Mrs. Negotiator and I visited some friends up North. We stopped, ate, and shopped a little along the way.
First, we went to Sheetz for 1 huge KitKat (for one of her co-workers), 3 cheeseburger sliders, 1 Angus burger, 10 onion rings, and a large root beer for 2 (i.e. two straws). (For those that don't have one, Sheetz is like a gas station/deli/diner combined, but in a good way. No, really, the food is great!)
Then we stopped at Best Buy, where I partially burned a birthday gift card on Iron Maiden's "Final Frontier", B-17 DS, and Transformers 1: Autobots DS. I got a little left for something else...
Finally, off to Walmart for 2 Danishes for our host, and some baby socks for my baby niece's Halloween bag.
I got Pokemon red and Diamond in Japanese off ebay just now. Yippie for original language games.
No but seriously, I have a Japanese report due on video games monday. I've written half of it, now for the other half.
Good thinking, Yuko. Nothing makes a serious report easier to do than to do the report on something fun. Are you going to contrast Japanese tastes in games vs American/European tastes, and also talk about the differences sometimes found in the Japanese, American, and European released versions of the same game? I sometimes get a chuckle out of the fact that one of the most popular video game characters in Japan is of Italian origin, since that's part of my heritage.
I once got an emulation of SRW "D", to see if I could select Big O and fight somebody. Alas, my knowledge of written Japanese is sorely lacking, and I didn't get past the selection screens. It was fun to try, though. Maybe I'll study a little more before trying next time... Hey, just think, when the report is done, you can still have fun playing the games.
