I'd like to take this opportunity to announce my Atari Rebirth project.  You haven't played Dead or Alive until you've played it with a really hard to move joystick with one button.  Sixteen on-screen colors brought to you in crystal sharp 192p high def.  Just wait till you see just how much 1.19 MHz of pure power can bring to the table.

Yeah, kind of confusing.  Gogamer's Space Rangers is Space Rangers 2, which includes 1.

Those city scenes of Zelda are pretty amazing, the delay announcement is that much more painful. :(

Zelda development team has requested extra time to add new levels, more depth...

More content = good...but dang, that's a long wait.  

What else is there coming out for the Cube this year to get excited about?  Battalion Wars, Fire Emblem?  Anything else?

Which button moves the thread away from disturbing, and back towards hot girls and funny?

Wish they made it as complex as the first, but still very fun. :)

Ninja Garden: Black is supposed to ease up on the difficulty for us pansies, right?



I think that's a tomato plant in the bottom right corner?

I've never heard of a nav system with a monthly fee.  You usually have to pay to update your maps if you want to down the line, but no hidden fees other than that.  Mi military positioning satellites es su military positioning satellites.

Thank goodness this is for GBA instead of DS, I'm trying to hold out for a price drop on the DS but between Meteos, Advance Wars DS, and that weird surgery game, my willpower to hold out on the DS is fading fast.

How did you get someone to accumulate the necessary mana without levelling up too fast?

My copy just arrived, so this isn't first hand, but I remember hearing someone recommend hitting one of your characters with a hammer to lower their level while keeping their mana.  Something like that?

The reviews say "its great! Its more of the same!" and then give the game a bad score. Its kind of crazy.

Add one more to the list.  Gamespy says:

Yes, Makai Kingdom is an engaging, deep game. It's also the most thematically appealing and robust game to come from the developer since Disgaea (contending with Phantom Brave and La Pucelle Tactics.) The off-the-wall humor is wickedly pointed and the characters are simply hilarious; the gameplay is deep and engrossing but clunky and far too close to what the developer's been doing for the past several years, just more so.  If you've an inexhaustible appetite for their recipe, this game will give you hours upon hours of glee; but don't look for innovation or passion here -- it's another exercise along the usual line, highly analytical and aimed at the thoroughly anal retentive.

Every player review I've seen says this is the best Nippon Ichi yet.  The professional reviewers have lost their minds, I can't wait for my Makai to arrive.

My question though is why? The upgrade does work, and it works great. It's both in Japanese and English, so that's not the issue. What changes could Sony have planned for the English version of 2.00?

I'm going to throw out a guess that they want more anti-emulator stuff in the English version.

All I know is this - will I pay more than $299 for a gaming console at launch?

Hell no. Not anymore.

Same here.  More than $300 and I'm happy to wait for a pricedrop.  I think it would take a Zelda magnitude launch title for me to stretch to $350.

I'd like to say that the more expensive devices would have the better features (voices and the like), but based on what little I know, the PDA based programs are rather impressive in their feature sets.

FWIW, the Garmin IQue I own does come with a voice announcements for upcoming turns and such.

I win.

So...many...technologies....

I sure hope it's the lion Voltron and not that ghetto car Voltron.

Don't worry, I think I'm the only person on the face of the planet that liked the vehicle Voltron better.

I guess there are three of us.

For vehicle Voltron, I had the most amazing jigsaw puzzle as a kid.  First, you make an ordinary puzzle image, with a neat Voltron scene.  But!  Flip it over when you're done, and you have flattened versions of all the vehicles.  Push them out, and oh yes, you fold them into 3d versions of all the vehicles.  Don't stop there!  You can now, yes indeed, join them together to form one mighty stand up robot.

Best puzzle ever.

Tailspins was one of my favorites as well!  I did a search, and its almost impossible to find.  Did this ever make video or DVD?  I couldn't even find any good sites about it.

lol, a Netflix search for Tale Spin brings up Zatoichi.  Blind swordsman, bear flying a plane, blind swordsman...

Ken is a professional at anti-marketing his own stuff.  What sort of cracksmoking smacktard makes this sort of statement about his own product???

No kidding. I mean, if the PS3 is not "targeted towards households," um, who is it for?

[with all these technologies,]

I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households. I think everyone can still buy it if they wanted to.

I wish they'd consider selling a more competitively priced stripped down version of the PS3 with fewer technologies.  I mean, I love technologies as much as the next guy, but I really only need 2 or 3 technologies to be happy with a product.  I've even been known to buy products with just one technology.

Anyone know where to find a Black Tofu for the first nub quest?

I still haven't found mine, but I saw a thread where someone said a good place to wait for one to spawn is 2 screens left of the quest giver.

Ah, spawn camping on the first quest...yup!  It's a MMO!

One really obnoxious thing is that the combat actually isn't turn-based.  You have a countdown timer to complete the actions of your turn.  I have no idea why that's there or why they thought it'd be a good idea to have it.

So when people play chess with a timer, they're no longer playing it turn based? ;)

It is silly to have the timer when you're soloing, but I think it's a necessary feature for groups to keep things moving along.

So, after playing this MMOTBSRPG for a bit. . .Best of all though, it's a Flash based game

You need to add Flash based to the acronym, its a FBMMOTBSRPG.

Every Saturday afternoon this local college radio station plays several hours of a capella music.  The best one?  A medley of your favorite childhood cartoon songs.  Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, and Tale Spin all blend into each other, its great!  

Just did some poking around, and it looks like its "Cartoon Medley" by the BU Dear Abbeys.  CD is for sale

Or just listen online 2-5pm Eastern on Saturday and call and request it!
http://www.wers.org/allacappella/

I sure hope it's the lion Voltron and not that ghetto car Voltron.

Don't worry, I think I'm the only person on the face of the planet that liked the vehicle Voltron better.

perfect thread title!

I am loving this new movie trend, it's like being a kid again.  Ok, what beloved childhood cartoon is next...a live action Duck Tales movie?

I've only dabbled in it for a little while, but it seems like a fun little game.  The character classes are pretty unique, I wish the big name MMORPGs where this creative.  They've got a masochistic class that needs to get hurt in order to attack, a 'gambling' class that has very powerful spells that all have a big chance to backfire.

Here's a listing and description of the different classes.

 :shock:  :shock:

Is that buggy eye "wow that's really neat," "wow I didn't think they could get a signal from there," or "uh oh wonderpug is a terrorist"?

I bought the Garmin IQue nav system PDA, and absolutely love it.  Iit sits in a car cradle you can buy that stays well with just friction, doesn't permanently attach to the car.  Not only do I get all the usual nav system benefits,  (I drove from California to Boston using it instead of a paper map, and it made it a cinch to find everything along the way and at my new home,) but since it's a PDA I can do even more with it.

If I'm on foot in a big city, I can still walk around with it to find restaurants, subway stops, or whatever.  Even better, if I travel to Europe and rent a car, I can bring it with me and have a nav system in the rental!  For Europe (and the rest of the world) it only has major roads, but I believe I could buy a detailed Europe map pack if I wanted.

Best of all, at $500-600, its half the price of most other aftermarket navs, and you get all the capabilities of a PDA tossed in as well.

It does have a smaller display than your typical nav system, but the resolution is higher, so it's never been an issue for me.  I have the Palm OS version, I think the newer Pocket PC version has even better resolution.

If you go for an IQue, make sure you get one where the stylus writing area is part of the main display, or in other words make sure the area you write in can turn into part of the map display.

Oh yeah, and even though you're not supposed to, on plane flights you can get reception if you hold it up to a window, it's fun to see how fast your plane is going, what state you're over, mark a waypoint for something interesting you see, stuff like that.

Can you tell I love my Garmin?

Is it fun?  It certainly looks neat.  Any idea what their pricing plan is going to be?  I can't find any info on the website.  Can't go wrong with a free beta, in I go!

Here's a class list someone posted on Penny Arcade:

Merchant - Goofy-looking girl in big classes and poofy clothes
Priest - Hot chick in a tight dress
Magician - Old angry wizard guy with a slouch and a bendy moustache
Witch - Cutesy chick with a ribbon and frilly clothes
Theif - little London Urchin kid with striped shirt and cool Mario-esque hat
Warrior (M) - Average looking dude, with a shirt that doesn't cover midriff
Valkyrie - Average looking chick, with a shirt that does
Soldier (M) - Camo dude with horned helmet, crazy look in his eye
Soldier (F) - Camo chick with short hair and elf ears
Medic - Young kid type in WW2 garb, helmet has skull n crossbones
Engineer - Kinda world-weary type, has a demon-shaped welding mask
Professor - Hot chick in glasses, trenchcoat and miniskirt
Swordmaster (M) - Angry, long-haired, bare-chested, pretty badass
Swordmaster (F) - Angry, too-cutesy, clothes are three sizes too big
Archer - Hot chick with lotsa curly hair and skimpy dress thing, badass
Chef - Cool leopard-stripe bandanna, as badass as a chef can get
Thunder God - Angry, bemuscled humanoid god
Berserker - Feral looking crazyman, stitches attach his head and shoulders to his torso
Whip Master - Hot chick with ponytail, miniskirt and big boots
Forsaken One - Slug with slanted eyes
Bombster - Sorta like an Aliens alien with two red sacks attached to his head
Gardener - A stump come to life
Idol - Raggedy Anne with an attitude problem; mainly healer
Mana Sphere - A living flame with one big eye-think Suezo from MR but cooler
Carrot Dude - A, well, carrot dude. Walking, breathing, Carrot Dude
Pump Kin - Dude with a pumpkin head and a scarf. Good with flamethrower
Corn Guy - Can you guess? That's right! A guy that is also a cob of corn. Cool jacket and good with magic
Hell Kitty - Oddly, not actually a cat, but a young girl in a cat costume. Cutesy, but will kick your ass with a Morning Star
Apple Kid - Apple for a head, worm in the eye. Another healer
Mimic - An evil treasure chest with wings on its head
Iron Golem - Square head, round belly, high defense
Darkstalker - A flaming humanoid entity. Very badass looking
Vampire - Dark, very pointy head and shoulder blades
Gobbler - Put fish lips on a flabby orc and give him horns and a bib
Death - Grim Reaper; cloak, floating body, skull grin, the works
Guardian - A living wood stove. Big curved cylinders for horns
Heaven's Bliss - Brightly colored owl with a big crown. Very funny and cool
Devil 1 - Basically a LotR Balrog but not on fire
Devil 2 - A demon knight kinda thing; face plate, pointy horns, a cape, etc
Prinny - Looks just like Abe Vigoda, oddly enough
Note that each class has six "ranks", and you'll rarely see these class names used in the game. The game tends to refer to the rank names instead.

Can I interest you in an 8-bit casemod for the Revolution as well? :)

Besides unlocking weapons, higher rank also gives priority for becoming commander for a round.

My guess is that they have a different Spec Ops guy for each explosion, and they each take turns hitting the trigger.  Would that work?  Does a C4 explosion not destroy someone else's C4?

My hip's been acting up a bit, and the tap water tastes funny.  I swear it happened when I hit level 23.

Ah, it's for your nephew, nod nod wink wink. ;)

I still don't get Nintendogs, is it just a really really good version of the Dogz PC games?

Ok, I think I need just one more game as tempting as Meteos to come out and I'll finally give in and buy a DS.  Advance Wars in August maybe?

Just for reference: