House of Burgess

Since I'm somewhat behind the curve on gaming systems, due to some, um, payment issues, I have just begun filling out my collection of the freshly defunct XBOX and Playstation 2 gaming systems. This is good for me financially because as new technology is released, the old technology, while still perfectly usable in most cases, drops significantly in price. For example, I can remember my parents dropping over a grand on our first home desktop computer, which now has about the same, if not less, capabilities as my moderately-priced cell phone.
The downside to all this used game buying is that I get the dregs of people's gaming collections, while they keep the best games for themselves. So while I might be hard-pressed to find a copy of Katamari Damacy or and of the Grand Theft Auto series, they've got football and basketball games from previous years for days.
So after perusing these less-loved games from such trusted gaming sources as The History Channel and The U.S. Army, I was shocked, but not necessarily surprised that the National Rifle Association came out with a first-person shooter. I was a bit horrified to learn that it was rated E for Everyone until I saw that you're only target practicing, not hunting for the most dangerous game (in case you haven't seen the Ice-T movie of the same name, the most dangerous game is, of course, people). I guess it's better that they get a virtual skeet shooting experience everyone can get behind instead of trying to convince your Dad that the copy of Vice City you're trying to sneak by him isn't the one with the sex mini-game.