Its well past two, and I have an important business meeting in the morning, but I just can’t sleep. So, I may as well…
- This past weekend, after MK & I saw Grindhouse, I stated that if it wasn?t the number one movie in the country, then America would be officially stupid. And then after the weekend, I found out it was like number four or something. Oh well, at least our hopes for more will at last be appeased. Though what I really want is Thanksgiving…
- Yesterday I hung out with, and had dinner with Dave (Roman) & Raina, and John & Marion, and… a nice guy named Mike (not O’Connor) & his wife who’s name escapes me. Sorry! But anyhow, I’ve kinda known Mike for a little while now despite the fact that it was our first meeting. He’s actually a GAFfer, one who pinged me with “Marion & John says hi!” message out of the blue when they were over his place on vacation a whiles back and noticed my name at Gaming Age which he was surfing at the time. So once again, the internet sure is wacky!
And when I arrived home, I checked out GSW and noticed that Simon once again referred to me as the Harvey Pekar of video game journalism, which again, is pretty much the nicest compliment ever!
- I guess onto games: I know this has been going around, and for good reason… its pretty cute, funny even, at least if you’re a gamer dork: its 52 gaming similes to describe a relationship. ShaperMC plans on featuring this list in The Gamer’s Quarter, which means some of them will be illustrated. I hope to God he goes with the Kirby one.
- New zombie game alert! Its called Left 4 Dead and is a self-described cooperative survival horror shooter. Sounds like Resident Evil Outbreak, doesn’t it? Well I’m still interested… hopefully it won’t turn out to be a clunker like Stubbs the Zombie.
- On a side note, earlier this week I tried having a late evening conversation with Katie but was cut short because she had been playing Resident Evil 4 beforehand and was so freaked out that she just wanted to hide under the covers. Which then reminded me that I hadn’t touched that game in while, and I had been meaning to turn to it for a while. Though insteand, I’m just gonna wait for the recently announced Wii version (I’d pass along a link for more, official info, but its late and feeling lazy at the moment, plus, as I’ve said before, I’m not IGN).
- So I understand that Namco is publishing their 8,472nd classic compilation, this time for the DS, with all the stuff you’ve played before many, MANY times before, such as Galaga and Dig Dug and the rest. But what will make it actually worth checking out is how Pac Man Vs will also be included! This is the four-player Pac Man game that Miyamoto and crew created after hours for fun and which was later used by Nintendo as a failed early attempt at pushing “connectivity” (which is actually working out for them quite well funny enough). It was also the reason why I ended up buying that lousy Ridge Racer based Gran Turismo wannabe that I’m sure Namco wants everyone to forget about. Anyhow, it was a fantastic experience that I’m glad is coming back, and hopefully on the DS, it’ll be better implemented. I recall playing it Dave’s place one Thanksgiving, but no one else really got the rules, so we were all playing it wrong technically. I just didn’t want to say anything since it was hard to explain, and everyone was basically enjoying themselves. And when folks are having fun, the last thing you want to do is say “you’re doing it wrong!!!”
- I also understand that Wiis are still impossible to come by, and that shortage is expected to last for some time now. Yikes. I’m glad to be one of the lucky ones… I don’t even want to imagine how crazy demand will be when Super Mario Galaxy finally hits. Meanwhile, Sony recently discontinued the 20 gig PS3 model, and since its so soon after the system’s launch, I too like everyone else is wondering why they bothered to have one in the first place. Though I will admit that I’m kinda disappointed by this news since I really like the look for the 20 gigger since it was all black, with the 60 gig model having a silver finish across the disc slot. Kinda like how the core Xbox 360 doesn’t have a silver tray door and actually looks cooler. What the hell.
Plus Sony lowered the price of the PSP the other day and sales increases something crazy like 300 percent in just two days, and now I’m hearing that even UMD movie sales has new life in it. And I will admit… I kinda want a copy of Tron. Just because.
- Never got around to passing this along before: that the original voice of Megatron will be in the upcoming Transformers the live action movie game! Unfortunately, the game looks to be a total eyesore, though entirely due to the heinous new robot designed…
- And just because I’m looking at them, here’s a thread that highlights a bunch of new DS games coming in Japan, including Ouendan 2 and some other crazy looking game called “Power of Observation Training” (there’s so many crazy/awesome looking games coming out for the system, especially in Japan, that its literally impossible to keep track), another wacky DS game topic, this one featuring a pair of rubber-clad dudes that I have toys of but have no idea what they’re about, other than they work in an office (it even features a picture of salary-man Ultraman, which I also have a figure of… I guess businessmen is the new fad in Japan), and one featuring some dude who modified the PSone LCD screen to work on a Saturn (I think its safe to say that there are more PSone LCD screens attached to other gaming systems than they were originally intended for by this point).
- Speaking of, besides NiGHTS 2, and revamping Sonic, what’s new with Sega these days? Making baby chickens it would seem…
- Back to GSW, when I got to Japan next month, I’m going to get some stuff. And aside from a copious amount of loli, what will I be stocking on? Video games? Maybe. How about a Japanese drama on DVD… about video games? Obviously. Hey, if they can make a show about dorks that post on the internet compelling, then I’m sure this can’t be too bad.
- So prostitution is as old as time as itself, and therefore hardly new. But how about selling one’s body for virtual gold? Perhaps you’ve heard about the one woman who offered her body for a large degree of World of Warcraft dinero so she could get super super awesome vehicle bird or whatever. The Craigslist post, in which she basically tells the whole world “Laugh all you want, but I not only have an awesome (virtual) ride, but I also got laid!”, that was later used for a YTMND can be seen here. So… that WoW is something else. ain’t it?
For extra shits and giggles, here’s the YTMND, which was recently hacked, but its pretty funny (NSFW btw).
- Check this out: a vid of one of the most insanely hard Super Mario mod I have ever seen.
- Also, earlier tonight I finally found out the name to an old PS2 game that I’ve been dying to find out more about, but have never proper spelling of. The game in question… Super Galdelic Hour. I will be in possession of this game quite soon… and it will be my new favorite thing, I am sure of it. After all, girls in stupid, skimpy animal outfits that throw pies at each other… what’s not to like?
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.. And since we’re onto YouTube, a bunch of stuff that’s come across my way recently, including…
- Good news, Satan is dead!
- At least whenever I loose my cool at the post office, I’m not as bad as this guy… at least I hope I’m not. At the very least, I’m pretty sure I’m a bit manlier. But I kinda sympathize with him; any post office in Brooklyn is the epitome of hell on earth.
- Germans take LARPing VERY seriously.
- I know that no one besides myself digs stuff like this, but I just have a real thing for cheesy 80′s video art.
- Speaking off, where’s the pickle? That’s the surprise.
- Kids do the darndest things! And they need to be punished.
- If it has Mr. T in it, there’s a good chance the entire world has already seen it, but this one is news to me.
- The Hulkster, shilling air conditioners, with a baby, and a pair of cartoon special guests.
- Its the Fresh Prince… of Metal. Here’s a fun fact: I used to be a MAJOR death metal head in high school. Even had a band death metal band in high school. We were called Dysentery. You know, that disease where you shit yourself to death, i.e. the greatest name for a band ever. And that was pretty much the only good thing about the band. And did it get any of us girls? Of course not.
- The same basic idea, but with the Ninja Turtles. Another fun fact: as a kid, I had to pester my parents to order Pizza Hut, which we normally didn’t have, to take advantage of the free TMNT Coming Out Of Their Shells audio cassette that was included with every large pizza ordered. For a solid month afterwards, all I did was walk around with a walkman with that tape on repeat. I still recall the Splinter and April O’Neal love ballad… That was also the second time I bothered them to do this, with the first being many years back to get some Care Bear glasses. The one I really wanted had the bear on it with a rainbow on his stomach. Hey, I was only five at the time, but regardless, along with that and the ninja turtle rock tape, no wonder my dad thought I was gay.
- Okay, we’ve all seen retard kung fu. So, how about retard rap?
Want more? You’s all got more.
- Grapes are dangerous, as proven by this vid that pretty much everyone and their moms has seen by now. But here’s another one that offers even more evidence.
- Time to update your Netflix queues everyone.
- Finally, an oldie, but a goodie: the climactic conclusion to Turkish Star Wars. And it still makes ten times more sense that Episodes 1, 2, and 3!
