Rogmeister

As I wrote in my last entry, I recently decided to get a Playstation 3...partly because a new gaming system interested me but mostly because it gave me a Blu-ray player. I've already bought a half-dozen Blu-ray titles with another 7 coming via the mail soon. But I have 3 PS3 games now...with anaother on the way as well. So here are my first 4 games for the Playstation 3... Red Dead Redemption--I also mentioned in my last entry that this could be my first game for the PS3 and it was indeed. I have only played this for a few minutes (lots of stuff going on)...I arrived in town, took a horse ride to an abandoned fort where my bad brother had taken it over...and then my cat brushed against my system, pulling the cord out of the wall. Bad cat! But I enjoyed what I saw and I plan to get back to this game very soon. The next two games were Christmas presents from my nephew Derek... Bioshock LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Bioshock becomes my first "Greatest Hits" title for the PS3...wow, that didn't take long! I haven't been reading gaming mags in a couple of years so I'm not sure what this game is all about. I have a couple other LEGO games...one of Star Wars (on the Xbox) and one of Batman (PS2) so I have an idea on what to expect. Batman: Arkham Asylum is the game I recently put in an order that also included a couple Blu-ray titles. I have heard from several people that this is the best Batman game yet...of course, some would call that faint praise since most feel most of the Batman video games to date have pretty much sucked...though there are a couple I have enjoyed playing (mostly on the SNES). This game must have come out awhile ago since it only cost me about $22. And a sequel is already on the way. So what will be PS3 Game #3? I'm not really sure but it's taken all my resistance to keep from buying MLB: The Show 2010. I love baseball and I want to play it on this system, but it doesn't seem to make sense to get this game since the 2011 edition will probably be out in just 3 more months or so. But I will have at least 4 other games to keep me busy until that time.

I got an e-mail today...the PS3 has shipped and should arrive via UPS sometime on Thursday.

I actually already ordered a PS3. I ordered a 160GB version. Thanks for the suggestion about that HDTV site. I was not familiar with that one.

For awhile, I have been thinking I would never get another gaming system...I figured I had more than enough systems and games to keep me busy for the rest of my life. But I decided to rethink that and get a Playstation 3 since I've been told at my favorite DVD site that the PS3 is also a very fine Blu-ray player and I've been thinking of getting one of those. So the system will serve two purposes, as both a game playing machine and an upgrade in my movie-watching system. I ordered a PS3 on Wednesday and it could arrive either late this week or, probaboy more likely, early next week. I forget how it's coming. Of course, this brings up the question of what will be my early game purchases for this system. I may not actually buy any PS3 games until after Christmas. I told my family I ordered this so they could get me either PS3 games or Bllu-ray movies for it for Christmas. If they don't get it for me, I imagine my first game for it could be Red Dead Redemption which I understand is one of the best games for the PS3 so far...and I do like westerns. I'm also a big baseball fan so I know I'll want MLB The Show so the question there is do I get the version out now and play it right away...or do I wait and get next year's edition? I also need to get myself a new TV so that my Blu-rays will look their best. My nephew is recommending I got a Vizio (he has the 37-inch set) while people at my DVD site say I shouldn't consider anything other than a Sony or a Samsung. I was originally planning on getting a Sony, so I may stick with that thought.

Thanks. I probably need to do some double-checking to make sure there aren't a few DC Comics games out there I've somehow missed...

I recently discovered none of my local stores carried the color ink cartridge I need for my HP printer so I ordered one online...while I was at it, I ordered a DS game from the same place at the same time. The game I got was Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? This is yet another in the subset I have going of DS games based on TV game shows. I also have Family Feud, The Price Is Right, 1 Vs. 100, and two editions of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? I guess I should get Jeopardy! next. The Millionaire game arrived yesterday but I couldn't play it until this morning because my unit needed recharging. I deduced that Meredith Veira (the host of the show since it began airing as a daily half-hour edition) was not involved with the game since they did not use her likeness on the case. Instead, they have some guy doing the talking. The game plays like the daily version before this season...three lifelines including Phone A Friend, Ask The Audience and Double Dip. I like the game though I wish the text were a bit larger. It's a bit tough to read the questions quickly which comes into play when you have only 15 seconds to respond to the first five questions. I guess I need to invest in some sort of magnification screen. This game brings my DS library up to 33 official DS games.

I got 3 more games on Monday...two for the original Playstation and one for the Xbox... Batman Forever: The Arcade Game (PS1) Batman: Gotham City Racer (PS1) Aquaman (XBox) I have heard that Aquaman is one of the worst games ever...as bad as Superman 64? Never having played Superman 64, I guess I'll never know. I was thinking the other day that there was a Lobo game and I'd need to get that if I'm to have every DC Comics video game that was made for my systems but it looks like it never came out for the SNES though it did apparently make it out for the Genesis (which I don't have).

Catwoman is a game for the Nintendo GameCube system...it probably also came out for the PS2 and original Xbox which were the other consoles it was sharing shelves with at that time. I had some time to kill this evening so I put it in for about a half-hour and fooled around with it for a bit. One thing I found out is it's virtually impossible to get killed in this game. There was gunfire all around me and it knocked me back here and there but my character never fell down and died. Even a fall from a fair height didn't faze her...but then, that's true of regular cats, too. Camera angles can be a problem in this game but there's a control you can use to swing the camera around so it usually isn't that big of a problem. The first part of the game isn't so tough. You are placed in the middle of a heist and you have 2 or 3 other thieves to dispose of which you can do easily. My problem came with the next segment (broken up by an origin sequence). Here you have to go from one spot outside of buildings to another and I had some trouble figuring out just where to go and how to get there. You can climb buildings and fences but sometimes you can't climb all the way up...you have to jump from one wall to another sometimes. I'm sure once I figure out where I'm supposed to go, I'll like it more. Oh yes, if you leave the controller be and not move Catwoman for about 2 minutes, she starts this slow-motion gyrating dance with the camera getting some nice close-ups of her. Maybe this game should've been rated R? The graphics aren't the best I've seen but they're not that bad. And I won't mind returning to this game now and then.

I got one game today...the last day I'll get a game until at least Monday so my consecutive days of getting a game ends at six. Today I received Batman & Robin for the original Playstation. This is the first game I've gotten for the original Playstation in quite awhile. I have no idea what the last one was. I actually have 3 more coming, though...all Batman games. Of course, the only unfortunate thing about getting this game finally is now I have to actually play it.

Today marks the fifth mailday of the week...and the fifth day of the week I have received at least one video game. This time, none of the games were super-hero games. Interestingly, all 3 of the games I got today are games I owned before...but which I eventually sold or gave away. So now I have copies of them again...all 3 games are for the original Xbox... 1. ESPN NFL 2K5 2. Halo 3. Halo 2

I never saw the movie so I can't comment on that. You mean 2 hours of Halle Berry in a catsuit isn't enough for you?

I was wondering if I could receive at least one game in the mail every mailday this week since I had ordered over a dozen of them. Today is day #4 and I received yet another...so only 2 more days to go! Today's arrival... Catwoman for the GameCube I have heard this is a pretty bad game but I've also been trying recently to complete my collection of all the games featuring DC Comics characters for systems I own. That means I even have to get (shudder!) Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis! So now I have this game. I think about all I have to get to complete this mini-collection now is that Aquaman game and the Batman games for the original Playstation...and they are coming.

I received 3 games today, all for the Xbox. I think 2 of the 3 were new and one used (I'm not home as I type this so I can't double-check just now). The games I got: 1. Superman: The Man of Steel 2. Madden NFL 2009 3. Major League Baseball 2K7 I believe the MLB 2K7 was the last baseball game for the Xbox and I think Madden 2009 was the very last game for the system period. Added note: I have now double-checked and only one of the games, the Superman one, was new. The two sports games came used but they seem fine...and include the manuals and everything so I'm happy with them.

In my last entry (written within the last hour), I said I might get video games every mailday this week. Now today's mail has arrived and I did get one video game today: Superman: Shadow of Apokolips for the PS2 I usually try to be careful when I buy a used game through Amazon...most sellers will tell you if you get everything. Once in awhile, I forget...or the description is lacking any information of what you get or don't get. This is a used game but the disc looks to be in very good shape and the case is in great shape except for one small sticker on the back. Unfortunately, the one thing missing is the instruction manual which was not included. It's not a big deal unless it has complicated controls. I'll find that out when I get around to playing this, I guess. I also got a DVD today...the eighth season of the TV sitcom Scrubs.

In my last entry, I mentioned that I got some games for my Nintendo DS last week. I also started ordering some cheap games (some new, some used) that are for the last generation of game systems (GameCube, PS2, Xbox). This happened because I started getting interested in reading my reprint books of old comic books and that led to my interest in getting more super-hero video games and that led to a few others. I think I wound up ordering about 15 games. I actually only ordered one for the PS2 (Superman: Shadow of Apokolips) so the bulk will be GameCube and Xbox games. I think most of these are from 3rd party Amazon Marketplace sellers so most of my games will be coming one at a time. If they arrive scattered in time, there's a chance I could get at least one game each mail day this week. I received two games yesterday... Teen Titans for the Gamecube...I wasn't even aware this game existed until I came across it and decided to order it. The reviews seemed to be good. It cost me less than $6.00 plus shipping. The game appears to be done in the style of the cartoon series they did of Teen Titans. Superman Returns for the Xbox. I happened to look this up at GameRankings.com as I wanted to compare the ratings for the PS2 and the Xbox versions...neither got very high scores but the Xbox one got a bit higher. I also noticed this was one of the last 10 releases for the original Xbox. That led me to find and order a copy of the very last Xbox game (of course, it was a Madden game) and that led me to order another NFL game (NFL 2K5, which I remember liking but then gave away) and the last (I think) baseball game for the system, Major League Baseball 2K7. I have 2K6 for the GameCube so I hope it's a bit better than that one. So what else do I have coming? There's Catwoman and the two Halo games (which, like NFL 2K5, I had before but gave away so I want new copies of) and Superman: The Man of Steel and maybe one or two others I have forgotten about. The first of this wave of incoming games actually arrived last week...these were Batman: Dark Tomorror for the Xbox and Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu for the GameCube. Are you sensing a pattern here? Yes, I'm only buying games featuring DC Comics heroes. I'm not so interested in the Marvel heroes though I do have some of them. Maybe I'll get a few more sometime...but not just yet.

Thank you. You may remember I'm not in the best of health...I've been on dialysis for about a year now...and I've had operations on both my eyes...but at this very moment I'm getting along. I recently ordered about 12-15 games and I could get a game every day this week (except for Sunday, of course) so I'll have something to write about for a bit. Once those are all in, I need to get back to playing more games and writing about them.

I've had my DS for awhile...4 or 5 years, I think. Surprisingly, though, I don't have that many games for it. I seem to get them in spurts...I find a few here and there I want...then I go months (sometimes maybe a year or more) before I think to get anymore. This past week, I got 4 more... 1. Batman: The Brave and the Bold 2. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story 3. Major League Baseball 2K10 4. Retro Atari The baseball game is the only one I've played so far. I like it...though it does have one annoying glitch. I've played about 3 or 4 games already where as soon as the last out is made, the game freezes. I have to shut the unit off and the freezing makes the game nonexistant...I have to play that game over again. Still, I enjoy the game apart from that...it is one of two DS baseball games I have...I also have Baseball Advance which was a GBA title. The problem with the Advance game is no one is still on the same team now. And the other, MLB Power Pros, doesn't offer the option to play full seasons. A lot of people don't want to bother with full season playings but I do...what can I say, baseball is my favorite video game sport. With these latest 4 DS purchases, it means I now have 29 games for the Nintendo DS (not counting about 4 GBA games I can also play on the system). This means when I get one more game I'll have 30 for the system and there will then be only one system among the 8 that I own that I won't have 30 games for...the Atari Jaguar. I think I once had over 40 games for that system...now I am pretty sure I have either 21 or 22 (I sold a number of them). I'm not positive of the exact number, though as I just went to where I thought all my Jag games were...and there's only 15 there. The others are hiding somewhere...or my cats took off with them somewhere. Well, it seems proper that if a couple cats want to play video games, they're going to want to play the Jaguar...

You should have included one other option. I had to pick the "Yes, a few..." option but a more accurate option for me would be "I play one...". The only Facebook game I play is Bejeweled Blitz...and I usually only play that once a week.

I haven't been doing much in the way of game buying for awhile...that is one reason I haven't posted anything here in nearly a year. But recently I've been interested in reading about older comic books...and by the same way of thinking, my interest in video games inspired by comics has also been reactivated. I don't know if I want to get every super-hero game available for systems I own...but I might consider going for all such games involving the heroes of DC Comics. I've been ordering several such games lately and a few have already arrived (and one I bought in a regular store). The ones I brought home just recently... 1. Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Nintendo DS) 2. Batman: Dark Tomorrow (Xbox) 3. Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (GameCube) Among the others on their way here: Catwoman and Teen Titans for the GameCube, Superman: Shadow of Apokolips for the PS2 and for the Xbox: Superman: The Man of Steel and Superman Returns. Now I don't have to get every game for every console, even among the DC hero games...for instance, since I'm getting Superman: Shadow of Apokolips for the PS2, I don't feel I truly need to also get the GameCube version of the same game...likewise, since I'm getting Superman Returns for the Xbox, I don't really need the PS2 version. I noticed that Superman Returns was one of the last 10 games released for the Xbox so I looked to see what was the very last game released for the system. I believe it is Madden NFL 09...not too surprisingly, a Madden game was also the last released for the GameCube. I decided to order a copy of Madden 09 so I could have a copy of the last regular Xbox game...it wasn't as cheap as I thought it would be. I had to pay over $30 for it. To make it a bit more palatable to me, I ordered a couple other games at the same time that were available really cheap...NFL 2K5 (45 cents!) and Major League Baseball 2K7, which I think might be the last baseball game made for the Xbox. In the last week I have bought or ordered about a dozen games...luckily most of them are definitely of the dirt cheap variety...and I'll try to abstain from further gaming purchases until they have all arrived. Okay, so I did buy one other Nintendo DS game today (Retro Atari)...you know how weak we gamers are...

Believe it or not, I hadn't bought a video game this year until this week. I used to buy video games left and right (as most gamers do) but I decided to cut way back a year or so ago. I had actually received 3 games a few months back. A fellow gamer over at Retrogaming Roundtable sent me 3 games after I got out of the hospital...he sent me a PS1 game (Mega Man X4) and a pair of PS2 games (Mobile Light Force 2 and Unison) but he never included his name in the package though I have an inkling who it was. But I had not purchased a game for myself until recentlyl. The game I wound up buying is one I've thought of buying since I first heard about it a year or so ago and I happened to look it up at Amazon.com recently, found out it was being sold as low as $10 via their Marketplace sellers, and ordered a copy and it arrived yesterday. The game is Tomb Raider: Anniversary for the PS2. I believe this is a reworking of the first Tomb Raider game (originally published on the PS1) with improved graphics and I look forward to playing it. I do not expect this to begin a new surge of game-buying...it's one of those rare occurences though I could see a new purchase or two in the coming months. But this might well be my only game purchase for 2009. After I wrote the above, I happened to glance at my older entries and I see that I actually had bought at least one other video game this year...a pinball compilation for the PS2 which I bought back in February. But as far as I know, that's it...so I think I have now bought 2 video games in 2009. That's still cutting back quite a bit from what I used to buy.

I wrote this blog entry at my LiveJournal blog, too. After reading that I had cut down to 8 systems, my brother commented that I still had 7 systems too many...

Glancing at what I still have, I don't really see anything else I plan to get rid of...that's 8 systems, just over half of the 15 I used to have. I guess I could technically get rid of my PS1 systems since I can play my PS1 games on my PS2 but I don't think I'm going to do that...it really wouldn't count since I'd still have the games anyway. Then, what would I do if my PS2 went bad?

In the last few years, I have sold or given away several of my gaming systems. While I still enjoy gaming, I don't play as often as I used to and it seems many systems just don't hold much interest for me anymore. I've been selling or giving away systems I just don't play anymore...I figure if I haven't played it in a year or two, why keep it? Here are the systems I have struck from my collection in the last 2-3 years... Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari Lynx ColecoVision Nintendo 64 Sega Genesis Sega Saturn Wow, that's even more than I thought. Other systems I used to have but which I sold or traded away more than 3 years ago would include the Atari 7800, 3DO, original Game Boy, and Sega Master System. So what systems do I still have? Here is that list... Atari Jaguar (Yes, I do still have one Atari system left!) Nintendo DS Nintendo GameCube Super Nintendo Sega Dreamcast Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Xbox I think that's it. No, I do not currently own (and never have) any of the latest systems...no PS3, Wii or Xbox 360. I'm happy with what I have. These days I've mostly been playing my DS and my PS2...I actually recently had my first perfect game for any baseball video game...I did that on MLB Power Pros 2008 for the PS2 using Jake Peavy.