Videogame Revolution

I stumbled upon the best videogames innovation since the polygon. It happened quite by accident. SSDiabolique and I have been playing quite a bit of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for the ps2. (“Red dwarf needs food badly!”) Yeah it’s an older game, but we have yet to stumble upon another recent playable multi-person cooperative game worthy of our time. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Why cooperative? Extensive competitive play eventually leads to overt trash talking and me flinging my controller at the screen because SSDiabolique always stomps my digital candy-ass into the already stained carpet. That’s bad news ‘cause then we have to buy a new tv and controller. Currently, we wait in rabid anticipation for Soul Caliber 2. Let the taunting and carnage begin! …I’m forgetting the point at hand… Saturday we were preparing for a brutal marathon of ghost smashing excitement. I was perched in my designated gaming chair with Gauntlet primed to go, but SSDiabolique was off doing other stuff. As my boredom festered I began to flip through the various options and settings. As I flipped through the controller settings I found a Robotron configuration which uses one analog stick for movement and the other analog stick for firing direction. Cool, now I can walk one direction and shoot in a completely different direction. Okay, you’re right this isn’t revolutionary… I’m getting there, though. I flipped to the next controller setting designated: ONE HANDED. Fuck yeah! Think of the possibilities. No longer will I have to pause the game to chow on pizza & beer. No longer will SSDiabolique have to break her concentration and fumble with the controller to take a drag off her cigarette. More importantly: I CAN NOW MASTURBATE AND PLAY VIDEOGAMES SIMULTANEOUSLY! Join the revolution, baby!
...and so it was written, shenry at 10/21/2002 03:27:00 PM.
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