E-Day

I'm not bothering with the mic, at least not now. It does have a nice look to it though.

I'll need to play the game first. I haven't had time yet to try it. I have tried any of the 11 new games I got. Too busy at work and too busy at home getting ready for Christmas. I am hoping to find some time this week to try AC

Just did a 1am Wal-Mart run and had them price match Toys R Us to get Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Ninja Town and Rune Factory 2, all for the DS. I won't be buying any games for a long while now after spending quite a lot in 3 days.

Toys R Us in Canada is having a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale, so in the last three days I have acquired NINE games (One is one the wife got): My Fitness Coach (Wii - for the wife) Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) Sam & Max Season 1 (Wii) Tiger Woods 09 All Play (Wii) Animal Crossing City Folk (Wii) Call of Duty: World at War (Wii) Smackdown vs Raw 2009 (Wii) Sonic Unleashed (Wii) Dragon Quest IV (DS) Obviously, I am very broke. But I know my family is giving me money for Christmas, so that will be going towards those games. Sadly, Toys R Us' selection for DS titles sucked butt, so I will be heading to Wal-Mart to price match the deal and get some of the DS titles I want. Big Spender!

What do you still have on hand that needs scanning? You can always sent the leftovers to someone else to scan.

No Master System commercial? BOOOO!!! I miss the cheesey 80's and 90's commercials. Game commercials these days suck. I miss the Sega Scream too.

I like the magazine, but refuse to pay $17 an issue. Nor do I want to read them sitting in front of a computer. Darn. :(

I didn't learn anything from the Macross movie I watched 11 years ago on DirecTV. But it was neat.

Yes you would. For life! Or at least, for the life of this site, since I am sure we will all outlive it

Uploaded. Feast away!

I do believe I read that somewhere.

Me too. I always enjoyed their ads in the magazines in the 90's.

Boo! I hadn't noticed it at first, but Nintendo has indeed changed their logo. It's only a colour change, but still. I never noticed until reading that Kotaku article. And looking over my Wii games, the logo isn't in red anymore on more recent titles, Like Super Mario Galaxy. I know it's not a huge deal, but grey IS boring. Nintendo is red; it's always been that way. Just like Sega is blue. I don't like when established companies changes their logo. I am glad it was only a colour change, but I still don't like it. It looks much better in red.

I love this game. I bought it the day it came out. Haven't played it too much though, but that's because of time. I hope the sequel uses the MotionPlus add-on, as it will make it easier to be more precise. Now I want to go home and play Boom Blox.

I'll just make sure Phillyman tells his kid to give my kid a lifetime membership

Awesome! We can have a man-man love affair on the front page of this site! This is the last old GamePro that I own. So until I get more somehow, I can't scan anymore. Anyhow, it's 100% scanned and edited, and will be going online tomorrow evening.

I bought subscriptions to both not long ago. Now I'll need to cancel the PC Magazine one. I don't read magazines online.

Just donated $5, torndown. I want my second lifetime membership to go to my kid when I am dead in 53 years!

100% scanned. Now comes the easy part

I had lost track yesterday of how many people said that in the Joystiq comments. We should take a survey here about such things!

I don't think will ever be dead. there will always be people who like the feel of a magazine in their hands; people who like to relax outside, in bed, or on the couch with a magazine to read. Lugging around a laptop to do so is very inconvenient. And if your ISP goes down, then what? A commentor at Joystiq mentioned their political slant appearing in the magazine. I prefer to keep my politics out of things I read and do for leisure. I listen to talk radio every day during the week and get my fill from that. If the politics is relevant to games, such as laws and whatnot, then that is one thing. But to have political slant in a magazine just for the sake of letting your readers know your beliefs one way or another I can do without. I also found the attitude of EGM arrogant, even back in the 90's.

Actually, I shouldn't be so peeved (or surprised). I am not fond of the current EGM; I only renewed my free subscription because it was $4/year. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. The magazine nowadays is pretty crappy. Thin like a comic book and boring. It is no surprise that readership is probably down. If they do tank, I hope that they at least make it to the May 2009 issue so they can go out with a bang on their 20th anniversary.

I had bought a subscription to PC Magazine which I will now have to cancel. I also got one for EGM, and it seems like I will have to cancel it as well. I subscribe to magazines so that I don't have to sit in front of a damn computer all the time to read about games. Not everyone who reads game/computer magazines is a social outcast who spends their life in front of a computer. Perhaps their magazine isn't doing so well because of the content or because they aren't doing enough to increase readership. Game Informer seems to be doing very well, thanks to being pushed by GameStop. They have the biggest December issue this year, which means they have the most ads, in spite of the internet and in spite of the fact that their magazine is a different size than all the others and thus requires a special file being submitted to the magazine. If EGM and GamePro were more proactive in getting subscribers, maybe their magazines wouldn't suck. Nintendo Power seems to be doing very well also, being able to still put out 13 issues a year. On top of that, they don't have a website (apart from subscription buying/ modifying) like the other magazines do. I especially like that. In closing, if Ziff-Davis indeed moves EGM to online only as the rumour suggests, and as the trend with PC Magazine and Official Xbox 360 Magazine (or Games for Windows - I can't remember what the magazine is called) suggests, then they can shove EGM and themselves up their pie hole.

Not to mention most actual TG16 games aren't cheap on eBay. VC is definately the way to go if you are not someone who collects for old systems.

That Wal-Mart should be reported for breaking the street date.