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Fourth Quarter 2011
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MORTAL Sonya takes on Jax in the tutorial mode of Mortal Kombat, released in 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3./ KOMBAT photo courtesy of Gamefaqs.com
Established canon may or may 2UP EVALUATION not make it through this, so don’t hold onto whatever you think you know about the Mortal Kombat storyline.
See 2UP EVALUATION, PAGE 14 See MK REBOOT, PAGE 14 Call of Duty: Black Ops was released by Treyarch in 2010. Treyarch took over series after the implosion of co-developer Infinity Ward.
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THE ONLINE EXPERIENCE
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2UP EVALUATION Photos courtesy of Moby Games Sega released a version of Shinobi for the Play- Station 2 in 2002. Animal Crossing Chronicles
Animal Crossing was first released for the Nintendo 64 in Japan as Animal Forest. The North American GameCube ver- sion, released in 2002, is an update.
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Final Fantasy is literally one of the best games ever made despite its predilection for bugs.
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This quarter, we decided to show and tell about life in Tokyo. enjoy our photo album ending Summer 2011!
July 2011
Jamie has awesome green Jamie has Mario Bros. in his wallpaper upstairs. living room so I went to play.
I managed to catch a I visited with Ellie before she coelacanth while at the beach left town.
Tom Nook was willing to pay I made a payment on my loan a lot for fish and fossils. at the post office.
Jamie snapped a photo of me before I left his house.
My upstairs bedroom has yellow furniture until fall. August 2011
Buzz came to visit Tokyo I was lucky to dig up this on a camping trip. treasure.
My basement is full of shirts, I usually search for fossils and my fall clothes in storage. during the day.
Catching grasshoppers is hard Catching red snappers is easy work! and nets me 3,000 Bells.
A rainbow appeared over the waterfall after summer storms. I made sure to get a picture near it! I decided to take a leisurely stroll in town. September 2011
Mailing out fossils to the The Moon Viewing Festival Faraway Museum. was held Sept. 1 in Tokyo.
Paying off the massive debt I My remodeled master bedroom owe on my house. upstairs with fall brown paint!
Talking with my neighbor, Rio I caught a grasshopper, which after a long spell. isn’t easy to do!
The Icy Shirt goes well with the upstairs décor, don’t you think? The brown wallpaper is available as a pattern in the Able Sisters shop. Now all I need is a pond for the bathroom! Outside on the prowl for insects to catch.