Put a quarter in your ass ’cause you played yourself

This is the video game post.

• Mother (AKA Earthbound) 3 is coming out April 20 in Japan and I could not be more excited. It’s going to be released for the Gameboy Advance, which is as close to the Super Nintendo as Shigesato Itoi could get. Details have been kept totally undercover, so I can’t tell you what it’s about, but I can say that it’s going to be either the greatest or third-greatest game ever made.
• I’ve been playing Ape Escape 3 and it’s kind of okay. I’m 10% complete. A bunch of monkeys have gotten loose, and you have to catch them with a net. This is the third refinement of that idea. There’s 3D forshortening, so sometimes when you think you have one of those motherfucking monkeys cornered you’re wrong and they throw a banana grenade at you. Such is life.
• I’ve also been playing a little Spider Solitaire, one of the bundled WindowsXP solitaire games, and it’s pretty hard on the four-suit setting. In fact, I still haven’t solved a game. Rough. I wonder how much luck is involved. I doubt every deal is winable. Most of the strategy is obvious
• My next Playstation 2 game is going to be Disgaea. I love turn-based tactical RPGs. After that, Rogue Galaxy.