Goody gumdrops. No wait, here's a prologue!

I'm currently domiciled in Ireland against my will, and have been for the last 19 years. Ireland, although we have the largest per capita distribution of PS2s ("What? You drunks have electricity?!" I hear you all scream in unison) we still get the brown end of the toilet brush when it comes to game distribution. Basically every country in the EU feasts upon the games that arrive here, then we get to feed off whatever scraps are left. To say I'm tired of it would be as big an understatement as to say "Gamespot is an OK site" *coughfreecompletemembershipcough* But I'll soldier on for now. I'm sure there's a lot more to say about my plebeian existence, but I'll leave that to the 74 or so other blogs I have. Now! Gaming ONWARD!!!

As I sarcastically began above, for those of you that have forgotten or are incapable or eyeball movement;

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Yes, a wry comment referring to the fact that after 5 years of waiting, I finally got Evil Zone (PS1)! I played a demo of it years ago, and it was love at first badly dubbed unnecessarily large explosion. As I said above, I'm a famine-stricken Mick, and seeing as Evil Zone (Eretzvaju as it's less known) isn't part of the MGS, GTA, GT or Mario franchises it wasn't released here. It was released in England of course. Shipped from America, whose planes always seem to bypass us (unless they're carrying soldiers to Iraq. WOAH!! Scathing). But now it's been discontinued or something and there's only 3 copies left, courtesy of Amazon. I got a copy after finally, and foolishly, being accepted for a credit card. The case broke in the post, but even that couldn't dull the bizarre and unfamiliar sense of "hap-pin-ess"?

I played it once and it was liquid gaming (I think that's a compliment). But when I came back to play it some more later, all I got was the dreaded "Disc read error." message about 20 times. It was a brand new disc!!! I tried all my PS1 games and they all worked fine, it seems that fate had once again conspired against me to quench what little joy Keiya & Co. had brought to me. Just as I had made plans for a sledgehammer to replace my Emotion Engine, the icon for a PS1 disc appeared!! I actually felt HOPEFUL, God help me. So I selected it, and there was nothing but eternal darkness. Not the mediocre Gamecube title, just darkness. That was eternal. I informed Amazon, and I'm waiting on a reply for the last 2 days. I'm none to happy, as I paid as much as I pay for PS2 games for it!

And so ends my fun filled quadrant of the week. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If so, you'll have gouged your eyes out with your dignity.

Adieu!