As a lover of both Iron Maiden and video games, I am extremely cautious. Let us not forget the lesson of Ed Hunter.

A little more QB Eagles than Bo.

Tough sports year as a Mets/Giants fan.

Low grav Scoutzknivez forever.

Something something CTE.

I don’t know why I root for Eli, but I always do. Stick a fork in this Giants season though. It’s over.

And Candle in the Wind is the best song ever... Popular doesn’t mean right.

The PS2 and Wii have awesome emulators (PCSX2 and Dolphin) that upscale graphics and run near perfectly on PC. Rip those games to your computer, get a front-end (like Launchbox) and organize them digitally. Now you can do whatever you want with the physical copies.

Outside?

Sometimes, we get to have nice things.

How am I supposed to feel about Mauro Ranallo at this point in time? Do we just accept his shtick for what it is, kinda like Dick Vitale?

My father and his family immigrated here legally, fleeing communism in the former Czechoslovakia. However, under the current law they would not have been able to. I’ve worked since I was 16, often alongside illegal immigrants from different parts of Central America. All of them worked harder and for less money (you…

Really it depends on where the ref is. If he’s behind the action he’ll grab the winning fighter to stop them but otherwise they try to get in between the two fighters to shield the downed one.

No doubt the system (like all others) had some stinkers. But for every World Heroes there is a Last Blade/KOF/Samurai Spirts etc.

This is the story with a lot of Neo Geo games. They hold up amazingly well both graphically and in gameplay.

So what’s the lesson here? Is there a lesson here?

Where have you gone, 2 Cold Scorpio?

People who are bad at parlour can’t possibly last very long. There’s only so many times you can miss a jump on asphalt and get back up.

I’ll tell you what I don’t miss. Having to get up at the crack of dawn for class after an all night counterstrike binge.

Graphical mods are a hobby. The same people were downloading Doom wads off dial-up 20 years ago. Modders gonna mod.