Nice.

According to an interview With Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa, Microsoft has approached Teasure about porting Radiant Silvergun to the Xbox Live Arcade. Right now their response is "we'll think about it."

I'm sure around here a game like RS needs no introduction, but to those who need one, it's regarded as one of the greatest Shmups of all time, despite the fact that it was never saw a release outside of arcades and Sega Saturns of Japan. Couple this draw to it along with the rarity of the game to begin with, and you're instantly looking at ebay prices that should be reserved for rare consoles (upwards to $500).

Unfortunately, Mawgawa feels the game has "aged in assorted ways, and I'm not sure they're all good," So it's sounding pretty doubtful that a straight port is going to happen. Personally, I wouldn't mind an Enhanced remake so long as they kept the original version. This would easily be a title I would pick up for 800-1600 MS Points, what about you guys?

Hey kids, remember back in the day, there was this 'crackpot' company known as Infinium labs trying to pimp out this thing called the "Phantom" and everyone just laughed at them because their business practices were shady at best?

Remember when they changed their name to Phantom Entertainment, as some homage to that crazy Idea of a console they had back in the day?

Remember when they finally showed off a product, but it wasn't a console, it was just some lapboard for people with living room PCs before living room PCs were even popular?


Remember when they launched a Downloadable game service that has over 2,000 titles in their library, AND started to mass produce this lapboard?

Bacdafucup, they what?

Yeah, I guess they just opened up a downloadable game store that isn't unlike what they had originally wanted, only not on a console like they had previously planned.

Personally, I'm kinda glad to see that Phantom Entertainment is actually starting to do something, Even if they have been beaten to the punch by the likes of Steam, Direct2Drive, and other services. I also wouldn't mind having one of those lapboards, it'd be a step up from the TV tray that I use.

So this is my first red ring ever. I've become another statistic.

to put my feelings into a palindrome, "dammit im mad." I forked out the extra money on the elite hearing that it's got a lower rate of red rings (not to mention the svelte matte black), and this happens. Looking more into it, though, I can't be too upset. I've enjoyed it for a good while, and when I took a look at the "Sync+Eject" Diagnostic guide that I found here, I got an error code of 0102, which goes on to say:

"unknown error - literally means the console does not know what is wrong. Possibly a short or cold solder joint somewhere."

So it wasn't because it overheated, and it never really did. I remember my SNES running hotter than my 360 did. I'm just glad that I'm not out a bunch of money because of the warranty extension. Here's hoping that I get this back before Fallout 3 drops.

The first of you to make available the entire catalog of Led Zeppelin wins my money for your peripherals and products.

Sincerely,
Me.

I was thinking this for quite awhile, but never got around to saying anything about it. Just a thought in the back of my mind, but here it is. We didn't really have a 'drought' this year when you compare game sales of previous years. When all's said and done, we had quite a few AAA titles come out during the summer, which is almost unheard of. So does this mean that we don't have to moan and groan that the summer months (which usually don't fill out schedules with school and the time that most of us take vacations from work) don't have any quality games coming out?

June saw the greatly anticipated PS3 release of Metal Gear Solid 4, along with multiplatform releases of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Alone in the Dark. July saw a little less action with the only noteworthy titles being Soul Calibur IV and NCAA Football 09 on home consoles, and Final Fantasy IV for the DS.

What seems to be the saving grace this year is the fact that we have digital distribution doing very strongly during the month of August, with XBLA Bringing us titles like Braid, Galaga Legions, and Castle Crashers coming out on Wednesday, with Bionic Commando: Rearmed dishing out the lovin' on PSN and XBLA.

So 2008 really didn't have much of a summer drought of games like previous years, but I'm sure there's more to be desired, so I'm going to call it The Great Even/Odd water restriction of 2008, I know it doesn't have much of a ring to it, but it certainly is a step in the right direction.

So what say you, fellow Dtoiders? Would you like to see more games releasing during the summer months? Will online distribution like XBLA and PSN be enough to keep gamers satisfied until the floodgates of the holiseason release schedule come around in full force?

The year was 1989.

I was just a child, 5 years old to be exact. I was currently living in a house in Rosemount, MN; completely oblivious to what was going on around me - Race Riots in Miami, Rain Man being awarded an Oscar for best picture, Tienanmen square- none of these things were relevant to my interests. All I cared about was listening to Weird Al and the Beach Boys on my sister's Walkman while she was at school, or maybe running around in my backyard with my dog Ratchet, and sometimes playing video games on my super cool radical Nintendo.

We had a gaming console before then, an Atari 5200, with Popeye, Kangaroo, and Pole Position, but none of those really grabbed my attention. Hell, to be honest, I remember playing through Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt and saying "meh" after losing all of my lives and then watching my dear old Dad burn through it in what I thought was the fastest time possible (Little did I realize he was roughly 20 minutes slower than the speed record). I was content with my tapes, my dog, and a little casual gaming until my cartoons on Nickelodeon came on... Until my dad came home from the store with a copy of Bionic Commando.

I remember it to this day, easing that grey plastic cartridge into the 'mouth' of the grey machine and pushing it down twice because the spring didn't catch the first time around. Pressing the power button and sitting back to watch the title screen scroll down.



I was in such awe at how cool that gun looked pointing there at the word 'start' that I forgot to press start, and thought I broke the Nintendo when the screen went blank and I heard the staticky sound that the text made, but as I read what I could (mind you, I was six), I noticed it was a story. I called for my dad to read it to me, and as he did, I was getting pumped to go out and rescue this 'super joe' guy. the title screen went back and I pressed start. After reading the Transmission, I noticed my helicopter and all the numbers.



"stupid game makers," I thought, "they can't even count right!" I put this thought aside (although I remember being quite mad, as they should know how to count right if they're going to be making video games for a living), and started right in on the action. WOW.



I couldn't jump! What was this black majick I was witnessing with my own two eyes? Mario could jump, His brother Luigi could jump, I'm sure I remember even seeing that monkey named Donkey that he fought at the Arcades jump a couple times as well. No, my dude could NOT jump. but he had this RAD grappling hook (which is probably why he was called 'Rad' in the first place). I thought maybe he had broken legs, but then how could he run around? Maybe his gun was just so huge he needed his own personal crane system to get some sort of elevation. Yeah. That was it. He just had a really really heavy gun. At any rate, I didn't need no stinking jump, I had a grappling hook.

I played this game every chance I could. After I woke up, Before I went to bed, after my dad gave Ratchet away because he tore up his third pair of work boots. After my sister started bringing her Walkman to school, after my parents were done watching the Berlin wall being crumbled to pieces, I played Bionic Commando. When the nineties started, My parents got divorced, Neon clothes were at their peak, this blue hedgehog (that could jump) started to dominate my friends TV screens, and people were beginning to be "tight" and "fly".

I was still Rad.