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       Not too much this week of interest to me except for a new comic by Antony Johnston. I’m still trying to get that new Behemoth album at BestBuy. Didn’t see it today, but the web site says it’s there so I’ll have to go back and ask someone. I’ll have to blog about that tomorrow.

     In these years I was going to private school and lost touch with my neighborhood friends who still went to the public school and so didn't play much on home consoles anymore. However, my friend Phil (also a private school kid, not going to the same school though) and I hung out and rode our bikes all the way to the the arcade in the Mall. It was five miles and one mega hill away. I was an athlete then and it was just fun to climb that hill on the way back every time.

     The first Star Wars movie (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as it's now refered to) came out in May ’77 and the Atari Video Computer System in October ’77. What a year! My Dad probably got the AVCS (or Atari 2600) that Christmas or the next one, and I played Air-Sea Battle, Combat, Basketball, Baseball, Breakout, Bowling, and Night Driver. I think Breakout is still fun today, as is Bowling, which I bought in XBLA’s Game Room recently. I would’ve got Breakout as well but it’s critical to use the paddle controller for it. The same is true of Night Driver which I still think of when I’m in the car at night.

    I was playing Sega Bass Fishing on my Dreamcast the other day when I noticed it was Wednesday, comics day. I told my Dreamcast to bring up the Sega Marketplace and, with the fishing rod controller, made my way through the new releases, the announcer said “Hit!” on every one, which became annoying after a while, and selected the ones I wanted with a tug like you do when hooking a fish in the game. Then I reeled them in to my purchase screen, the announcer saying, “Fight!”. I don’t know why they make you pretend to reel in a fish when you select products to buy, but it is fun. Then an image appeared looking like a basket of fish but filled with comics and the announcer said, “This one’s huge!” A day later, they showed up at my door and here’s the pictorial evidence.

      I missed a day of BaD due to Icepocalype. Yesterday night there was freezing rain that added to the already snow heavy trees and brought down branches and whole trees down all over during the day. I just managed to pick up my comics. The store hadn’t any power, but they were open for cash transactions. But on the way back, I actually witnessed a tree coming down. It came down over the road and then got trapped in the power lines. I turned down a side street and got around it but what a sight that was!

     Every Tuesday it's release day for retailers in N.A., so I look up what's new in various forms of media: games, music, comics, and books. Here's a rundown of what I'm interested in this week.

This is BaD. I'm just going to list today's events. No time.