Game on!
Last night I hooked up my PlayStation 2 to the new TV in my bedroom and played games for the first time in a LONG time. I gotta say - it was pretty sweet! My old bedroom TV was about twenty years old (complete with wood paneling on the sides!) and I just didn't have enough inputs on my VCR for the PS2. I had it running through the VCR in the living room, but the picture never looked right and it just wasn't comfortable to play (hard to explain).
About a month ago, I bought Chrono Cross from Amazon.com. I've played it before, but I only got about halfway through the game before my roommate moved out, taking the PlayStation with him. I've always wanted to finish it! New thing I learned last night: PS1 games are incompatible with PS2 memory cards! I played for about 45 minutes before I had the opportunity to save, then realized I couldn't. Later I went into my closet and dug through some boxes until I found my brothers' old PS1. The memory card was still in it - success! :-)
I also popped in NCAA Football 2003, for old times' sake. It had been so long since I played it, I still had Wyatt Sexton as my quarterback. I put him in there after benching Chris Rix for his performance in the 2004 Florida State-Miami game. >=( Of course, Sexton is no longer with the team, following his bizarre Lyme Disease-related breakdown. :-/ But hey... It had been a while since I played so I decided to beat up on a patsy team, the Hampton Pirates.
Wyatt came through, big time. :-) Final score: Hampton 0, Florida State 107! Wyatt was 8/8 for 237 yards and 4 touchdowns passing. In addition, he also scored three times on the ground (gotta love the quarterback draw)! Meanwhile, Greg Jones rushed 12 times for 119 yards and five touchdowns. Nick Maddox averaged 30.2 yards per punt return, and returned two punts for touchdowns (I went for two on both heh). The D chipped in when Stanford Samuels returned an interception for a TD. FSU had 626 total yards (counting punt returns) to Hampton's 47. Good times. :-)
About a month ago, I bought Chrono Cross from Amazon.com. I've played it before, but I only got about halfway through the game before my roommate moved out, taking the PlayStation with him. I've always wanted to finish it! New thing I learned last night: PS1 games are incompatible with PS2 memory cards! I played for about 45 minutes before I had the opportunity to save, then realized I couldn't. Later I went into my closet and dug through some boxes until I found my brothers' old PS1. The memory card was still in it - success! :-)
I also popped in NCAA Football 2003, for old times' sake. It had been so long since I played it, I still had Wyatt Sexton as my quarterback. I put him in there after benching Chris Rix for his performance in the 2004 Florida State-Miami game. >=( Of course, Sexton is no longer with the team, following his bizarre Lyme Disease-related breakdown. :-/ But hey... It had been a while since I played so I decided to beat up on a patsy team, the Hampton Pirates.
Wyatt came through, big time. :-) Final score: Hampton 0, Florida State 107! Wyatt was 8/8 for 237 yards and 4 touchdowns passing. In addition, he also scored three times on the ground (gotta love the quarterback draw)! Meanwhile, Greg Jones rushed 12 times for 119 yards and five touchdowns. Nick Maddox averaged 30.2 yards per punt return, and returned two punts for touchdowns (I went for two on both heh). The D chipped in when Stanford Samuels returned an interception for a TD. FSU had 626 total yards (counting punt returns) to Hampton's 47. Good times. :-)