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i totally understand what you're sayin' Dustin- i almost flunked out of my final year of high school because of Myst.

With all due respect to your gaming past and post Dustin, I hope you won't be offended if I pretend I never read this column. Instead, I'll say that I'm still mulling over my feelings after watching last night's Roman Polanski documentary on HBO. I just can't decide what I feel about him. I'm clearly disgusted by his actions with the young girl. Beyond that, I somehow find him a sympathetic character and a genius director. I can't reconcile the two.

Pink Panther 2, you say?

Pink Panther 2, you say?

It must be one hell of a boat he's buying.

Pitfall!!! Yeah.

I'm going to dust off my Atari now!

After I've read the article that is.

I've done myself injuries inside the elbow area and wrist, due to too many consecutive hours of playing Diablo. Dang that was hurty.

The only videogame that ever drove me slightly crazy was Final Fantasy VII. Things like eating and showers really seemed like nuisances when Sephiroth was out there, waiting for my revenge.

Doesn't Steve Martin owe us another "L.A. Story" by now?

Dustin, remember the crippling i-got-the-arthirightus hand cramps you'd get from playing Atari too long? Good times, indeed.

Am I an idiot for hoping that Lindsay Lohan does something worthwhile at some point in her life? I actually wish her well.

Atari, and if you owned one and were of age, you probably spent the summer of 1984 playing Joust, Pitfall, or -- my favorite -- Atari baseball

Frogger. The joys of moving a pixilated frog across a multi-lane highway only to have to cross a fast moving river. I think I spent most of my childhood and adolescence with that game. I was also partial to DigDug. I did not get a Nintendo.

My longest day with a single game without a break involved 8 or 9 straight hours of Tetris 2. I made it to level 79 and once you pass level 30, you cannot start at that level again.

As an adult, I still have Halo 3 unplayed so that I can beat it in a single week. School does not go well with video gaming.

My boyfriend and his roommate still spend HOURS playing RBI Baseball on Nintendo. To the point where I have memorized not just the main theme but the bass line of the main theme... I hear it in my nightmares.

Pink Panther 2, you say?

It must be one hell of a boat he's buying.

I think that he may be trying to buy something larger than a boat. An island perhaps.

That way he has somewhere to slink off to with the remaining shreds of dignity.

Dallas Buyer's Club sounds like a good movie. I have to agree with your thoughts about AIDS movies. And the band played on makes me cry just about anytime I see it. And let's not even discuss Philadelphia.

All I know about Young People F-ing is that it caused a hell of a political debate up here about whether Canadian taxpayers' money should be used to support "indecent" films. It was pretty interesting discussion, actually. Don't know the status of things now, but I fear there may come a day when the Government of Canada brings us such films as "Curious Little Kittens are Cheaper by the Dozen" and "The Fuzzy Wuzzy Puppy Brigade." *shudder*

The last trailer for YPF seems to on track to be really worth the time.
For me video gaming began with Pong...as I lost $9 in pennies to some Pong hustler that was 3 years older than me.

Our first true video game system was Intelivision. The game of addiction was B-17 Bomber, that was connected to the Intelivoice module. The goal was to clear all of Europe of Nazi ruled material; we always became pissed when there would be one rebuilt factory in Northern Italy, had to continuously fly back and forth to it, by the time it was destroyed they would rebuild in Western Poland, never did clear that map.

Today with two young sons we hav Wii and PS2 along with their hand held Nintendo DS systems, so yea I am lucky the wife works nights.

A new Cameron Crowe movie AND Ryan Gosling news!? My week just got made.

Gah, I SUCKED at Pitfall. I sucked at pretty much all the Atari games, but Pitfall was my worst. Couldn't even get the little dude over the first pit.

This explains my total lack of interest in video games to this day. Except for the ones where you shoot at shit with a fake gun. I seem to do pretty well with those.

The Young People Effing seems so gimmicky and "Whee! Look at us we're edgy!". Wasn't Carnal Knowledge nearly forty years ago? What's the difference? I guess now it's more kosher to show T&A and say fuck and talk graphically about sex. Snore.

Call me when Sam Raimi does that Bruce Campbell BBT horror movie.

I refused to buy a PS2 for three years out of fear of getting glued to it for months. I skipped meals and decent nights of sleep trying to defeat the Captain Dragon. Dashed and rolled through the Marble Garden Zone at a friend's house while their family had their intimate supper in the next room. Eventually his mom brought me a plate. I started God of War and didn't drop the controller for 10 hours straight (no lie). I'm ever so glad not to own a PS3 yet, because Niko Bellic will consume my soul for sure.

I guess I can see your point, Dustin.

I remain the undefeated Southeast Pole Position champion. I particularly liked that one because you had to hold the button down so hard your hand went numb, because somehow, that made you go faster.

I also love me some Asteroids.

So DiCaprio did Hughes and now he's the go-to for wealthy nutjob biopics? Why not Sam Rockwell? Of course, I think Rockwell should be in ALL movies.

On the Doll - a movie about CBT. Mmm, painful and tasty. I'll keep an eye out for it, while holding onto my nads. While usually described as a pervert, I've never condoned genital cruelty.

Pink Panther 2, you say?

It must be one hell of a boat he's buying.

I think that he may be trying to buy something larger than a boat. An island perhaps.

That way he has somewhere to slink off to with the remaining shreds of dignity.

...or raise it from the dead.

I thought I once heard that Lohan was going to play a sex-addicted waitress in an upcoming movie. It was like going to the future, but without all the dead relatives.

FFVII I was playing on lunch breaks from Wal-Mart in the fall of 97 (my journalism BA was not taking me places yet. nay, ever). All free time was put toward it. The real crazy was one night on FFX-2, on an optional monster fight. One of those kill the tentacles before they regrow and then go after the head. I spent two hours fighting that thing. Used up damn near all my restorative items and magic and was very grateful for the pause function.

Later that night in a dream there was a foot tall dragon in my living room. I racked my brain trying to think of how to magically dispel it before slowly realzing I could step on it. And that was only part of the weirdness that night.

Be careful, kids!

(and here come FFXIII and The Force Unleashed on the horizon. Sheeeeit)

My work blocks all videos... except for the nut-destroying one. I don't even have nuts and that hurt to watch.

MO, the furor over Young People Fucking seems to be a re-hash of the debate over Shortbus - when CBC threatened to fire Sook-Yin Lee for her role in the movie. It's such a tired debate that smacks of censorship.

My first "video" game experience was Fox & Geese played on a chess board. The computer was mechanical, and you could see all the working moving gears and levers through the glass walls behind the chess board. It had a joy stick to move the fox, and I beat the thing repeatedly after a couple of tries. That was 1970. A few years later I came across Pong. I played that once and got bored. I haven't played one since.

Personally, when the movie King of Kong came out, I misread it as King of Pong. I'm sure that'll be the sequel. King of Pong: In My Pants.

I was a complete addict of Civilization. Seriously...I'd stay up days to finish a game...while I was in school. Needless to say...my grades sucked.

I can't watch the trailers at work...someone tell me what that first one is! I've seen variations of all the rest of them...but I'm dying of curiousity...

I refuse to believe in Happy Gilmore making "horror" movies. I'm done.

Since when does Lindsay Lohan have any semblance of a career that does involve stripping for money?

On the Doll look like crap, punching someone in the nuts is not horror. It didn't even sound real.
In unrelated Lost news, ABC has been doing focus groups asking vague questions about Michael, so he might be coming back.

Shadows, my boyfriend is ADDICTED to Civilization. Sometimes he plays for days at a time and I'm afraid he'll eat the cat just because of proximity.

I'm all of 4% (yes, four) complete on GTA4. I also haven't quite beaten Bioshock yet. I own and yet have not played God of War 2, Bully, Warriors, Stranglehold, The Darkness, and Assassin's Creed, and am in various stages of completion in countless others on the Xbox, 360, and PS2. The reason I'm ignoring these games is simple: Rock Band.

I simply have the hardest time firing up the 360 and NOT playing Rock Band for at least an hour. It doesn't help that my kids always want to play too and I have to oblige them in our quest to get MORE fans for our fake band. Plus it is difficult to play most of the other games while they are in the house.

Of course, I think Rockwell should be in ALL movies

A truthism if I've ever heard one.

In unrelated Lost news, ABC has been doing focus groups asking vague questions about Michael, so he might be coming back.

But Christian told him he could go! Gah... this show gives me a headache.

Pong was the greatest video game ever. If there were a WII Pong, across American people would be standing in front of their TVs moving their hands up and down. Slowly. Or maybe I'm just old.

Sam Raimi is still very much in the running to direct Spiderman 4

Ugh, finally got around to Spidey 3 Saturday -- WTF? Where'd the black stuff come from? Why did it land almost directly on Spidey? How did James Franco become the Silver Surfer?

And, most important, why did the director decide that Emo Spidey should look like the douchebag Goth kid from South Park?

jM,....I feel your boyfriend's pain. I just bought Civ4 a few months ago...and I'm positively giddy over the many ways to win. I am now determined to win every different way you can. I haven't slept right in days.

Recently, as I'm a gamecube fanatic, I played Second Sight for days and hours at a time until I finally beat it. At least I budgeted my time right for that one...only when I was not doing anything essential to my continued comfortable survival...

Rob, you have to play Bully. Rockstar really outdid themselves with that one. It was a goddamed hoot. I'm shuddering at the thought of a PS3. It will inevitably be my downfall, what with Drakes Fortune, GTA4, Resident Evil 5, and Metal Gear...

I've gone as far to set up a list of people I need to call the day I purchase one and apologize in advance for making myself completely unreachable for at least six months...

Pea- i don't think this is an issue of censorship, it's more an issue of what we should be spending our tax dollars on.

i myself have been a recipient (both directly and indirectly) of Canada Council grants and so i can fully understand and appreciate how important they are to the arts and artists in Canada.

however, having been a tax payer (i now live in eastern europe and pay my taxes here) i also understand the feeling that some (myself included) may not want their taxes spent on something like YPF.

while we could get in to an argument about what constitutes art and what is smut or just plain sensationalism masquerading as art (and Shortbus is fully standing with both feet in the latter category. God did that movie ever suck balls) i think it should really boil down to this- should we be supporting something that is made by private enterprise for the purpose of making a profit?

not-for-profit art? sure, do what you want to.
for-profit? do it like everybody else- find investors or backers, max-out your credit cards, return beer bottles, whatever. just don't expect me to support you with my taxes. unless you treat the grant as an investment and the Council gets some kind of return on that investment.

sorry for all the bold- i didn't double-check my html formatting.

my bad.

And, most important, why did the director decide that Emo Spidey should look like the douchebag Goth kid from South Park?

I thought he looked like Emo Peter Patrelli from Heroes. Now with 75% less stroke-face.

I wanted to just trust you on not watching the On the Doll clip, but I couldn't. That hurt. A lot. Worse than Hard Candy.

And yet I feel strangely compelled to see the whole thing. On DVD. When it hits the clearance bins. Maybe. If the other IMDB horror board regulars say it's worth it. And only the ones I actually trust.

Robert Downey Jr. in The Hulk? Like I needed another reason to see the new Hulk besides Ed Norton? Cheaters.

Just for that, I am going to see The Happening on Friday night rather than watch The Hulk twice in one week. Take that, Marvel film that's offering me free candy if I walk into the movie theater. I'm not getting burned alone.

Emo Spidey...for when you want to kill yourself with flavor...

And let's not forget the dance scene....or the Saturday Night Fever strut...omigawd that movie sucked so much...

Spider-Man 3 was a goddamn travesty. How you go from the shining peaks of awesome that was Spider-Man 2 to that piece of shit in search of a plot was beyond me.

Skitts: I got Bully for Christmas. Keep meaning to play it, one of these days I've promise myself. I also am resisting the allure of the PS3. I really want a Blu Ray, but don't NEED a Blu Ray...yet. Same as I WANT to play MGS4 and the new Ratchet & Clank, but don't NEED to. Sometimes I think I'm more of a collector than a gamer. I need to stop buying games and start playing the damn things. But when you see a game onsale for $12 it's hard to pass up. Game Fly is my frenemy.

>Robert Downey Jr. in The Hulk? Like I needed another reason to see the new Hulk besides Ed Norton? Cheaters.

And supposedly he'll also cameo in the Cap America flick and possibly the Thor flick...and the others might inter-cameo as well...so that when the Avengers movie comes out, they'll all be there and have an established backstory formed from the various movies and time won't be as wasted in the movie with an introductory backstory...

If all that is true...it's the most ambitious project to date. hopefully it pans out...because I'm giddy at the thought but reluctant about the actual implementation.

Pong was the greatest video game ever. If there were a WII Pong, across American people would be standing in front of their TVs moving their hands up and down. Slowly. Or maybe I'm just old.

I will be the first one in line to buy that. After the age of 9 or so, I wasn't into video games, until we got a Wii a few months back. Combined with Pong? Awesomeness.

I know that we all know that PP2 is just going to be a huge bowl of suck, but that's the trailer? How much more indicative does it need to be? Instead of watching Clouseau sneak into a theater, just run a 30 second promo that reads "This movie is going to blow giant donkey balls. We are in a recession. Please, save your money and do not see this horrific bit of celluloid masturbation."

Oh, I would have such higher hopes for the Marvel franchise if I believed they were paying attention to their screenwriters. Can we just clone Vaughn like, ten times and keep them in a little box, producing awesome?

Drake's Fortune won't be a time kill, Skitt. I'm a mild gamer and it didn't take me much time to get through. I've still got Assassin's Creed on the deck (Lair was such a disappointment on so many levels) and that should keep me busy until MGS4.

As if I've been doing anything but playing World Ends with You on the DS I 'borrowed' from a friend.

Nicole, sometimes I wish I could just not believe in PP2 like Sarina. Then I remind myself that if I didn't believe in it, I wouldn't remember to dropkick Steve Martin if I ever meet him.

just run a 30 second promo that reads "This movie is going to blow giant donkey balls. We are in a recession. Please, save your money and do not see this horrific bit of celluloid masturbation."

I'd pay money to see that...oh, wait...that defeats the purpose...

Melody you are so right about Frogger. Toadally addicting. When I visited my brother on *cough cough* an undisclosed Air Force base where he was stationed in the early 80's, he had Atari, and I was hooked. Duck Hunt ruled. Then, when I went to college, they had both video games AND beer in the student union on campus. Good times....Rolling Rock and Centipede. Worse thing I ever did was discover a couple years ago I could download a whole crapload of Atari games for my PC.....Centipede, Millipede, Battle Zone, GALAGA.....damn, I never get anything done now....

Bowfinger was on Cinemax last weekend. Sure, Steve Martin is a sad, sad whore now (while Eddie Murphy is even sadder). But we'll always have Bowfinger.

And megbon appears! Hippie chick, I had listed you on the MurderTank "MIA - presumed KIA" roster as of a couple days ago. Thought the zombies got you.

I think we always suspected your hating on video gamers stemmed from self-loathing.

This explains my total lack of interest in video games to this day. Except for the ones where you shoot at shit with a fake gun. I seem to do pretty well with those.

Me too! Especially Sniper Scope. I feel strangely at home with a big sniper rifle nuzzled against my cheek, some terrorist (or passerby) in the crosshairs...

I tend more towards action and RPGs as well. And as I have told some of you, Mass Effect effectively lured me away with sweet candies, threw me into a van, and all went black. I still fear picking up that controller and letting that game have its way with me agian.

And zombie games, while actually play quite good, suck. FUCK a zombie game.

But Vermillion...the Resident Evil series is a great time diversion! House of the Dead is a mindless brain waster! Don't tell me you don't love zombie games!

Vermillion, you do realize that the zombies cannot come through the tv to get you, right?

DammitJanet, is Frogger available at that site?

I was such a fan of Steve Martin - both his stand-up and his early movies. I'll still sit down and watch The Jerk, or The Man With Two Brains whenever they're on TV.

However, these Pink Panther movies...just yuck. I couldn't even make it through the first one, it was so unfunny.

I read an interview with Michael Caine once, where he was talking about making 'The Bees'. He said he made it as he wanted to build a new swimming pool. Steve Martin must want an Olympic sized one, or maybe he's spending his Panther cash on art, as I think he's a collector. He disappoints me so with this crap.

I think it also sullies the memory of Peter Sellers a little, but Martin has some practice at that, as he did the same thing to the great Phil Silvers in Sgt Bilko.

But Vermillion...the Resident Evil series is a great time diversion! House of the Dead is a mindless brain waster! Don't tell me you don't love zombie games!

Vermillion, you do realize that the zombies cannot come through the tv to get you, right?

LIES!! EVERY SINGLE WORD JUST LIES!!!!! YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, WITH YOUR LIES!!!!!

They are waiting for me to leave it on pause for a sec, maybe to answer the phone or something. Then as I return, the controller will be moved, but only a little. I think nothing of it and return to playing.

All of a sudden, I smell rotting flesh and feel what amounts to a cold mockery of human breath on the back of my neck. Then, darkness.

No way IN HELL is that happening to me.

I still lay video games with a crystal meth level of addiction, but I remember being in grade 2 and laying Pokemon religiously. I'm sad to say, but I can still name all 151 original pokemon. Don't feed me this bullshit about 400 and something pokemon, there is only 151, and there will always be 151! Though I will always hate vg-based movies.

Jeremy, I have never in my life watched an episode of Pokemon, yet for some unexplainable reason, I know every word of the entire theme song. EVERY.WORD. Please tell me they have a cure for this...

They are waiting for me to leave it on pause for a sec, maybe to answer the phone or something. Then as I return, the controller will be moved, but only a little. I think nothing of it and return to playing.
All of a sudden, I smell rotting flesh and feel what amounts to a cold mockery of human breath on the back of my neck. Then, darkness.

That sounds like an awesome zombie movie, Vermillion!!! It's brilliant! I love it...we should so get that made. And full credit to you. So that everyone knows.

Be careful Vermillion. You may have just written Resident Evil: Return From Extinction.

That sounds like an awesome zombie movie, Vermillion!!! It's brilliant! I love it...we should so get that made. And full credit to you. So that everyone knows.

I hate you.

Vermillion, somewhere Uwe Boll is so happy that you have just him his next project.

Genius sir. You realize that you will now have to go sit through the screening.

the sound on my computer is broken, but for the hell of it i watched the trailers, just to see if i could discern what was being said (i'm guessing the hulk would be just as entertaining to someone who was blind as well as deaf.) anyway, damn. i don't think i could stomach watching that clip from "on the doll" even if i did have sound (and for the record, this comes from someone who doesn't have testicles).

This is why my mom will not let me bring my Super NES to my college house, or buy a 360 (EVENTHOUGH IT'S MY MONEY MOM!). Super NES favorite game- Diddy Kong. I play until my eyes bleed. When I do head back to the parent's house next time I refuse to play though, I am on strike. I've tried to beat this one level for at least ten hours and still can't get half way through it. I am in the market for an old Final Fantasy Super NES cartridge, and once I have it my world will be complete.

Oh, what I would do if I had a 360...let me count the ways......

God, I hate the control my mother still has on me.

i am more of a computer game addict. i love all the sierra games: king's quest, hero's quest, space quest, the colonel's bequest, camelot and leisure suit larry. you know, the ones where you have to type the exact basic instructions for your character and if you cussed the game would scold you. there is a funny strongbad email making fun of these games--i think it was called "peasant quest". anyway, this has led me to a very slight addiction to warcraft, but i can control it.

I never got into video games...not the good ones anyway. I'm a Paper Boy kind of girl.

Though I did used to love playing Mortal Kombat Trilogy with my brother on...Playstation? Sega? I'm so up on my terminology. We would beat the shit out of each other, and use the code to do an Animality or Fatality. My favorite was the killer bunny.

Vermillion, somewhere Uwe Boll is so happy that you have just him his next project.

Genius sir. You realize that you will now have to go sit through the screening.

At the screening, Vermillion makes a quick run to the bathroom. When returning, as he gets closer and closer to the theatre, be begins to hear the faint scream coming from his fellow movie patrons inside. The air turns cold, his eyes widen, and he knows...the zombies aren't just in the movies anymore...their here.

Resident Evil: Breaking the Fourth Wall coming 2011.

I still lay video games with a crystal meth level of addiction, but I remember being in grade 2 and laying Pokemon religiously.

Jeremy umm, do we need to talk?

Has no one else noticed that our friend Jeremy here may need a little, um, therapy? I mean, a lot of us loved our video games, but most of us didn't LOVE our video games, you know? Especially not in 2nd grade.

Melody, I will def check into a Frogger download for ya!

Because I'm good for little else:

Kingdom Hearts vs. Resident Evil

It's funny, I swear.

Thanks Janet!

What if: Spambots vs. Zombies in a battle that will end in the apocalypse!

Seriously, the spambots have already thrown the gauntlet. TK's pets/zombies need the fun.

Jeremy, this is for you

twig, Wonderful!

Julie No shame in being a Paperboy. Shit was tough as nails. But you mentioned MK, the only game I ever stole money from my parents for. And I was all for being versatile and eclectic, being a good all round, while my brother and cousin always picked Sub-Zero and kicked my ass into oblivion. It was bliss, no real sunlight can compete.

Hey, socalled - I'm back and waiting for a new Boozehound Cinephile that's all about the whiskey so I could regale you with tales of my forays into WhiskeyFest at the Hyatt here in Chicago. Craziest trade show ever.

i think it was called "peasant quest"

Yes, and meanwhile Trogdor is constantly burninating your thatched roof cottages.....in the NIGHT!

(plus there was the live action short)

The Key to Pitfall

Run left at the first screen. You never have to fool with logs and there is a diamond ring about 40 screens in...

Melody, here is a good start...I used vintagearcade.net

Damn, I miss having nothing more to worry about than not spilling my beer while I shot the crap out of tanks and flying saucers or getting eaten by ghosts or smashed by falling bug crap that turned into mushrooms or shooting at weird space crap......*sigh* growing up sucks.

http://www.gamespot.com/atari5200/action/frogger/index.html

Garrgghh, megbon, you missed the bourbon and zombie smorgasbord two weeks ago. Oh, well there's more where that came from. Especially the zombies.

*sigh* growing up sucks.

That's why I refuse to do it. I'm still that teenager happily playing his games that occasionally has to stop to pretend to be a grownup.

Oh, If-You-See-Kay, my "p" key is stuck again. Fucking keyboard. No need to worry Janet, I can't fuck a video game, because I'm not much of a top. jM, You might want to contact Lacuna, Inc. Those guys can wipe out anything you want to forget.

I think we always suspected your hating on video gamers stemmed from self-loathing.

Yeah, what-EV! That and I find most video games mind-numbingly boring. It's just not my thing.

Back in the day, my male co-workers at the movie theater where I worked thought I'd be easy to beat at the Area 51 arcade game. After I smoked all their asses, they refused to play with me again. The only people I couldn't beat were the weekend cop and my manager who was an avid hunter.

Then again, the few times they convinced me to play arcade MK, I spent the whole time smashing all the buttons and screaming, "I don't understand this FUCKING game!"

No need to worry Janet, I can't fuck a video game, because I'm not much of a top.

HA! I love Jeremy.

twig, that cracked the shit out of me.

I used to be addicted to Warcraft; with school, I hardly ever play video games anymore, even though I have at least 5-6 games on multiple consoles that I barely started and haven't bothered finishing.

Hm, I'm like that with TV series too; as of right now, I am in the "process of watching":

Arrested Development Season 2
Deadwood Season 1
30 Rock Season 1
The Wire Season 5
Battlestar Galactica Season 5

.... and I kinda feel like starting up Twin Peaks Season 1 and Farscape as well. Fuck me.

got myself to watch the On The Doll clip and then a few thoughts came to mind. Can you really die from that? and what the fuck is this movie actually about? Well I checked Wikipedia and YouTube and it sounds like its a bit like Hard Candy only everyones asking for trouble because theyre dumb teenagers.

Oh, Jeremy, Jeremy.....don't ever fix that keyboard. Just look where it got you today!

I thought Brad Pitt was doing Dallas Buyers Club. Whatever, Gosling will rule it, anyway.

The only video/computer games I'm crazy about are The Sims (Damn, that's addicting) and the GTA series. Although San Andreas was not that great. A lot of bullshit filler missions than anything else.

Say, since we're talking about videogames here, anybody wanna buy me a 80G PS3?

Anyone?

I'll let you cut off one of my fingers... huh?

How 'bout I uh... show you Minimus' leaked sex tape? That's pretty cool, right?

Anyone... hullo?

I got married on Asheron's Call. To my real life boyfriend (whom I won't marry for real, even though it's been ten years now). They had game admins attend and give you flashy fireworks and special rings and stuff while they officiated. My brother's character came to the wedding, and I made lots of wine and cheese and cake. My mom came over to the house too.

Sick and wrong.

I'm a nasty huge gamer (or I was before kids - now I give my boyfriend evil looks as he slinks down to Portal or WoW or whatever). I was pretty big on the 'I'M BOSS OF YOU' stuff, like Sims, SimCity, FF Tactics, but did way too much time on Shenmue, FF7, Saga Frontier and the like. I just can't get with run and shoot, so I stick with megalomania.

Sigh. I'm fit wicked at Dead or Alive Volleyball though. Booby immune = advantage moi.

Damn. There are some old ass people in this thread if we're talking about Atari. i'm not saying I didn't lose a whole summer playing Asteroid and fighting with my brothers over who had next. Just sayin'. Y'all some old ass mofo's.

And is anyone else deeply disturbed by the prospect of a Ben Stiller/Reese Witherspoon pairing? "There's Something about Election"?

*full body shudder*

"I just bought Civ4 a few months ago...and I'm positively giddy over the many ways to win. I am now determined to win every different way you can. I haven't slept right in days.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at June 10, 2008 10:32 AM"

Hubster LOVES that one! He'll play it all weekend without realising. One day I overslept by several hours and I don't think he realised I was actually home. And when I got up and asked where the cat was, he looked sheepish and said he hadn't opened her bedroom door yet. Poor imprisoned baby. Take your pick, I could mean any one of us.

Despite having the Big Three (Wii, PS3, 360) I had never been really sucked into a game until I met Guitar Hero 3, the game where you can beat every song on Expert until you get to the last song (One by Metallica, damn them) and you are stuck for eternity. I was skipping class just to practice and in class I would spin pencils around to work on my finger strength and agility. I don't know if anyone else has experienced the unique phenomenon of having the game freeze and the optical illusion makes it look like it's still moving so you keep going for a minute until you notice. It consumes me

How 'bout I uh... show you Minimus' leaked sex tape?

I might consider that...but I already have it. Who do you think leaked it?

There are some old ass people in this thread if we're talking about Atari.

Then I won't mention that I still have mine, and a boxful of games, beside my N64 and Gamecube...

There are some old ass people in this thread if we're talking about Atari.

Look pal, I was already irritable about the Circus of the Stars follow-up when you were a stain in the front of your daddy's drawers.

Wait, what were we talking about?
[/ruffles plastic baggy]

Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon - yes an odd couple indeed. You never know though...they might have some on-screen chemistry that will surprise us...fingers crossed.

Dallas Buyer's Club - is definitely one film I'll put on my list of future films to see. Sounds pretty good.

As for the Lohan's new film...hmm...I understand that we all have to crawl b4 we can walk...but this (Labor Pains) just sounds silly.

Spiderman 4 - when will Hollywood learn that every successful franchise must stop with the THIRD movie or if you must do more...do a Batman...wait a few years and start with a clean slate...