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    My friend today told me about a guy at his work that sold him a Heavy Sixer for $1 with a bunch of carts. Now, I'm pretty knowledgable about games and systems, but I had to scratch my head. What the heck is a Heavy SIxer? A minute's thinking had my best guess at some sort of Atari 2600 because they're often refered to as six or four switch. Sure enough, yes. It's a six switch AVCS, but not any six switcher, but the very first AVCS put into production! It's heavier than the more common decks and has some slight visual differences. It's guts and controllers are apparently a little better quality than subsequent versions as well.                                

    I came across a few more game ads for Batman Arkham Origins and Scribblenauts: Unmasked and scanned them. For BAO I thought I'd look back at all the Batman Arkham ads since I managed to collect one for each game over the years.                           

    I, ShieldWolf of Cyrodiil, Guild member of the Dark Brotherhood, became Listener to the Nightmother of the Black Hand. I then rejoined the Fighter's Guild and tried to finish The Desolate Mine mission that had sent me on this dark path.

    So I know I've been whining a lot the last few weeks over my friend not being available to play games, but I have actually played a fair amount on my own.

   I remember this feeling back in the 80's when I was mad for music and collected vinyl albums whenever I had some cash to spend. When CD's started coming out, I was even more enthusiastic and, on weekends, I would jump on my bike with my lawn mowing money and dash to one of the fly-by-night import CD stores that cropped up to get the first CD pressings of my favorite albums. I used to fight with a friend of mine, who was crazy for music too, over who got to buy the one copy the store had of Genesis' Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album - fresh from the U.K.. It was $40 for that double album on CD (probably like $80 today), but I was so excited, I didn't care. Well, now I'm that way about video games. I have a friend who's just as mad for them as I, and I can't help myself when I think a new release might be hard to find down the road. I just have to break my budget and get it. Today was such a day and I picked up Dragon's Crown for Vita and Shin Megami Tensei IV for 3DS after being haunted by them for over a month. Whoopie!

    My buddy is still MIA this week and so I went and got some more games to feed the Cheery Chievo Chipper, ie. my Xbox 360. How many games could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck games. Well, this woodchuck can chuck a lot of games as long as someone OPENS THE GAME ROOM! Ah, well. At least I get to do another blog on the games I got before I go O.D. on Yogo froyo. DEATH BY BRAIN FREEZE!!! OH YEAH!