Areala

So...in the fight between Lee Trevino and Golf, I assume that Golf won since it is still around and Mr. Trevino is not?

For an ad that's supposed to get you to want to play the game, it sure doesn't tell you much at all about what kind of game it is, does it?

No matter who they cast as the body, we all know that this will fail unless they get John St. John to voice the man himself. "Damn! Those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!" Best FPS opening ever.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/05/14/...ment-rent-free/ For this week only, Sony is giving away a free personal space to users of the North America Playstation Home app. All you need to do is log in to the game, go to the Mall area, and enter the Estates store where you can find the Chamber Apartment for a free download. It's really cool, with sort of a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings fantasy vibe to it. In addition, Sony posted a video showing some upcoming Home releases, and sneakily included a code redeemable for free downloadable Home swag: a Koi hat for boys and a Shark hat for girls. Those of you who don't want to strain your eyes making it out, just punch this in to the "Redeem Codes" area of the PSN Store and enjoy your two new Home headgears: MC56-BXBC-349K *huggles* Areala

I never understood this game. Ever. I rented it (without a manual, of course) and tried to figure out what the heck to do, and failed miserably. A friend who got it for his birthday was equally stumped despite having the instructions which were utterly no help at all. I just recently watched a Speedrun of it on YouTube and decided there was no way on Earth I'd have ever figured out how to get past the dragon, so I'm glad I never bought it.

This is one of my favorite co-op titles on the NES. My brother and I sunk HOURS into this game, and the first time we beat it at the hardest difficulty level we were so excited that we threw down our controllers and one of them (he claims it was mine, I swear it was his) hit the Reset button before we got to see the ending. So we had to go all the way back through it AGAIN on the hardest setting and beat the Shadow Master a second time so we could watch the real ending to the game. We felt like we were playing Ghosts 'n Goblins...

Not exactly related to the NES classic, but for this week only, the PSN is offering Bionic Commando: Rearmed for 50% off the normal price. At $10 this game was a bargain; at $5, it's an absolute steal and I urge anybody who loved the original to pick up Rearmed. It's SUPER awesome.

OK, trying something new. I figured since we just got SNES Buyer's Guide 1 scanned and uploaded, I'd make a section for it on the Wiki. Questions, comments, edits and corrections all gratefully welcome. I struck out on my own a bit, and there's all sorts of things I could have or should have done differently. Please feel free to make suggestions! Super NES Buyer's Guide Issue 1 *huggles* Areala

Bionic Commando frustrated me to no end, because I just could NOT get the hang of using the bionic arm to swing around instead of having a Jump button. But then, one day, I picked up the game again and suddenly everything just clicked. I played it through to completion in one sitting then sat back and congratulated myself for having mastered what started off as such a freakishly annoying control scheme and powering through the game to kill Hitl...er, I mean uh...MASTER-D. Man, Nintendo of American had some wonky censorship policies back in the day.

Another forgotten classic of the NES age, and one plagued by a sick difficulty level and fairly steep learning curve from what I remember. Also, because of the graphical limits of the NES, for the longest time I thought that the main character transformed into some sort of space puppy when he went to ride on his sled.

I remember renting this game when I was younger, but getting so seriously irritated with how difficult it was. That first stage was a killer! Needless to say, years later I wound up with it in my collection and I absolutely love it now.

Sorry to hear of your departure, but you'll receive no sympathy from me. I haven't donated a dime to Retromags or Phillyman, all I did was volunteer to work on the Wiki. That's right: I take magazines that I already own or ones that I've downloaded from the site, and I index them so people can look up and see where their favorite (or least favorite) games appeared in given publications. Seriously, it's about the easiest thing in the world to do: all you need is the ability to operate a keyboard and the willingness to spend a few minutes going through a magazine (something you probably already enjoy if you found this site) and typing up some sections and titles. Add to that the fact that the staff has bent over backwards to help me make the best of my contributions in terms of providing templates and offering suggestions for fixing up my first few pages when I was still taking baby steps, and this is by far the EASIEST way to get access to the full potential of a site like this that I've ever experienced, not to mention the most fun. There aren't any ratios to honour, no torrent seed percentages to sit at, and no outlay of cash required. Plus, by using the magazines that I've downloaded from the site to help improve the Wiki indexes, I feel like I'm at least paying back the community for giving me access to them in the first place. Hopefully, this makes it so that those who aren't sure about using one of their download slots on a certain magazine or who would prefer not to wait 15 minutes between Rapidshare downloads to get a new file are able to best decide where to focus their efforts. You've already registered an account here, which does away with the full-page ads. You've accumulated 4 posts; 21 more of which upgrades your access and lets you avoid the Rapidshare-only downloads on three issues per seven day period. With a little more work, you could easily clear the 1.8 gigabyte limit and enjoy giving back to the community, maybe inspiring others to do the same. Wouldn't THAT be pretty cool? I think so. It's a shame you'll be missing out. *huggles* Areala

Did a little bit of shopping today and picked up "Overblood" and "Nightmare Creatures" for the PS1. $3.00 each, couldn't go wrong: discs in beautiful shape, complete case, artwork and manuals. Areala was happy. ^_^

Well, I got my replacement PS3 today. When I went to set it up, though, it fully hit me just how much I had lost: that empty hard drive with no game data installs on it, no downloads, etc... I feel kind of the same way you feel after you move into a new house. It's a good feeling to be in the new space, but then you remember how many good memories you had at your old place and the daunting task of unpacking and setting up your life anew and it seems so overwhelming. Stupid, I know, since it's a video game system, but still...guess I just get teary-eyed over the dumbest things. In any case, it's back up and I'm back online now. All I need to do is convince myself that it's OK to start playing Fallout 3 for another 90+ hours again... *wince*

PSM Issue 42 indexed. I've been slacking off lately; my apologies. *huggles* Areala

Even if they didn't, I sure did. Yum yum! *huggles* Areala

Heh...see "Atari Jaguar".

People were amazingly ready for the Saturn; Sega had been hyping it for months prior to the release. What killed the Saturn was Sony's announcement that the Playstation would be priced $100 cheaper combined with the fact that it had arguably the weakest launch lineup of any system that generation outside of Japan and that its dual-CPU architecture made programming for it extremely difficult for third-party developers. It didn't help that Sega at the time was spouting such nonsense that 2D games were dead (when releasing a plethora of 2D fighters and platformers of their own) and that gamers weren't interested in RPGs (despite the fact that Final Fantasy VII became the best-selling RPG in history and guaranteed market dominance for Sony in 1997), and it also didn't help that they burned KB Toys with their early-release marketing stunt, which resulted in KB executives telling their store managers to not only ignore anything Sega sent them, but to actively remove anything Sega-related that was already in their stores to make room for Nintendo and Playstation-related items. Sega is, sadly, a textbook-style example of what goes wrong when people who have no idea what they are doing are put into positions of authority. Someone should seriously write an in-depth look at what happened to Sega between 1992 and 1998...I'd totally buy such a book. Maybe MIT will get around to Sega sooner or later with their new series that is looking at electronics.

Seems like they got all the important ones covered. It would have been nice to see mention in the Thrill Kill article though that the game basically was released with different artwork, music and FMVs as "Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style" which included all the same over-the-top-style blood, gore and fatalities that were what caused EA to kill "Thrill Kill" in the first place, but hey, nitpicking is nitpicking. *huggles* Areala

An amusing little piece, even if it is loaded with innuendo and a bit WoW-centric. The trick to being friends with a gamer girl is simple: treat her exactly as you would treat a male gaming buddy. If the first words out of your mouth upon meeting your new male clanmate are not, "OMFG! Nude pix plz!" then they probably shouldn't be the first words out of your mouth upon meeting your new female clanmate. And if those are the first words out of your mouth upon meeting your new male clanmate, chances are you won't be interested in pictures of her anyway. Also, no matter how gallant you are feeling, don't feel the need to "go easy" on her. Trust me...a true gamer girl will have no problem blowing your head off with a rocket launcher and then teabagging what's left of your on-screen avatar to the hoots and hollars of her gaming peers. She will probably find this especially amusing if there are no female avatar options and she's forced to play as a male character (think Halo). Remember Demi Moore in G.I. Jane? She had no problem telling the Master Chief to suck her dick; neither will we have trouble holding our own in a smack-talking grudge match; if she's PMSing, prepare to learn an entirely new vocabulary of insults and suggested personal activities that you didn't think were possible to express (or perform, for that matter) in the English language. Besides, if she's a new player, going easy on her won't help her get the skills she needs to defend herself when she joins her clan in some online ranked matches; I guarantee the other team will dogpile at opportunity and take advantage of every mistake she makes. Do the right thing, take advantage of her mistakes, and then help her learn what those mistakes were and how not to repeat them. No, she will not have sex with you just for helping her learn, but she MIGHT just decide in the next match to put a bullet through the forehead of the guy coming at you instead of allowing him to blow your face off with his shotgun and teabag your corpse. Trust me, we are more than capable of allowing you to "take one for the team." In the next two hundred and thirty-seven consecutive matches. With a football in real life, if necessary. And remember that just because we're gamers and know how to handle a joystick, that doesn't mean we want to handle yours. *huggles* Areala

PSM Issue 16 printed a two-page interview with Ted Woolsey about the game Shadow Madness...and managed to print page 1 twice. They re-printed it two issues later with the correct second page, but a small censor bar that they put over a bit of artwork managed to slip down about a quarter-inch and no longer covered what it was supposed to be covering. Whoops.

In case anyone else is interested, the PS3 also has the demo for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. It was one of the last things I saw on the PSN before my system had to be serviced. But seriously, if you need a demo to figure out if you want this or not, go back to school. Those of us who are true retro gamers had this on day 1. $30...unstoppable! *huggles* Areala

Crap...can't help there. I have the GD-ROMs for 3, 7 and 8, and none of the magazines (as far as I know). The section looks absolutely rocking though, Thor!

While I love both EGM and GamePro, something tells me that first issue scans should trump everything else, and thus my vote is for Turbo Force #1, especially since I've never read it, seen it, or heard of it. *huggles* Areala

*laugh* At least you tried. *huggles* Areala