The Holtonian

Video game gibberish

So on the trip to Destin I got a lot of GBSP in or gameboy sp to the layperson. I purchased Street Fighter 2 for the gameboy and its a pretty much exact clone of the snes one. I beat it with pretty much every character. Its a classic game and I love the simplicity of it. Some of the moves i still can't do, and i can't hardly ever consistently do Ryu or Ken's "Aruken." I love Guile b/c his moves are easy, but I kick serious booty with Ryu. I don't even need his special moves, because I've got his regular moves down pat. Its pretty much why in the HOJO Tournament I'm up on Roe in wins. Roe and I have sparred Ryu vs Ken and he relies more on the special moves where I rely upon kicking and punching.
      I haven't played much xbox really at all. Roe and I tried playing Hunters The Reckoning, but got tired of the constant mindless button pushing, all you have to do is keep a safe distance from the baddies and you'll be fine, and frankly that's kind of boring. I also tried playing Serious Sam but found the gameplay a bit dull and story a bit too stupid to enjoy. Halo 2 still remains to be fun and I'll probably take it up a notch on a higher level.
      In other game news I also bought Tetris for the gbsp and got to level 13 which was pretty impressive. I also saw on G4 tv the history of the game tetris. This was pretty darn interesting here's a synopsis of what I remember:

      Russian dude in Commy russia time works for the ministry of computers. He gets bored and combines his knowledge of computers with his love of puzzles. He liked a certain puzzle where the pieces all had to fit into this square perfectly. He desigined the game and took the word Tetra (russian for four) and combined it with Tennis (his favorite sport) thus Tetris was born. He shared the game around russia, basically Commie Share ware. He then got a computer, a PC from Belarus, and saw that his game had made it out of the country.
      An old man american caught wind of the game and saw an opportunity for money. He sort of got the rights for the game and took them to the US and sold them to a few computer companies. The game is made for the PC and is a pretty big hit. Then a few big wig computer companies try to get in on the action. One major company goes to Russia to land the cosole rights and a small lesser known company goes as well. However, the guy who invented Tetris didn't have the legal rights for it, the ministry of computers did since he used their computers to create the game. The two US companies haggle with the ministry of computers... the bigger one has political clout, the lesser offers the ruskies kickbacks and profit sharing for the game. The lesser guy gets the rights and teams up with Nintendo and basically gives Nintendo soul rights. Nintendo then goes and sues the other company (the one with all the clout) for releasing the game under false rights. Nintendo wins, the lesser company convinces nintendo to package tetris with the original gameboy... and the rest is history....

Except what happened to the creator? Did he get screwed? Nope now he works for Microsoft making puzzle games. SO he goes from working for one soul-less crooked dictatorship/totalitarin regime to working for another one... crazy commies.