Sunday marks the launch date for the new handheld from Nintendo. Ours arrived yesterday along with Mario 64 and Spiderman 2. I got to spend some time playing Spiderman while Dots played Mario 64. Overall my first impression is a good one. The screens are about the same size as the SP, but they are much more crisp. Dots spent a lot of time playing Dr. Mario from the Classic NES Series 2 on the DS and man that game looks crisp and bright. Not all of the GBA games had improved graphical qualities as the original Legend of Zelda looked the same. I am going to do a review of the hardware and the 2 games we got sometime this week. I will post a few pictures I took last night of the unit next to my Classic SP.

I told you I was going to draw another name for the VJ Prize Pack and that winner is [b]Andres Rodriguez[/b]. I am emailing Andres right now.

So I rebuilt the banner system from scratch today and it is a lot more efficient. You will see no improvements as it was strictly administrative. Pickle has been complaining that the page is broken and I want to isolate it to him or find out if it is a major problem for many of you. Let me know if the site looks normal to you or not.

Edit: Apparently it is only when we have the small 367×55 banners and not the full 468×60 ones.

Lately Snackbar Games has been picked up by some other sites, that list our reviews. That’s very cool and all, but they assign grades for us, which is pretty lame. We have strayed away from giving out grades to games in our review because the fear of setting a high precedence. Once the first 10 out of 10 is given, you must now measure every game by that standard. I often times see two games given a 10 in gamer mags, when one game is better then other hands down.

Also a review in the hands of a fan boy of a series is more then likely going to get an outstanding review. I think we have been pretty successful in disclaimering reviews with (This might be a tad bit biased, I am a fan boy of the series). I am very guilty of this with anything Square Enix related, Cone with anything platform related, and Pretz with most FPS games. What can I say we got our niches too, just like you guys.

Anyways we need a way to better describe how we feel about a game, right now the Crew, its writing staff and NEW editors just give it a rent, don’t bother, or buy status. We give a take on the game, what you do from their is your call. So hit us up with some ideas on how to better that system. Email them to one of us or post it on our forums.