Wal-Mart blues (next month I go on tour!)

Would that I could afford an XBox 360 or PS2 and "Guitar Hero II", I doubt I'd ever leave home. As it is, I play that game about twice a week since the demo came out over at Wal-Mart. I can now respect the guitar work of Van Halen and mock that of Nirvana (although I recognize that both are better than I am, I can sometimes delude myself into thinking, in one instance, not by much).

Right next to this display is that of "God of War", a game that cannot be ignored by sheer virtue of the first fight is a man sized character (you) pitted against the Collosus of Rhodes. Every 5 seconds it spouts some inane line ("I AM the god of war!", "I WILL make you suffer", etc.) but the awesomeness of having an ancient Greek city quake about you while you do combat with something that nearly deserves, in every respect, the title "titan" really does make it a title I'd consider about 10 years ago.

Next to that is... a baseball game. Given the rest of the line-up, I don't have to tell you how awkward that is. Ultraboy liked it, the chance he had at it. He claimed it was very realistic and fun to watch as well as play (I think the system for that one was the WII, part of a plot to make the geeks of the world physically fit and talented, perhaps even envied by all around for their stunning good looks and range of skills... but I digress). Still, I can't fathom baseball being anywhere near as fun as playing the guitar.

This all reminds me that I recently encountered an ad for something similar to this singing game. What next? A drum game?

You really got me, now...