Welcome back to the next issue on my timewarp series. I'm trying a different header to see if that attracts some extra interest when I post. Let's see how it works out.

I hope you enjoy this list of movies and games I have collected was from July 2005.

First though, here is July's top 5 monthly winners.

1. Decline of Video Gaming 3 The Evil Developers have a new plan to kill off Dim, Dan and JT. Will it succeed? Stay tuned. This is the third of a series of self contained episodes DEVOTED to lampooning popular console games. If you love gaming then there is no way you want to miss this. It's all about in jokes though. Capcom, Zelda, PSP and Metal Gear Solid. If you don't recognize any of there common video game terms then you may not get the funny parts of this animation.
- Decline of Video Gaming At the dawn of the 21 century, gaming was at it's peak but since then things started to go downhill. In the year 2059, three English guys look at some ot the games that have been releases between 2000 and the present day and make fun of them. Future hits like "Metal Gear Solid 5", and "Zelda and the Lampshade Of No real Significance".
- Decline of Video Gaming 2 Dim, Dan and JT, game analyzers extraordinare, have won tickets to this year's E3 (gaming convention). Unfortunately, not all is as it seems, for the heads of 3 video game companies have lured them here in order to kill the trio off for having made fun of their games so often.

2. Salad Fingers Episode 6 <sighs> I hate Firth's submissions. Salad Fingers is a monster in a world of monsters that enjoys the feel of rust. He's quite insane as well, though in this world that is nothing unusual.. Today self contained episode, Salad Fingers does random and creepy things in the surreal environment he calls home. Watch the full series at:
- Series / Salad Fingers This has got to be one of the strangest Flash series ever conceived in NG. If you like slow plots where the atmosphere is absolute king. If you don't mind that nothing makes sense. If you enjoy a horror movie feel without it getting overly gory and violent that this is for you. Not me though.

3. Tomorrow's Nobodies Ep.3 The latest in a connected series that I don't like. It's a 16 minutes long, comedy animation. In here, one guy is in jail after loving too much (he loves by stabbing), so the gang is getting money to bail him out by opening a day care center.
- Series / Tomorrow's Nobodies a group of 20 something friends do random things.

4. B/W Cartoon About Berries Firth again, AGAIN! This makes his fifth monthly award. That's more then any other artist. Grr, I don't like his stuff. Interesting style though, paper-flash (A cartoon almost completely drawn on paper and animated in flash). John is a married man who's paranoias and delusions are driving him slowly more insane. Hard to know what's real. Prequel to:
- Roof Tiling In it John keeps fixing a roof that is in good condition, losing his temper a lot, and periodically behaving in strange ways until it just gets to become too much for him to handle.

5. Code Veronica: Flash Edn Have you played Resident Evil: Code Veronica ? This flash is a parody of the first quarter of the game. the idea behind this wasn't to create all new situations to put the characters in, but to take the source material and work around it. That means there will be a lot of humor that's geared toward RE fans. You'll have to know about the game to understand some of the movie's quirks. typical of it's author Legendary Frog, it's well animated and voiced (thought the voices for the villains et annoying). A good overall animation.

THE OTHERS

1. Space Invaders V. F. This movie is a documentary about the Space Invasion in 1975. Do you remember that game, 'Space Invaders'? That one and 'Pitfall' were the first games I played on the old Atari2600. Anyway, although the earthlings could fight back successfully, we often forget the victims on the other side. Pretty cute.

2. Chalice (KB Game) GAME! The author's intent in making this was to make fun a game that uses as few Kb as possible. Under 10Kb, in this instance. He did a good job. Sort of like minesweeper. You are given a rectangle with 15 squares inside it by 22 squares. Click on the squares to find the one with the chalice as soon as possible in as few tries as you can. To help you along, the squares that do not have the chalice will have arrows that help point the way. However, as the levels increase, more and more squares will reveal blank squares when you click them. Making it harder to find the chalice. VERY good for the file size.

3. Shades of Grey Ep. 1 An amnesiac man wakes up to find a mysterious stranger waiting. Before any answers can come about, he is thrust into battle against the "Drakin.", horde of evil demon like beings.
- Series / Shades of Grey A very interesting, fighting, fantasy series. In it, an amnesiac man with great power finds himself battling to bring color to a Black &White world! The fight sequences could have a faster pace to them but are still good and this one has a very deep and ongoing story behind it with plenty of twists and turns.

4. Tidyman and the T.O.D. T.O.D means Trashcan of Death. Tidyman is harassed by a radioactive trashcan after he is thwarted from his daily non-littering activities! I found this an amusing stick fight animation. Thumbs up!

5. PSM: Blam Police When a flash is submitted to Newgrounds it is either passed or erased if the score goes below 1.6 out of 5. Erasing a movie is known as a blam. There have been numerous animations devoted to this concept. Here is one of the better ones. Slaker (the noob, which means newcomer that seems to revel in his incompetence) has made a movie and submits it straight to newgrounds. Will his 'Greatest Creation' make it past judgment, will it suffer a long painful death in the obituaries and just who enforces the blam once it goes into effect? Why, the blam police of course! ^_^

6. The Gonk At 1AM It took awhile setting up for the joke but when it comes it had me laughing out loud. You must be familiar with the Harry Potter series to get the humor. Warning! It has book six spoilers in it.
- Short video The animation above was based on the audio from this little video this guy took of himself. If you thought the animation was funny then you should watch this too.

7. the NG Calculator GAME! When you visit Newgrounds a lot, you will probably want to get a user account for yourself. It allows you to review movies you like, and even submit new animations to be watched. One day, you might get sick of having it and maby you would like to get rid of it. Now, you COULD delete it but the great thing about Ebay.com (an online auction for anything) is that you can sell anything you want. This calculator, after you put in your stats (number of posts/reviews submitted, the amount of experience you have and such) will give you an estimate on how much you might get. When I write my stats up apparently I would get, if I sold my account today (September 1, 2005) $49.68.

8. The Sith Rejects This is really cute Star Wars concept. The animator has the interesting idea that Darth = "in" (Darth Vader= IN-Vader). Just try and think off all the funny Sith names you can make using this idea. Heh!

9. Star wars CHEATER Amateurish but still amusing. Just how many blades can come out of a lightsaber handle anyway?

10. :FIERRAS:. Cartontown Another interesting concept movie. In a world of squares one inhabitant finally thought up the ultimate speed aid. CIRCLES! What's really interesting is the look of the cartoon though. The characters, world and such were first drawn on paper and everything you see is 2d animation. The things that look like they are 3d were drawn to look like that.

11. random stuff 1 No story on this one. Many random scenes string together showing mostly bad things happen to stick men <grins>. "Why should I hire you?" "Because if you don't, I'll shoot you". Loved that!

12. Birthday Zone: Flight X19 One of the most iconic old time series of the 50's and 60's was "The Twilight Zone". If you remember the original series, you will enjoy this animation and its birthday theme. Even if you don't, it's a nice looking little animation with a twist at the end, so look at it anyway.

13. blatant ng clichés: 001 This is another monologue. This time Strawberry Clock, perhaps the most famous of all characters made specifically for NG, talks about his fame.
2008self talking: It has since been blammed after I originally posted the article.

14. Broken Dreams(incomplete) The band, Green Day's song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is used in this well thought out music video. In it a brown little squishy man visits earth after we had a nuclear holocaust and looks to see how we ended and if there was any civilization left. It's a suitable companion to the lyrics of the music and although the entire song isn't used, it manages a complete story arc and ends during one of the fade outs. So it's not a big loss.

15. Build Me Up Buttercup A collaboration music video of the Foundations Song"Build Me Up Buttercup". As is the norm the animation is extremely random with no unifying theme to it but I do like the song and it's not bad so I added it to my list.

16. Handmade Clothes It's FOAMY!! So what's Better then buying clothes? Making Your Own! Germanie, tired of ill fitting clothing at the store, does just that in this episode.

17. Hiro Shitaku While this was not created in July05, it was the month I first saw it and I didn't want to lose track so I stuck it here. Anyway, I've always liked the Japanese manga style cartoon style. It's very distinct. This edu-mation flash will explore the history and techniques of the Japanese animation industry. They use it by creating a fictional character, Hiro Shitaku as an amalgamation of a number of Japanese animators and how they created that distinct look. The facts, in a general way, are accurate but it's told in a way that values fun over 100% complete accuracy. I really liked this one.

18. House of M: part 1 New episodes of this parody flash series of the X-Men. I have read enough of them to be familiar with the jokes put in here. If your also a fan you'll love it. Today, the X-Men and the Avengers are summoned by Professor X for a special reason.
- X-Men: Revisiting Profit A traitor is among the X-Men. Can the spy be found?

19. It's All Richard's Fault! This was inspired literally by burning herself...with food. Girl gets hungry so she makes something to eat and then burns herself. Why? It must be her one true love, Richard's, fault. I mean what's he doing making her thing of him all the time anyway? While a bit dull in the middle when they do a song with a few still pictures but otherwise, it's not bad at all.

20. Middle Age Tamagotchi GAME! Remember Tamagotchi? It's a little game where you carry around a little virtual pet with you everywhere. You have to feed and take care of it using commands that you enter in the game. If you neglect your pet for too long it dies and you have to start over. The thing about it is it never stops so you always have too watch out for it. This game works the same. As you cannot be at the computer 24/7 though time slows down significantly when you are offline.

21. Mug Hug The cute and somewhat sad story of a coffee mug searching for purpose in his life. He knows how to coffee but there are some things in life that even coffee cannot solve. Is there ANYONE that Coffee Mug can keep content with his limited comfort skills?
2008self talking: Was a recent winner on the NG hidden contest. Congrats Mug! ^_^

22. complete ng tutorial GAME? f your still unfamiliar with how Newgrounds works this will fill you in on the basics of the site. A very good read.
- NG Tutorial This is another 'how to' guide of Newgrounds, it's smaller and less professional looking but it had a few tidbits that the first flash animation didn't have.
2008self talking: There are probably better ones but these were the first I found. In addition the info is out of date. IF you are interested in seeing how ranks worked way back then, feel free to take a look
23. Crows' Life This is REALLY good. This flash is a tale of Crows trying to get corn, and their epic battle against the scarecrow. The voice acting is in Spanish, but it has English subtitles. Plenty of madcap humor and action in it

24. "Rolling" An interesting 3D animation. Looks pretty realistic, although some of the physics arn't quite right. It was all hand animated, when there are no dynamics used or anything, physics are hard to do. Pity. The animation is a metal ball rolling around on a sort of obstacle source. Pretty nifty looking.

25. XIN Session 15 Oh good, the latest episode is out. Oton reveals himself to be evil after all and has been taught all of Xin's strengths... and weakness. More school history is revealed. Fighters will be defeated, will Xin be among them? Love this series.

26. jackson chocolate factory The classic movie "Charley and the Chocolate Factory" is being remade but The actor portraying Willy Wonka in it has had unfortunate comparisons to pop star, Michal Jackson. So what would happen if Michal ran the factory? Here is a hilarious little promo clip on what that would be like.

27. Peter Godly: Chapter One Peter is your basic God fearing man except that he takes the bible a tad (!) too literally. Also, if ANYONE questions or goes against that holy book, Mr. Godly will smite that person with his smiting stick. Now, an offering to God that is burnt by fire, carries an aroma that is pleasing to the Lord but it also stinks up the neibourhood. In this, first episode of a possible series, one of his newborns comes over to talk to Peter about it. Too bad he didn't understand how some things are best left unsaid <evil grin>.

28. Noodles on my Back This is a short, lighthearted music video about a hippo, some noodles, and a piglet. Everything, including the music and voices, was done by the flash author. Nicely animated and the song is catchy, if rather silly, which is part of it's charm. Enjoy.

29. One o'Clock Jump Out of all the collaboration, music video, flashes I have seen, this one is my favorite. The reason for that is because all the entries are meshed into one animation. Normally, in this sort of work, the animators make their own thing for each part and then just string it together. The result is always disjointed but here every artist and style flow seamlessly from one to the next. Just fantastic, I wish more collaborations took the time to do this. The music is an instrumental jazz style that I quite enjoyed as well.

30. The flash n00b Another poor should makes a crummy movie and submits it to NG only to have it blammed on him. Pity the poor Noob. :P

This month the latest HP book "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" was released. Of course, there is a collection of HP stuff on Newgrounds so I decided to comb through it and pick dedicate this month's old favorites submissions to the topic. I wasn't overly impressed with the selection in this but I managed to find enough that I liked to fill out the 5 slots (barely). There is a better selection these days though.

*** Collections / Harry Potter ***

1. Potter Puppet Pals! This is just a cute, demented little cartoon the author made. The premise, basically, is this: What if Harry Potter was a puppet show, performed by the insane? Today, Harry and Ron bother Snape. Heheheh.
- Potter Puppet Pals 2! In this installment, Harry and friends try to stop the Dark Lord Voldemort from taking over the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

- Harry Potter & The A.B.O A.B.O. means Azkabam Break Out. Not a sequel to the Potter puppet pals exactly. This is a tribute made by a fan. It's almost identical in look and feel to the Potter Pals though. So if you liked that, try this. Moving on, the show takes select parts of the third HP book. Prisoner of Azkabam, sort of anyway.

2. Snape gets into L's past Raito steals L's (another student at the school) memories and he and Snape enter the pensive (a pensive is a way to see a person's memories if you can get them. Much like a CD player) to see the genius' childhood. This seems to be based on a fan fiction with totally new students that are unrelated to Harry and his group. It's a goofy spoof on Hogwarts and looks good too. Has very little to do with the book though so might be a bit confusing for HP aficionados. Not much background to the story either. Still, I liked it.

3. GAEL-- Harry Potter How a simple mistake can lead Harry into the perverse depths of Adult Entertainment. Or how the series might have been different if the word 'wand' was replaced with the word 'wang'. Oh, how I LAUGHED at this one.

4. Harry meets Dumbledore A parody of the mirror of erased scene when Dumbledore shows up. Nicely done.

5. Harry Potter Chatroom Completely adult, not for the kids, heh. Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley have joined a "private" MSN chatroom to cyber in when things get chaotic...
- Harry Potter Chatroom 2 More chatroom antics. I liked this because I spend so much time online, it's neat to have a flash totally chatroom based as this one is.

And that's it for July 2005. Hope you found some flashes that you enjoyed.

Till next time,
Toma O'Two Tatel

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