http://www.gamequestdirect.com/

A small description. This site sells new games.

Wait, no not quite. These guys work with companies to foot the bill for the repriting process and make profits from selling them at an actual reasonable retail price.

Basically, if you can't find Ico or Ikaruga, THIS SITE HAS THEM.

THAT is why this is the greatest site in all existance!

Edit: Nuts... Should have checked first, but no Ikaruga on this site.

But there is this: http://gamequestdirect.com/040198000901.html

http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html

Looks fun!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2700

Hadn't heard about this, but wow the predictions, and this system was actually TOO well designed for it's own good! Look at that fatal flaw! The radius of the wireless controllers was TOO BIG (it would have affected other 2700s in the neighborhood).

So the Japanese HAVE seen an Atari system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2800 . I wonder if they talk about it among the most hard core of the hard core in the same way we might talk about something like the Sega SG-1000?

So with the new Futurama episodes slated for 2008, we all get to look forward to new Futurama. But I get an extra special treat! I just LOVE waiting for everyone here to talk about how the "new episodes" just aren't as good as the originals. What a great day that will be!

YOU NEVER PREDICTED THIS THREAD TITLE!

http://hitlercats.motime.com/

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/cate...ideogames/

This is a hilarious site if ever I've seen one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

I've totally noticed this myself, and apparently it has been the subject of rigorous and repeatable psychological studies.

For those too lazy to read, it's that strange thing that happens when you do any single sort of repeated activity that requires coming up with a system to do it for a long period of time and finding yourself applying it in the back of your mind to the rest of reality for several hours or even days afterwards. Named basically because it was first studied with the game Tetris.

I've noticed it from something like playing Ocarina of Time in that I unconciously look for the context sensitive action when approaching a door, and after spending a long time outside with my cat "hunting" in the small wooded area nearby I notice unconcious "lookit that" type behavior. Nothing that dominates thoughts or anything, just an odd mental phenomenon that's worth studying.

From the book, 'Xbox 360: Uncloaked'

Quote:As the hardware team wrapped up its work, Microsoft had to consider what to do with its talented team of 200 engineers. Many of the engineers would be tied up on the cost reductions for the Xbox 360 for years to come. They would redesign the parts so they could be simpler and cheaper to build. They would combine the graphics chip and the microprocessor into a single chip at some point. But some engineers needed work to do before the next console had to be designed. Microsoft’s executives hatched a plan to keep them busy. They dusted off the old scheme to create a portable game player. It was about time. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer decided to realign Microsoft’s top executives so that the company could move faster to deal with its new rivals. It had to start thinking beyond Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft had to compete faster against companies such as Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com, Apple Computer, and a host of fleet start-ups. On September 20, 2005, the company split itself into three divisions. The core Windows group would be called the Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division, led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-presidents; Jeff Raikes was named president of the Microsoft Business Division; and Robbie Bach was named president of the Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division. Bach would no longer be the chief Xbox officer. He would step up beyond the Xbox. His Home and Entertainment Division would be combined with Mobile and Embedded Devices, including gadgets such as smart phones, MSN, music services, and Internet TV. With this portfolio of businesses under his control, Bach could end some internecine warfare within the company and launch a counterattack against rivals in portable gadgets. He now had everything within his control to launch a so-called “iPod killer” that played games.For a long time, Microsoft had watched Apple’s resurgence with frustration. The iPod had become a cultural phenomenon, selling well over 10 million units a quarter. Everything that Microsoft did in music services had fallen short. It created PocketPC software that enabled people to play music on their handheld organizers. It had SmartPhone software that was just starting to break into the cell phone business. It licensed its software to makers of Portable Media Players, but even though it won over dozens of licensees, none of the companies could break Apple’s hold on the market. The smaller players didn’t have enough advertising money to establish a brand, and they didn’t have control of hardware, software, and services the way that Apple did. Apple was so well integrated that it could design a product and everything to go with it. It was time for Microsoft to step up and take on Apple directly, in the same way as it took on Sony with the Xbox and Xbox 360. Different parts of Microsoft had tried to take a stab at Apple. Otto Berkes, the co-creator of the original Xbox, had left the project early in its inception to return to Windows products. He was a right wing hawk when it came to supporting the PC and Windows. Berkes began research to try to make a handheld Windows computer. He didn’t know or care what it would be used for. But he knew if Microsoft could pull it off, people would find wonderful uses for it the way they had done with the ever-evolving PC. He teamed up with Horace Luke to create various prototypes. But the Intel-compatible chips of the time had not been designed with extreme low power in mind. Even Transmeta, which made low-power microprocessors, couldn’t make chips that enabled the tiniest handheld computers that Berkes had in mind. He persevered, even as Luke shifted over to designing SmartPhones. Bill Mitchell, the head of Windows mobile devices, encouraged Berkes to keep at it. Bill Gates held up an early non-working prototype, which Berkes had dubbed “Haiku,” at a Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in April, 2005. But that version proved too hard to make, so Berkes started work on a successor, dubbed “Origami.” This system got traction as Samsung and other computer makers in the Far East decided to launch versions of it in the spring of 2006. But nobody expected the Origami machines, which had 7-inch diagonal touch-screens and couldn’t fit in a pocket, to do any damage whatsoever against the iPod or the Sony gadget. Microsoft needed a game machine that was small. Bach assigned J Allard to take on this “next big thing.” Doing so would make a huge statement that Microsoft was going to ship this iPod-killer and that it would do it with the same precision planning that it had done with the Xbox 360. Allard would run the platform, handling the hardware, software, and services for the handheld. Bryan Lee, meanwhile, would become the chief financial officer for the entire Entertainment and Devices Group and run the handheld’s business side. Peter Moore would take charge of the Xbox 360 and Windows games businesses, effectively replacing Bach in his old job. These promotions set in motion another series of promotions. Todd Holmdahl replaced Allard as the head of the Xbox platform. Larry Yang in Mountain View took Holmdahl’s old job, while Bill Adamec eventually stepped up to replace Yang as the semiconductor chief. Allard picked Greg Gibson to be the project director on the handheld.

Gibson had a proven track record for managing a complex design. He would be able to spearhead the core team as it tackled difficult technical challenges, such as cramming a powerful microprocessor into a handheld device that couldn’t consume a lot of power because of battery life requirements. Microsoft hired Transmeta, the low-power chip company, so that it could use 30 of Transmeta’s engineers on a secret project, and the press began speculating about a connection between a handheld project and the Transmeta team. After all, Transmeta was helping Sony create low-power versions of the Cell microprocessor for handheld applications. The Microsoft project would operate in secret until, once again, the media blew the lid off the story in the spring of 2006. The project reminded Microsoft veterans of other times when the team had considered handheld game players. Back in 2001, Margaret Johnson explored the idea of doing the Xboy handheld with technology from R.J. Mical’s Red Jade project. But that project got scuttled. And the Xe 30 team contemplated handhelds again, but they decided to wait until the Xbox 360 shipped. The hardware gang had moved on to bigger and better things. The handheld seemed like the logical next step for Microsoft in games,

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151779

Why are they DOING this to us?! Please don't make this game Nintendo! Just give us the WHOLE thing! I don't buy books and then buy extra pages to insert into different chapters to have "added monologue", so don't throw stuff like this at us! Evil, EVIL! On the other hand extra chapters entirely, in other words sequel type stuff, sure sell me that.

So what, they predict they will have the storage space to store this sort of data?

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/4325

Now, right now if you save the game it will... irreperably damage most plasma screens, but it should be good! KILL THE BEARS!