Great Court Cases in Video Game History
Thursday, 04/29/10

While most gamers are all too familiar with the Super Mario Bros., few remember the enigmatic Fantastic Steve Cousins. Accompanied by his cousin, Ralph, Fantastic Steve led players on a magical journey through the Sausage Fiefdom. When the Mario Bros. soared to fame a few years later, Fantastic Steve sued the plumber for stealing his act. Unfortunately, Fantastic Steve was found dead before the trial began, leading to further speculation on Mario’s involvement with La Cosa Nostra.

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Xbox Fanboy Still Giddy Over PSN Outage

Monday, March 8, 2010

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“LOL PSN MORE LIKE P-SUCKIN”

“PLAYSTATION MORE LIKE PRAY-IT-WORKS-STATION”

“HEAVY RAIN MORE LIKE SHITTY RAIN ON MY SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK”

These are just some of the output of 360Gamer4939, a young man from Florida whose pride in his choice of gaming system knows no bounds. In these, and countless other posts on message boards, game blogs, and internet chat rooms, he has boasted for over a week about the brief outage of the PlayStation Network for gamers around the world.

“It may have been the best thing that ever happened to me,” he told us. “PS3 fans always get to be so smug with their ‘wah wah red ring this’ and ‘blah blah service outage that’. Well, guess what – now who’s got the reliable system? That’s right, me. Suck on that, PlayStation fans.”

The tables, it seems, have been turned – at least in the eyes of 360Gamer4939. Whereas once, he had to resort to mudslinging like “GEM IS A GAY NAME” and “ROLE-PLAYING GAMES ARE FOR FAGS”, now he has a strong basis for his argument – the brief outage of an online service, for a portion of PlayStation 3 users. “The facts are finally 100% on my side – the Xbox 360 is clearly the better system.”

360Gamer4939 will continue to preach the gospel anywhere he sees fit – as long as it doesn’t involve leaving his computer chair. He has a lot of time to preach the gospel these days – his 360 is currently on its way back from being repaired for its fifth red-ring.