Happy Birthday Wraith!

Let me be the first to give a HUGE Happy Birthday shoutout to The Wraith. For those of you that don't know, Wraith is the manager at the EB store we shop at. Him and his staff run the best gaming store I have ever stepped foot inside. They blow away the poor reputation of video game "clerks" that many of you have experienced. On top of running an excellent store, Wraith allowed us to place flyers in the store when we first began and I firmly believe that without his support we wouldn't be where we are today. So Happy Birthday man.

Dec 12, 2003 - 8:24 am

We now return you to your regularly...

So I feel like I have been neglecting my duty to report the interesting gaming news as of late. I guess that is probably because I have been. I hope to put an end to that immediately. From what I can tell, aside from a few tweaks, just about everything on the site works the way I would like it to. I still have a lot of things I want to tweak in terms of search results, but you should be able to find just about anything you want to from this point forward.

To commemorate my return to normal news reporting I want to start with news that the sequel to Otogi, Otogi: Hyakki Toubatsu Emaki, will be available in Japan on Dec 25th. I don't exactly have a lot of information about the game at this point, in fact I have none. I have seen some screens of what the new game will look like, but that is about it. I imagine the sequel will get a warm welcome just like the original did. Hopefully this time around, everyone will order more than 3 copies of the game per store. Here is to hoping that they will guarantee a US release.

Dec 11, 2003 - 2:57 pm

Searching

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got the search page working. You can search from this main page over on the left or you can click the links to go to the full blown search page. I imagine that over time it will only get more sophisticated. It is pretty basic for now, but I am happy with its output for the time being. Hopefully you will be too. As always, if something isn't right, just let me know.

Dec 10, 2003 - 11:49 pm

CHICK GAMERS PRINCESS!!

Ok Folks...Pretzel here just to give you gamers a little bit of break from the real world. You know there are some things in life that are a huge mystery to me. One mystery that boggles my mind, is the lack of chick gamers in this world. I have only met two girls in the flesh that are true gamers. One, is Cone's wife Dots and the other is Janice a girl we hired at EB Games. Now before I met Dots and Janice I thought that chick gamers would not be HOT at all. After pondering for quite some time on this epidemic of lacking HOT GAMER CHICKS, a bulb was lit. My television tube to be exact. And the most beautiful of all GAMER CHICKS IN THE WORLD appeared. X Play's very own Morgan Webb. On behalf of Snackbar Games I want to give Morgan Webb THE HOT GAMER CHICK of THE MILLENIUM AWARD!! Morgan Webb is truly the most BEAUTIFUL GAMER PRINCESS of all time. In my eyes anyway. If you want to know who Morgan Webb is just click here.

Dec 10, 2003 - 11:02 pm

Site Tweaking

I am going to be working on the search page as soon as possible, but before doing that I went ahead and put a "Direct Link" for each news post below the post time and date. I guess it is pretty self explanatory what that does. I will let you know when the search page is up and running.

Dec 9, 2003 - 4:44 pm

Final Fantasy overload!

Whose idea was it to bring out all these FF games out at roughly the same time? Don't they know I have to work and actually do things during the day?

Dec 9, 2003 - 11:22 am

*pours corona on floor* This is for my homies

Today is a solemn day, as we walk outside and the wind blows oh so gently. Something looms in the air, something eerie. Perhaps the world this morning does not sit right. Perhaps something ill has happened.

Yeah it has, today the gaming industry is a buzz with word that Interplay disbanded developer Black Isle Studios as it has suffered over a 20 million dollar loss this year. The business side of the industry can be ugly. With Black Isle Studios gone those of us that have had the pleasure of playing its unbelievable titles are left with many great memories. I for one loved both Baldur’s Gate and the Icewind Dale series. Something about DnD games I really do enjoy and these fine people brought in onto our computers.

Here is a big thank you from the SB crew; we appreciate everything you did for the industry.

Dec 9, 2003 - 11:09 am

Holiday Madness!!

Snackbarians...What is up? Sorry I have been absent from the site. My computer has been acting up so I have not been able to access the site. All is well now since I have my iMac to fall back on. Things are little hectic in the Pretzel realm, with several games to review and much drama going on. It's needless to say that I have much on my plate. So anyways, just been reading a bunch of stuff on Splinter Cell 2, freaking can't wait until that game comes out. Also been contemplating on buying Beyond Good and Evil, the trailer and the storyline is reeling me in. Also saw the trailer to Armed and Dangerous, I'm totally going to try it out. Played Deus Ex: Invisible War...I was totally pissed at it. Five minutes into and I almost fell asleep. I can't review game that I end up falling asleep on after five minutes. So look out for a NFS: Underground review pretty soon folks.

Dec 9, 2003 - 12:00 am

Koei, I think I love you

It seems that Koei has read my mind and granted me an early Christmas present. They announced today that a new game would be released entitled Samurai Warriors. Yes, it is a hack and slash like DW only with Samurai. Yes it will dominate all that have come before it. Yes it will be out in March of 2004. They drastically improved on many things you will have to read the press release to see them all, but I am sad to read that "SAMURAI WARRIORS is exclusive to the PlayStation 2, and is a 1-2 Player game." Oh how I wish that Koei would get on the bandwagon and do simultanous releases on Xbox and PS2.

Dec 8, 2003 - 11:27 pm

Get out of the shadows and hurt someone!

I have been reading up on the upcoming Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. The good folks at Ubi Soft have implemented a multiplayer game. I am already jumping for joy as I can play against some actual people as opposed to brainless AI henchmen. The games will be kept small to about only four players so games do not turn into deathmatches (you know they will). Mercs vs Spies with the Spies playing the game the way you usually play ala 3rd person mode. The mercs however are in straight up FPS mode as they look under every nook and crannie to find the spies and stop them. Sounds pretty cool. You can bet it will be objective based, and you can bet I will be getting it.

Dec 8, 2003 - 8:31 pm