Awards handed out recently include Consumer’s Digest naming The Prius the best car you can buy, the Academy Awards naming Slumdog Millionaire the best movie you could have seen last year and The Guiness Book of World’s Records naming these the 10 most influential games ever:

1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye

This is a ridiculous list.

At the top should be, I think:

1) Super Mario Bros.
2) Ultima
3) Wolfenstein 3D
4) The Legend of Zelda
5) Tetris
6) Alone In the Dark
7) Test Drive
Madden Series
9) Street Fighter II
10) Bomberman
11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
12) The Romance of the three Kingdoms

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I’ve been accused at making contradictory statements in the past about what I hold to be the greatest videogame of all time.

I can rationalize that away by arguing that the problem is the definition of ‘videogame’ isn’t clearly defined.

Despite my use of the terms interchangeably there’s a difference between ‘videogames’ and ‘computer games’.

Therefore, Half-Life can be the greatest computer game of all time, and Yakuza can be the greatest videogame of all time and that’s that.

Here’s my list of favourite computer games:

1) Half-Life
2) Marathon 2
3) Myth

And videogames:

1) Yakuza

But something might change that:

Yes sir! ABBA is heading to the PS/2 in their own Singstar Game!

Here’s the tracklist:

Chiquitita
Dancing Queen
Does Your Mother Know
Fernando
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Mamma Mia
Money, Money, Money
One of Us
Ring Ring
SOS
Summer Night City
Super Trouper
Take a Chance on Me
Thank You for the Music
The Name of the Game
The Winner Takes It All
Voulez-Vous
Waterloo

So yeah, pretty much the new Greatest Videogame Ever.

Period.

End of story.

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Terrible Voice Acting is a comic goldmine:

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I forgot to mention that when I went to see The Mummy last night, I was the only person in the audience – seriously, I was the only person in there.

It was night, I got my pick of the seats (obviously) and didn’t have to worry abut someone taking my stuff when I went to the washroom.

The reason that was important is – I GOT YAKUZA 2 yesterday at WalMart! The reason I’m mentioning WalMart is because they’re selling the game for $30 CDN, as opposed to the $40 that everyone is trying to get for it. So for that I’ll give them a mention.

Verisign was kind enough to feed us for lunch, the burgers (professionally barbecued) were great, as were the noodle and green salads.

I didn’t get any time with Yakuza last night, hopefully I will sometime over the course of the weekend.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Courtesy Wikipedia (hurry up, Sony, bring some of these PS2 games over here):

Platform	Title	UK Release Date	US Release Date	AUS Release Date
PS2	SingStar	02004-05-21 May 21, 2004	2010	02004-05-21 May 21, 2004
PS2	SingStar Party	02004-11-19 November 19, 2004	2010	02004-11-26 November 26, 2004
PS2	SingStar Pop	02005-05-13 May 13, 2005	02007-04-03 April 3, 2007	02005-06-23 June 23, 2005
PS2	SingStar '80s	02005-11-04 November 4, 2005	02007-09-18 September 18, 2007	02005-11-10 November 10, 2005
PS2	SingStar Rocks!	02006-04-13 April 13, 2006	02006-11-14 November 14, 2006	02006-04-13 April 13, 2006
PS2	SingStar Anthems	02006-08-04 August 4, 2006	2010	02006-07-27 July 27, 2006
PS2	SingStar Legends	02006-10-27 October 27, 2006	2010	02006-11-02 November 2, 2006
PS2	SingStar Pop Hits	02007-04-27 April 27, 2007	2010	02007-06-21 June 21, 2007
PS2	SingStar 90s	02007-08-03 August 3, 2007	02008-03-19 March 19, 2008	02007-08-09 August 9, 2007
PS2	SingStar Amped	2010	02007-09-18 September 18, 2007	02008-08-14 August 14, 2008
PS2	SingStar Rock Ballads	02007-09-21 September 21, 2007	2010	02007-09-27 September 27, 2007
PS2	SingStar R&B	02007-10-26 October 26, 2007	2010	02007-10-25 October 25, 2007
PS2	SingStar Summer Party	02008-04-25 April 25, 2008	2010	02008-05-15 May 15, 2008
PS3	SingStar	02007-12-07 December 7, 2007	02008-05-20 May 20, 2008 [7]	02007-12-06 December 6, 2007
PS3	SingStar Vol. 2	02008-06-20 June 20, 2008 [8]	2010	02008-06-19 June 19, 2008

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And you think this is going to help you make money???

What you’re doing is making people not want to buy your products. Reminds me of the U.S. automobile industry. Just what makes you think people will be willing to get ripped off long term?

Make quality products up front and the people will come back, ship broken, buggy or poorly designed products, and they won’t be back. Guaranteed.

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I can hardly wait. IGN has a preview of Yakuza 2.

If you haven’t guessed. This is THE game I’m looking forward to.

I picked up MLB Power Pros 2008 last weekend.

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42 Days.

Wikipedia link

I’m soooo excited. Yippeeeyyyyyy!

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Oh, this is great:

I’ve never seen this site before, but they posted a link to this video with the following description:

I know I sure was available for the gig. But Mr. Jelinek either decided to hire his voice talent based solely off the criterion that they have the same last name as himself, or he just raided his own living room and got his family to do it.

Classic.

Courtesy voiceoverture.net

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The songlists I posted earlier, for Singstar 80’s and 90’s were wrong, apparently I put the UK lists there.

Sadly, I don’t have ‘Lovefool’ by The Cardigans, but I do have some other goodies.

Like this one.

If you’re my friend and you unwittingly come over to my apartment, I feel sorry for you already.

I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
Im so in love with you
Ill be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why youre making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

And if I should falter
Would you open your arms out to me
We can make love not war
And live at peace in our hearts
Im so in love with you
Ill be forever blue
What religion or reason
Could drive a man to forsake his lover

Dont you tell me no
Dont you tell me no
Dont you tell me no
Dont you tell me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

Im so in love with you
Ill be forever blue
That you give me no reason
You know youre making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

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