Bonzo goes to Bitburg

Enough stuff has happened lately that I decided I need to update this thing. It's all rather trivial compared to Insane Killer Winds in Europe, though.

First of all, Vice City. I've been thinking about either writing some first impressions about this or even making a sort of journal about what's going on. We'll see how lazy I am.

In a similar vein, Dance Dance Revolution. Some of you may know I started playing this back in August or so after discovering that yes, there is finally a game that lets you do fake dance steps to Gradius songs from the 80s. So, I've been looking to acquire a copy for the PS2. Amazingly enough, about the same time I started playing it, DDRMAX, AKA Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix, was announced for the American PS2. Apprently this is a big deal since the U.S. has only received two out of the multitude of DDR games out in Japan, and both versions are said to suck. But apparently this DDRMAX USA is going to change all that, with a huge songlist of actually good songs (I'm basing this on stuff said by the DDR freaks at, well, DDRFreak.com.). HOWEVER, DDRMAX, for me, has one major shortcoming: The absence of one Burning Heat! (3 Option Mix), the aforementioned Gradius track, as the version I played in the arcade was actually DDRMAX2. After many hours thinking this over, I decided it might still be entertaining even without Burning Heat!, so I made up my mind to get the American 6th Mix sometime in November or December (to allow the PS2 to cool down from excessive visits to Vice City). So yeah. To finish off my story, this Monday, DDRMAX2 was announced for the Japanese PlayStation. It's a good thing I didn't pick up a copy yesterday.

I talk a lot about games, I guess.

This last item isn't directly tied to a game. (Well, OK, it is.) I was searching online for a copy of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean (using Acquisition for OS X) and turned up a couple results. I clicked on the first one, and right away it says download completed, so I think, great, some guy's serving sketchy MP3s. But no, the file is actually all there. A 7 megabyte, 192-kbps MP3, downloaded in one second. Amazing.

I think now I'm going to go Xtreme skiing on a volcano erupting Powerade.