Gamer dork revived

What can I say... my hands hurt. I've been playing on the Xbox 360 almost all day. I haven't been this into gaming since the Super NES days. (Sidebar: I realized while talking to a friend that the first two things I ever bought with a credit card were a TV and a video game console, the SNES. Weird how history repeats itself.)

I also picked up NBA 2k6 and Project Gotham Racing 3, so I more or less have four game genres covered. All four games are awesome. I spent quality time playing them on Xbox Live too, and that is where these things really shine.

That's not to say you don't have some real funny moments too. I was deathmatching on Perfect Dark Zero (always a ton of people on!), and I heard some guy (or kid) yell, "Ownage!" Come on, seriously... nobody really says that! Alas, I made it my mission to kill him, and I did so twice. Otherwise I was mostly getting my ass kicked, but laughing every time someone sent a rocket at my head. Death and destruction can be funny.

I played a couple of rounds of Joust with people too. There's something I wouldn't have thought of, that a game two decades old could find new life by way of online play.