I love that cover of the Joy Division album. Black and white photos are the best especially when extremely contrasty like that.
My favorite Bond car of those pictured is the Diamons are Forever one. HOT!
Shining in the Darkness on Sega Genesis. I didn't even know the term JRPG at the time, I just thought it was a cool RPG. I vividly remember the tuning fork riddle in the game. You had a room full of large tuning forks and had to repeat a melody by hitting them in the right order. I thought that was really neat at the time.
I still have Stubbs the Zombie. I'm going to play it again. I don't think I ever finished it.
Timesplitters Future Perfect was really great, and a co-op campaign as well, if I remember right.
I still follow a lot of the journalists on 1UP. I was just listening to Retronauts today and it was full of ex-1upers like Nick Suttner who's now on the Playstation Blogcast. There was also a guy at Game Informer this week talking about his career and mentioned 1UP being a place he worked at once. Seems a lot of people in game journalism came through 1up at some point.
I really liked the drunk Blake blog or blogs you did a little while ago. I'm not saying go get drunk again, but it was a fun read. I sometimes try to get looser like that but I'm always a little tight and think things through a lot.
I always thought of the Game Cube as the cartoon graphics console too. I reserved it for things of that style, but then there was Eternal Darkness and Geist. Can't overlook those.
One of my podcasters was talking about the new VR headsets being a good opportunity to do Pokemon Snap.
I got one summer '06 and it too lasted about three years before the dreaded red ring of death. I'm on my fourth one now. My friend Mark has my third console, a slim elite, and uses it more than I ever did. I have the Star Wars Edition one now and use it every weekend. It's still my main console until I can get us both hooked up with Xbox Ones. Price drop on the PS4 though has me chomping at the bit for that though.
Great story! I remember The Official Xbox Magazine switching it's demo discs from Xbox to Xbox 360 ones probably a few months after its launch.
Novemeber 2005 for the Xbox 360. I remember seeing Call of Duty 2 running on a TV in Best Buy that holiday season and being wowed by the graphics. I didn't get one until summer 2006 when Oblivion came out though.
Phoenix Wright out in Japan on GBA in 2001, but NA on DS in 2005. You're right.
I played Psychonauts years later. Didn't finish it though. I'm going to do that for sure. I still have the physical disc.
