Tiger Woods Golf

Killer rented TW over the weekend and Killer is very happy he did NOT buy it. While the graphics look good, the controls, menus, courses and game play make the game a DO NOT BUY. Killer played it for a few hours and was so disappointed Killer decided it would be more fun to give the Dogs Of Killer baths. Killer was right, giving the dogs a bath was more fun.

Many years ago, Killer bought TW 2003 and it was great. Then sold 2003 for 2004. That was a mistake - to much bling, not enough substance. Sold 2004 for 2005.. same story.. different year. Finally Killer saw the light and sold 2005 and bought 2003 again. Of all the different incarnations... 2006 is the worse.

Where oh where is Links?????????

Upcoming List (Whacky)

Well, I was glancing through the upcoming games for the year and here is what the plan is:
Over G Fighters (6/7)
Test Drive (6/20)
SC:DA (9/1)
MAYBE: Rainbow 6: Vegas (9/1)
If they ruin Vegas the way they ruined Lockdown, then I will not get it.

Of course, there may be one or two Arcade games, if they ever release them. And there are always rentals. During the off months I'll do TW Golf and some others to see if worth buying.

If only they would come out with the next Links golf game.....

There is nothing new under the sun

Hey Jack Thompson, which of these did you indulge in?

The Culture War
How new media keeps corrupting our children.
By Tom Standage

US senator Charles Schumer says some videogames aimed at kids "desensitize them to death and destruction." But dire pronouncements about new forms of entertainment are old hat. It goes like this: Young people embrace an activity. Adults condemn it. The kids grow up, no better or worse than their elders, and the moral panic subsides. Then the whole cycle starts over.

Here's how the establishment has greeted past scourges.

Novels - "The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?"- Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790

The Waltz - "The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced ... at the English Court on Friday last ... It is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous inter­twining of the limbs, and close com­pressure of the bodies ... to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was con­fined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is ... forced on the respectable classes of society by the evil example of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion." - The Times of London, 1816

Movies - "This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood ... Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result. The Society has prosecuted many for leading girls astray through these picture shows, but GOD alone knows how many are leading dissolute lives begun at the 'moving pictures.'" - The Annual Report of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909

The Telephone - "Does the telephone make men more active or more lazy? Does [it] break up home life and the old practice of visiting friends?" - Survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus Adult Education Committee, San Francisco Bay Area, 1926

Comic Books - "Many adults think that the crimes described in comic books are so far removed from the child's life that for children they are merely something imaginative or fantastic. But we have found this to be a great error. Comic books and life are connected. A bank robbery is easily translated into the rifling of a candy store. Delinquencies formerly restricted to adults are increasingly committed by young people and children ... All child drug addicts, and all children drawn into the narcotics traffic as messengers, with whom we have had contact, were inveterate comic-book readers This kind of thing is not good mental nourishment for children!" - Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, 1954

Rock and Roll - "The effect of rock and roll on young people, is to turn them into devil worshippers; to stimulate self-expression through sex; to provoke lawlessness; impair nervous stability and destroy the sanctity of marriage. It is an evil influence on the youth of our country." - Minister Albert Carter, 1956

Videogames - "The disturbing material in Grand Theft Auto and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children and it's making the difficult job of being a parent even harder ... I believe that the ability of our children to access pornographic and outrageously violent material on video games rated for adults is spiraling out of control."- US senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2005

Tom Standage (tomtom@pobox.com) is technology editor at The Economist and author of The Victorian Internet and A History of the World in Six Glasses.

Jack Thompson goes ballistic in ... 5....4....3...

There is sanity in the world!!


Judge Rules Mich. Video Game Law Illegal
The Associated PressTuesday, April 4, 2006; 6:17 AM

DETROIT -- A federal judge has ruled that a Michigan law that bars retailers from selling or renting violent video games to minors is unconstitutional.

The Entertainment Software Association, Video Software Dealers Association and Michigan Retailers Association, trade groups representing U.S. computer and video game publishers, filed a lawsuit in September, charging that the law is unconstitutionally vague and limits First Amendment rights.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the law in September, and it was scheduled to take effect Dec. 1. But U.S. District Judge George Steeh issued a preliminary injunction in November, putting the law on hold.

Steeh's ruling on Friday made the injunction permanent.

"Video games contain creative, expressive free speech, inseparable from their interactive functional elements, and are therefore protected by the First Amendment," he said in his ruling.
Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, applauded the judge's decision in a statement, saying it "represents a sweeping rejection of the state's claims
regarding the harmful effects of violent video games."

The lawsuit named Granholm, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy as defendants.

"We ... will be reviewing the judge's order and discussing legal options, including an appeal at the attorney general's office," said Heidi Watson, a spokeswoman for Granholm. "But we will continue our efforts to protect kids from violent video games by working with retailers."

Similar laws have been struck down or put on hold in several states, including California, Illinois and Washington