DVD and Game Day
Posted November 19th, 2003 @ 11:06am by Erik J. Barzeski
Yesterday, it turns out, was "DVD Day" for me. After a great Monday night playing games with Rob, José, and Gabe, I set out to pick up Mario Kart: Double Dash and Tiger Woods 2004. My first stop: Circuit City to see if they had any new CDs.
After picking up Pink's Try This (one-word review: "eh"), I made my way back to the games section. There I saw SSX 3 and picked it up ($39.99). I couldn't find Tiger or Mario anywhere, but I did find some controller extension cords. I should note now that GameCube games are a proprietary format encoded on what amounts to a mini-DVD, so my title is doubly accurate. 🙂
Wandering through the movie section on the way to the cash register, I spied the third James Bond collection. I asked a guy if they had the second, and after he found it, I loaded up my arms with the remaining 12 Bond films (I'd purchased the first box set some months ago).
Electronics Boutique had Tiger and Mario, so I grabbed those and went home to find that my West Wing: Season 1 set has shipped from Amazon.com. Nice! I deleted 20 or 22 episodes from my TiVo (thanks, Bravo!), freeing up about as many hours of storage.
This morning I've organized my DVD list a little to add some stragglers that have escaped my attention for a few months. All of the newly acquired 007 films will be up when I find the time (i.e. next year).
I'll write up a little review of each of the games when I find the time as well. Perhaps soon (now).
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Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 11:13am #
Extension cords? Wireless WaveBird all the way!
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 11:16am #
I'm not a big fan of having to worry about batteries.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 1:10pm #
Cool. I just snagged a copy of Mario Kart too. Now all we need is for warppipe to release the beta.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 2:14pm #
SSX 3 is excellent.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 3:26pm #
Whoa, how do you afford all of that? Oh wait, you've got a job. I guess that is one major plus about leaving college and going into the "real world."
I'm selling blood plasma to make enough money for MK:DD... after tomorrow's visit I'll be set.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 5:25pm #
Erik, the batteries last a very long time. If your concerned about the environment get rechargeable instead.
First themes and now WaveBird... how about the Booklet update? 🙂
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 5:58pm #
Oh WOW. I had no idea that SSX3 was out on GC. I was highly pissed after watching the commercials for it, cause there was no Gamecube logo at the end, only PS2, and there's no way I want one of those pieces of crap. I'm going to get it now. Wow.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 8:20pm #
A couple of drawbacks on the WaveBird. No rumble feature. Games like Zelda use the rumble to give away clues about your surroundings. Also it just adds a little more of a dynamic feel to a game. Secondly button mashers seem to do rather poorly with a WaveBird. Starfox Adventures had this one part where you have to tap A really friggin fast and the WaveBird couldn't keep up with it.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 10:00pm #
The batteries last quite a long time on the WaveBird. In fact, since I bought them nearly a year ago, I have yet to change the batteries. Sure, it doesn't have the rumble feature to save battery life, but I don't really care for it one way or the other.
Posted 19 Nov 2003 at 11:14pm #
Ack! No rumble!
Oh, and we updated Booklet. It'll be up when we release the new site. In a week or two.