Rocket Day!

Today, seeing as how I plan on two articles revolving around rockets is now officially rocket day here at IT.

Our first topic for discussion is this most odd of inventions. Well not odd so much as exceedingly dangerous and very capable of murdering someone. Yes that's right, it's a bicycle with a stern mounted rocket of fiery doom. The bike has numerous buttons and such to control the output of the model rocket's thrust.

Is it just me or does this seem like a really easy way to die? Maybe I'm just a wuss but I always feared wiping out while going down a hill on my normal bike. Well take that speed and double it a bunch and you have this bike's speed.

Also, I'm not sure worried about the speed so much as the whole placing my butt ontop of a canister full of explosive material that I am willingly lighting on fire.

Seems like a bad idea to me...

Youtube had a video featuring this speedy bike:


Ok, now for the second rocket related article of the day.

Square-Enix has released their newest DS RPG entitle Rocket Slime! The full title, "Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime" came out the 19th of this month and has been met with large amounts of praise despite the orginal fears that the game was too "kiddy" for most of Square's audience.

In the game you control a rather unlikely hero, the lovable blue slime who often is debuted as your first random encounter enemy in the Dragon Quest series.

Rocket Slime deals with you, a humble slime named Rocket, trying to save his town after being attacked by Plob Monsters. The game is one part Zelda and one part Mecha-Combat, as the standard world events feel reminiscent of Legend of Zelda while the major fights incorporate large scale fortress-like mech's duking it out.

So if you can get past the somewhat childish visuals of the game there is a lot of fun to be had here. It certainly has more depth than most people have expected.








\\drew