I remember when....

I remember when video games were fun, and easy. Now, they are difficult and take forever. I was trying to play little big planet with a friend. I put the disc in and started up the ps3. But, things did not go as planned... The ps3 wanted to update, which is ok, I guess. But, it needed 7 updates and the first one was 155 megabytes, yes, megabytes. It was taking so long we decided to play Super Mario Bros on the original Nintendo. We were having so much more fun than sitting there looking at the loading screen for the ps3. Right now, I got a different game, Burnout Paradise, as I love, love, love the OUTRUN series. Well, the same damn thing, 7 updates, and the first is 385 MEGABYTES! I mean seriously, it says it needs 13k on the box, but evidently this is a system update, and not just a game update, but I am not sure as it says Burnout Paradise V.190, but as I looked up 1.9 for Ps3, it looks like a system update. Either way, THIS SUCKS! There is nothing you can do, as "You cannot perform background download of this content." Which is just stupid, and every download that I have ever done on the ps3 (3 or so) have been the ones which do not allow you to do a background download. At the very least there should be a pong game, or something to do. This effectively blocks me from using my ps3 for OVER an HOUR! Maybe even two hours at the rate it is going... This is not only eating up 10% of my hard drive, but it is making me hate playing any new games on this thing.

Ohhh the Babbages

I remember the good old days when the mall by my house had this magical store named "Babbages", and quite a good name as Charles Babbage made the first (mechanical) computer. The store had all the goods, Turbo Grafx, Nes, Sega etc. Funny, I only remember caring about the Turbo Grafx stuff... Even though I had the Nintendo, and someone else had the TG... Anyway, the store in question, was nice rotund, and full of the good stuff. I swear on my game collection, they had a CRT monitor installed in the outside of the store that was touchscreen, back in like 1990 or maybe a few years earlier. Seriously, you could like press stuff on it, or maybe I was just young and thought I was pressing stuff, either way it was so cool, it definitely made a lasting impression.

The store was great, and then it actually expanded to the other side of the mall, and there were 2 stores in the same mall for a while! I have to imagine this was what heaven would be like to an old school gamer. Then eventually down the line Gamestop bought all the Funcolands (I kind of have mixed feelings for the Funcoland) and Babbages.

Eventually, I decided to sell a lot of my games at the Funcoland, as I guess I was not that interested, which I have no idea why... I am not even sure why I never bothered my parents to get a Super Nintendo, or Genesis?!

14 Turbo Grafx Games Needed: Magical Chase is #1

So, I have been collecting video games for a long time, maybe too long. It started with the NES, and I think I remember getting it from Service Merchandise, I think. That store was pimp, they had computers, basketballs, jewelery (not that I cared) stereos and etc. I think the NES was like $249.99, which does not seem that bad compared to a wii now-a-days, like 25 years later. That system was soo great... but I am reminiscing too much. Anyway, we had a Turbo Grafx, one of my favorite systems. It was so cool, and the Hu Cards were so money, like nothing I had ever seen (I did not know what the Sega Master System was until a few years ago). We lost a few of the cases and manuals, but I managed to get the 15 that I had as a kid, and I only need the case and manual for Gunboat, which is not that hard to find, probably. I only need like 14 more games, several of them are sports games, which are generally cheap. The one that will be the hardest is of course the chase. I think that someone bought all of them up, because they somehow knew it would be the last game that most people did. I think it is a conspiracy such as the Hunt Brothers and their illegal acquisition of most of the silver in the 1980's. Anywho, I cannot wait until I get all 93 or so, I think I will have a TG party!

No more vintage stuff?

So, I got a really good deal on a PS3, so I had to do it! I had a ps3 a long long time ago.. I basically bought one at best buy like 3 years ago, right when they came out. I wanted to buy one, but I did not get up at like 2 am to wait at a store. But, I did go to BB after a final to get some headphones or something. It was just my luck, I saw someone carrying a ps3 box into the store. At this point they were impossible to get so I was kind of interested. This unnamed person, evidently did not want it anymore or something, and they returned it. I was not stalking them, I merely was seeing what was going on. I asked an employee what would happen if it went back on sale, and she said it would; and she pointed to the video game area. The other sales person dropped it off, and seconds later I snatched it up like a vulture. I brought it up to the sales counter and I paid for it. It was like $630, but I didn't care, they were impossible to get. Anyway, I drove home like for 4 and a half hours, went to blockbuster, got some games, bought another game at best buy, and sat down to play. I open the box and started hooking everything up. Then was the moment of truth, about ready to play. Only one thing, there was no remote. The BB I got it at, evidently was too dumb to check and see if there was a controller, and I was just as dumb not to open it up and make sure everything was there. Anyway, it was a huge hassle, I had to call up several stores, sony, and no dice. Eventually I had to talk to the general manager at the store and by this time they had tons of ps3s brand new in the box, so the switched it out. I played it for like 29 days and returned it, I was pissed.

But, I did happen to find one online, and I had to get it. I found Full Auto 2 Battlelines the same game I had rented when I had the system, I really like that game. I found it for a good deal at a used bookstore, and I am a happy camper now. I have to say it is really cool, and fun, but it is huge compared to the wii, obviously. I don't have any blue ray, nor do I have any TVs with hdmi, and so on. I know, I just got a ps3, so I am behind on the times.. And now, my old roomate, can't borrow my ps3 without asking, for a couple days, while I was away, which is nice...

I do still play the original nintendo, so I am way behind the times...

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