Y'know, I knew Casey was the woman for me when she kicked the shit out of me in Street Fighter II the very first time she ever played me. :)

Yeah, but who did she play? Can she throw a dragon punch? Fireballs and Hurricane kicks are for wusses. Real men play as either Guile, Chun Li or Ryu. Ken is a wuss.

I was Ryu, as was my custom. I had never been beaten as Ryu. She was Chun Li. Little did I know at the time that she had logged extensive playtime on the SNES as Chun Li. She schooled me.

/me bows

Staying power, kids. That's what makes a "pretty funny guy" into a "comedian". Only downside is, that's probably going to be carved into my tombstone.

Mike Twomey
1985-2045
Friend, brother, GCCafe.com staffer
He bought Star Wars: Yoda Takes A Nap

Of course the cheap bastards I know, they'll scrimp and take out all the vowels, let me be buried with what boils down to a stone version of a vanity license plate telling the world where I lay. *shudder*

Of the original eight, I played more as Blanka than anyone else. I was not a top-tier player, nor did I attempt to be. I dabbled with Honda and Dhalsim. (I never could do the 360-motions or down-up charge motions, which ruled out Zangief and Guile for me.)

When they added the bosses, I played some Sagat, as he was just different enough from Ryu and Ken to be interesting.

In the Alpha era, I play as Dan. Just because.

I find Dan to be the gayest thing since sycamore. He reminds me of international sex symbol Steven Seagull. I like to play as Cammy when I'm playing a new character, because she's fast and doesn't suck. There are a few others as well, but it's been years since I've played. I've logged the most hours as Guile probably, with Ryu a close second and Chun Li a somewhat distant third.

Well, that's sort of the point. Losing to Dan is like getting your ass kicked by a cripple in an Elmo suit.

I have a soft spot for SNK's Legion of Street Fighter Character Ripoffs, so since Dan generally plays like a poor man's Robert Garcia, he's my guy.

Well, I fetched the Saturn I was talking about. The box is a bit dented, but everything inside is still in its original wrapping. I grabbed Herc's Adventures to test it with, as well.

But I don't know... if you're dissing my main man DAN...

Haha.

Well, I am now the proud owner of a Neo Geo Pocket Color (though I don't know what color yet, since it's not in my possession yet). So I think that ought to earn me some respect points and cancel out the Dan comment.

Plus, I'm bidding on Cardfighter's Clash. Yeah! Now, there's SNK vs Capcom and Capcom vs SNK, right?

What, he's bright and cheerful too?

So, I ordered the purple Dreamcast from NCSXshop.com and it got here today. I got home and installed my old Dreamcast in it. And let me tell you... wow does it look sweet. Works perfectly.

It's a translucent purple case, so you can see the disc spinning inside and everything. I took the old Dreamcast sticker off the top of the burnt one and put it on this one. Wow. I am truly impressed with this.

For anyone thinking of doing it (it's pretty easy), there are a lot of screws you need to take out. Probably 30 total. And, of course, you need to put them back in. But it's really not too hard. The Dreamcast comes apart in layers, and goes back in the same way.

The hardest part was getting the new modem cover on, which took me probably 15 minutes. The entire rest of the installation was probably 15 minutes. So about a half hour combined. Completely worth it.

I'm thinking about buying the mod chip for the Dreamcast. It's $25 and it's a four-wire solder job which will make the Dreamcast able to play <b>all</b> imports without having to worry about a boot disc. Cool!

NCS is my favorite importer; they have decent selection, new games on their Japanese release date, and they ship with lightning speed.

If you trust your soldering skill, it's a thought, but it's sheer overkill on the DC (particularly if you have a decent USENET feed and broadband).

Every game -- from the US, Japan or Europe -- for the Dreamcast has been taken apart and put back together in a self-booting format, which will run WITHOUT a boot disc on the vast majority of Dreamcasts. I have an original (NCS-bought) Fire Pro D, but I play my bootleg instead, because it cuts out the need for the disc swap with no soldering required. (At least now that DCs are $30-40 at EB, the penalty for screwing up is less dramatic than when they were $200.)

Plus, I have two of them. :) So the penalty for screwing up is that my spare is no longer a spare.

But I did some reading on the modchip, and it's only a four pin solder. Plus, as I've stated before, my dad's an electrical engineer. He's been soldering shit for like 40 years. :)

I was this close to buying a PS2 tonight. Okay, so you can't see my finger and thumb...I had it run through for a price check at the register at Best Buy (they didn't have it priced on the shelf) and gave pause before putting it back. It was the $199 special with the startup disc and some motorcycle game. I could have afforded it, but I want to wait until I actually put some Xmas money away for the system and 2 games. At the top of the list: Madden and FIFA 2004.

KMart here in KC is advertising the PS2 with the network add-on for $199.