Wow. Gamespot loses yet another great reviewer. Bye, Alex Navarro.

GG Gamespot.

Gamespot is also not only firing their own people for posting negative reviews, they're also deleting and filing moderation infractions against people who enter negative reviews, even if the review is well written, thoughtful, and articulate. If it goes against the grain, or someone else just doesn't like the fact that you don't like their favorite game, you'll have it deleted and "lose profile points." I don't know about anyone else, but profile points are the least of my concerns. I'm not some adolescent male that's so easily motivated by something like that.

What I AM concerned about is that this community is really not a community at all. They say, "Hey, help us! Post your reviews!" and when it doesn't jive with what someone else thinks, BAM. Too bad for you.

I cancelled my subscription and sent a strong letter off to customer service. I wonder how long this actual blog post will stay up, or if they will delete it and claim some socially challenged person found THIS offensive as well, simply because it disagrees with them or doesn't pander to them.

Word to the wise: Witcher IS a misogynistic game. If your idea of fun is scoring with virtual woman in a video game, have at it. You have far more to worry about in your life... like the fact that someone disagreeing with you doesn't mean they're offensive or trolling.. theyr'e just disagreeing with you.

Get a clue, Gamespot.

Yes! GS has the Neo-Geo Pocket Color in their system! I don't remember them having this much of a collection of older and less mainstream stuff last time I went digging in their archives.

I am a handheld NUT... to a point. I've still got my original Gameboy (grey rectangle with magenta buttons) but the screen recently came off... just a little crazy glue ought to fix that. I fell out of non-computer gaming after a while, even eschewing the Gameboy Advance when it came out. I don't know what happened to me at that point in time to make me so anti-GBA... maybe it was all the fanbois at the video game company at which I worked at the time drooling over it like the bunch of Neanderthals they were. One thing about me: if I have to look at it or hear about it every time I turn around, I'm going to get sick of it and there will be a backlash. It's why I never saw any of the Back to the Future films in the theater... I was tired of being told they were the coolest things since sliced bread.

Anyway, a number of years later, I got my head on straight again and stopped fighting my love of tiny technology. The Gameboy Advance SP came out and I wanted one in a bad way. The only problem was that I was an adult, now, and had trouble justifying the purchase. Luckily, Christmas that year, my best friend indulged me and got me a Neo Geo Pocket Color with six games. More on that later...

After hemming and hawing, and checking prices and game availability for the GBA-SP for years, I finally got the excuse I'd been waiting for: I got a promotion at work and decided to "treat" myself. I've pulled the pole out of my posterior and within the last 12 months have purchased a Fire Red GBA-SP and a Silver DS. Well... I also got a GP2X... when I have some time, I will be installing my SNES, NES, Atari 2600, Colecovision, and Intellivision emulators on it. I'd be playing my original consoles, but they're in storage with the parental unit back home because I didn't have enough room in my vehicle to take them when I moved across country. She's already lost my Commodore 128. I hope to whatever gods and goddesses exist that she hasn't lost my consoles.

One handheld you won't see me talking about is the PSP. I'm just really not interested. I'm sure it's a fine system, but I've made my choice with the DS. And, I can watch movies on my GPX2.

I'll make another post later about my adventures with the NGPC. It deserves a post of its own.

Well, I finally sprung for a Gamespot Total Access subscription this week.  I was going to sub to Gamespot Complete because I hate ads, and this is the first site I come to for any game info... but apparently they changed the subscription plan while I was waffling.

As soon as I get all my old skool games entered and rated, I'll see what I can do about blogging a bit more.  I've always had my own domain and my own space, but having a gaming blog integrated with a cool gaming site (unlike some OTHER gaming sites that will not be mentioned) seems like the perfect environment.