Nows the time to go shopping for some new games!

Target $24 DS Game Sale

Target stores have a nice little sale going on this week. All games regularly priced $29.99 (here’s the nice part) and above are on sale for $24. Although it is just $5 off in most cases, that’s still two gallons of gas, a meal at McDonald’s off the dollar menu or a nice way of saving up for the Target exclusive Peach DS lite “bling skin” at the bottom of the ad. We don’t want it — but we do.

Original GRAW Goodness For Only $20

This week Circuit City is hastily clearancing out a few popular video game titles, selling the original Xbox 360 version of GRAW for $19.99. Yes sir, $20 will get you one of the prettiest looking advanced war fighting games this side of the moon. Even if you’re not a huge fan of war-style games, GRAW at $20 is a great “try me” price for anyone sitting on the fence. And if you are sitting on the fence … why? Fence sitting results in 280 deaths a year, just get down and go buy GRAW already.

Virtual Console on HDTV

Of the download services for the new consoles, Nintendo’s Virtual Console provides the most faithful representation of older games. ToeJam & Earl on the Wii looks like ToeJam & Earl on the Genesis– no borders, no filters, no “enhancements.” We appreciate Nintendo’s decision not to try to improve on the resolution or anything, since we see the VC as a form of preservation.

It is especially maddening, then, to hear that VC games default to widescreen when played on HDTV’s. This seems to fly in the face of what the VC is about. We’re sure some of you are HDTV owners, and we want to know: does this bother you as much in practice as it bothers us in theory (no HDTV here)? Or have you gotten used to switching the aspect ratio every time you want to play Vigilante? Or … are you playing in a non-archival resolution? Don’t tell us if you are. We don’t think we could take it.

_______________________________________________________________

Thank you for reading this post. You can now Leave A Comment (0) or Leave A Trackback.