More Fun Than E3!
Posted: 09/06/2008
Last night’s Geek Night was more fun than E3.
Bold statement if referring to, say, E3 vintage 2003. E3 2008, on the other hand, was laughably poor. I got to play more upcoming unreleased titles last night in my living room than I did at this year’s farce of an E3. Rock Band 2 kicked off the set, setting the stage for an aural thrashing of my apartment. Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky”, Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”, and Dinosaur Jr. “Feel the Pain” were all cranked to 11. And what shambles were left were polished off by a couple of proton packs from Ghostbusters the Video Game. If this game doesn’t get a publisher soon, and subsequently get released, streams will be crossed. No amount of manual venting will keep me from over heating.
Portal: Still Alive was a crowd pleaser, as well as a MAME32 session that dug up arcade favorites like Hippodrome, Rolling Thunder, and Ninja Warriors.
The evening took a decidedly adult direction when Mike fired up some Gal’s Panic.
There is a chance next year’s E3 will be reincarnated into a grander version of Geek Night with the proposed changes the ESA is evaluating. But until they start serving Newcastle, and allowing for decibel levels louder than a Prius, I won’t hold my breath.
