AndrewTS

Rayman isn't a port, it's completely original and developed from the ground-up for Wii. Other systems happen to get versions that are going to use buttons instead--not as interesting. Finally we got a VC update that is worthwhile, but NOA is patting themselves on the back like it's a "gift" or a "treat." Honestly, check the Nintendo site: http://www.nintendo.com/newsarticle?articl...4PvOL&page= Gee, golly, willikers, like it's a big deal that VC *finally* has a game that should have been a day 1 download. Yet they threw Mario Bros. on there instead, as a shameless attempt to trick people who don't know the difference into wasting Wii Points on it. And what is this 800 points for R-Type bullshit? Flat rate for each console I don't mind when the games are worth it. However, if you're going to scale the price *up* for a game percieved to be a higher value, what the fizuck is up for 800 points Altered Beast? And January 1 is Urban Champion? What a joke.

That's all some people have. I'm pretty sure there is, too.

Almost 90 million $s domestic, and $170 million worldwide. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starskyandhutch.htm

Tell me about it. There's an underground cave on the mountain I went to after clearing the ice temple...filled with ice monsters and the ice keets...and I actually didn't make it out because of constantly getting frozen trying to beat them. You take huge damage when you get frozen. Plus the baddies with flame arrows do more damage there, it appears.

I think that is--she seems to be dressed up like the assasslut in Red Ninja: http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Revie...end-honor-1.jpg

I wanted to rent DBZ even though I hated the first game and most DBZ games, mainly because of the control scheme. *Finally* a place got in Wii games to rent and all the DBZs were rented out. Oddly, my Hollywood Video, while it doesn't have Wii games, it does have PS3 games. And there's a full rack of them sitting there, not a single one being rented, right before a holiday weekend, of all things. Brilliant idea to not rent stock Wii games yet, but instead stocking games for a system maybe 5 people in the county own. I ended up renting Splinter Cell DA. Icould give my impressions once I have some good sitdown time with it (i.e. when I have my fill of Zelda for a full day).

Mos def; it was a product of the same Capcom team who worked on the Oracles titles. I liked it except for the fact that you had to fuse Kinstones for EVERYTHING, and so many of them were required to progress in the game. The Gust Jar is indeed cool, but trumped by the Roc Cape (allowing you not just a jump, but a jump and GLIDE ability), itself an improvement over the Roc feather introduced in Link's Awakening. While much simpler in scope, you should give Four Swords Adventures on GC a whirl; the 1P game is still really fun even it's really made for multiplayer in mind.

It was in British Columbia. http://www.answers.com/topic/acts-of-gord "Post-Gamer's Edge After Gamer's Edge closed, Gord moved to Korea for approximately 3 years to teach English to Korean students. During this period, he kept a semi-blog on his forum so friends and family members could keep in contact. Recently, Gord has moved back to Canada, and opened a LAN centre in Kelowna called PC Bang. Unfortunately, there will be no "Acts of Gord II" appearing, to prevent people coming in purely to cause trouble."

How? It's assumed as long as the customer is paying the rental fee on the system, he should be able to have one game out at a time with no extra charge. Maybe if the system was returned early I could see--but even so, I'd have asked about that before keeping the game and taking it for granted. However, if the customer was keeping the game *only* for the duration of the rental period...what was he going to do with it? Since he wouldn't have had a system, I would think. Only an idiot makes assumptions about a store's policy, then acts indignant when he/she finds out it isn't the case. It's no wonder Blockbuster started instituting that "no late fee!" policy, where they just charge your credit card for the full retail price after a while (at least I think that's how it works, I don't have one near me so I never actually rented from there). Well, I've seen instances of that happen (asking for games that don't exist), and there's two situations that happen. One: the clerk calmly explains there is no such game, i.e. "Mario Kart Double Dash isn't on Playstation 2. It's made by Nintendo, and since it's their game it's only on the Nintendo Gamecube. They chose not to develop a version of the game for their competitors' systems, so you have to buy their system to play it." The parent understood this, and said that they'd call home and check if the kid had that system. Two: they don't believe the clerk and freak out, like some of the folks on that site. The former is okay, the latter isn't. Many time when clerks were tied up with a line and I was checking out the games anyway, I've offered advice to parents on games (appropriateness for age groups, the game content, the difference between the systems). Most of them are courteous and appreciate it--especially since the differences between what games run on a Playstation 1 and 2 (especially with memory cards) and the various Game Boys aren't common knowledge among non-gamers. Parents that freak out and insist another store has the game, or that the store is refusing to sell the game for some stupid reason are just idiots.

Yeah Gord is hilarious. It must be nice to own your own store and not have to tolerate others' stupid shit. Great stuff. Love this one: Not so much stupid as just funny:

The Cave is completely optional, but yeah it's been tough so far. The Great Fairy no longer is hideous and has an insane-sounding laugh, though. And doesn't look like an alien, either.

Little tip for folks before you go to the Lakebed Temple: you'll need the Water Bombs, which become available in the Kakakiro bomb shop whenever you need to get the zora armor. You don't have to go back to Lake Hylia the "long way"; the room where you get the armor has a bombable boulder in it. Some one else with the game didn't know about the water bombs and ended up going there the long way and without the bombs, so just a heads up. I haven't got too much of the main quest left--but I spent something like 3-4 hours today just on the sidequest stuff. There are a number of "mini-dungeons" containing heart pieces that are not all *that* mini.

I heard that today, only the story was that it was happening "in Japan."

Another classic one: the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VII let you resurrect Ariel.

One time a guy came in to a Gamestop with a big box of n64 stuff...many games were complete in box, and the store was going to give him like 25 bucks for it. I offered 50. He gave it to me, and I ended up selling off half the games and the system itself (I had an N64 already). I did end up keeping some of the games and still coming out ahead, with a few games I didn't have already and some strat guides too.

"Game Informer is the best game magazine around." "You get great trade-in value for your games!" "If you provide your email address we can send you money-saving coupons."

One of the guys on Screwattack.com said that, at least for movies, 1080i is the way to go. 1080p looked lousy in comparison.

Nope, it's not out in the US yet. http://wiikitty.com/index.html

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=771832...cUserId=5655917 A really terrific podcast from 1up, covering retro games, Dragon Quest IX, and the state of portable gaming.

1up's Weekly Virtual Console roundup: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156067

Because the Playstation brand is Sony's strongest brand name.

BBspot is great--the satire is often so subtle it's very believable. Especially just about all of their RIAA/MPAA articles. You'd pretty much have to be an idiot or into nostalgia to a fault to get SF2; way too slow and crappy. Good news on Super Castlevania IV, though.

Chevy Chase was on Law & Order. Of course he never really got "serious," just unfunny.

Yeah, it's still too much. Should have really been some sort of preorder bonus, though. Neither one by itself really warrants a purchase, but would be nice swag. I'm getting depressingly close to the end of the game. How the hell does a nearly 50 hour game fly by so damn fast?

Yeah, but I feel Wind Waker--touched-up control, great music, brilliant visuals, and all--is the most disappointing main Zelda game since Zelda 2; I still *like* it, though.