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Picked up a Game Cube

Picked up a Game Cube over the weekend. The E3 price drop plus a $30-off-3-games deal at Best Buy made it too hard to resist. So it's one more reason not to leave the house as I turn my brain into mush, and I'm helping to support future PowerPC development, too. Bonus. Picked up Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Super Monkey Ball, and Resident Evil to start. Would've liked to have a racer and a sports game, but wasn't impressed with the current selection or racing games, and I might as well as wait for the 2K3 version of Madden and friends.

So I've played with the GC for a weekend, and boy do I suck at video games. Haven't played a console game since the PSX days, and it showed. Couldn't get a handle on the analog control at first. The small analog stick doesn't have as much play as the PC joysticks, and I couldn't be subtle enough with it, which meant my monkey-in-a-ball was plunging to a screaming death every 30 seconds or so. Couldn't get through the training mission in Star Wars, and I kept getting killed by the first zombie I saw in RE. After the weekend, I did manage to finish the Beginner stage of Super Monkey Ball, find the gun in RE, and at least get to the start of the Death Star trench run. Considering how much games cost these days, maybe it's a good thing I can't blow through them in a few hours.

I've actually enjoyed SMB the most so far. I wanted games that were fun, simple to play, and not require a huge amount of running around, which is why I picked up a Nintendo system in the first place. Of course, Resident Evil is none of those, but the graphics were pretty and there was the chance to pick it up on sale. Anyway, they should keep me busy until the next wave of flagship titles (Mario, Metroid, Zelda) hits.