I must have been working much too hard lately (more on that later), but I totally missed the fact that R-Type Final has been released on PS2. I've been waiting to play this game for a long time, and for only $30, how can I go wrong?

But there's a slight problem, I don't own a PS2. I know what you're thinking, "How the hell can you of all people not own a PS2?". I just don't. There hasn't been much on the system that I've really wanted to play besides the GTA games (which I've played to death on friends systems), and of the games I do want to play, most of them are Japanese, like Taiko no Tatsujin, and I've never been big on the mod chip thing (being a collector and all).

But R-Type is different. It's not just R-Type, it's R-Type FINAL. The last R-Type they'll ever make. And when you hold the world high score in the original version for the Master System, the series takes on a whole new meaning.

They say the shooter genre has died (especially since for some reason the term "shooter" now means "FPS" which I will never understand) and that nobody is buying them anymore. Well this shooter is going to move systems (well, a system). That's got to count for something, right?