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So, Game Informer recently posted an article stating how much buying game consoles are really costing you. While it is a noble effort they totally screwed up. They assume with every new console you buy you are going to buy a matching TV. F-That. Here's how I feel it should look. To start off with we are going to do a couple things differently...after the break.

Now that I've gotten the Pokerant out of the way, I'd like to talk about a game that pretty much hooked me and made me want to create games for a living (even though I don't.) Now, this story is going to be long, because I'm going to go way back to my youth as far as I can remember, then do a memento move and go forward, then back again. So stay with me.

 I decided to throw you all a curve ball today. I love gaming, and I love the influence it has on things other than that medium. Such as music. I found out about this band recently and I'm digging them a lot. Before I say anything else, they are definitely busting the indie vibe, but the awesome thing is they use chiptune as some of their background music. It's full on instrumentation with guitars/drums/vocals but with the chiptune sound as sort of an effect. For those of you who don't know...the chiptune style basically mimics 8-bit gaming music from days of yore and allows people to make some pretty impressive sounding stuff using the on-board sound chip of a Game Boy or NES.

I recommend starting here at In Her Gentle Jaws. It's greatness. After that you can dive into their newly released album called Spirit Youth.

Definitely pick them up at Amazon. They have Vinyl!

Buy at Amazon: [In Her Gentle Jaws, Spirit Youth]

So as of lately, ever since this post on Tiny Cartridge, everyone and their mom has been posting creepy Pokemon stories. Where basically they are hacked cartridges left in flea markets or bought in random shops and the travesty they've presented the player. Honestly, I find these stories fascinating. Whether they are true or not is to be questioned, but for someone to have that hardcore of an imagination is pretty awesome. I've been reading a couple of them, but the one I linked to above is by far the best one. So if you are daring, then read up!


I have included the full story after the break...

So I'm going to date myself a little bit (at least as far as the gaming community is concerned). When Pokemon came out in 1998, I was in 8th grade. I remember begging my mom for hours on end to get the hot new game I saw in Nintendo Power. I remember the character art is what struck me then, and it still does to this day. Even though it had that anime feel, it also gave the illustrations a clean solid look. Something I grew to love even as an adult. I remember distinctly going to Wal-Mart and purchasing Pokemon Red as I dug the Charizard at the time. It also came with a pokemon manual of sorts that was also a poster. I couldn't have been happier.