Faster please Mr. Geohot
Post-Christmas memories post
A late Merry Christmas everybody! So it's all over and Christmas Day came and went. Now of course Christmas isn't about vidogames... but let's face it, it's the biggest videogame holiday of the year. Here's hoping you got all the games/hardware you were looking for. I know for myself I got an HD webcam so I can start on some video work of my own for the site! I've got a few ideas that I hope to start poisting right here on the blog section so stay tuned. Also I need to work my way through Resident Evil 5 finally... We'll see how those two prioritize themeselves. :)
Now Roo got me thinking about some Christmas memories in gaming. I realize that all of us probably have more than a few favorites from years past that bring warmth to our hearts. I have to say my favorite Christmas for gaming was probably about 12 or 13 years ago. A few months before the holidays my family had purchased a Philips CD-i. We mostly used it for movies and music with a few games but nothing really in particular. Well that Christmas, we got a crapload of CD-i stuff that just made myself and my two brothers go ape. We even got the digital video cartridge which gave the machine the extra horsepower it needed to run FMV like a champ. Armed with our new(er) games like Lil' Devil, Kether, and Who Shot Johnny Rock?, my brothers and I were in an FMV induced coma for the next three days. We also gained great expertise in positioning the IR sensor for the light pistol just right so you could actually hit something in the shooting games.
Some relief from DS Lite's pain

Google Doodle questions
Why??? Why is this so funny???
Now before I tell you why, I have to give a bit of background. When I was but a wee lad, my family had a Philips CD-i. Go look it up if you need to. The great gaming advantage of the CD-i was the fact that it could handle full motion video (FMV) which was mostly used for cut-scenes in between rather mundane and otherwise ordinary game play. Such was the case for a few Nintendo licensed games, namely Link: The Faces of Evil, and Hotel Mario. Two entries into their respective game series’ so horrendously bad that they are not even acknowledged any longer by Nintendo. They all just pretend these games never happened and went on with their lives. Well, my friends I have not forgotten. And this has made me susceptible to the curse of the dreaded You Tube Poop (YTP).
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