The New Flesh

I can’t shake the feeling that this is big. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is more than just a game, more than just a port of an old game onto modern computers, a paradigm for the future of video game preservation, that LucasArts has made the move to produce this game may ultimately prove as important as the Abandonware movement, Good Old Games or DOSbox. Right now it’s an amusement but culturally this is a big step forward. Also as a game it freakin’ rocks.

I mentioned in my last post that I’d acquired a copy of The Sims 3. This might not seem that surprising  since it’s a game that’s selling like hotcakes but it was a surprise to me because I didn’t expect to own that game for at least another year. See I’m a frugal kind of guy so I have this rule, I never pay over £20 for a game, I’ve broken the rule sometimes but having got only mild enjoyment out of Sims 1 and 2 I didn’t have a very strong urge to break it for Sims 3 and given the likely decay in prices for an utterly mainstream hit like Sims 3 I couldn’t see it dropping below £20 for at least a year. So how did this happen? Simple, I got a grey import… I hope.

I’ll never understand DS game pricing