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• After yesterday’s discussion of A Link to the Past, I found that it can be purchased used for the GBA for under $20. Might have to get in on some of that action.
• Speaking of the Past, check out Benheck’s sweet nPod update. It’s a little portable device that plays NES carts semi-GameBoy style. Nifty! Too bad you have to buy the prototype to get one. Also too bad you need the original cartidges to play… I’d much prefer a smaller ROM-based emulator. But one with the level of industrial design that Benheck seems comfortable putting forth.
• Games.net has some amusing/interesting top ten lists on their site, and I was intrigued by their Top Ten Game Series That Jumped the Shark. Except as I’m reading it they start talking about Twisted Metal and bringing up TM3 and TM4. Okay, so let’s clear the air here: Twisted Metal III and IV were developed by a different team than the first and second entries based off of purchased intellectual properties from the original developers. They are, essentially, sequels only in name. To classify them as ruining a franchise ignores this fact. That is all.