Roger Ward

I love eBay. Sure it’s a place where one can ripped off and it’s a place where you can buy pretty much anything like someone’s soul or even an old Russian submarine! My needs are a little less grandiose or odd. I’m a fan of old games. You remember those don’t you? The games where you got a massive 200 page manual, reference card, map posters and numerous floppy discs all in a 5 kilo box. But the most important thing included was an actual good game!

Sadly those days are far behind us. Now our lucky if you get a manual in a crappy DVD case and the game is usually some derivative piece of shit that is a rehash of some other derivative piece of shit where you shoot people in the head many times over because that’s what the average ritalin fuelled gamer wants these days.

So I suppose eBay is somewhat of a saviour of mine in that it allows me to still get my hands on some classics that I might have missed the first time around. So what’s my point? Nothing really, I just got Taskforce 1942 today and now I’m happy.

On a recent CNN story regarding the introduction of “Peanuts” to Northwest Airlines in-flight menu (yeah, because that’s considered news!) a reporter must have had another thing on her mind due to her use of the word “Penis”. Not once or twice, but three times!! I suppose it’s a good way to have a break and get some time off work in the form of a mandatory suspension (possibly) seeing as how uptight the yanks are over anything the slightest bit rude. Look at at boob nonsense from the super bowl a few years ago!

Oh well, it certainly makes for funny viewing and what will most likely turn into the latest youtube sensation.