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Low-Price Hilarity
I could have sworn I posted about this game and its price(s) previously on the blog. I even took pictures of it. Guess I never did anything with them. Regardless, as you can see in […]
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360 Woes: Update #4
Holy crap! I checked early this afternoon, and Microsoft’s customer service / repair site said they hadn’t even received my console yet. Log in tonight, and what do I see? Completely skipped step #3 (“Device […]
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360 Woes: Update #3
Before I get into the meat of this post, please note that when episode three of the podcast first went up, it accidentally had a random 10 seconds of silence before we read e-mails. It […]
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Cheap Shopping At Target
I love good deals. I can’t pass them up! It’s one of my biggest faults… err… weaknesses… no, wait… So the back corner of my local Target has a shelf where they throw all of […]
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360 Woes: Update #2
So while I was picking Jeff up at the train station today, I received a voice message from “Joe” at Xbox customer support telling me that there was a problem with getting the box out […]
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Cleaning out the fridge, I’m a geek and an otaku, blah blah blah…
So today, Ys I & II came out on the Virtual Console. I’ve always wanted to check out this series, and never bothered to do so (either through emulation, or actually picking up a damn […]
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360 Woes: Not The Red Rings
You may have heard about it on the most recent podcast episode, but let me break it down for you. On June 18th, a bunch of people were over to go out and see The […]
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Master System)
So I have a bunch of Wii points sitting around while I wait for Shining Force II to eventually come to Virtual Console, and I figured I would blow 500 of them on a little […]
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No more convenience store arcade machines
“Where’d you learn to shoot like that…?” “7-11.” It recently occurred to me how the above joke would make little-to-no-sense to the vast majority of today’s younger gamers. Sure, it’s halfway explained to the viewer […]
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E3 Press Conferences: 5 Questions
So yesterday and today were the press conferences / media summits / whatever they are for Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony (in that order). As to be expected, I followed along with all the live-blogging, checked […]