Got my new issue of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) in the mail yesterday. I have issue #2 of EGM and have read issue #1 (the current issue is #157) and obviously a lot has changed since then. The mag started out really good, then somewhere around issue #20 it fell apart. It's gotten better since it was picked up by Ziff Davis, but I do wonder why every game magazine has to pander to the 16 year old market. Perhaps it's teenagers who buy the most mags, but having pages devoted to "booth babes" of E3, the talk of how cool blood and gore is, and that great potty humor just doesn't make for great reading. They also have the audacity to somehow call all of this writing "mature". Mature for 16 year olds who don't know what mature means perhaps.

I know it will never happen but I would like to see a game mag written for people who are really into gaming, not side show antics. Next Generation magazine was exactly this when it first came out, but again, around issue #20 it all fell apart. I guess it all has to do with the economics of making a print mag. You need to pander to the lowest common denominator to make any money. Funny, same goes for online game sites. Thankfully, Steve Kent is still around, the only glimmer of hope in an otherwise cesspool of gaming journalism.

I decided that in anticipation for the new Metroid game coming out in November I better reaquaint myself with the old Metroid games. So I pulled out my trusty NES and my old copy of Metroid and quickly realized that I had misplaced the NES plug. Thank god for emulation, as I've intead been playing it on my Mac all morning. Not quite as comfortable as sitting in the living room, but it will do for now.