Ben Combee

I rock. I'm a rockstar. I've got my game on. Go play.

I liked "Arsenic and Old Lace", although it was more of a murder comedy.

I last did a paper crossword on an airplane flight, the one in the back of the magazine. Since I got my DS, I've mainly been doing ones from the NYT or Nintendo carts.

Most difficult was that early DS adventure game where you try to seduce girls on as a ski instructor... not that it was hard to play, you just DIDN'T want to.

Roogoo is insanely delicious.

The DS has 4MB of RAM, so that's comparable to early Windows systems and all of the DOS systems. The main 66MHz ARM chip is roughly equivalent to a 33MHz 486 without the math coprocessor, although a lot depends on how the cache is used. The largest cartridge is about 256MB (or 2048 megabits), so games that were significantly smaller than a CD can be ported. With compressed music, you could do Loom or either of the first two Monkey Island games pretty well, IMO.

I love the updates from Japan.

My favorite was Bangai-O! on the Dreamcast. Can't wait for the US release of the DS version of that.

My favorite was Bangai-O! on the Dreamcast... I'm looking forward to the new DS version when it comes out in the US.

The thing that I'd most like to see to manage the XBLA catalog is the ability to hide titles that you've bought or that you're not interested in (seen the demo, hated it!) They could stay hidden until there's new content for them, but it would instantly allow me to declutter the interface and make new titles more visible.

As for the poll, I love both new and old titles, but I prefer getting new IP, although I'd bundle redesigned and reworked versions of older games with that.