Baby Steps are for Sissies: The ruxpin Launch Library, PS3 edition

All I have to say is that eBay helped keep the costs down a lot. You think I bought all this retail? Puh-lease.

Aquatopia
Assassin's Creed
Blast Factor
Burnout: Paradise
Calling All Cars
Cash Guns Chaos
Devil May Cry 4
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game of the Year Edition)
Enchanted Arms
Everyday Shooter
EyeCreate
flOw
Full Auto 2: Battlelines
Go! Puzzle
Go! Sports Ski
Go! Sports Skydiving
Godfather, the: the Don's Edition
Grand Turismo HD Concept
GripShift
High Stakes: Poker Edition
High Velocity Bowling
John Woo presents Stranglehold (Collector's Edition)
Lair
Lemmings
LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Mesmerize: Distort
Mesmerize: Trace
Mortal Kombat II
MotorStorm
MX Vs. ATV Untamed
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Nucleus
Operation Creature Feature
Orange Box, the
PAIN
PixelJunk Monsters
Piyotama
Q*Bert
Rampage
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man
Sega Rally Revo
Simpsons Game, the
Skate
Stuntman: Ignition
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Super Rub a Dub
Super Stardust HD
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07
Time Crisis 4
Tori-Emaki
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Toy Home
Trials of Topoq
Twisted Metal 2
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Unreal Tournament
Virtua Fighter 5
Virtua Tennis 3

...and after about the 6th eBay game arrived in the mail from the list above (The Simpsons Game, to be exact), the damn optical reader in my PS3 busted. (D'oh!) Now the avalanche of games has been arriving in truckloads in the mail daily, taunting me, unplayable, while the PS3 is in Tennessee somewhere being repaired. Tell me the universe has no sense of humor, I dare yah. Ah well, I waited a year to dive in to PS3, what's a few more weeks? Nowhere to go but up, I guess!

Gamer talk has been bleeding into my other blogs of late, and the rather significant financial investment I have made buying this library attests to how deeply down the rabbit hole I've gone with this adventure. So why not sprout another tentacle off the Seat of Our Pants media empire to celebrate this love of mine? A blog about video games...how original! Well, we'll see how this one flies. (Well, we will in earnest once the damn PS3 returns from Sony repair and we can start playing these a bit. Arg!)

In the meantime, a manifesto: Let this be a space, if you will, to pontificate about gaming observations...to review games (and it will take some time to play these all...jeez!)...to giggle with fanboy glee at games on the horizon (yep, there are still more games on my to-get list!)...to geek out, my brothers and sisters...to geek and game and geek the giggledy geek out. Amen.