Take me down to the Paradise City
where the grass is green
and the girls are pretty
Take me home

First things first, I'MMA 18 NOW.
HOLY CRAP, AMIRITE?

Celebrated my birthday by heading to the Mall of America (for those of you just joining with us, yes, I live in MN, ya sure you betcha), stopping by the A.C.E.S. flight simulator and payed for an hour's flight in a F-18. It was pretty spectacular, and kind of easy...I blame video games.
Then I headed to Fuddrucker's for some delicious hamburgers.

Now, as for what I actually got...some of you might have already noticed. :P

-Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360)
-250GB portable hard drive
-$20 GameStop gift card
-Wayne's World / Wayne's World 2 DVD set
-various Star Trek movies on DVD
-A "party in a box" which includes the following: $21, a twenty with a picture of the Master Chief taped over the head and the Arbiter taped over Washington, Batman valentines with the word 'valentine' crossed out and 'birthday' written in, a legitimate birthday card, a rather large tiki bobblehead, a lei, a balloon weight, an Irish rubber duck, joke glasses with popping-out eyes, a deck of used playing cards, and the entire box was lined with Pokemon cards. Aren't my friends wacky?
-Clear excitement from my girlfriend that I am now 18....oh wait. NSFW RUN AWAY ABORT ABORT END TRANSMISSION WAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGH

...ahem.
Today I promptly spend the birthday money from the boxed party. :D
Went to Half-Price Books again and got the following:
-Halo: The Fall of Reach
-Star Wars KOTOR II strategy guide (cuz I didn't feel like relying on GameFAQs for this one... >_>)
-The Simpsons First Season DVD set
-Terminator 2 special edition DVD
-Super Mario Bros. DVD (the old movie...it's so bad, it's really fracking awesome)
...all for cheap, by the way...

Yay. I's happy. :D

Anyway, considering this is a blog on a video game website, I suppose it's time to give some impressions of some video games. :D
Replaying Halo Wars' campaign, this time on Legendary. Stuck on the fourth mission, even with all the buff skulls on. Enemies can be really cheap sometimes. v_v;
Skirmish still fun as heck.
Thinking I might actually go through KOTOR II now that I have a colorful strategy guide to get me un-stuck. :D
Sometimes I start up Castle Crashers to do some level grinding. Eh, why not. It looks gorgeous in HD, by the way.
BURNOUT PARADISE! :D
It's really really fun to just drive around, andI'm finding Road Rage and Showtime events to be a blast, but as you progress in other areas of the game (i.e. racing, burning routes, marked man, etc.), it can get really frusterating. REALLY frusterating. Does anyone have any tips beyond "learn what goes where in the city?"
I've been holding off downloading the 1.7 update because I read it gets rid of the sponsor code entering screen, which means I miss out on a half-dozen 'exclusive' vehicles, plus I read the update makes Road Rage a harder, but...eh, is it worth it now? I'm a the B c-lass license, if anyone's wondering.
When I get a points card, I'll be downloading the Legendary Cars set and some other car to balance it out to 800pts used, while the other 800 will be used on the upcoming XBLA game Star Trek DAC. BECAUSE I CAN!
Overall I'm finding Paradise City blissful, not to mention gorgeous in HD...wow I love HDTV. lol.

Hey look, a meaty blog for once! :D

Oh, and for those of you who absolutely hated the Super Mario Bros. movie, don't worry. I only payed five bucks for it. :D

That's all for now!