Portable Gaming and Bad Decisions

I picked up copies of SNK Gals' Fighters (Japanese), Pac-Man, and Pocket Tennis Color for Neo Geo Pocket Color, and then I broke down and bought boxed copies of Supercross 3D and Val D'Isere Skiing and Snowboarding for Jaguar... The two Jaguar games are actually better than I thought they'd be, but if they weren't unique to the platform, I wouldn't've touched them.

Third time's a charm?

I bought my third Virtual Boy the other day.

My first one was bought new, for $30 CDN when Toys "R" Us was clearing them out; it has since begun to display symptoms of bad display connections. I'd fix it, but one of the screw heads is stripped; so now I either have to break, saw, or drill the thing, and I'm in no rush to do any of that. My second one was purchased last year over craigslist, and turned out to be a former rental unit. The eyeshade stunk (so I washed it), the display connections were bad (so I repaired them), and the stand was broken (someone had taped it together, so I left it), but it works great now. The third one was acquired via craigslist as well, but from its original owner. It's in great condition and is showing no signs of bad display connections.

So I'm keeping the first one for sentimental value, as well as the battery pack that came with it and the AC adapter I bought later (which I'll use with the third one). I'm keeping the rental shop's custom travel case from the second one, and possibly the AC adapter that came with it, but I may give the unit (along with a second copy of Mario's Tennis that I have) to a friend.

Home

GNOME was too slow and Xfce was too unreliable with WiFi, so I settled on Windows 2000 for the trip. Had to suffer a 266MHz Celeron running Windows 98 in Prague. Transferring photos from my Canon SD700 IS over Windows 2000 was a bitch. Watching movies on my PSP was rad.

Picked-up a copy of the Capcom Edition of SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighter's Clash for Neo Geo Pocket Color when I got back,

Oh yeah, and MORE FEZ!!!

Just keeping busy.

I picked up long-cased copies of Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, and Virtua Fighter 2 for Saturn, and traded-in my "Not For Resale" three pack of those titles as well as my NFR Stunner pack-in jewel case of Virtua Cop. I also stumbled across a copy of Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2 for Dreamcast and picked that up as well.

Anyway, I'm installing Debian 5.0.0 "stable" with Xfce (previously installed it with GNOME) on my laptop, and then heading off to wander around Europe for a few weeks; should be fun... I've left the guys at work with a bootable 16GB USB flash drive that has Ghost 11.5 and SysPrepped images of every model of workstation in the organisation on it :)