Smues said:
THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN! (when you score to go up like 18 with 20 seconds left, because 16 just wasn't enough.)
I had been playing NBA Showtime for like a month straight. The Rockets are rather dominant, especially when you're raising up a CAP. Take The Dream in the first half, Drexler or Horry in the second half, and if you can defend and shoot threes at a decent rate, you win by at least 10-12 almost every game, though there can be some frustrating moments during those games. I was playing against Utah with slow ass Stockton and Hornacek and they went up on me by 10 at the end of the first quarter. I had to bomb threes in the second quarter because they were not missing shots, no matter that I was in their faces on D. But as soon as the changeover took place, I ran them out of the gym.
Great game, perfect evolution from NBA Jam in 1993, but damned if it can't get your blood pressure up.
By the way, speaking as someone on the outside looking in, I would have thought there would have been an outcry against Halo 3 because of no Master Chief. I remember watching a review of the game and even I thought it was a bit of a rip-off that you had to play grunts. I guess Halo 4 will mark the triumphant return of MC.
Another thought: Speaking of pinball, I had a dream last night that I was at an arcade and was playing this insane pinball machine, and I looked up at the face and it was Son of PinBot. That's one hell of a pull from my subconscious because while I liked playing PinBot, Bride of PinBot is my all-time favorite pinball machine (with Space Invaders being #2 for many reasons, nostalgia being the main one). Ah, the good times rocking that machine at my local video store, beating the employees (including their boss) and all the shit-talking that would take place... good times...
