For the Lefties online who are saying you "can't criticize the 'Minecraft' movie if you aren't a kid", my daughter tells me that kids hate the preview as well, and are "meme'ing" it to hell and back!

I've been playing quite a bit of "Doom 64" recently, on real hardware, on a CRT television. The game plays great with the N64 controller, provided you map the left and right "C-Buttons" to strafe left and right, respectively-- then I move the map over to "L", ala "Turok". It also looks great on the TV. My biggest problem with it is that the gameplay is a little too puzzle based for me-- you spend almost all of your time playing wandering around trying to figure out what random wall switches have triggered.

Finally, I ordered a modded Game Boy Advance from a seller on eBay-- but when it arrived, the left direction on the d-pad didn't work. The seller implied that I'd broken it somehow, which was frustrating. But he did agree to a return and refund-- I'll just turn around and order one back from him, my guess is the d-pad membrane moved during shipping, as the quality of the other work he did on it seemed excellent. I'll post pictures once all of that settles.

The neat thing is that outside of the "build your own PC" sphere, the GBA is probably the next closest thing: there is an entire cottage industry around selling modern screens, battery mods, speaker mods, custom "shells", custom buttons and anything else you can imagine. It's almost like the platform has gone "open source hardware", so-to-speak-- it's pretty cool! I'm not the handiest with a soldering iron so it was easier for me to outsource that work to someone else-- but I could have "built my own" GBA, for sure, just like how I assemble my own gaming PCs.