Stuff You Should Have – Helicopters

My mom’s not very good with surprises. This means that I’m tasked, annually, with determining what I should receive as a birthday gift from my parents. Don’t ask me why they insist on getting me stuff this late in my life, but they do.

In the five months it took me to come up with something this year, I also came up with what I think is a great idea for a new Golgotron periodical feature. For now, I’ll be calling it “Shit you should buy”. Actually, I don’t care who buys it, or if you just figure out a way to replicate it without a purchase, so let’s just call it “Shit Stuff you should have”.

And so, I present to you, the first SYSH…

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Nostalgia is a cold-hearted bitch.

Did you know that Teenage Mutant Turtles: Turtles in Time was remade for XBOX Live Arcade? Yeah, it’s apparently the new hotness.

So how does it make you feel? If you’re about my age (read: old), you probably remember playing one of the TMNT games in the arcade when it was the new hotness. What does that do for you? Does the fact that you played it years ago make it awesome again? If you’re like most everyone else, and you are, the answer to that question is yes. A blind and pathetic yes. Continue reading…

Nintendo Next to Release New Game Console

Nintendo’s making a ton of money right now, and the truth is, they won’t stop any time soon. Still, I think they screwed up royally. Let me explain…

Some time ago, before Nintendo released the Wii, we all had these fantasies about 1:1 motion control. That is, we dreamed of a device we could hold in our hand that would be mimicked perfectly on screen. Of course, once we finally got the chance to try it out for ourselves, we realized that the 1:1 fantasy was, in fact, just a fantasy. I went searching back through hyping news reports to convince myself that I hadn’t just made it up. Try as I might, I never did find any statements that the Wii Remote was supposed to accurately represent your movement. For some reason, we had all just decided it would work that way. The thing is, it doesn’t.
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