the grunter

I know I’m behind on my reviews, but this here can’t wait.

Here are ways that you can help out Japan’s situation, it does not always have to do with money:

1) Donate to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.

2) Buy a “Help Japan” poster designed by Signalnoise, proceeds go to the Canadian Red Cross (Meanwhile, this dude is sitting in his tighty whities with one finger up his nose another up his anus, thinking if he should buy the poster because of “it’s underlying meaning” or “can he hang this in my living room”, what a waste of time and electricity putting up a post like that. Don’t be like him, just act.)

3) Help educate people around you on common facts about this incident, and how to prepare for it should there be an earthquake in your area. Not everyone has enough knowledge to deal with such combination of large scale disasters: Earthquake, flood, volcano eruption and finally a nuclear leakage. Get yourself informed so that you won’t join the panic crowd when things go down. Oh and, smack the person in the teeth if you see him/her hoarding salt at the grocery store – it is proven to not even close to be effective at preventing nuclear radiation in human body.

(To world: I sincerely apologize for my country)

Just did an inventory on my Sega Saturn and Playstation games over the weekend, and tonight I updated the spreadsheet with the SS titles.

Almost done – Got PS/DC/3DO games to go :)

I’m so glad I wrote the article on the EA Crew edition Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit about a month ago – Since then I have had people contacting me about finding and purchasing a copy. Until now I could only say “Best of luck” to them, but then a recent commenter on my blog has informed me that he/she has put up a copy of this special edition game on eBay.

This is definitely great news, and I believe it is accurate to say that this is the first time ever that this game has shown up on eBay. Don’t miss you chance if you wish to own a rare piece of EA and Need For Speed history!

(Image from WeCollectGames.com)

Auction link here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300529579875

Roughly 9 days left at the time of putting up this post, best of luck everybody :)

The time was 1988, not long after I was given my first game console – the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, or the “Grey Machine” back in the day). Unlike most other kids who had a Famicom, the japanese version of the NES which was sold in import game stores, my parents bought mine at a local department store that sells the “localized version” of the system which was the NES, and game cartridges are the large, palm-sized ones as opposed to the Famicom ones which are half the size.

Stuck with my “Super Mario Brothers” that came with the console for forever because I lacked skills (or “lack” rather.. things haven’t changed that much over the years), I did not get a chance to try out some of the other titles that my friends/neighbors were playing at the time because they all played on the FC, the two types of cartridges were not interchangeable (until I learned about the honeybee converter much later on). One time I was invited to a neighbor’s home to play on her FC after school, she’s playing all these crazy games that I never knew existed – Dragonball, Saint Seiya, and what’s this? A McDonalds game?

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In November 2007, Mass Effect was released worldwide. A collector’s steel box edition was made in small quantities and available for online pre-orders only at certain retailers, as well as on shelf in selected stores in Europe.

Now this right here is a copy of the collector’s edition of Mass Effect sitting on my shelf of games.

Correction – this right here is an opened copy of the collector’s edition of Mass Effect sitting on my shelf of games.

Question: How much in value has this version of the game gone up over the mere 3 years of release?

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