I made it home in about 10 hours, a new record. It may have been 9 hours and 55 minutes or so but I don’t know. I’m home, I’m safe, I’m half awake.
I’m currently watching the Harry Potter double feature on HBO. I really didn’t like the gross out CGI at the end of the first one so I shut it off and I’m starting to do some quick transfers from my Tivo to PC until the 2nd one starts.
My best friend is a huge Harry Potter fan, so are my niece and nephew. I’m getting my niece the Quidditch World Cup game for gameboy and gamecube for xmas. I was half thinking about getting a gamecube myself but I realized that I had enough obsolete video game systems. Even with the price drop, the only thing I’d play on it would be the Star Wars games. The Wrestling games suck on it and I just don’t see point of spending money on another Nintendo system.
NES = I bought it and the original “X-Men” game with a paycheck. Regretted it immediately. IT SUCKED. The Sega Master System had totally better graphics and gameplay, though I’m the only fool on the planet to buy one …
Super Nintendo = Skipped buying it. I wasn’t into the whole Mario thing. Yes, I just don’t get Zelda or Mario or the whole series of Nintendo mascots. They scream “boring” to me. Castlevania? YAWN. All the wrestling games were better on Genesis anyway.
Playstation 1 (developed for Nintendo as a Super Nintendo CD expansion) = I bought it and it sucked. The only thing I enjoyed on it was WCW vs. the World and Final Fantasy Tactics. Scrapped it as soon as I got a working copy of BLEEM!
N64 = I bought it for said wrestling games. No Mercy and Wrestlemania were two of the finest pro wrestling games ever released. Otherwise, popups and fog. Lots of fog. I hated the fact that you also had to buy an add-in card just to “expand” the graphics to play @##ing Rogue Squadron. Plus the controller just plain sucked. I would have scrapped the whole system had I not tracked down this controller that got rid of the middle “U” stick and was designed like a “traditional” video game controller.
So after being burned 3 of 4 times on Nintendo related systems, I look at the Gamecube and I’m passing. Super Monkey Ball and the Star Wars games will eventually go to the other systems. So sorry, Nintendo.
Also passing on the playstation 2 until two things happen: 1) price comes down and 2) the hard drive comes out. Yes, they have the current “best” pro wrestling game out there for this generation of systems in the WWE Smackdown series BUT for create a wrestler you can’t rip your own songs to it. Even if RAW 2 sucks beans (I kinda like it), one of the bonuses is that if I want Leo Laporte to come to the ring to a funkadellic DISCO version of the “theme from 2001” then dammit, he’s gonna come out and be funky. Since Leo IS funky like a monkey.
Watching the eclipse of the moon. Well kinda. Running in and out of the house since it’s freezing out there. I go out, check on it, run back in. Looks to be pretty much past full now … and on that note I’m off.
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