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I caught the sickness that happens whenever I'm exposed to elements of the Etrian Odyssey games. I played one dungeon of Etrian Mystery Dungeon, noticed the dramatic similarity to the Etrian Odyssey Untold remake, and had to run out the next day and track down the other Etrian Odyssey influenced game, Persona Q.

I picked up this titular game. I preordered it at Gamstop, so I got an art booklet and music CD all pictured below.

This weekend was full of distractions from gaming: Easter Sunday with family, my friend Mark needed to be taken for new glasses (he's in a wheelchair), and I getting over a cold that I got from my first day in the gym last Thursday. But I managed to sneak in some short burst of gaming and then a longer session Monday evening. Oh, and I even picked up a few games. I juggled a lot of stuff this week, here's the breakdown.

I took a short trip to another mall where there was another Jay Street Video Games store. I didn't find what I was looking for there, so I went to the Gamestop there and they had a buy 2 get 1 free sale on last gen games. It's my favorite GS sale, so I got what's shown below.

Before I started collecting video games, I collected music. Back in the 80s, for me, it was all about stereo equipment, vinyl records, CDs and cassette tapes. I made mixes of my collection on tape and took them with me to play on a Sony Walkman or on my car cassette tape player. I was way into that stuff just like I am now with games. 

Second weekend day of gaming today, but first last night after I wrote my Sunday blog. I got in some Pokemon Shuffle mainly to clear the street passes, but I played the main quest until I was out of hearts. It might have been about an hour. It's simple fun. I really liked the music actually. There was some that sounded like traditional Japanese music. I enjoyed that a lot. I think I wouldn't mind being surrounded by that sound more often.

I didn't have much time to game today - family stuff - but I had a few hours and was able to get my orginal Xbox setup at my friend's place. I tried to hook up an ethernet cable for system link games with my friend's Xbox but it wouldn't work. Apparently you need a "crossover" ethernet cable for original Xbox and not the regular one. I used to have one of those because we used to play system link for games like Brute Force back in the day, but I don't know where I put it. Looks like I'll have to make a quick trip to the computer store tomorrow. 

I thought I might start a habit of fishing the game stores on Saturdays and hook a few new things to fill out my library of games. I made a list of stuff to cast for (I made it large so I'd at least find something) and headed out to the mall where there is a retro game store and several Gamestops. I was also going there to get some street passes and some Chick-fil-a. Yum! Let's see what the nets brought in this week.

I started the day by picked up 9 Miis by stopping by three different McDonalds on my way over to Mark’s place. I got 4 at one place, 5 at another and none at the one closest to my apartment. I don’t know what’s up with that one McDs, but it never gives me Miis. It’s not a problem though because there are four other McDs I can choose from on my drive to Mark’s place.

I started the day with a mall trip with Mark. Therein is the only retro store around, Jay Street Video Games. I was looking for Links 2004 on original Xbox because I heard Ryan McCaffrey on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked rave about its great online multiplayer. Yea, there’s no more online multiplayer on original Xbox, I know, but there’s still system link. This was the last golf game Microsoft Studios published before Powerstar Golf on Xbox One in 2013 and I wanted it.