Well I finally got the 120gb hard drive for my 360. I was getting down to only 3.5 gb left on my original 20gb one. It's sad that when you get the hard drive(20gb) that only 13 is available. I got a deal onthe 120, thank god, so now I can download arcade game, original titles, and movies without worryingabout running out of space. Microsoft does need to drop the prices of their 60 and 120 gig hard drives if they want their console to be used as this multi-media device. Think about it, the original Ninja Gaidenfor theXbox is a 5.7gb download on marketplace. You download 3 of those titles on the original 20gb 360 and your done downloading anything else. It seems like one of the biggest companies in the world shouldn't have any problem lowering the price of that hardware. Anyways, who knows.

I decided to break out my T-16, Genesis,Jaguar and N64 the other day and do some old school gaming. The Jaguar's controller leaves a lot to be desired, although Alien vs Predator turned out to be pretty fun. Out of the 5-6 games I own for the Jaguar, AVP seems to be the only real fun title,so after putting that ancient console up I decided to hook up the old faithful Genesis. The first game I decided to fire up was Strider. The sound effects and sprites put me in nostalgia heaven immediately! But after progressing to the third stage and dying repeatedly, I found out how tough it is playing without a save system. I remember as a kid playing all night to beat a game, because you didn't want to turn it off once you got past a certain level, and have to start all over.The other game I dusted off on my Genesis was The Immortal, one of my favorite old school games. I didn't last long, as the game seems a lot harder than I remembered! Finally, after the Genesis was done, I decided to play some N64.I started with Killer Instinct. I progressed to the 5th character on arcade mode, which is pretty good seeing as how I can't remember much of their moves. Spinal is my all-time favorite character in a fighting game.I wish Rare would remake a next-gen version of this title.

I decided to post this blog because I had so much fun breaking out some of the older games, even though I kept waiting for a achievement sound to pop up whenever I completed a level. My wife asks me why do I keep those old games and systems, but she doesn't really understand how these games, while they may not have the graphics, theystill have the amazing gameplay. Not to mention the warm fuzzy feelings they give me as they bring back memories of past christmas'.I was actually shocked that all of the systems I played still worked after all these years. They sure don't make them like they used to. Anyonewho owns some older gaming consoles surely understand the true value of these once great, heck still great, consoles!

It seems that Blu-rays are finally dropping a little in price. Finally! I just picked up Eagle Eye for 19.99 @ Best Buy and they had a few other relatively new movies that were in that same price range. I did see some others that are still 29.99, but there aren't many in the 30.00 - 34.99 price range. So now I can finally increase my Blu-ray collection a little easier with these price drops, which I also found @ Wal-mart several Blu-ray movies for 10.00! They had Punisher, Total Recall,Terminator 2, Universal soldier, and others.