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I used to, back in the 90s, be into getting classic board games to play on video game consoles. There was Risk and Monopoly on Genesis that both played very close to the originals. So I looked for others and one that landed in my collection was The Game of Life for Playstation. I had played the board game back in the 80s and thought it was pretty neat. Last night I played the video game version and was less impressed.

I just played this Playstation game. It's by Climax Entertainment, a Japanese company that did thie Shining in the Darkness RPG - go figure. Felony 11-79 is a racing game with destructible environments. That's why I got it - sounds like Burnout. Well, you are given a mostly linear route through city and country (kind of like Road Rash) and have to navigate it, picking up items, and, I think, crash into things, , . Or not crash into things, I'm not sure only that it keeps track of how much damage you've done.The more important thing though is time. You have a timer that counts down and you have to get to the end of the route before it ends. It also keeps track of your overall time, but I don't know why because if you don't beat the countdown timer, the game doesn't save your overall time. I don't get it. Plus if you crash a lot, and that's really fun - driving through a mall or hotel is not to be avoided - you lose a lot of time which made me lose against the countdown timer, thus no reward. I don't get that either. 

I wanted to run through all three Xbox systems today (Monday) at Mark's place but I couldn't get Metal Slug 4 + 5 to load right on the original Xbox. I think it was due to my TV having too high a resolution because the game came up with doubled images and without color. That happened to me before with a Wii Virtual Console game. With that one I changed some settings and it was fine but not this time. My TV doesn't have manual resolution settings that I could find. So I'll play it at home on my older TV. 

Before I did anything today (Sunday), I set up my original Xbox next to my 360 and XBO. I think it’s funny to have all three generations of Xbox hooked up at the same time. Here’s a lousy pic of the rig:

I thought I'd post this picture of my games up on the two bookshelves I bought last week. This is after the several purges I made for games to trade. I managed to add a few more bucks to the XBO purchase I needed to get my long time gaming buddy Mark to join the current generation. I also traded in older stuff Gamestop wouldn't take to my local game store and picked up Tales of Zestiria for PS4. Pics below:

Yep, I preordered one: 2TB hard drive and 40% smaller, I'm in. As a side benefit, I will be handing down my current XBO to my friend Mark. Then we'll both be up to current gen standards; however, only until sometime next year when the next XBO console with upgraded guts comes out (I forget that catchy name they gave it at the moment). I probably won't get that one, though, because I don't have a 4K TV and I am not too interested in VR games. 

I wanted to play some Saints Row Iv today (Monday) but cloud saves were offline, so I played some Miinecraft instead. Then I watched the MS E3 Conference live on Xbox 360 and then back to Minecraft because I got somewhat disinterested in Saints Row IV even though cloud saves came back online. 

I had to work around my neice's dance recital today, but I got some gaming in. 

I finally got a  $14 copy of Pikmin 3 for Wii-U. I've wanted it since it was announced at E3 2012. Miyamoto began the Nintendo presentation with little pikmin crawling all over him. I couldn't believe it. One my my favoirte franchises up front and center. I should've gotten a Wii-U and Pikmin 3 day-one but I was concerned about money then and didn't do it. Since then Nintendo hasn't released enough new games that interested me as much to make me pick up the system.. 

Got myself this remake of the original PS2 Odin Sphere for PS4 today. I love Vanillaware games, especially their art style which is very Japanese, colorful, and zany all at the same time. Plus they usually do game genre's I really dig like strategy, rpg, or some mix of the two. Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie, I say. Here's a pic: