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I checked out the link to Jay St. Video Games.  I like how neat a spacious it looks in there.

Baseball Stars is a pretty good NES title.  Wish I never sold it.

I used to pal around on All Game waaaay back in 2004-ish.  That sire inspired me to write game reviews.

Why is the chain between his legs?  It's useless that way!  LOL.

Also, I think that's the postman outfit from Majora's Mask.

Heh...Mothman said "doody".  LOL!

But yeah, I read all of the articles Matt posted in the blog, and I found them to be a bit offensive and one-sided. Ironically, some of the articles mentioned that people have been saying that Nintedo is "doomed" for years.  Yet it somehow has managed to stand and contune to be a viable Hardware and software developer.

Doesn't sound like the work of doomed company to me.

When he had Link jump off the horse and fire an arrow, I was sold.  I'm officially looking forward to this game.

I can understand where you're coming from. I'm still not thrilled with the offerings from Sony or Microsoft and I haven't bothered to get either console.  I have found that I have less time for gaming than In used to and I there were times over the past 2 years where I began to believe that I had to more or less quite gaming altogether.

I still feel that way sometimes when i think about everything I have on my plate in the real world.  However, most times, I reach the happy medium of just gaming when i can (mostly old games anyway) and not worring about play this game or that one, or whatever.  It helps me to enjoy it for the free hour I might have during a week without feeling like I need to game more.

Also, I clearly remeber "quitting" blogging twice when I was over at 1Up.  I even wrote a goodbye blog both times, LOL!  It did it because I honestly thought that I just didn't have the time and energy to blog anymore due to other important stuff in life.  The longest I went without blogging turned out to be about 2 months or so.  Then I would return because I just couldn't completely cut it out my life for good.

I realized that my problem was that I was getting burned out after weeks and months of steady blogging.  I used to post reviews every week-- sometimes twice a week!  And boy, were those the good 'ol days.  I loved every moment of it.  But after a while, I would feel overwhelmed by the want to to post more stuff, but the lack of creative energy to do it with.

I learned to be satisfied with blogging less, but still being as regular as possible. It helped to be more relaxed and enjoy blogging when I could, without the guilt of feeling like I should be doing something more important with my time.

Man. I miss the prime time shows of Cartoon Network from the 90's.  Heck, I still remember back when CN was a brand new channel in 1992 and it was in the newpaper that day sitting on the table.  We didn't have cable at that time, but years later I would spend some summer weekends at a friend's house and we'd stay up watching all greats like Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.  Hey, do you rember this late night show called O Canada (aired around 12:30am)?  It was a little wierd, but cool to see back then because the humor was a little more adult, but not vulgar. And remember the Cartoon, Cartoon blocks of programming?  Man...I miss the old Cartoon Network.

I really enjoyed the older Simpsons episodes.  Funny fact-- mom and dad didn't let us watch the Simpsons back in the 90's because of Bart's smart mouth and disrespect to his parents. But I remember this one time in the mid 90's we watched a couple of episodes after another program had gone off just to see what my mom would do.  She actually laughed at some of the jokes on the show (plus, Bart wasn't being too bad, interesingly enough).

But yeah, we used to have to sneek and watch the simpsons once they went into syndication on Fox during the weekdays, but man...I loved that show.  I haven't really watched it in recent years, and I don't expect much from it anymore.  It feels like the Simpson has to "try" to stay relevant and "hip", but I think they're trying too hard.  I did catch the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover they did about a month ago, and it just felt like they forced the Simpsons to stoop to Family Guy's level of low brow shock humor.

And speaking of Family Guy, I did like the early stuff. The first 3 seasons where fairly tame compared to what it's turned into now. I mean yes, the show has always been built around somewhat crass humor and Peter's stupidity, but I loved the movie and popculture references that were pretty well executed throughout the early life of the show.  And yeah, the show always tried to push the envelope with mentioning poetntially unconfortable subjects, but at least the earler seasons it was tastefully done and Seth McFarlane didn't take it too far.

But nowadays, I just can't watch Family Guy anymore, especially not with my wife (she hates the newer episodes as well). The show tried it's very best to be vulgar, crassier than crass, and blank out swearing (something I find to be pointless if your show primarily airs on a TV station that doesn't allow for swearing anyway).

However, I must say I do enjoy watching Bob's Burgers on Fox.  It's a prime time show with adult enough humor where it's funny, but not offensive to my tastse.  Plus it still manages to be PG show (mostly) and it's actually funny. I also like Regular Show, though I'm not as interested in it as I was when it first came out back in 2010.

Annnnnd finally, I went to see the latest Hunger Games movie on a date night with the wife last night (great movie BTW). As we came out of the theater, I noticed a movie poster for Paddington Bear. Paddington freaking Bear.  Man, Hollywood is digging deep these days.

Sorry for the long-winded comments!

Yeah, I've actually had a few folks gift me a game or two over the past couple of weeks.  There's still hope for humanity!

Me too Tami.  Me too.  I think this'll work out better for me in the long run.  By keeping my collection smaller, I can actually get around to spending time with the games I have.

No kidding brother!  I was shocked to see that game pack in there.  Super fortunate find there.