Category: vgconvos
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Bowser (1989) vs Bowser (2009)
Meri is digging through some old X-Men comic issues right now, and showed me a hilarious advertisement for Sears, and specifically their Nintendo inventory. Check this out from The Uncanny X-Men issue 247 from 1989: The first thing we noticed was the swapped screenshots for Zelda II and Castlevania II. It also lists Super Mario…
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Owning THREE PS2s…?!
It is certainly a fair question to ask why I would need to own three PS2s in the same house. What kind of setup could possibly require this? We certainly never intended to have three, but our logic for doing so may be sounder than even I originally thought. It started out with the original…
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Random Game Purchase: Donkey Konga
It doesn’t take much more than a good coupon to drive me into game-buying-mode. When I came across Gamestop’s 20%-off coupon for used Gamecube games over at Cheap Ass Gamer, I was all over that. What would I get? Luigi’s Mansion? Maybe another Resident Evil? I kept thinking to myself what some cheap games would…
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Online Consoles Follow-up
As a follow-up to some material covered in episode seven of our podcast, here are a couple quick bits of information and reading: – At E3, Microsoft announced that they had one more title to bring over to “Xbox Originals”… and then it’s done. We can probably safely assume that no more software updates will…
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Conversation 007: Online Services, Games, Demos, and More
Hey, lookie here. It’s a podcast episode! That’s right, we finally got off our butts for the first time since February to record a show. We had a whole slew of ideas kicking around, but ultimately decided to discuss how online services for consoles have really changed the playing field. Whether it’s exclusive demos, downloadable…
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Save Concerns
I never finished either New Super Mario Bros. (DS) or Super Mario Galaxy (Wii). Both came with extreme excitement and anticipation on my end, but something about them just didn’t click with me. I may not be able to put my finger on it with Galaxy, but the DS game? I can tell you exactly…
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D’oh! “Rock Band” DLC Incompatibility
Not wanting to seem entirely biased in one direction (though it’s mostly true), it looks like I have to cough up a little disappointment due to the fact that in-game content and DLC for The Beatles: Rock Band will be incompatible with other versions of Rock Band, which extends to not being able to export…
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HDTV Gaming and Lag: First Impressions
One of the things I was most excited about and terrified of in the move to the new house was finally having a current-generation TV and audio setup to go along with the now-current-generation video game consoles. Up until last month, I had been gaming on a (decently sized) SDTV with its built-in speakers. I…
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Xbox 360 License Transfer Issues – Resolved
That was a pretty easy fix. My Xbox 360 license transfer issues have been resolved, and it legitimately took nothing more than a simple phone call. I received a follow-up voice message two days later, as promised, letting me know that the license transfer was still being worked on, but it would be resolved soon…