I started to get a bit restless on my vacation so i decided to pick something up to keep me amused. I went ahead an bought a Nintendo GameCube. I'm no hardcore gamer but i enjoy the occasional video game. The unit is only $99 so that was a plus as well. Normally it only comes with the system and a controller but they had this special holiday bundle out which came with an additional controller and a game at not extra charge. The complimentary game was Mario Kart: Double Dash which is the latest version of the racing game that's been around forever.
I thought i should pick up a few more games so i didn't get bored too quickly. Luckily, they also have a bunch of "Player's Choice" games which are some of the most popular games that have been out for a while that you can now pick up for under $20. I grabbed Super Mario Sunshine which i believe was the first "big" game for the system. When i was checking out the other titles I came across Super Monkey Ball 2. I remember Jeff talking about this game before and saying how much fun it was. I picked it up and he was right. Actually the "main game" is rather boring, but they have these "party games" which are quite entertaining. I especially enjoy Monkey Fight where you control a monkey rolling around in a ball armed with a giant boxing glove in order to knock your opponents off a platform before they do the same to you. Finally, i also grabbed the Sonic Mega Collection which has all the classic Sonic The Hedgehog games from the old Sega system. My sister and i used to play those games a lot. I'm especially glad that it came with Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, my absolute favorite two-player Tetris-like game. Now i don't have to keep that Sega Genesis around any more.
I did quickly found our that you can't go very far in some of these games with out a Memory Card. It would have been nice if that had been part of the bundle.
This purchase pretty much guarantees that i won't accomplish anything remotely productive during the rest of my break, but i'm OK with that.
Posted by Matthew at December 29, 2004 02:39 PM