It's a deal, it's a steal...

Here in the land of concealed weapons, you never know what you might find across the street. Today was a spring Saturday in Oh-High-Oh and what does that mean? Well, yardsale, of course. Now, it was one of the most lackluster yardsales I have ever been to, but that doesn't mean there isn't great junk to be had. Like a cooler with a radio in it - and you could plug your walkman/discman into it!!! for two bucks!! how could you go wrong (I expressed interest, but my dad bought it, so we shall see who ends up with it, uh... in the end...)

Anyway, for the bargain price of $1(USD) I managed to pick myself up a vintage hand-held electronic gaming unit - the Sega Game Gear. Oh baby. It weighs about three pounds, is the length of my forearm, takes six AA batteries, but it rules. With the classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2, there was no way I could pass it up. It looked up from a pile of crap in its two button, three colour glory, and I just could not say no. I am very pleased with my find, to say the least. Gotta go. Tails needs me.
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Zelda-rific

The kind folks at Nintendo sent out an email today about E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) that will be held in Los Angeles next week. Among the 600+ new games to be released, Nintendo will be previewing the new Legend of Zelda game. At last year's E3, they released a 60 second preview that apparently knocked everyone's socks completely off. So maybe this year they will be able to give us a real title (the tentative "Legend of Zelda" just doesn't do much for me) and a release date - I need to know how long I have to finish Ocarina of Time, and start/finish Four Swords, and Wind Waker... oh, and Link's Awakening and the Oracle games...and The Minish Cap...damn, that is quite a bit of catching up to do. What have I been doing with my life? Certainly it seems that I have not been playing enough video games.

Anyway, we are back to having a grown-up, ass-kicking, horse-riding Link and I am quite excited.

In other 'Tendo news, they will also be releasing info on their "Next Generation" sytem the Nintendo Revolution (Revolution, XBox 360 - come on guys, a little originality, please). There are rumours (scroll down half way) but, again, the real news will come out next week. One way or the other, I imagine it will be pretty awsome and those devilish bastards will make me part with another $500, sometime around the middle of 2006.
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