Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, I went out and picked up a Nintendo Gamecube. Since I'm Star Wars fan, the second-to-launch title was Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III - Rebel Strike.

Luckily, both system and game have been out for a while, so my total expenditure is less than what I paid for my PlayStation 2 in February or March. Of course, the Gamecube is probably the least-selling system out of the big three (PS2, XBox, and GCN) and it might be a dying platform, but hey, I'm still buying games for my 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which I've had for twelve or thirteen years. (Matter of fact, the last time I bought a Nintendo console, George Bush was President and we were fighting in Iraq. The more things change, the more things stay the same.)

Since that means that I've got four operational game systems to suck up my time when not studying for the bar, er, blogging may suffer. Badly.

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I recently found a copy of the X-Files game for the PlayStation and picked it up. I was an inveterate fan of the series back in its heyday, and really enjoyed it, so the game was a must-buy when found. It was in really good condition and cheap, too; used video game sales are a gift from God.

Anyways, I was poking around early on and read some correspondence or a receipt or something. Having said that, let me say this: It is jarring to read something described as "recent" when the date on it says something like March 1996.

Shock to the system, eh. So far, I haven't found an option that lets me try to make time with Laurie Holden's Marita Covarrubias or steal a light from William B. Davis' Cigarette-Smoking Man. Bother!

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Hee hee, I did it. At around 0230 this morning, I finished Federation versus Zeon's campaign mode. Which side, you ask? The Principality of Zeon, of course. Give me an MS-14A Gelgoog with a beam rifle, and I can do darn near anything, including whipping the RX-78-2 Gundam.

The only problem with this game is that it doesn't have an open ending; no matter how good the Zeon player does in campaign, the Earth Federation still wins. Bother.

UPDATE: Those of you wondering just what in the world I'm talking about can visit Bandai's relevant site. This is, after all, Japanese animation, and I'm a sucker for snazzy uniforms, mecha, and the like.

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