter series Featuring Street Fighter 2 and 4.

Street Fighter, the grandpa of fighting games. Starting back in 1987, an arcade machine would roll into arcades called Street Fighter. This game changed history, right? Wrong. Street Fighter 1 sucked. With only one character, Ryu, (Ken only for two player.) and an abysmal gameplay, with two to three hits ending a match even against the end boss Sagat, this game didn't even last out the year. It wasn't until about six years later that Street Fighter 2 hit and then everyone got it the Fighting Game craze. With Anime artwork and a revamped gameplay, this game set the standards for the likes of Tekken, Mortal Kombat and Soul Caliber. The series started to die out in the early 2000's, due to bad sequels and movies, but came back strong in the last two years with SF4 and a good movie. While the idea of whether or not Street Fighter will live on and have an ending game to the series or not remains to be seen, but for now, it's place is well earned in my book.

At #6: Sonic the Hedgehog Featuring The Oringial Sonic for Genisis.

Sonic? Hmmm. That name sound familiar. I wonder..... Anyway, the Sonic series began in 1991 as Sega's answer to Nintendo's ever-popular Mario in the whole Sega/Nintendo war of early 1990's. Sonic blazed passed Mario in the market with a new way to play: Fast as hell. Throwing caution to the wind and letting her rip was basically how the game played until the later worlds, where speed literly killed. As with most games back then, the story wasn't much: Beat the fat egg-shaped bad guy, save the animals, happy happy joy. Holding seven world records and being an icon, the only draw back is that the game has been sucked of it's blood by bad game after bad game in the last few years. Let's see if the Blue Blazer can bounce back or if Sonic has finally ran out of gas.

At #5: Mortal Kombat featuring Mortal Kombat 2 and MK: Armageddon

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!! From the moment you heard that cry of all hell breaking loose, fighting games were never the same. Mortal Kombat started as a tribute to Jean Cledue Van Dam (They based Johnny Cage off him.) and Bruce Lee (Liu Kang) by makers Ed Boon and John Tobias, with inspiration from SF 2. But, one small change made it a monster of a series. Fatalities. The ability to kill your opponent and win the battle in a bloody, gorey way. The world was hooked, with MK making a killing (no pun) and soon after that, Mortal Kombat 2 cemented the title as a series to watch. They even made it one of four movies to be based off a video game that didn't suck (can't say the same for MK2's movie). However, the idea of killing and blood in the game scared the hell out of parents and congress (sound familiar?) and in the end, led to the birth of the ESRB, the rating system for video games. Nintendo also went as far as to censor the fatalities and make the blood grey, calling it sweat (WTF? ), causing Sega to get a few brownie points in the console war (Sega kept the blood in the game).

But all that aside, Mortal Kombat was the MTV version of Street Fighter. Digital sprites instead of anime coloring, hard difficulty instead of SF's easy difficulty and easier story to follow, almost everything but the music was better. MK's music was pretty much non-existent except the theme. The series ended in MK: Armageddon, which included EVERY FIGHTER from the other MK games and ended their stories. Hopefully SF can do that and until then, I'll be waiting for the reboot of the MK movies.....ugh.

Question of the blog: Do you own any pets and what are their names? I have two dogs named Candy and Max. (I really need better questions.... )

Song of the Blog: Mortal Kombat Theme by Techno Syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ0fFgU22ls