This post comes in light of the approaching summer games in China. First off I'm not going to rant about the whole Tibet thing. I hate the Olympics because it perpetuates the idea that Curling is a sport. Bobsleds? Sure. Downhill skiing? I don't see why not, but not Curling. But, i digress, this is about games made for the olympics not the problems with the actual olympic games.

Alright, I want to ask anyone that reads this to look back on their experience with games and search for any memories of playing a game based on the olympics. Don't worry, I'll wait for you too find those repressed memories.

Ok. Now that you have that, hold on to it. The game you are probably thinking of is Nagano Winter Olympics 98. I know I am. If you haven't played this or the Summer Olympics equivalent, it basically plays like a collection of mini-games while a bunch of blocky sprites flail about on the screen. Timing plays a big part of each event, but what the timing that is needed for each event is known only to god and the designers. This would be fun if the event controls either made sense or worked. Of course they do neither and the whole thing is a big mess that makes you want to just turn the game off and unplug your tv in case someone turns it on by accident.

There are plenty of other olympic themed games out there like olympic soccer for the Playstation and a whole slew of others. Most, and anyone who has played any of them can back me up on this, are bad. Olympic Soccer wasn't terrible per say, but it was not fun. Also what ever the Summer Olympics game for the N64 was called was bad too.

Now with the advent of waggle controls the wii has obtained it's own olympic themed game by the name of mario and sonic at the olympics or something. I haven't played it as I don't wish to cut my hands off to keep from playing such a game, but what I have heard from some of my friends is that is somewhere in the range of not great to vomit inducing shovel-ware.

I just pray there isn't a Beijingolympics game in the works somewhere. If there is, please don't but it. It won't be good. You'll hate yourself. I'll say I told you so, and nobody likes that.

[Also this post is probably rife with misspellings and grammatical errors. Please ignore them as I can't spell]

This being my first blog post I would like to open by saying, I can't spell. Also thanks to anyone who gives this a passing glance. After getting my hands on rock band this past week, I find myself wondering what kind of extensions MTV may try stick on this budding franchise. What first popped into my mind was this: Ska Band. Adding a trombone, saxaphone, trumpet, and keyboard. The roster of songs could include songs from The Specials, Reel Big Fish, Catch 22 and other bands of the ska genre... Ok, who am I kidding with this bs. As far as MTV is concerned ska hasn't existed since 1994. Still other additions to the instrument catalogue could include a keytar, which could be given to the lame friend. You know, the friend who always finds a way to make any situation really awkward. Like everyone feels really really dirty awkward.

Still I wonder about the future of the Rock Band series. Will it continue it's success or will it go the way of Tony Hawkand go down hill after the 2nd or 3rd installment? To be honest, I don't want to find out. I simply want to bask in the post Rock Band + Police Pack glory with a working bass petal. AWWWWWWWWW YEAHHHH!!

Play nice now.

and RAVE BREAK!!!!