Recent content by bookishboy

Please oh please oh please

Go to google groups, and ask for advice from the good folks at rec.games.pinball. These people are a goldmine of knowledge, and treated respectfully are often generous with help and advice. Good luck with your pinball machine!

Try contacting the folks from the NYC Asian Film Festival. They were screening this just last weekend and I saw it there. They were giving away some free schwag before the movie, and may have a few extra posters to dispose of.

Both games are great. Truly scary, atmospheric. The second one is scarier than the first. I own both and have no plans to trade them in. The creepiness factor is even more impressive when you hear the game described. A girl fighting ghosts with a camera almost seems like a Mario-Nintendo...

Re: Barcode Battlers If memory serves, this was a game like the Pokemon series, except you needed to scan barcodes in order to generate the attributes of your fighter. I read somewhere that this particular game sparked a short-lived craze in Japan, and one particular grocery store product (a...

Awesome contest, and I hereby throw my hat in the ring for the Saturn.

This is how it was explained to me, when I was porting my Live account over to my 360. You can keep "porting" your account back and forth between old xbox and 360, but each time you do, you'll have to perform an account recovery. Make sure you remember which credit card and phone number you...

Yah, when I was trying to compile my list, I was after games which had enough substantial differences that they could be considered a different game. As far as I know, SC:DA is the only one so far which qualifies. Although the PS2 and GameCube versions of other SC games have less content or...

It's the original game, including the content that Lionhead obviously cut at the last moment in order to meet publisher shipping deadlines. Fable = Fable 0.8 Fable; The Lost Chapters = Fable 1.0 Don't believe me? Play through the original and you'll find that the last "hub" area of the...

I tried doing this last year, and got enough responses to compile a short list, which I broke down roughly by generation that the systems belonged to. Here's the thread, if it's useful: http://cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112973 And the list, snipped from that thread: Cheers :)

Microsoft is obviously already thinking about their next console, and inquiring minds want to know: 1. How likely is hardware-level backwards compatibility? This was a major bummer for the 360. Software emulation offered backwards compatibility with a limited number of titles. Credit is due...

Re: Steel Battalion.... -Do you have a price range in mind, including shipping? -How complete is it? Cardboard ammo crate? Packing inserts? Instruction manual? -Does the controller have blue buttons, or green? -What condition is the controller in, and how heavily has it been used? Thanks...

Please, better search capabilities in the forums. Example: If I search for "Metal Wolf Chaos" and SHOW by POST, I want to find all recent posts what include the phrase "Metal Wolf Chaos". Not every recent post which includes any one of those words. Alternately, if the search engine accepts...

If you're on a Mac, you may get a kick out of Delicous Library. It manages books, movies, and videogames, and hooks into Amazon's API in order to deliver *whatever* information they have on the item in question.... including cover artwork, platform, synopsis. Pros: -VERY easy to use -Gives...

(If you haven't already bought it) It's time to help pad Tim Schafer's retirement account, by purchasing Psychonauts for $60 ($50 for PC). Why? -Because the money goes straight to the developer. Plus, they won't ask you if you have their discount card. Or if want a subscription to Game...