Hooray! I have finally joined the 21st century!

How so? As a Christmas gift (which I "picked out" today), I got a Playstation 2.

Now before I get a lot of angry emails berating me of my poor choice, I'm going to share with you my reasons for selecting the PSX over the other consoles.

Games - not counting multi-platform games (natually), it seems to me, and I could be wrong and needed to do more research, that I could've gone with Gamecube and played Mario/Zelda games, or XBox and played online sports games. I had no interest playing online - and if I do I'll buy the adaptor - and I can live without playing Mario Sunshine. (Though I am missing out on Wind Waker and Viewtiful Joe...oh well). Plus, I was more interested in platformers and RPG's, so PSX seemed like a goot fit.

Library - now I can buy all the pre-owned PS2 and PS1 games I want for relatively cheap.

Points - I happen to have a credit card where I earn extra points for buying Sony products, and can trade said points for free Sony products. This was the last point I thought of this morning, and of course not a major factor...but it helps.

And now I won't have to rearrange my computer when my sibs and I gather to watch DVDs. There's a plus.

I was looking for The Simpsons: Hit and Run, but couldn't find it at the particular store I was at today. But I needed a game, so I picked Jak II. And came to realize, after like 5 hours of playing this afternoon, that it is pretty much like Hit and Run. So yay! (Still want Simpsons though...cuz I'm a fan...but you already knew that).

Now I'll just have to get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for my computer instead. And I'll be frequenting Blockbuster a bit more often that I have before. So this will be yet another thing that will be vying for my attention...but I'm still committed to the comic and I'm gonna work on more tomorrow. In between Jak II ;-)

posted by Tim at 1:27 AM