In case any of you are wondering why my now playing list is so long. It is because I am finally playing games again. You see I stopped for a while. It is all the Gamecube's fault, sort of. Now don't get me wrong I like the cube. There are some great games for it. One of them is Darkened Skye. Ok so the skittle bit is kinda lame. But honestly the game is not easy. As a matter of fact parts of it are damn hard. I had hours of play into it. I was going to finish it! I was in the final zone (I think) Heading for the last bits needed to complete. I put my card in and fired up the game to be greeted with "Corrupt file" I checked the cartridge. Yep, it was damaged. Every game on it was trashed. I was at theFinal boss battle in Forgotten Kingdoms 1.I was nearing the end game in Forgotten Kingdoms 2. Ok I was only at the part that sucketh mightily in Dark Alliance, but I had spent a lot of time figuring everything out on my own up until then. (If you don't know what part this is you have not played the game. If you do. I would welcome approximate number of tries before you passed it.) My town in Animal Crossing was gone, My Sonic games, Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia (I had completed that one but was taking one of my branch points to try and complete some of the side quests) All gone. I really did NOT feel like starting over on all of them. Sob I was JUST getting my groove back in Prince of Persia. I even made my daughter sit up and pay attention to her old decrepit gamer mother. (Yeah, she may have stolen the Sonic Queen title from me but NO ONE in this house can beat me in any POP.)

I finally got over my anger at the machine. I am now on Disk 2 of Baten Kaitos . I restarted both Forgotten Kingdoms. I am back at the part that sucketh mightily in Baldur's gate. My town is weedy but rebuilding. I have not yet restarted Darkened Skye. I will, but I think I will finish off some of the others first. I backup my cartridge now. After I beat some of these other games, I will sit down and take on Darkened Skye. Just me and it. This time I will NOT allow the machine to wuss out on me. I have a backup.