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I'll confirm it. Dead Space is available for the Xperia Play.

Heck, I think this is a great idea. My four-year-old nephew used to love to play New Super Mario Bros. on the DS. But, there was one stinking level in the entire game, that he could not do. I'm not sure what it was about this level that held him up, but he would get more and more frustrated, everytime he played it. Eventually, one of us would have to beat it for him and then he'd be fine.

This is exactly the same thing. More power to Nintendo, for this idea.

Man, what's up with the Make Believe hate? I thought it was a phenomenal album... The best Weezer had put out since, well, Pinkerton.

That isn't to say that I didn't like Green or Maladroit. I think they're all excellent. But, I really, really liked Make Believe.

Jade from Beyond Good and Evil...

She's a journalist and she fights the man. That's awesome!

One of our local arcades just closed after about seventeen years, because some contractor bought the property with the adjoining stores to tear them down and build new buildings.

Anyway, after the guy was moved out, some friends of mine and I got a chance to go over to the old arcade and look around to see if he left any cool stuff. We found a gutted Mario Bros. Cabinet, like the one pictured above, that the arcade owner just left in there to be torn down. It's kind of sad. Of course, we also found a ton of magazines from 1982, so that's cool. There's even a video magazine that's frontpage headline reads: "Sony KO'd in Round Two: Beta Maker Vows to Fight Back." We got a chuckle out of it.

Anyway, good things did come out of the closing. The owner ended up selling me a pretty sweet Capcom CPS-2 machine, complete with the boards for Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Giga Wing, Alien Vs. Predator and Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom.

He also gave me a Stun Runner and a Nintendo Vs. dualsystem that he said didn't work. After reseating some of the cables, I found that both of the machines work fine, they just need to be cleaned up.

Quite an awesome haul, if you ask me.

"The new title, The Bullwinkle Show (what, no Rocky?)"

Well, the show was originally called "Rocky and Friends" for a couple of years. Then it was called "The Bullwinkle Show" until the end.

It wasn't called "Rocky and Bullwinkle" until syndication.

Noshino - I was in the competition back in the day. Basically, they just replaced a bunch of the stuff in the game with bananas. And then they threw more bananas in there. You goal was to collect as many bananas as possible within the alotted time.

I came in second at my local store. I was first for quite a while until some banana-collecting god played and destroyed my total.

At the moment, any store that does this does it on a voluntary basis. Like R-rated movies, there is no law, and therefore, no consequences for selling a minor an M-rated game.

Booze and cigarettes on the other hand? You can get fined tons of money for selling those to a minor. I've seen bars lose their liquor license and then close for selling booze to a minor.

I will actually be going to my local game shop tomorrow after I get off of work. I know the owner and he's already saving me a copy. It should be good times.

Call of Duty 4: Milked Franchise