PixlBit

Hey-hey-hey. Glad to see you here, Cary.

Hey-hey-hey. Welcome to Pixlbit.

I grew to love the PSP better than the DS, overall. The PSP had great games like FF7 Crisis Core, Valkyria Chronicles II, and Persona 3 Portable. I have a PSP-3000.

I've done a few blog series. I just keep up with them as long as I can. If I get tired of the series, I just stop writing it. :)

Honestly, I think the days of gaming revolutions are pretty much done. You might get an occasional surprise, as I did with Valkyria Chroncles, but the industry has matured. Even the much-vaunted indie scene is largely retreads of 1980s game design.  You can only repackage game design concepts so many ways.

I think the last new system I was excited for out of the gate was the PS2, and before that, the N64. The PS2 lived up to the hype, the N64 not so much before I jumped ship to the PS1, a system that had nothing I cared about until two years after its release and which went on to become my single favorite platform of all time.

I think that as more developers get their sea legs on the PS4 or Wii U we'll see better games. Very few consoles have great launch titles, and even the better launch titles end up being deemed as overrated several years later once better games start coming out.

My sister bought a huge white rat (he was over a foot long from nose to the tip of his tail) in Boston and gave him to me. I really liked the big guy. Even my cat tolerated him. I was really sad when he died.

I blame 1UP's closure on Commie Nazis and on the complete sexual immorality being taught in our public schools!

Bring back spanking!

A lot of that is because Microsoft got a lot of traditionally PC-only developers to really start supporting the Xbox and 360, although the games they've made on consoles were very consolized compared to the games they made back when they were PC-only developers. There were PC games on PS1 and PS2, but they mostly went ignored in favor of console mainstays.

Gotta love the Internet's power to let anyone act like as much of an a$$wipe as they want with impunity, whether it's your whacked-out political views and prejudices or telling some anonymous female stranger exactly what you want to do with her! I'm with Macho. I don't use the headset unless I'm talking to people I know and like. I used to use headsets in public matches but got tired of all the nastiness coming from 20-something morons. And when you consider that most games only let you communicate with people on your team, that just reinforces the old saying, "With friends like this, who needs enemies?"

Yars' Revenge was my favorite 2600 game

I have the Atari and Activision collections on PS2, so I can actually play both of these games on PS3 (since mine is a 60-gigger). Still, it's not quite the same as playing them on a 2600, as you said to GH.