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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Should Ver 1-6 cards be allow to use in the Zone X Tournament?
Letter spotted @ ZoneX forum ...signed by a group of AK fans
Japan's new Cup noodle Museum
Japan's Nissin Foods opened a cup noodle museum on Saturday charting the history of the speedy snack where visitors even get the chance to create their own tasty version.
About 500 adults and children queued up before the museum opened in the port city of Yokohama near Tokyo with celebrity guests ranging from a former prime minister to a retail business tycoon.
"We opened this place... as a factory that gives children experience and a museum for corporate activities," Nissin Foods Holdings president Koki Ando said.
Ando, whose late father Momofuku Ando invented instant noodles more than half a century ago, said visitors could knead flour, roll out noodles, steam and fry them to make chicken ramen which is then put into bags.
Children in aprons set to work making noodles under the watchful gaze of guests including former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese premier from 2001-2006.
In another area of the museum called "My Cup Noodle Factory", visitors can design cups, put dried noodles in them and pick toppings and broth for their own versions of cupped meals -- with the potential to create more than 5,000 different versions.
The museum exhibits packages of Nissin instant noodles from around the world over the decades and houses restaurants that serve food such as Vietnamese pho noodles and pasta from Italy.
There are giant cup noodle containers in the museum for children to play in.
Momofuku Ando, the man credited with inventing instant noodles, took a lower-profile role in the business at the ripe old age of 95 in 2005, the year Nissin supplied vacuum packed instant noodles or "Space Ram" to a Japanese astronaut aboard a US space shuttle.
Ando died of acute heart failure in 2007.
The businessman, born in 1910 in Taiwan under Japanese occupation, entered the food business when Japan was hungry after World War II and invented the world's first instant noodles, chicken ramen noodles sold in bags, in 1958.
He launched the cupped version in 1971 with a pre-cooked slab of noodles in a waterproof styrofoam container.
Ando saw his invention stocked on the shelves of convenience stores around the world.
As the products were widely replicated, more than 95 billion servings were consumed around the globe in 2010, according to the Japanese instant noodles manufacturers' association.
Ando said he was inspired to develop the product when he saw a long line of people waiting to buy soup noodles at a black market stall in post-war Japan.
"Peace prevails when food suffices," he was quoted as saying.
The museum is Nissin's second devoted to instant noodles after one opened in the western Japan province of Osaka in 1999.
The multi-storey Yokohama museum has a total floor space of 10,000 square metres (107,600 square feet) -- three times bigger than the Osaka museum.
By Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP News – Sat, Sep 17, 2011
About 500 adults and children queued up before the museum opened in the port city of Yokohama near Tokyo with celebrity guests ranging from a former prime minister to a retail business tycoon.
"We opened this place... as a factory that gives children experience and a museum for corporate activities," Nissin Foods Holdings president Koki Ando said.
Ando, whose late father Momofuku Ando invented instant noodles more than half a century ago, said visitors could knead flour, roll out noodles, steam and fry them to make chicken ramen which is then put into bags.
Children in aprons set to work making noodles under the watchful gaze of guests including former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese premier from 2001-2006.
In another area of the museum called "My Cup Noodle Factory", visitors can design cups, put dried noodles in them and pick toppings and broth for their own versions of cupped meals -- with the potential to create more than 5,000 different versions.
The museum exhibits packages of Nissin instant noodles from around the world over the decades and houses restaurants that serve food such as Vietnamese pho noodles and pasta from Italy.
There are giant cup noodle containers in the museum for children to play in.
Momofuku Ando, the man credited with inventing instant noodles, took a lower-profile role in the business at the ripe old age of 95 in 2005, the year Nissin supplied vacuum packed instant noodles or "Space Ram" to a Japanese astronaut aboard a US space shuttle.
Ando died of acute heart failure in 2007.
The businessman, born in 1910 in Taiwan under Japanese occupation, entered the food business when Japan was hungry after World War II and invented the world's first instant noodles, chicken ramen noodles sold in bags, in 1958.
He launched the cupped version in 1971 with a pre-cooked slab of noodles in a waterproof styrofoam container.
Ando saw his invention stocked on the shelves of convenience stores around the world.
As the products were widely replicated, more than 95 billion servings were consumed around the globe in 2010, according to the Japanese instant noodles manufacturers' association.
Ando said he was inspired to develop the product when he saw a long line of people waiting to buy soup noodles at a black market stall in post-war Japan.
"Peace prevails when food suffices," he was quoted as saying.
The museum is Nissin's second devoted to instant noodles after one opened in the western Japan province of Osaka in 1999.
The multi-storey Yokohama museum has a total floor space of 10,000 square metres (107,600 square feet) -- three times bigger than the Osaka museum.
By Yoshikazu Tsuno | AFP News – Sat, Sep 17, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Invasion of the Monster Fighting Games
Greetings fellow Bog Leeches,
You've all probably noticed that monster collecting/fighting games are pretty popular these days, thanks in very large part to the success of Pokemon. This is a topic to talk about all the more obscure games that followed in Pokemon's foot steps, as well as overlooked monster collecting/fighting games that existed before the super popular Pokemon franchise.
I'll start by posting this one, "Foto Showdown", a game where you appear to battle with teams of traditional RPG monsters. The oddly proportioned girl giving the tutorial in the following video makes no attempt to hide the fact that this is 'inspired' by Pokemon, despite the actual game not being all that similar (aside from the basic concept):
Next up is Dinosaur King by Sega, a game where anime kids battle realistic-looking dinosaurs against one another in ridiculous rock paper scissor style fights. The series was originally an arcade game which made use of special cards players could purchase. It is pretty amusing to see how the dinosaurs are slotted into their respective categories; did you know that tyrannosaurs was a fire type, and triceratops was electrical?:
Dinosaur King is popular both in Japan and in the West, and has its own anime show, which is exactly what you are picturing:
(the pirates are a nice touch).
Okay, so we've covered dinosaurs. What's the other thing kids are crazy about? Oh yeah, BUGS!
Well, specifically beetles. Mushiking, or 'King of Beetles' is another arcade/card game by Sega, this time about the Japanese hobby of beetle fighting (much better than fighting with real beetles, imo). I don't think this one has come to the West yet, but you can see a video of game play here:
~ Final Battle:
The game also has a surprisingly interesting anime series, which you can see the opening of here:
Oh hey, how about ANOTHER arcade/card game where random animals beat each other to death. Enter 'Animal Kaiser', a game that somehow manages to be even more ridiculous than the last two:
I'm gonna max level my goblin shark...is that God attacking? What, pineapple? WHAT?
You can play Animal Kaiser if you live in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia or New Zealand, as these are the locations that appear to have the arcade machines. Here is the main website:
http://www.animalkaiser.com/
Article by : ScutigeraColeoptrata - February 26, 2010 10:56 PM (GMT)
You've all probably noticed that monster collecting/fighting games are pretty popular these days, thanks in very large part to the success of Pokemon. This is a topic to talk about all the more obscure games that followed in Pokemon's foot steps, as well as overlooked monster collecting/fighting games that existed before the super popular Pokemon franchise.
I'll start by posting this one, "Foto Showdown", a game where you appear to battle with teams of traditional RPG monsters. The oddly proportioned girl giving the tutorial in the following video makes no attempt to hide the fact that this is 'inspired' by Pokemon, despite the actual game not being all that similar (aside from the basic concept):
Next up is Dinosaur King by Sega, a game where anime kids battle realistic-looking dinosaurs against one another in ridiculous rock paper scissor style fights. The series was originally an arcade game which made use of special cards players could purchase. It is pretty amusing to see how the dinosaurs are slotted into their respective categories; did you know that tyrannosaurs was a fire type, and triceratops was electrical?:
Dinosaur King is popular both in Japan and in the West, and has its own anime show, which is exactly what you are picturing:
(the pirates are a nice touch).
Okay, so we've covered dinosaurs. What's the other thing kids are crazy about? Oh yeah, BUGS!
Well, specifically beetles. Mushiking, or 'King of Beetles' is another arcade/card game by Sega, this time about the Japanese hobby of beetle fighting (much better than fighting with real beetles, imo). I don't think this one has come to the West yet, but you can see a video of game play here:
~ Final Battle:
The game also has a surprisingly interesting anime series, which you can see the opening of here:
Oh hey, how about ANOTHER arcade/card game where random animals beat each other to death. Enter 'Animal Kaiser', a game that somehow manages to be even more ridiculous than the last two:
I'm gonna max level my goblin shark...is that God attacking? What, pineapple? WHAT?
You can play Animal Kaiser if you live in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia or New Zealand, as these are the locations that appear to have the arcade machines. Here is the main website:
http://www.animalkaiser.com/
Article by : ScutigeraColeoptrata - February 26, 2010 10:56 PM (GMT)
These are the rare cards that i have...
I have 1 gold,7 silver,7 bronze.
i think i quite lucky because i only can play once in a month
~ Sahasi Jatmiko Kaguyago
i think i quite lucky because i only can play once in a month
~ Sahasi Jatmiko Kaguyago
AK Evo had come to Philippine shores !!
There's An AK EVO Machine in MALL OF ASIA :) yeah on MOA , But It's Hard To Play because the machine is REALLY crowded
~ Lorenzo Eugenio
yup, there's evo at rockwell, greenhills and robinsons ermita
~ Jonathan Malamang
i know where are the ak evo's machine its at the power station and i play a lot on ak but if you have trouble on finding it it just next to the timezone and the road
~ Carl Jose Guingab
~ Lorenzo Eugenio
yup, there's evo at rockwell, greenhills and robinsons ermita
~ Jonathan Malamang
i know where are the ak evo's machine its at the power station and i play a lot on ak but if you have trouble on finding it it just next to the timezone and the road
~ Carl Jose Guingab
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Amazing volcanic activity seen from space
This May 23, 2006, photo released by NASA shows the eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, as photographed by an Expedition 13 crew member on the International Space Station. The image captures the ash plume of the very short-lived eruption.
Photo Courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
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