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I made sure to do a search for a certain game here on Screwattack before I did this entry, no hits whatsoever. Good. I think a history lesson is in order to fully drive the point home and leave.

In 1995, Japan released an addon for the SFC called the Satellaview that turned your Super NES into a hybrid of television and hardcore gaming. Yeah, that extension port on the bottom was actually used for something other than collecting dust and broken Playstation dreams.

After catching up with the podcasts (I was four shows behind. Don't judge me), I suddenly became outraged at the fact that emulation was looked down upon by the entire staff. I have a feeling that I won't be welcome as an intern, but that's beside the point.

I'm going to play the bad guy and come right out and say it:

I play old console cart games on my PC and my Xbox (And soon on my PS2 via memory card hack), and I would never stop for four simple reasons:

1) I have no room for all of the consoles and games.

It's been a month since I posted something of my own on ScrewAttack, and sadly: It's a mini-blog. I've been working on a rather large project that may or may not take the site by storm........for at least a little while.

There have been many games that have been seen as "ahead of their time". M.U.L.E. is one of them. Unfortunately, it has also been mostly forgotten by gamers everywhere.

Time will do that.

This is not the kind of game that was famous for hard-hitting action, or in-depth storytelling, or even superb graphics. This was about something else entirely.

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Lemme state up front that this is not my own work. But I kinda take issue with people that decide "THIS is what you need to know!", so I'm going to run through all fifty of these and dissect them from the POV of a 29-year-old unemployed gamer from West Virginia.

Also keep in mind, I also know this was written as a joke against the industry and dumb fucks who are dwarfing real gamers in number. But I still take issue.
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I've held off on presenting this for quite awhile, basically because I wanted to start up a challenge to the g1s to come up with what they thought would make for an original game. Then supposedly I would blow everyone away with mine.

But given recent events, I think it's time to just come out and show what I've got.

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For George Carlin.

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I call this one......"Bad Baby!!"

You play the role of a 47-year-old semi-retarded alcoholic that has an adult-baby fetish.

Castlevania, Contra, Metal Gear, Lone Ranger. You look at Konami, and you think "Oh yeah. Greatness." But did you know that Konami was also a bunch of assholes?

Now before you scream for MY severed head on a stick, I'll explain this line of thinking:

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Long before I started blogging here, I commented on what would make for a good WWE Legends game. I'll be re-heating some of the issues somewhere down the line, but mostly, I want to comment on some serious problems concerning wrestling games in general.

Again, time for my Thursday "lazy entry". This time, I'm going to show off my craptastic writing (Don't worry, this will only be once every blue moon). The idea is that everyone on another forum (Seriously, no one belongs to just one message board) would write scenes that no Daria fanfic should ever have. It's allowed people to really show off their humor on levels no one had seen before. I was no exception, as occasionally, I would integrate video games into the mix, since it was revealed in the TV series that Daria IS a gamer.

ADVANCE WARNING: This post will contain mass amounts of swearing, close to, if not matching the vocabulary of the Angry Video Game Nerd. Abandon all hope of innocence ye who continue forth:

Johnny Arcade, for those that watched cartoons, anime, and played video games religiously, the name would normally recall memories of video game awesomeness, disappointment, and rage.

For the past 15 years, we've become flooded with run-and-gun first-person kill-a-thon gore-fests, stuffing our every orifice until we ourselves have exploded in an unsavory mess of blood, viscera, bone, sinew, with a dash of piss and shit because we HAD to have the rest of the pizza and cola that night. But very few FPSes have really offered anything new to the mix, for example:

• Wolfenstein 3D offered the basics. Very patriotic, what red-blooded American wouldn't want to cut through Hitler and the Nazi SS with a gat-gun? This was a new thing at the time, so why not?

This will be my lame quick blog for the week, but I promise to have a real one on Saturday, and yes, I have more ideas for gaming design.

But today, I wanted to touch on a subject that's very dear to our hearts: The joystick.

It's now summer, and with the dawning of a new season comes new releases, new games, new movies, new........reruns to hold us over 'til the Fall TV season......assholes, and most of all: New ways to look at something and go "Hmmmm.....".

I'm not your average gamer. I have a feeling that most of the good folk here aren't your everyday average gamers, either, which really makes this place the most diverse out there. While I'm not a member of the video game development workforce, I do tend to look at games out there and wonder "What could make this game more interesting?".