I just went to the library to pick up some items I ordered from other libraries and I felt like sharing what I got.
First, two books on Sony. One is called The Story of Sony and is roughly the size of three children's picture books (includes a giant picture of Celine Dion and an even bigger one of Tom Cruise) while the other is The Rough Guide to the PSP, a book that might be able to sit in a big pocket and one I probably wouldn't mind having there either. Granted I do not own a Sony system at this time, but I will in the future and it doesn't hurt to know more about the technology.
I also received two DVDs to help further my gaming education. Street Fighter the movie and The Complete Animated Series of The Legend of Zelda. What sucks about library movie rentals is that I have quite a limited number of time to enjoy them, and for an entire series, I get three days to watch them all. Joy of joys since I have the feeling I'll be busy this weekend. As for Street Fighter, I get a whole seven days to "enjoy" it. Man, I can hardly wait.
I did happen to get something non-game related, believe it or not. Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies came today and it makes me happy to learn a skill I only know enough about to edit premade MySpace layout. Hopefully, the other book I got on HTML and CSS will come in soon so I can expand my knowledge a bit more on HTML as well. Generally speaking, I know quite a bit of HTML, but my knowledge needs some refinement.
There are a number of other sources the library system has when it comes to video game careers, but I'm very disappointed in the selection on history. Most of the books I've found try in feeble attempts to rate games while providing either an extremely dull and/or childish look at the history of gaming. I need to take-out that book on war gaming again, it seems : /
By the way, not many people realize this, but more and more libraries lend out games. From mine, I've taken out Oblivion (only had time to play it for a few hours though. Le Sigh.) and a few CSI games. There are non-PC titles available also like PS2, GC, even Xbox 360, but nothing that has really caught my attention (that I can play) yet. Still, it's something to bug your librarian over.
Random note- I opened up to the last page of the PSP Guide and I saw the following:
| Book wrote: |
| The 25 greatest videogames of all time 1. Battletoads 2. Gauntlet 3. Myst 4. Pro Evolution Soccer 5. Super Mario Brothers 6. Ms. Pac Man 7. Virtua Tennis 8. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 9. Mortal kombat 3 10. Double Dragon 11. Pyschonauts 12. Tomb Raider 13. Tetris 14. Halo 15. The Legend of Zelda 16. Civilization 17. Pirates! 18. NBA Jam 19. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 20. Tekken Tag Tournament 21. Hard Hat Mack 22. Spy Hunter 23. Snood 24. NHL ' 94 25. Q*Bert |
Is that not the best list ever?
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And, yes, that list is indeed great. I'm kinda surprised Psychonauts ranks so highly, but I haven't played it yet, so... yeah.
As for the Sony story; Did they mention in there the story about how Nintendo pretty-much created the idea for the original Sony Playstation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation
First paragraph under "History".
The fact that i saw Psychonauts on this list and Grim Fandango was nowhere to be found's what really derailed it for me. Both are great games.
I LOVE CSS! Makes HTML-ing so much easier! Or at least, less of a hassle. It's also saves you a lot of time. Yes, I do love CSS.
As book what "book" says, well he is wrong. Where are the Final Fantasies? Where is Ocarina of Time?
As for that list...uh...I really don't know what to say heh.
That list, by the way, scares me. Someone asked if the publisher was British, and sure enough, it's from London. That seriously explains the soccer title being #4 at the least xD
EDIT: "This title not available for requests"
Well, darn it all. I'll still look into getting this.
GunnyHath