[The Witness puzzles] could probably be acceptable as some sort of puzzle book or in an ipad app

Besides those two games, I'm getting a very strong Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker vibe from the visuals. I think this game will age very gracefully from a graphics standpoint over the next few years.

I feel like I'm burning through this game

The MicroCenter in Philadelphia is in a very nice part of town a mile away from Villanova University, and there are lots of other interesting stores and restaurants nearby. The store itself is starting to show its age a little, such as in the display signage that still mentions "Compaq" and has the rainbow-striped…

50/50 chance of reeses pieces

I have a coworker who fancies himself a "prepper" (he's a nice guy! seriously! Maybe a little bit too obsessed with guns but in an affable sort of Yay Thing Goes Boom! kind of way). He has over a dozen cases of MREs (that he will admit to publicly) in his home (secret bunker). Due to my heightened curiosity about…

I'll always remember Blind Melon because they were the first real band concert I ever went to - they played my college campus in '94 a month after Woodstock, and they played the same slow, tripped-out version of "No Rain" at the show I went to. Some of the people in the audience were unimpressed but I thought it was a…

I always viewed the band as Josh Homme blowing off steam with one of his childhood friends, sure it's not serious artistry like QOTSA but it's fun music to play at parties. I'm sure beer company marketing departments will be listening to the new album very closely. I've heard their live show is good too.

No, Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) is, more or less, just another cookie cutter major label metal band. They're actually a good deal more listenable than most other nü-metal, due to some lingering blues influences that have been completely purged from most other bands in the genre.

StrongBadZone, with its 2D vector graphics and robotic voice, seems to me to be more a parody of a different era's failed home console: the Vectrex, released by Milton Bradley (yes the board game people) in 1982.

Yes, that's why they go for over $100 used on eBay now, while back in '96 they were almost paying us to take them out of the store

I would have asked to inspect her Virtual Boy, you never know when it comes to these things, she might be clueless about anything Nintendo-related and this so-called "Virtual Boy" just the nickname for her Hitachi Magic Wand

Yeah, I don't think I'd like using a keyboard/mouse with the Rift either. Fortunately more and more PC games support the Xbox360 gamepad which I have a couple of, maybe those will be supported on the Rift. There's also Sony's me-too copycat VR headset which will support PlayStation Move wands, of which I have a pair…

Yeah, if T2K, AvP, and Rayman were the top 3 on Jaguar, the id Software ports (Doom, Wolf3D) probably round out the top 5. I had Wolf3D but not Doom… by the time it came out on Jag I had started college and had a proper MS/DOS PC to play it on.

For some reason, I had zero musical personality until I was like….15 years old.

Yeah, I've considered getting a replacement Jag and Virtual Boy just so I can fire up my old carts again, but for as mediocre as these consoles are, their value keeps rising on eBay… asking price well above $100 for both of them now on complete systems (i.e. not missing controllers/cables/etc.). I guess it's partly my…

I got to wondering why [the Virtual Boy] just didn't have a head strap on it

They don't care about anyone but kids.

Yup. That's what got me on board. KB Toys had them on clearance. I should have bought more games, when I came back to the store 2 weeks later in '96 everything was gone. Either it sold out or they sent it all back to Japan :)

Oh man. I was playing both the Jaguar *and* the Virtual Boy back in '95. Jaguar I paid full price for and had all its best games, which meant I had three games: Tempest 2K, Alien vs Predator, and Rayman. The Jag's motherboard got fried by static 10 years ago and I tossed it, but I still have a couple controllers and…