The REAL Josh Anderson

If only we got cool gadgets as quickly as the Chinese...


Sure, sure, you could buy a smartphone and load a NES emulator, but playing games on a phone that is really just a phone sucks big time. This little beauty has a handy little directional pad and A/B buttons.

Who knows what the ROMs cost though. Afterall, every game I would play on this, I already purchased for my Wii. If you could upload/sync/whatever my Wii's Virtual Console games to this phone... then, and only then, would we finally have gaming Nirvana!

Labels: video games

I love this idea! I can't imagine that I would end up being good enough to qualify for our country's Virtual World Cup team, but this is my only real hope at being any "good" at soccer. Maybe I should go pick up the latest version of FIFA again and try to brush up a little. Afterall, it is only 3 years away... :)

Over the past year or so, I have really fallen in love with soccer. Just like my infatuation with hockey (starting about 15 years ago and ending with the NHLPA's somewhat recent strike), I think it all stemmed from a video game. In much the same manner, I found a team that I liked (Chelsea), along with a budding star (Drogba), and played the crap out of FIFA '07.

Soon after I became half-way decent at FIFA (A.K.A. understanding the tactics of the game a little), I started religiously recording games on the Fox Soccer Channel. Watching these games has become a bit of a weekend morning ritual for myself and the kids whenever Renee is not home. The best part? Leia knows who Drogba is.

Astoundingly enough, soccer has offically become my second favorite sport to watch on TV (Naturally football is #1. And no, I am not going to play that stupid football=soccer game. Soccer is soccer. Football is football). I mean, seriously, baseball is horrendously boring, basketball is only good during the playoffs or big-time college games, hockey is just annoying after the strike, and the rest (golf, bowling, etc.) can be quite mind-numbing most of the time. Some, including my former self, have said that soccer is boring, but once I started to understand how the game is really played along with how amazingly talented those guys are, it became increasingly intriguing. This new fascination makes every posession and each delicately placed pass very enjoyable to watch for me. Call me crazy, but I love it!!!

Labels: soccer, video games

My poor mother drove herself crazy trying to land a Wii for her baby boy's big Christmas gift, but was unlucky in her travels across Northeast Ohio. However, The Creator certainly deserves an "A" for effort.

However, thanks to the power of the internet and itrackr.com we were able to nab one in early January at a local Target. Since then, I have had multiple husbands drag their poor wives to my house for demos of this wonderful little system. So far, we appear to be batting .500 in our sales pitch. In fact, my wife is probably the best Wii sales person I have seen!

I truly do love the Wii (insert gay joke here). It is Nintendo's classic triumph of gameplay over graphics. By no means does it look like a crappy 8-bit game, but it certainly is no Gears of War. Zelda is fantastic and the family loves Wii sports. Throw in the classics on Virtual Console and I am in heaven. Well done Nintendo!

If only I didn't have to sleep... :(

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Some how, some way, I will have the Wii (insert gay joke here). With classic NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Turbo-Grafix games for less than $10, I am screwed. Yeah, I will always buy the new Mario or Zelda games, but probably not much more than that. Add in the recently discovered "infinite pause" feature, and I believe we finally found video game Nirvana...

Labels: video games, wii