My brother-in-law got me Starsky & Hutch for the PS2 for Xmas. I am now officially ready to jump on the light-gun bandwagon, since it has a 2-player coop feature where one guy steers and the other shoots.
Back in the day, I had a Mad Catz Phazor, which was shaped like the classic Star Trek Type-II Phazer and had adapters for both the PSOne and the Saturn. Neither Mad Catz nor anyone else, apparently, makes a crossplatform light gun anymore. I checked EBGames, GameStop, NCSX, and PlayAsia, and found nothing that appears to run on both.
Can’t sweat it too much, because there’s apparently only one light gun game for the XBox, and I’m not gonna get Dreamcasted twice. Since there are no crossplatform guns I will probably get the gold-standard Namco GunCon, and I will probably pick it up in a bundled-game package [I passed up such a package tonight at Best Buy because I was hoping to find another solution, but oh well].
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And I don’t even need to use my own words, I can just lift from the WaPo.
At the industry’s main trade show this year, Nintendo executives “talked about how they wanted to be cutting edge and create great new games,” said P.J. McNealy, an analyst at American Technology Review. “Then they rolled out a new version of Pac Man, which is about as old school as it gets, besides maybe Pong.”
All that said, I will tell you that the wife thanks me and Jesus for her GBA on a daily basis, especially since she got The Sims: Bustin’ Out for Christmas. And mentioning “International Superstar Soccer 64” in a post a few months back now gets me about half my hits.
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In which he
HREF="http://www.spin.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=247&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">teams up with John Mayer to defeat the forces of pop music.
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You know, when it comes right down to it, “Jingle Bell Rock” most decidedly does not rock:
Jingle bell, jingle bell
Jingle bell rock
Jingle bell swing
And jingle bells ring
Snowin’ and blowin’ up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
Jingle bell, jingle bell
Jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime
In Jingle bell time
Dancin’ and prancin’ in jingle bell square
In the frosty air
What a bright time
It’s the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell, time
Is a swell time
To go glidin’ in a one horse sleigh
Giddy-up, jingle horse
Pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and mingle in a jinglin’ beat
That’s the jingle bell rock
If “rock” means “doesn’t contain archaic phrases like ‘tender and mild’ or ‘HARK!’”, then yeah, I suppose it is “rock.” But you have to admit, it’s pretty tender and mild for a rock song. I wish it had been written with someone who actually rocked in mind. “Jingle Bell Rock” by, say, The Stooges. Yeah, there you go. All this said, I feel confident in asserting that the awesome Hall and Oates video is pretty much the definitive version.
You could also argue the dubious rockness of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” too, but instead, why not take a moment to think to yourself “gee, I hope today is the day B-Dizzle’s paper iPod turns into a real one?” Evidently I underestimated the 40gig model’s appeal when I ordered it and an iTrip ten days before Christmas.
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This
HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=427845§ion=news">corrected version of a Reuters wire story on the Jack White/Jason Von Bondie dustup goes to great lengths to get Renee Zellweger’s name wrong. Note that they had it right the first time, but some Reuters fact checker picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
Of course, the most comprehensive coverage comes from
HREF="http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0312/23/c01-16799.htm">the hometown
source.
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I got a very cordial letter from the marketing manager for Great Lakes
Crossing yesterday, thanking me for not being a total tool when
HREF="http://www.bpdw.com/weblog/2003/12/22#57miles">I wrote to him
about the distance thing. It pays to send feedback, and it pays to be
witty and not too rude. I imagine most of the stuff he receives is
vitriolic and nearly illegible — most people don’t tend to send feedback
until things go wrong, and by then they’re shaking mad.
Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Any customer-service incident you can
walk away from is a good one. And I look forward to future GLC visits,
as long as they don’t involve Gameworks. But that’s a whole other can of
worms.
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An open letter to Great Lakes Crossing [submitted through their feedback form].
I was at GLC this weekend tying up a few loose ends. I had heard of the card given to out of town guests:
http://www.shopgreatlakescrossing.com/infodesk/visitors/9.html
…so I went to an information booth and showed them my ID, and told the desk clerk I was from the Ann Arbor area, and she said I didn’t live far enough away. She insisted that Ann Arbor wasn’t fifty miles away from Auburn Hills.
I used to commute every day to Troy, at I-75 and Crooks Road. That was a distance of 57 miles one way. Joslyn Road is about ten miles north of Crooks on I-75. Next time, please give the cheapskate his coupons or change the qualifying distance for the coupon book, but please don’t tell me Ann Arbor is less than fifty miles from Great Lakes Crossing. You might as well tell me that the night-time sky is yellow with purple polka dots, or that Pepsi really does taste better than Coke.
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This story
is about baseball.
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It starts off kind of obvious with Cusack and the Brat Pack, but the deeper in you get, the more obscure the musical figures. Anyone who gives Belouis Some his own card is pretty damned allright.
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