“I’m not psychic, but I am a psycho!”

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I’m playing KoF’99 on my newly-operational Dreamcast. I’m actually using the Psycho Soldier team, which is unusual for me; it’s that I want to play through with each team at least once (and twice, I guess with the Psycho Soldier team — as Kensou has his own special ending).

So the rock falls on Krizalid. Everyone goes running.And then someone comments that they’re trapped. The next line I see is this:

    BAO: AS SARTRE SAYS, “NO EXIT!”

I mean, I know SNK’s translations tend to be a bit on the daffy side, but.

Ignoring everything else, why would Bao be reading Sartre? I would peg Iori (or, actually, K’) to be a bit closer to the idea that “hell is other people” than a goofy kid who chases butterflies…

Well, hey. No Exit only has four characters in it. It could be played by one team easily enough. The entire play takes place in a drawing room, so it would fit within a single stage. Maybe we’re onto something here. Once Playmore is done making games for the Neo-Geo, it can become the newest platform for Existentialist theatre!

Why did I never think of this before?!

Of course, on second glance, perhaps King would be better suited for the part of Inez…

Power Up!

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I now possess a transparent pink Gameboy Advance.

It’s a far step from the sleek black one with Kusanagi and Yagami clan symbols over which I’d been drooling for the past few months, but it’s a GBA nonetheless.

I have no games for it, but I’ve Oracle of Ages and a handful of original GB games which weren’t stolen years ago (including Gargoyle’s Quest!) — so I should be set for now. It’s interesting to note that the left and right triggers toggle — uh, sideways letterboxing, for older games. As with some widescreen TVs. Pressing the left trigger will cause the picture to be stretched to fill the entire GBA display. The right trigger will center it again.

But — if one likes 2D games (and anyone with a brane does), this looks like the best thing one can get at the moment short of a Neo-Geo. Also, given the amount of support Sega is putting behind the thing — well.

Yay! I have a living console again! Now that I do, watch Nintendo suddenly, miraculously, cease to exist. Just to annoy me.

Hey, maybe it’d do for me to get a PlayStation 2 after all, if this is the way the universe likes to work.