Michael Cook’s Place

The other day I finished Super Mario Galaxy. It was a terribly fun game (it took me 21 hours to get all 120 stars), and I’d say buy it. However it has been getting great reviews, and there are some little bits that I’d like to complain about… most of which I didn’t see in [...]

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Last night it occurred to me that the writer’s strike in Hollywood has an unintended consequence for me. Other than listening to NPR, I get most all my news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. NPR has covered the strike a little, but since the situation hasn’t changed it has only received a [...]

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I have put the Things I Want section back up, although it looks different from the way it was when I was using SiteMaker.
That’s really all. I’m up to 102 stars in Super Mario Galaxy. Won’t be long now.

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Below is a copy of an email that I sent to Telltale support and sales. It was also sent to The Adventure Company, who published the retail box. They are so nice as to not have any way to contact them except through a small web form, which I had to submit multiple times in [...]

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I just got a copy of Super Mario Galaxy on Tuesday. I’m having quite a bit of fun with it. But I’ll write about it later. This post is my little review of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I finished the game about 15 minutes ago.
Graphics
I don’t have much to say about this. The [...]

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