Thursday, April 12, 2007

Ah, I Am Just a Big Kid...

Well, what can I say? I recently picked up a PSP (Playstation Portable) on a lark, and I am hooked! Found a guy on the Toronto edition of craigslist.com (which is, for me, starting to become a more feasible way to buy/sell than eBay - no fees, no hassles, no ridiculous restrictions (ie. on eBay they will not allow you to accept Western Union money transfers due to "security" concerns, yet local pickup with cash and sending cash in the mail is OK. Of course, everyone knows they are just trying to drive people to use Paypal, which of course is owned by eBay. Starting to really like using craigslist.com

Anyhow, I found a guy on craigslist.com who, unfortunately, had his PSP stolen, so he is selling all his games. Great shape too. So far I have dropped by his place to buy Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade (total fantasy role playing character game - I totally dig these, back to the old King's Quest and Baldur's Gate, etc. games). Anyway, plays well on the PSP so far. The constant changing of the UMD discs is annoying, so I found a way to hack the PSP in order for me to be able to save all the games from UMD to memory stick (bought a 4GB MS Pro Duo for a great price - from a local eBay seller). Anyway, I figure I can get the games pretty cheap second hand and then get them installed on my memory stick and the play is so much faster (and it protects the original UMD disc). I went back and bought Ape Escape yesterday - that is a hilarious game - my son loves it, as do I - it's just fun goofy kid's cartoony-type of game. I am going to get 3 more probably today or tomorrow from him - he has movies on UMD as well, but I am not interested in watching movies with the PSP. UMD movies are so expensive, and they only play on the small screen. May as well just buy a DVD and watch it on my regular TV.

My brother originally got a PSP a few weeks ago and was raving about it. I figured that it wasn't such a big fuss, but then I found a good deal (off eBay, from a local seller) and picked it up from him (that was another story in and of itself - great guy, but I did the pickup in the middle of the night). I got the original receipt from him (he bought it at Walmart for close to $350.00. Obviously I paid a lot less than that).

So I am now feeling the full extent of my geeky-ness by having this gadget. Perhaps it's 24 years of withdrawal manifesting itself, since the last time I had a handheld gadget like this, I was 10 years old, my Grandma gave me this hand-held Pacri-monster (Japanese pac-man style game), I brought it to school, and one of my schoolmates stole it out of my desk. I know who it was, though he denied it, but others saw him take it. That's OK - that guy got some crappy parenting and last I heard, he wasn't doing too well in life. Well, things always come back to bite you, so there...

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