Wow...it's June already. This is going to be a big month for me. I have two weddings within four days of each other (I'm the best man in one of them), my own anniversary is about five days later, and unless something pops free in the next few weeks, I'll be jobless by the 30th. But, unlike Mark McGwire at the steroid hearings on Capitol Hill, I am here to talk about the past. May, to be exact.

I'm still ahead of my pace for the year, with eleven games completed. I knocked out my two for the month, but it was painful:

10. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (X360)
11. Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (Xbox)

Leisure Suit Larry was an absolute abomination. And that's about all I can say about it. It was rescued from the scrap heap by Codemasters...they should have left it there. It's ugly, the controls are broken, and it's not funny at all. Patrick Warburton as Damone LeCocque was the only bright point in the whole game. That game was physically painful to play...I think I'm going to have to go back and play through The Simpsons game and apologize to it.

Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes was much more pleasant to play. Once again, if you're a hack n' slash fan, it's worth a spin. I finished it as the human warrior (my usual choice...whichever allows me to use the biggest sword possible). It's not very long, but the pacing is a bit odd. It seems to stop and start, being ridiculously easy for most of it, with little difficulty spikes here and there.

Remember when I said that I was going to cut back the game buying a bit? Well, that was before rummage sale season started. My wife has standing instructions when she goes to pick up anything video game related that she sees if it's reasonably priced. She came through with flying colors this time, nabbing a box full of NES, SNES and Genesis stuff with very few dupes for only $7. Here's May's damage(all rummage sale acquisitions are marked with *):

May Acquisitions
-Extreme G (N64)
-Mario Party (N64)
-Super Mario Land (GB)
-Major League Baseball 2K7 (X360)
-Sega Rally Revo (X360)
-GRID (X360)
-The Godfather II (X360)
-A Boy and His Blob (NES)*
-Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach (NES)*
-Championship Bowling (NES)*
-Conquest of the Crystal Palace (NES)*
-Crystal Mines (NES)*
-Days of Thunder (NES)*
-Double Dragon II (NES)*
-Little Nemo the Dream Master (NES)*
-Rampage (NES)*
-Super C (NES)*
-Super Dodge Ball (NES)*
-Wheel of Fortune (NES)*
-Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (SNES)*
-Super Bomberman (SNES)*
-Bill Walsh College Football '95 (Gen)*
-NBA Showdown '94 (Gen)*
-Space Invaders '91 (Gen)*
-Ultimate Qix (Gen)*
-Winter Olympic Games (Gen)*
-NBA Street: Homecourt (X360)
-Project Gotham Racing 4 (X360)

Yep...sailed right past 900 total games too!

I've been in a racing mood lately, and GRID is totally filling the bill right now. I'm starting to think that maybe Codemasters should just stick to the racing genre (I also love DiRT and and eagerly await DiRT 2) and forget about anything else (see Leisure Suit Larry...). I'll go back to Sega Rally at some point, I guess. And I'm thinking my NES is going to get some love...Metal Gear and Metroid, perhaps. I should also probably start cleaning up some of the 360 games I started and stopped somewhere in the middle of...The Simpsons Game, Mass Effect, Dead Space, etc.

That's all for now...see you next month!