PixlBit

New Demo + !?

You should look around your area for some sort of arcade and give them your support. There is somewhat of a minor rebirth at the moment between bars with arcades and just stand-alone places. Aurcade.com has a search tool that could be helpful if plain old google doesn't help you. 

I'm a big proponent of arcades and want everyone to go if they can!

I only charge 25c per play. A real deal. I also have a jar of quarters at hand you can dip into, but only for Donkey Kong games.

You can set it to cost $1.25! Could you imagine in 1981 the machine being set to cost that much?

Let's go for a two-fer.

I mean the actual Defender game. 

For comparison, the full game of Etrian Odyssey: Untold was about 6,500. I was pretty surprised at the size of the demo!

I agree. Please start a letter writing campaign to Nick to rectify this.

Yep.

I agree with your overall point that FPSes have some of these issues. I don't blame Halo for all of them, especially when I think the Halo formula is wonderful... in Halo. I just wish there were more games that tried to find their own identity. First it was everyone copying Halo and now everyone is copying COD. Hopefully we'll get something fresh and new to be copied soon. At least we've got Far Cry and other series trying out some new things that are pretty awesome.

Some great choices here, Cary. I also adore Attack of the Friday Monsters. I meant to put it on my own list and probably lost track of it somewhere while I was writing up my blog. 

You're one more person convincing me to get a Wii U ASAP.