Quote:Since the GameCube's European price drop occurred three weeks ago, European retailers have reported astounding GameCube sales numbers. Ten times the numbers of GameCubes were sold during the first week of the price drop, and sales have only increased since then. Since the price drop Nintendo's overall market share on the continent has increased from 5% to 25% putting them ahead of Microsoft's Xbox.

"Nintendo GameCube is now selling at the fastest rate since its launch proving that at the right price and with the great software line up available this Christmas, it really is the console of choice for all gamers," said Nintendo of Europe Marketing Director David Gosen.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, F-Zero GX, Mario Party 5, and 1080: Avalanche are just some of the games being released for the GameCube in Europe that may be helping those numbers. In addition a special Mario Kart: Double Dash!! package will be released on November 14th which will contain a new GameCube along with Mario Kart and the special Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. The collector's edition will contain five Zelda games, and is a much anticipated collection from Nintendo. It's definitely good to see that sales are brisk for Nintendo in Europe as well as the United States and Japan.

So I plan on picking up on X-Box on Friday but I can't decide which bundle I should get.
Adrenalin Pack - Comes with Halo and Amped $279CDN
Quest Pack - Comes with KOTOR, Mech Assult and 2 months of Free X-Box live $257CDN
Holiday Bundle -Comes with Star Wars Clone Wars, Tetris and 2 months of X-Box live $249CDN

Right now I'm leaning towards the Quest pack because I want KOTOR, I already have Halo for PC plus the pack that comes with it is so much more expensive so don't think I'll be getting that one, but the Holiday Bundle is cheaper and if Wal-Mart figueres out they're under-charging for the Quest Pack and changes it to how much it should be then the Holiday bundle may be more worth it.
Any thoughts?, I'm not really familiar with Clone Wars, Tetris, Mech Assult or Amped

Well I binged on playing FE7 on the GBA and beat it over the weekend. Wonder if this game has multiple endings or not. Unfortunately, I never really played FE6 yet, but now I can see maybe Nintendo might want to release FE6 for the GBA seeing that FE7 was its prequel (with a major cliffhanger if you haven't played 6 - of course it wouldn't matter unless you knew Japanese).

HOpefully this sells well and Nintendo doesn't stop there, but the selling was of course what they've been afraid of all this time to keep them from translating the FE series. PLaying all 5 of the other games in Japanese just isn't the same.

But anyone else beat the game ? Know if there are multiple endings ? Usually FE games do.

After seeing this on Discovery Science Channel, I had to check out the site they gave. They've managed to link up a camera to a human's brain, the visual center, to restore site to this person who's been blind for 20 years (oh, and 7 other patients...). It's monoscopic vision right now, at least in this guy I saw, but the fact that a computer is sending data TO the brain and the brain is interpreting it is pretty amazing, no?

http://www.dobelle.com/news.html

Here's the site for it, with pictures and a few videos.

I was just thinking "Jinjo!!" a few seconds ago and realized that they sound like Elmo. Discuss.

Harry Goz, the voice of Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021, died of cancer on September 5.

From Animation Insider:

Quote: Cartoon Network announced Wednesday on the web site for their Adult Swim animation block that film, stage and voice actor Harry Goz passed away recently at the age of 71.

Goz was presently voicing the character "Captain Murphy" in the popular Adult Swim series "Sealab 2021," which airs Sunday nights.

It has yet to be released who, if anyone, shall replace Goz's role.

The co-creators of "Sealab 2021," Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, released the following statement with the announcement: "We are devastated by the loss of our good friend, Harry Goz. Working with him was always sheer joy, and his talent was beyond compare. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, and we shall all miss him dearly."

Fo' shizzle!

I found this at the dvdtalk forums. Great tracks!

http://www.public.asu.edu/~arasulin/index.html