I upgraded my MacBook Pro to OSX Lion the day it came out, and it made it impossible for me to play For the Frog the Bell Tolls. Lion doesn’t support PowerPC applications, or something, and my Game Boy emulator is one of those unsupported applications. I’m pretty disappointed, because I was enjoying the game quite a bit. However, it leaves me something to look forward to once I get my Compaq laptop back. 

In the meantime, I finally blew the dust out of my copy of Bomberman 64 that I got a week or so ago. It’s actually a pretty difficult game. I can’t decide whether it’s hard because of bad mechanics, or just because I’m not used to how the game works. It’s probably a pretty good mix of both. The more I play, the easier it gets, but I still find myself dying at the hand of my own bombs, because I get caught at the very edge of an explosion. 

I’m happy with my purchase of Bomberman. I bought it at the suggestion of a friend who said it was “very Japanese,” which was enough to convince me to buy it. It plays pretty well, and I’d actually like to see a new Bomberman come out for modern systems, because the gameplay is pretty unique. Also, on a side note, the grammar in the game’s dialogue is fantastic. I was happy to see a variety of complex sentences with perfect punctuation.