Today was a beautiful day for visiting the flea market at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was probably around 50 degrees and sunny out, after many many cold wet days in New York and New Jersey. The girlfriend and me picked up coffee and egg sandwiches at the QuikChek on our way to the flea market. The coffee was free becuase the girlfriend had some coupons. She is the best. We got a good park...
Yesterday me and the girlfriend went to the flea market in New Jersey at the Meadowlands again. It was a nice crisp sunny day for the flea market. We went to straight to all the old dealers. There was anew vendor in the old section we had never seen before. There was a man with a small bullhorn contnually announcing "Come, check us out, check us out!" They had plenty of odl video games in bins;...
Yesterday me and the girlfriend went to the local NJ mall that was hosting the Pokemon Black & White tour. The mall was super crowded with kids, teens and adults, some parents, some no, all there to check out all the Pokemon events. We met friends who have the coolest 10 year old in the world. He knows all the new Pokemon's names. We had fun collecting the stamps in the Stamp Rally and we all w...
New Years Day and another great video game haul at the local Meadowlands Flea Market here in New Jersey. There were very few vendars at the Flea Market and me and the girlfriend only went there on alast minute lark. But sometimes few vendors and few people at the Flea Market can lead to finding some good stuff and that is what happened today. One of the vendors, an older Chinese Man, who looked...
This past weekend I picked up a Sega Saturn console again. I decided I wanted one again after all of my recent purchases of old systems; NES, SNES, Dreamcast, over the past year. I found a Saturn in good condidtion at the Meadowlands Flea Market in New Jersey. It is a large parking lot flea market where the Giants and the Jets play. I got it for just $10. It was on a vendor's table with an N64...
So, I downloaded the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo tonight and it is pretty good. It is short but I enjoyed it. Criterion and EA have given a taste of the game and a taste of the AutoLog feature they are talking about alot. in fact the AutoLog and your friends are a large part of the demo. To play the racer portion of the demo, not the cop part, you must have someone on your friend's list wh...
Gran Turismo 5 is delayed again globally?! It must be nice to work at Polyphony Digital and get paid, even though they have not produced anything in five years. What a strange world we live in.
Another Quest, eh?
This weekend there was no flea market at the NJ Meadowlands, so that also means that I did not buy any old used NES, SNES, Genesis or N64 games. I really enjoy buying then and playing the, but maybe it is good that I did not get anymore. I will sit down and play them now.; games like Blast Corps. and Diddy Kong Racing. But its all good because I am getting ready for Dead Rising 2 and then later...
Picked up some more old games at the flea market today, four games for $10. I got four NES games in fact; Paperboy , Talespin , R.C Pro-Am and Metal Gear . Not a bad haul at all for $10. I am pretty happy about the Metal Gear and R.C. Pro-Am. The girlfriend really wanted Paperboy and Talespin.
Just wondering if other people feel like the downloadable games have been better than the retail games lately? Lara Craft and the Guardian of Light, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shank, Risk: Factions, Joe Danger and Limbo are just afew of the really good downloadable games. I've liked them all, demo or full game. What do you guys thinks?
I just took about a month off from Final Fantasy XIII . I actually stopped in Chapter 10 before teh game opens up. I got involved in the convention I volunteer with, AnimeNEXT (I don't mind throwing it out there, www.animenext.org and www.manganext.org ), and then I had a family reunion and vacation down in Florida away from home in New York. Well now I am back and decided to jump back into Fin...
I am in my office and am spending too much time thinking about TG-16 and old games. I enjoyed playing Splatterhouse and Ordyne yesterday. I guess I still like olfd games, eh? I know they say that Splatterhouse on the TG-16 is not teh best port of the original arcade game but I still enjoyed it. Ordyne was a very good SHMUP, but may be a little bit more difficult.
Got home today to two old games I purchased on eBay; Splatterhouse for the TurboGrafx-16 and Ordyne for the same console. I am building up a little TurboGrafx-16 collection of Splatterhouse, Ordyne, Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge and of course Keith Courage. i think I am really going to try to stop or slow down on some of these TG-16 purchases unless I see Air Zonk come up for cheap or Castle...
July 5th and it is another day and another blog. I am in NJ and not at home, so I can not see and play my new TurboGrafx games yet, Ordyne and Splatterhouse.
Another day another eBay auction . Today was another good day for an eBay auction for me. I have really been watching things closely for some older games. Video games on TurboGrafx and Philips CD-i and 3DO. Well a bunch of TurboGrafx-16 games have come through for me recently. I have been bidding on the original Splatterhouse (it sounds like it continues to be much better than the upcoming new...
I am not sure why, but I have to say that I thought that E3 Contested was one of the hardest quests i have done so far on Giant Bomb. And I really wanted to complete it. I kept looking at the number of people getting the quest growing and I started to get concerned, but this afternoon when taking a break from writing at my job I finished it with The Bomcast of Characters quest. The last quest i...
I'm back from vacation and am sitting down in front of the XBox and PS3 again. Put in some time with Netflix and Joe Danger. It is a typical slow Sunday summer evening, maybe it is time to go back to Final Fantasy XIII or Unccharted
OK, it was another great day at the Flea Market. Went to the Meadowlands/Giant Stadium Flea Market again this week. Got there early before it go too hot and not too late so me and my girlfriend could go another event she wanted to go to, another event Flea Market Craft Fair event in Brooklyn. We decided to go straight to all the old collector garage sale stuff at the Flea Market and to skip the...
In the office after Conan O'Brien last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Had a great time with my girl friend there. It was great to see Conan back in New York. Conan put on a great live show. Conan is very funny, he could go out and do stand up, no problem. It was a great with some great guests, Bill Hayter, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, Paul Rudd, John Kracijnski, Vampire Weekend....
It took about a year, but today, Memorial Day, I went to the Flea Market at the Meadolands/Giant Stadium in New Jersey and finally walked away with a Philips CD-I. I have been looking for about a year. There are always people there selling old CD players and VCRs, so I knew one day I would find one with someone who did not know what they had. CD-I's go for way too much on eBay, so it was a grea...
I made some big submissions to the Wiki today for Air Zonk and Super Air Zonk. I thought it was funny that there were no descriptions unde rthese games at all. I remember these games from the early nineties, so I thought they should be added. Here is an excerpt of what I wrote for Air Zonk. Air Zonk, named PC Denjin Punkic Cyborg in Japan, was a side scrolling shooter game. It served as an unli...
I got further along in FF XIII last night and the game has opened up a little bit more. I upgraded some weapons and my characters are levelling up. I think the only thing left for the game to reveal is for it to aloow me to choose my own team. I think everything else is open to me now. I am enjoying it, but I can understand where people may get frustrated with the strict path or linear nature o...
I have been playing Final Fantasy XIII and I don't fins it to be teh slog that everyone makes it out to be. Sure it takkes a while to get going, hours to get going, but the quick combat along the way is enjoyable and almost arcadey. Sure you are mostly just hitting the same bottom over and over at times, but somehow this strange quick arcade style RPG combat has grown on me. Meanwhile, I am let...
This afternoon while at work I was bidding on the original Splatterhouse for the TurboGrafx-16 , but I lost the auction. Just wondering does anyone else here on Giant Bomb but old games on eBay, or other sites or at Flea Markets? And do you think it is unhealthy to be bidding while at work? I recently got Bonk's Adventure and Bonk's Revenge for the TurboGrafx-16 and D2 for the Dreamcast on eBay...
It seems like sometimes I really struggle with purchasinga game or not. Typically when I am torn over buying a game it is for anumber of reasons, not just one reason. I will find myself struggling with spending the money. For example, I think that Alan Wake is a good example of a game that I would like, but it is a full $60 ($59 whatever), and then a couple days out Amazon lowers the price to $...
I just made my second big contribution to the Giant Bomb Wiki that revolves around WARP, Inc. and Kenji Eno. I am not quite sure where my fascination comes from. I have liked the games they produced, as few as they were. I don't really think the games would fly now. There games were certainly quircky. D was basically a pre-rendered FMV point and click adventure game, Real Sound was a unique aud...
So I ahve been thinking and trying to find some othe subjects to write about for the Giant Bomb Wiki. I guess I seem to have some sort of attaraction to the more unusual games and game developers. I initially wrote about and added to the listings for the Atari Swordquest games; Earthworld , Fireworld , Waterworld and Airworld . After writing about that I went ot to write about Jack Tramiel the...
I wrote a new entry on Adventure International to follow up my Wiki edits on Scott Adams . Sometimes, I think people forget about this early video and computer gaming history. I grew up playing Adventureland , Secret Mission and the Questprobe games. I remember me and a group of friends were never able to complete Secret Mission, but we lover it, even though we were dumbfounded. An exceprt of w...
In Europe Well, my name is Gregg and I am a pretty big fan of the Giant Bomb web site and the podcast. I am typically checking the web site on a daily basis for new videos from the crew, new reviews on the web site in general and reading and checking out the forums. I work for a Dutch company in New York City. I listen to teh podcast on the train into New York City often too. Every once in a wh...
I am enjoying the quests, but I find it hard to add to and edit the wiki, but I will keep at it cause I like the site.
I am not sure if I like this Quest thing, but it is a good time waster while stuck in a business hotel