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Maybe we could start a new hotel room if no one else has space? What are the known rooming arrangements anyway...? Also, Sunday BBQ FTW. Had a blast at the last one in May.

Dance in the rain, what else! --Oh, and whatever happens, I will be looking forward to the pictures.

Yeah, this video had a lot of one-liners, almost all of which were pretty good.

S.S.-mother-fuckin-H. I know zircon agrees with me on this.

NEWS FLASH: Things finally in order; I will be attending! Are rooms set yet? I'm still looking for a place to crash Saturday night and preferably Friday too if I come down then. As usual, I have my sleeping bag and just need some floor space. I'm considering doing a Serge cosplay (from Chrono Cross) but haven't started buying supplies yet. We shall see...

This week... The E3 Trailer Park Edit: If I'm counting correctly, this is his 50th video?

Damn, this thread is early. In any case, I am so going to be there. I have no objections.

Damn. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but just realized that my free one-way JetBlue voucher from last year expired and therefore coming to NYC and back would be impractical. I WILL be at Otakon the week after though!

What they said. It was nice meeting both of you and I wish you both the best.

I've been looking for an excuse to come to NYC 1 more time this summer... Sweet! You can put me up as tentative for that date. The best part about Coney Island IMO are the open-air arcades. DDR machines galore and once I even saw a Sonic The Fighters there! Are we going to do the Coney Island Aquarium? It's nice, but I'm not sure if it'll be worth our time.

Well, I would be able to tolerate it I suppose if the "theme song" or whatever it is wasn't such generic crap.I swear, if I here one more Internet series or podcast with a personality-less, instrumental rock intro... Do you think one or more music companies took him up on his offer to request he stop using their songs, or is he just getting "self-sufficient"?

Not cool, man. Not cool...

It's like comparing apples and oranges. Remember the original Gameboy/Gameboy Pocket generation lasted 9 years, 1989-1998. In any case, watching the chronotrigger.jp trailer today, you could forgive me for thinking this was 1995 and not 2008. I saw/heard absolutely noting to distinguish it from the original except for a slicker clock-pendulum intro. They even reused the 1995 character art and illustrations! Edit: I assume you mean the iPhone as a gaming platform?

Fuck Gamespot. And although the Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, The Ultimate History of Video Games lists the arcade game Journey as having the first digitized graphics in a game.

I didn't play it until 2003, on *ahem* emulator, but I loved it immensely. It really is the perfect RPG, with nary one annoyance I can speak of. Characters, story, battles, progression... all great and polished to a sheen. At the time I compared it to Final Fantasy's little sibling: Not as serious or heavy, doesn't quite have love down yet, but boy does it know how to have a good time... I have a love for retro games in general, mind you, but that was my first time experiencing it so my view in untainted.

That's the Disney strategy. Make it rare--or at least appear to make it rare--and then look like gods when you rerelease it. Only bad thing about this: I guess that means no CT on the Virtual Console...

Yeah, he pretty much hit the nail on the cliched head when it comes to webcomics. And as far as the applying game or other specialized logic to the real world, The Far Side wore that schtick into the ground years ago.

Kind of turned into that, yeah. Hell, I once found a bunch of Windows 95 CDs in a dumpster outside of an office building that was cleaning house. (The dumpster was one of those large open ones out on the street, BTW)

It was all stuff I already had, phooey... --Oh yeah, mine best ever would have to be Tengen Tetris (NES) for $20 off of eBay. Don't know how it happened... but I got it.

Haha, me too! I see it for under $20 regularly, at least around here. Even the generally more-expensive Castlevania III is under $20. --Or do you mean the Japanese version?

I just got back from my semi-local used video game store and was surprised to discover some of the best deals for classic games I've ever seen. This one is kind of in a remote out-of-the-way location so all the good stuff seems to end up there. But this... this was like the stars aligning! I picked up, among other things: Super Mario All-Stars for $15 Metroid (yellow label) for $14 Final Fantasy III (VI) for $25 and... Super Metroid for $18 Even though I've played all of these games before (albeit not on a console...), I couldn't let these slip away. So I was thinking, what are some of the best deals on video games you've taken advantage of? Have you ever experienced that feeling of not only finding that long-lost gem but at a reasonable price?

At least they're not as annoying as the stuff they shove at you at the end of Ask a Ninja videos. Seriously, what kind of Ninja endorses Verizon and Intel?

This one was good. Covered a lot of random points (trying to appeal to the "Family Guy" demographic?), but I laughed at the contradictions and the "have-your-cake" bit.

Oblivion

I think I asked you about FF VII once before and you said you would let it go for... not cheap, right? I also might be interested in Grim Fandago; heard a lot about that game.