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Sick, bratty
Mar. 11th, 2010 07:28 pmBeen away for almost a week, dang.
Monday I was sick, like a stomach flu or something. I'd been wanting to watch some MST again after a long time without, but that wasn't just how I would have wanted to do it... (It's my audiovisual comfort food, pleasantly distracting but undemanding, so when I'm sick I tend to lay around and play MSTs.) After Monday I haven't "been sick" again, definitely on the mend, but maybe not 100% back to normal yet.
I was well enough today though that we went out shopping, and I was a brat with the video games. Since this morning, my PSP collection has tripled in size and Jessie's has doubled. First at a GameStop I gave in and got Lumines, and they happened to have Kirby and the Amazing Mirror for the GBA too, and that one looked fun, so I got it. Then at Slackers (my favorite place) I got lucky and found Williams Pinball Hall of Fame for $16, complete with the manual and all; I'd been wanting to get that for Jessie and was expecting it to cost at least $10 more, plus it's just plain hard to find, so that made me happy. I also looked at Patapon but decided not today. Sometimes I have the best luck at Slackers; that's where I happened upon Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, too, and even Dracula X back when... Finally went to Hastings, and I'm a little annoyed by their setup because they have the games shelved behind glass in such a way that you can't see their prices, and I didn't immediately notice the new kiosk where you can type titles in and look it up, so I got an employee involved---but today it was all worth it because they had PopoloCrois, that RPG I wanted for a silly reason, for like $5, and I couldn't say not to that; it turns out to be missing its manual, but I can check GameFAQs if I have trouble figuring it out (and manuals are usually not compelling works of art, even when it seems like maybe they should be). They also had Tokobot, which looks neat, but I passed on it; it's not like I didn't get enough today anyway...
When I was talking to Jessie about the Shopping Adventures, Pinball Hall of Fame made me think of another little slice of Copyright Hell. At some point I had blundered into I think the Pinside Top 100 list of the greatest pinball machines ever made (I never played pinball but it seems sad that no one AFAIK makes them anymore). Note how many of them involve some kind of intellectual property tie-in. "The Twilight Zone" ranks #1, with "Indiana Jones," "The Addams Family," and "Lord of the Rings" also in the top 10. Just casually going through the list I'd say at least forty of the hundred are like that. And I really can't imagine anyone going to the trouble and expense of securing any of those licenses for the sake of something like Pinball Hall of Fame. It makes me think this is probably a problem for other classic game collections as well, although purely-electronic ones at least have piracy to preserve them (link via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sethrenn. Not so easy with pinball, so for many of the best tables made, yeah, it's Copyright Hell.
Castlevania update: in the Saturn game, I did get the Crissaegrim (in the Japanese it's called the Valmanway) and it really does make the rest of the game too easy but I just wanted to get through this one. (I also found the Saturn-exclusive Alucard Spear, but am putting off playing with it for later.) Partly I wanted to get through it because I decided to try to finish messing around with SotN all the time before getting back to Portrait. I tried going back to it the other day and got hurt bad thinking I could backdash with one of the face buttons... ^_^;; (Switching between the PSX and Saturn versions of SotN, they use different buttons for cancel and confirm on the menus and which shoulder button turns you into a bat vs. a mist, so it's a mess, but nothing you'll lose blood over like that.)
Monday I was sick, like a stomach flu or something. I'd been wanting to watch some MST again after a long time without, but that wasn't just how I would have wanted to do it... (It's my audiovisual comfort food, pleasantly distracting but undemanding, so when I'm sick I tend to lay around and play MSTs.) After Monday I haven't "been sick" again, definitely on the mend, but maybe not 100% back to normal yet.
I was well enough today though that we went out shopping, and I was a brat with the video games. Since this morning, my PSP collection has tripled in size and Jessie's has doubled. First at a GameStop I gave in and got Lumines, and they happened to have Kirby and the Amazing Mirror for the GBA too, and that one looked fun, so I got it. Then at Slackers (my favorite place) I got lucky and found Williams Pinball Hall of Fame for $16, complete with the manual and all; I'd been wanting to get that for Jessie and was expecting it to cost at least $10 more, plus it's just plain hard to find, so that made me happy. I also looked at Patapon but decided not today. Sometimes I have the best luck at Slackers; that's where I happened upon Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, too, and even Dracula X back when... Finally went to Hastings, and I'm a little annoyed by their setup because they have the games shelved behind glass in such a way that you can't see their prices, and I didn't immediately notice the new kiosk where you can type titles in and look it up, so I got an employee involved---but today it was all worth it because they had PopoloCrois, that RPG I wanted for a silly reason, for like $5, and I couldn't say not to that; it turns out to be missing its manual, but I can check GameFAQs if I have trouble figuring it out (and manuals are usually not compelling works of art, even when it seems like maybe they should be). They also had Tokobot, which looks neat, but I passed on it; it's not like I didn't get enough today anyway...
When I was talking to Jessie about the Shopping Adventures, Pinball Hall of Fame made me think of another little slice of Copyright Hell. At some point I had blundered into I think the Pinside Top 100 list of the greatest pinball machines ever made (I never played pinball but it seems sad that no one AFAIK makes them anymore). Note how many of them involve some kind of intellectual property tie-in. "The Twilight Zone" ranks #1, with "Indiana Jones," "The Addams Family," and "Lord of the Rings" also in the top 10. Just casually going through the list I'd say at least forty of the hundred are like that. And I really can't imagine anyone going to the trouble and expense of securing any of those licenses for the sake of something like Pinball Hall of Fame. It makes me think this is probably a problem for other classic game collections as well, although purely-electronic ones at least have piracy to preserve them (link via
sethrenn. Not so easy with pinball, so for many of the best tables made, yeah, it's Copyright Hell.Castlevania update: in the Saturn game, I did get the Crissaegrim (in the Japanese it's called the Valmanway) and it really does make the rest of the game too easy but I just wanted to get through this one. (I also found the Saturn-exclusive Alucard Spear, but am putting off playing with it for later.) Partly I wanted to get through it because I decided to try to finish messing around with SotN all the time before getting back to Portrait. I tried going back to it the other day and got hurt bad thinking I could backdash with one of the face buttons... ^_^;; (Switching between the PSX and Saturn versions of SotN, they use different buttons for cancel and confirm on the menus and which shoulder button turns you into a bat vs. a mist, so it's a mess, but nothing you'll lose blood over like that.)
