You know, I think my influence here is starting to show...the other day, as Blue and I were leaving Manhattan, we took a sidestep into a store, and the Smurf bought himself a Playstation. Woo hoo! Being the avid console fan that I am (I'm a collector, I'm afraid...I practically have a console museum in my apartment) this would be good news. Now if I could only get him to give Pokemon a chance...

Other good news on the console front: I've been playing quite a bit of the Nintendo 64 port of Quake 2, and while it's certainly not as visually stunning as the PC version (especially on a TNT2 or Voodoo 3 equipped PC) it's pretty dang cool. The level design's good, the weapons feel right, and although the controller's a bit funky, any fan of Turok or Goldeneye knows it can work just fine in a FPS if you give it some time. It's also the first N64 game that has prompted me to invest in the N64 expansion pack, which adds 4 meg of ram to the system. While it doesn't increase the game's resolution like it does in some other titles, it does significantly improve the framerate and overall polish of the experience. I strongly recommend picking one up if you're going to give Quake 2 - 64 a whirl (along with a couple of extra controllers for that true deathmatch experience).

On a completely different note, today is the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch that would prompt the moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Those of us that are too young to have experienced it first hand tend to forget, but this is indeed one of, if not the most important moments of the century.

Link of the Day: NASA's Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Site