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Week 13 - 2001
Coming
	Thrift stores After weeks of nothingness, some good scores at last
	Salora Manager [link] Finally! The disk drive!
	Dreamcast discounts Just a matter of time before all those classics can be had for small change.
Going
	Postal service fees in Finland One more price raise and I'll start carrying the stuff myself!
	PS2 Games See it to believe it: they're mostly poor.
	Pokémon The second-best hype train in the world slowing down
Games we've played this week
Rayman Revolution (PS2), Gran Turismo 2 (PSX), AirXonix (PC), Pinball Fantasies (Amiga), Daytona USA (Saturn), Trevor McFur (Jaguar)
Mikko's rant
What a dark week in the history of mankind: I now have the PS2. Having bought it reluctantly to use for reviewing games, I've taken some time to play around with it, "gain perspective", and here are my findings. The system isn't bad, as in "CD-i bad" or even "Jaguar bad", but a lot about it is dissatisfying. It's just not fun. The memory card costs a fortune and games are hellishly expensive too. The DVD playback, although quite viewable in terms of picture quality, is really intolerant of disc scratches; rental discs are a pain on it. The best games I've seen look OK - like standard Dreamcast titles, only they usually play much worse. Several games have serious framerate & pop-up issues, and the "WOW"-factor is nonexistent, even if I ignore my huge bias. Whatever's in there is not being used right. I've heard Z.O.E. will be the first game to really show off the slab of black plastic, but until then, I just can't believe this is what killed the Dreamcast. Oh, and I don't see the fuss about GT3 either: the shots I've seen on IGN are ok, but they're not gorgeous, let alone anything I haven't seen before on other systems.
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