Recent content by Franklin WI

La Burrita is voted "Best of Berkeley" by the student paper because it's the closest Mexican place to the dorms. That's it. It is not good. The Telegraph area does have a good hot dog place (Top Dog, right next to La Burrita), and a great Indian place called Naan N Curry. Also recommended, for...

The northernmost city in Japan is called Wakkanai.

There are two kinds of people (in this thread): people who think the Atari 5200 had the worst controller ever, and people who have never ever used an Atari 5200 controller. My favorite is either the Saturn pad or the SNES pad.

Yeah, controller's the same. The third Japanese Taiko game has the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade music in it. No, really.

Pilot G-2 is nice, yeah. Many stores have doodle pads in the pen aisles. Have you tried that?

The NES/Famicom was not Nintendo's first home system, just the first with cartridges that could be switched. In the 1970s, they had TV Game 6, TV Game 15, Racing 112, Burokku-kuzushi ("Blockbuster"), and maybe more that I don't know of. They came preloaded with a few games, more often variants...

Didn't play Baten Kaitos, so I can't make a fair judgment. However, Tales was an absolute blast for me. Until Katamari Damacy came out, I really thought it was going to be my favorite game of the year. The real-time combat system in Tales is just so good. Although I have only seen videos of...

"Pride" by U2 is about Martin Luther King Jr, although it doesn't mention him by name. "Magnificent Seven" by the Clash lists several -- Richard Nixon, Gandhi, Plato and Socrates, etc. "Waterloo" by ABBA references Napoleon. How loose is your definition of historical significance? "Empty...

Yeah, I'd be ordering that if I didn't have it already. The Japanese version also has an additional single-player mode, Dristone Mode.

Bump & Jump is the best obscure game still unmentioned on this thread. Also worth checking out are Recca, Burai Fighter, and Shatterhand. Already mentioned, but I will second Cobra Triangle, the Lolo games, Jackal, Zanac, Gun*Nac, and Guardian Legend. Lots of good games listed in this thread...

bmulligan, here you go. It's not hard to understand. You said it yourself: EA, like every other company, is in it to make money. The more money the better. Rather, the most profit, the better, and the higher EA's stock, the better. EA has a lot of name recognition, and plenty of gamers choose...

Donkey Kong. One of the earliest and best Japanese-guy-with-a-dictionary titles ("stubborn ape").

I prefer less realistic styles generally, and Wind Waker did cel-shading so well. I would be hard-pressed to think of a single game, never mind a single other Zelda game, that has visuals I prefer over Wind Waker's. That said, the new Zelda looks fantastic for what it is. I wish other series...

Platinum.

"when is the last time Sony did either? Either develop one, or develop a good one ?" Dude, are you actually asking this? ICO!