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Folks, there's something brewing in the air lately. First off, if you own Pokemon Black or White, it seems the Liberty Pass may have extended further than April 10th. Still, it would be safe to check it anyway in case you can still download it. Word has it that the final cutoff date will be April 27th.

Second, Pokemon-related, the Global Link. This global link was suppose to start at the end of last month. But due to the Tsunami/Earthquake, it was delayed for North Americans and brought down in Japan. Recently, a final date announcement has been set for Tomorrow. That's right. Now you can trade em all over the online world.

Also, how can you tell when you can compared Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC? Have Sony's Jack Tretton compare Nintendo's games to babysitting.

"They're starting to run out of steam now in terms of continuing to be relevant in 2011 and beyond," he says. "I mean, you've gotta be kidding me. Why would I buy a gaming system without a hard drive in it? How does this thing scale? Motion gaming is cute, but if I can only wave my arms six inches, how does this really feel like I'm doing true accurate motion gaming?"

He's got a point. But then again, they're not the only ones with Motion gaming(Points to the Move controls). But they also have this to say about the DS and the Game Boy experience

"Our view of the 'Game Boy experience' is that it's a great babysitting tool, something young kids do on airplanes, but no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those," he says. "He's too old for that."

Of course he's too old for that. That's why when it came to the PSP, they left it to capture dust. That's something the DS is not capable of doing because it was made for babies. IF you cannot capture dust, you are made for babies.

Finally, it has come to my attention that the creator of the cartridge used first in the Fairchild Channel F, Jerry Lawson, has passed away recently.

Lawson will be remembered as the engineer of the first cartridge-based game console (with a pause option!), the Fairchild Channel F, which launched in August 1976 as the Video Entertainment System (VES). He was also the only black member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club, formed in Silicon Valley in the mid-70s.

In the early 1980s he founded and ran Videosoft, which developed a handful of games for the Atari 2600. Additionally, Lawson's Demolition Derby was one of the first coin-op arcade machines, produced in his garage in the early '70s and installed in a southern California pizzeria shortly after Pong debuted. One of its key design features prevented players from stealing "free" games by jiggling the coin switch.

Rest in peace Jerry. Without you, who knows how messed up gaming would have been and would now have been.

Works Cited
CNN Fortune
Serebii.net
Joystiq