The Holtonian

Game Over

So I went out the mall, or if you will I "malled it" today. For those outside of St. Louis or even perhaps the Mid-west that joke may be lost. "Maul's" is a barbeque sauce made in St. Louis, I think. And the theme song on the Commercial goes something to the effect of, "A grills a grill, a thrill's a thrill, but what makes them great is Maul it!" Or something like that.
So the Mall eh? Yeah went to the mall to buy some Valentino gifts for the wiferino. Its hard for me shopping for anyone really. I have a hard time thinking of what people like. Though I think I came out with some good winners, it was tough and believe it or not the Game Exchange did not have anything for my wife... neither did the Nintendo Game Cube Section of Best Buy... how odd. Actually i've been trying to write some articles for the Pulse on the insistance of a few cohorts of mine. I was hoping to become sort of a psuedo game editor however I've only written one article and it never got published. Plus my pursuits of further material has been met with some serious dead ends. What stinks for me being a gamer is I have the Cube, which is a great system but just not in the mainstream. Most people, gamers of my age and class, are into the PS2's or the Xbox's, which I can't really blame them those sytems make more adult oriented games. So what I thought of doing was taking games that cross all systems like the Madden's, the Tiger Wood's, or various other games that are on all three systems. The problem there is those games are usually pretty popular and out on rental. I am too poor to go out and buy these 50 buck games and so far have been at the mercy of the ever crappy Blockbuster.
I've come to the conclusion that blockbuster is just rolling over and dieing. I mean first the no late fees thing and now the fact that they really have stopped bringining in a lot of games. The Ft. O blockbuster has hardly any games and most of them are either kid oriented or out--no doubtedly at the punk teenager's house who works there. A friend of mine who worked at Hollywood Video all throughout his highschool days would always rent the new releases of games before the general public could thus we got to play the games before anyone else could, and we'd have them for weeks.
So anyway, I went out to the mall area hoping i could find some games for cheap that could use a good review, but alas the games i wanted were no where near the price I wanted to pay. And Best Buy and Media Play have stopped carrying games that are a few years old. They're sticking with the brand new hits and the classics but don't carry the not so popular games.

Plus my computer is on the fritz and needs to be put down with a flamethrower. Even teh simplest of games seem to be not working well and it takes forever for windows to load which is always a sign of the begining of the end of your PC. I wish i could get a new one but there's no way to justify spending that much moolah for a video game machine, especially for an old geezer like me... maybe its time this old video gamer got put out to pasture.