When I was last there prior to COVID-19 all of the crane machines in Akiba were packed. I was there for near two full days to dedicate time to hitting up all the stores. Sega 3 had a full floor of JUST Fate Grand Order and it was a near ghost town. I’m honestly shocked these centers dedicate so many game stations to…

Probably not. Not to mention the Challenger would be the only one you can get with a manual, and an auto is faster.

The GranTurismo is and always has been a pretty decent vehicle. You get some real understated styling, an option for a convertible, and the same Ferrari V8 that’s been used in a lot of Ferrari models since the F430. Ironically it also becomes a much easier car to handle as you’re not dealing with Ferrari-built V6…

Part of the reason that the races were able to occur overseas in the CART days is because FedEx, the then series sponsor, used to freight all the CART equipment and cars to each race on their planes. You can probably dig online through the various image archives but FedEx used to rack the cars and all the team’s…

The Saturn is seeing a tremendous amount of translation efforts being undertaken by various individuals & groups; the recently released translation of the first Sakura Taisen game being a stand-out. As someone who collects Saturn imports specifically I think the gaming public at large is realizing that the console had…

My first car was a used Chevrolet Nova - the 1980s E80 Corolla -based Nova. Chevrolet always had a difficult time selling the ‘Corolla’ Nova because Chevy literally could not get the captive import below Toyota’s sale prices. When new, you could go to a Toyota dealer and get into an E80 Corolla that was often better…

The C8. It MSRP’s at $69,000 CAN which is roughly $56,000 US. The problem is of course getting allocation and then having to wait on one (which could be upwards of a year and a half out). To be honest most high dollar sports cars are much cheaper than their US market equivalence in Canada, and doubly so if you’re…

This entire sentiment also historically goes against what Sony has done as both a console creator and publisher. If anyone really remembers the time with the Playstation and Saturn in the mid 90s, one of the real serious reasons why the Saturn flopped as hard as it did was the disconnect between Sega of America and…

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Despite any criticisms that people may have towards Sony, people need to remember than the PS3 storefront has now been around since 2006. 2006! That might as well be an eternity in console video game years. There were Dreamcast servers still officially running during that time period.

I actually sold my GBA shortly after purchase because of this. I simply had the absolute worst time trying to play it. Having the ability to play GBA games on the later DS was fantastic as you could actually SEE the games without any tricks.

The only thing that’s really killing this car for me is the rear. It’s like Honda took at look at Audi or a Kia Stinger and said “You know what would go well with these?... A big attached spoiler.”

If someone is paying $300 a month for insurance that’s WAY too much. Also 3.34 % financing is not really that great. I’ve never paid above 1.9%, even with used vehicles which historically are typically higher in financing (it should also be noted that, at lot like homes, you can re-fi automotive liens). ~$800-$900 a…

You can get one for those price points. The problem is you have to get in on allocation and order one, which is now exceptionally difficult. There are people that have waited well over a year for their orders to come in and some are now getting closer to two years out.

The promoters are smart to look ahead as one of the logistical challenges of a street circuit has always been it’s temporary. If you spend money on race infrastructure it’s ultimately not going to change that much if you run two races compared to running four or five (sans maybe paddock space). Cramming as much stuff…

My favorite Konami tale of all time is that for a company that in the 1990s effectively revolutionized the dating sim genre (Tokimeki Memorial; Hideo Kojima actually worked on some of the games.) it took Konami literally to the PSP days to even consider bringing the games to English audiences. Except when they finally…

I remember the day GTA III released. I actually left school and drove to my local Electronics Boutique that had a PS2 kiosk setup with it running. The line waiting around it was literally two dozen people; to play GTA III on a PS2 kiosk.

Off to get “chores” done

I get to see a white 4C Spyder daily. It’s one of the most incredibly sharp cars on the road but then I think about how it’s base MSRP is somewhere well above $60K (and probably sells for more due to the crazy ass current market) and think damn +$60K can get me a lot of car in other choices. I could probably find a…