Most frequented blog this week - Joystiq

Joystiq www.joystiq.com is a great source for new videogame news and is updated several times a day. If you're like me you can't get enough info on new gaming consoles. Every few years when the next gen consoles start popping up, I get real excited. I can't help but have that same feeling I had when I played Super Mario Brothers for the first time. I was almost seven before I really got my hands on the NES, but what did I care? I had my trusty 2600 Jr. and Asteroids. What could be better than that?

It was snowing and I was at my best friends house. It was my first taste of videogaming addiction, my first real fix. I glazed over as I watched my friend play for hours on end before I got my chance (he was a bastard sometimes). What's the first thing you do when you learn how to use one of those newfangled controllers (as opposed to the Atari joystick)? Flail your arms in the air hoping that it will help Luigi over the gaping hole in the ground. It doesn't help, although it does make for a good laugh at your expense.

I don't have to tell you the difference between Asteroids and Super Mario. You know deep down how cool the next generation of consoles will be. The Super Nintendo is going to have 16,000 colors? Sony is making a console? 3DO is too? (come on, I know some of you were excited when you saw the infomercial).

You get the point. Any tidbit of information on a new console is like watching Indiana Jones find the Holy Grail. It's exciting. It's like the future with flying card and androids is right around the corner. Yes I will buy into the hype. Yes I will plop down cash money on the newest "entendo machine" (thanks for understanding mom). Why? Because how else am I supposed to get that feeling I got when I played SMB for the first time.