Got Pokemon Heart Gold a few days ago. Played it until I reached Goldenrod City, and since then I haven't made any real progress because I'm spending waaaay too much time playing that stupid Voltorb Flip minigame. I don't even need the coins or anything, I'm just addicted to it for some strange reason.

I don't know why I'm such a sucker for minigames. Especially dumb ones like Voltorb Flip. I guess it's just in my nature. The same thing happened in Pokemon Pearl digging for treasure underground, in Final Fantasy X playing blitzball, in Kingdom Hearts building Gummi Ship after Gummi Ship, and so on and so forth, going all the way back to the 2-player battle mode in Super Mario Bros 3. More than once my brother and I spent unusually long periods of time playing that minigame without ever stepping foot inside the first level (apparently he has the same minigame addiction problem as me; in the past I've seen him play FFX blitzball for hours at a time).

Based on this compelling evidence, I must come to the conclusion that my favorite game ever is Mario Party, the game made entirely of minigames. And for the record, yes, I used to play that one until my hands developed blisters (stupid tug o' war).

In other news I recently took my Magikarp for a walk. He was happy and gave me a Chesto Berry. Then we captured a wild Bellsprout together. Good times.