Amusemental: The Toy and Candy Weblog

High Heat Baseball

I recently purchased High Heat Baseball 2004 for my Playstation 2, because I love playing baseball on video game consoles, and I haven't played one for a while. But more specifically: I just bought a used, year-old baseball game for my Playstation 2, not necessarily because I'm cheap, but because I'm too stupid not to realize that it was a year old (I can't really be blamed, though, for not remembering that sports game designers date their games forward a year, just like car manufacturers).

All the same, despite the fact that it doesn't have the newest rosters, it shouldn't really matter how old it is, because I play video games for really stupid reasons. And perhaps lamest of all is the reason that I play baseball video games: because I like to hit home runs.

No, let me be more specific: I like to hit home runs, then watch the arc of the ball as it travels out of the park, finally to land out in McCovey Cove or on Sheffield Avenue (outside of Wrigley Field, for you non-Chicagoans).

And you know what? High Heat Baseball doesn't let me do that. It just shows the ball zooming out of the stadium from the batter's perspective, meaning that I can't see where it lands.

As I said: stupid reasons. If you play video games for more normal reasons, you might like it. Or, you might like to try MLB 2005.

Restaurant Empire

Okay, so once you've tired of the fast pace business of running your own Yoshinoya, you can go for the more cerebral Restaurant Empire.

Review of Restaurant Empire.
Official Restaurant Empire site.
View screenshots from the game

Link via kottke.org

Playboy: The Mansion Video Game

We heard abbout Playboy: The Mansion game back in May.

In the game, players don the pajamas of Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner and are given the task of building the Playboy empire by developing contacts, keeping the bunnies happy, selling magazines and, of course, throwing lavish parties.

And now we have the answer to the question on all our minds: Yes, the illusionist David Copperfield does indeed makes an appearance in the game.

Yoshinoya Playstation 2 Game

The perfect Playstation game (okay, well, the most perfect game ever) for for those who want to run their own Yoshinoya Restaurant. Even if you can't get the game, you've got to check out hot beef bowl action from the game.

From gamespot:

You'll take the role of a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed trainee at a Yoshinoya store who must work his way up through the ranks of the apron-and-hat-wearing set to be the best employee to ever seat a customer, pour tea, prepare a bowl, and shout "Arigato gozaimashita!"

Purchase game from Amazon.jp (you'll need a Japanese region PlayStation).

via waxy.org

See also:
CoCo Curry
PlayStation Japan
Web-based Lemonade Stand The beginning of many a child's entrepreneurial ambitions.
Lemonade Tycoon Download a jazzier version for Windows.