Mr. Shark: Doctor

Mr. Shark: Water

Mr. Shark: Birthday

UCB Comedy.com presents: 911 Prank Calls

The featured video right now is a short I was cast in for UCBComedy.com.  I didn’t write it, nor did I direct it, but there I am uhhh acting in it.  Take a look; you don’t even need to go anywhere else.

Street Fighter III review at ActionButton.net.

My contribution to the Actionbutton.net manifesto is up.  It’s a list of the best twenty five games of all time.

An excerpt follows:

“The developers of Street Fighter III mistakenly assumed that everyone was playing its prequel consciously. They looked at what worked, and improved on it, expounding the combo system with frame-specific accuracy. The game was slowed down, so that each decision had gravity. The lightweight rave tapping of the Alpha series was replaced with lurching, substantial blows, like men playing baseball with slabs of steak. Street Fighter III took the brave path of using hand-drawn art in a time when gaudy, popular, three-dimensional brawlers were hitting home systems half-finished, their visual aesthetic aging instantaneously like the Nazi at the end of The Last Crusade. Capcom made choices based on the game’s ultimate longevity. And then, they took the one element of passivity — that is, pulling away to guard — and gave players an active defensive choice. And that was why Street Fighter III failed.”

To read the rest, please visit the manifesto.

A Whole New Call to Adventure

Hello, and welcome to the new Call to Adventure.  It’s been almost a year since I updated this site with any content, so consider this the work of the last nine months.

There was a major database error that was compounded by Yahoo’s Small Business services, so my site is now hosted at Media Temple.  Also, many thanks go out to Jeff Milone for his hard work in making the site run properly; after about two months of coding it myself, I gave up and gave it to a professional.  His name will now proudly be featured at the bottom of my site.

A few things are still being adjusted, but for the most part, I’m up and running.  Mr. Shark fans will be happy to know that he’ll be making a triumphant return, and I hope to shoot a new video each week … of some kind … to highlight on the main page.  Again, thanks for your patience.  It’s going to be great to get back to work.

Roberto Alomar’s Most Recent Poster

This is the most recent poster for Roberto Alomar.