I went down to the local video game store yesterday. Full of excitement and dreams I walked in, rang the bell and slammed the cash down on the counter. An employee approached me and offered me his assistance. I politely stated my business, looked down at the bundle of cash between us with a nod and then took a step back, prepared to see him grasp the cash and hand me my requested product.
"We won't get that until next week," he arrogantly said looking at me with disgust.
What? I thought to myself, how can that be? It is supposed to come out today! This must be a mistake. I informed the young clerk that such a thing was impossible, that the product in question should be available. Baffled, angry and heartbroken I left the store with my second choice. A lesser product that I had been forced to settle with.
Because Mario Strikers Charged Football didn't come out where I live yesterday, as it should have, I settled for Excite Truck - A fun game I finished before I actually started playing it. Instead of spending the weekend crushing young lings on line while not being able to humiliate and laugh at them thanks to Nintendo's Friend Code system, I get to play the same courses in Excite Truck over and over just to get an S rating in all the events for the fun of it... And it's not really fun.
Oh wait; I'll just go get Super Paper Mario, right? Well... no, not really. That thing hasn't even gotten a release date over here yet.
Well, they just released a new Pokémon game for the DS, those are always fun! I'll run down to the store right now! ...Well, no. No Pokémon until late July here in the world's second-smallest continent.
Well, it's back to fishing and bug catching in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. That's how you spend a Saturday evening, right?
(Excite Truck is quite good, it's just really, really short.)
