Category: 2002

Rocky Game Review

Craig / / 2002, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V

In the November 15, 2002 Video Games column of Entertainment Weekly the following review appears:

ROCKY *  (All; Ubi Soft; Teen) Yo, Adrian! This boxing extravaganza includes characters from all five Rocky films, and let’s you (playing as the Italian Stallion) go toe-to-toe with Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, and Cold War pugilist Ivan Drago. Between fights, crusty old Mickey trains you on the speed bag while the Rocky orchestra’s “Gonna Fly Now” swells in the background (“Eye of the Tiger” is sorely missing from the soundtrack.) The cut scenes faithfully reenact key plot points from the movies, and the in-fight taunts are delivered verbatim from the films. But we have to deduct points for the game’s flaccid fighting engine, which looks awfully similar t Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and becomes repetitive after about three bouts. Rocky throws a lot of punches but, unfortunately, rarely connects. B-/ -NR- 

Craig Zablo
[November 10, 2002]

Limited Release “Eye See You” Cards

Craig / / 2002, D-Tox, Eye See You

Whoa! Isn’t that the coolest?

As most of you know, “Eye See You” was given a limited release in a couple of cities [it’ll be out on dvd and video at the end of the year]. SZoner, Kenman22, was lucky enough to score a few of these cards that were given out to promote the release of the film. He offered them to fellow SZoners for the cost of postage [less actually] and I of course jumped on board.

Thanks to Kenman22 for his kindness! [And Tanto one will be winging its way to you once I get your package in the mail!]

– Craig Zablo
[November 4, 2002]

Singing Rocky Balboa

Craig / / 2002, Rocky

Whoa! Isn’t that the coolest?

Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes got word that there was a “Singing Rocky” figure available at the Mall. He thought his friend was pranking him until he saw it for himself. Here’s Jazz‘s e-mail:

“Is this cool or what ?!! I stopped by JC Penny today and got the web site from the box. The doll is very big and very cool. It appears that the mouth moves and all…

I’m forwarding this email to Santa too :-)”

Jazz, I’ve already put word in with St. Nick!

– Craig Zablo
[November 4, 2002]

Sly was There!

Craig / / 2002, Rocky

The item above comes from the November 4, 2002 issue of Sports Illustrated. If you haven’t seen the fight that inspired Sly to write “Rocky,” then you might want to tune in on Tuesday at 9 PM!

Thanks to John “Big” Beatty for the tip!

– Craig Zablo
[November 3, 2002]