Late Launch “PC”ing Me Off

Some notes collected while wondering whatever happened to Dave Semenko…..

As the kids would say today, I feel dissed.  What has me seeing red is seeing NHL ’09 for Xbox and PS3 on the shelves of your favorite neighborhood gaming store while our beloved PC version is still some five weeks from it’s scheduled ship date.

So while our kids are by now neck deep in fantasy leagues or the much hyped “Be a Pro” mode of this year’s edition the old men who likely funded those purchases can merely while away the hours (or drool for those diehards out there) as we stare down the hourglass until the PC version makes it’s way, possibly through the snow, and into our grubby mitts (or mittens) just in time to say “trick or treat”.

What this says to this writer is enjoy the PC game while you can, girls.  It would appear that this sort of disrespect for the original is certainly EA’s way of eventually saying goodbye and we could likely be looking at potentially the last computer based edition of the age old series.

If that is true it will be too bad.  One of the things I have come to treasure over the years is the coziness of stealing away to the den on a cold winter night to fire up the Dell and bask in the light of the monitor and heat of the online action knowing that whatever guttural utterings that come out of my mouth will usually be protected by the French doors I hide behind in my winter lair.  There’s no room for a TV in my den so I will likely be “exposed” to the living room and the lack of protection from my game face those who live with me have gotten all these years from the four solid walls of the den. Going to an Xbox or PS3 model will not only require the development of new controller skills but the control of my profanity laced tirades every time Tom kicks my ass in a not so “friendly”.

Oh well, next year we will have a new Yankee Stadium after 85 years, so I guess nothing lasts forever….but it still makes me want to scream …. F%@K!

Figure I better get it all out of my system now.