A lot of you who know me know this — I have a habit of constantly thanking people.

Why is that? Perhaps it’s something I don’t need to regularly do, but I’ve always been in the habit of being appreciative of situations, help, and support, and there’s something I do not even just at Thanksgiving, but fairly regularly in online musings, and to friends and family.

Today, I want to take an opportunity to thank a handful of people pertaining to my situation here at Gamers Anonymous. As the big boss, I want to humbly acknowledge that I wouldn’t be able to do this without a lot of wonderful people to help me out. I have a lot of wonderful employees, people who care about the best interest of the store, and who want to do nothing but help customers in the most appropriate ways they’re able to, and if I didn’t have such a wonderful crew, I wouldn’t be able to do this. I have absolutely wonderful friends and family, people who take the time to support me, talk to me, and even purchase things from the store just to help me out as a businessman. I can’t begin to express what that means.

However, there is a key demographic that supports the store the most, and that is my wonderful customer base. The thing is, there are many customers that are simply that — patrons of the business that help out with each purchase and trade, and then there are people who are in a whole different league. People who go above and beyond with their support, kindness, and willingness to spread the word about our store, or to contribute their time to help me out. Because of people like this, both stores are able to celebrate the community of gamers that thrive here in Albuquerque. Pokemon Friday and the Retro Gaming League were born of this support, and have not just become a place to come meet like minded gamers, but a place to meet friends.

We have seen countless new regular customers join our weekly events, people who bring food, post on our facebook wall, and leave good feedback so that we may improve ourselves as a business. Without you, the business would be meaningless. It is my job to serve your needs, to help you with the games and related interests, and your willingness to do what it is that a customer can do for GA, and I can’t even begin to express how simple your importance is.

To many new friends I’ve made over these many months of owning the store, I have to say that I am beyond thankful for what you’ve done for the store. Customers, to me, should have a relationship proper with the place they like to shop, because to me, it’s not simply business — we are gamers, we are a strong group, meant to have fun and help each other enjoy our experiences to the best of our ability, so let’s continue into 2012 with nothing but great things on the horizon.

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Pac Man for the 2600, the most disappointing port of all time.

Porting has been happening since the beginning of the console industry, while it should be perfect by now, it is not.  Sure the slew of new HD updates look great, and of course there are great games both original and remade that have come out this generation. But no matter what developers say, ports are rarely identical, emulation is never perfect, and that goes extra for third party emulators and illegal ROMS. Simply put, games cannot and do not play the same as they would on the hardware they were originally developed for. How different they are differs from game to game, and also depends on the hardware being emulated. For instance the recent Metal Gear Solid HD collection for 360 has to use an adjusted controller scheme due to the fact that the 360 controller does not have pressure sensitive buttons. Sure it’s not really that annoying and can be relearned in very short order, but it takes away from some of the subtlety of the original title and part of the vision Hideo Kojima had for the game. Read more »

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The server is down for a major update.

Due to the release of Minecraft today our servers need to be updated. We have to take them down for now but we hope to get the newly updated server up as soon as possible. This is where we need you, we need your suggestions. We want to shape this server into something you want to play on. I have some ideas for what I want it to be, and I’m sure your Minecraft preferences are something you’d like to see in this server as well.

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Gamers Anonymous is Albuquerque’s one-stop-shop for all your retro gaming needs. We specialize in selling used classic and modern video games and systems. Gamers Anonymous carries a wide selection of games and accessories for all of the classic systems such as Atari, NES, Genesis, Playstation and much more. We also fix various consoles, controllers, and game issues, as well as host several gaming events throughout the year. If you can’t make it to the store, Gamers Anonymous also hosts an online community for gamers to read reviews and articles and interact with other players. Check out our shop located on the west side of Albuquerque, in the Las Tiendas shopping center next to Metalogic Computers. We encourage all gamers to join in our community, so stop by our stores and game with us!

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For most people (especially myself) have been waiting for “Super Mario 3D Land” not just because it’s a “Mario Game” but because it’s pretty much the first big game release on the 3DS. Sure we have had The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64 which are amazing games but for most of us we have played these games before in the past, but here we have an original Mario game exclusively for the 3DS. So does this Mario game give us exactly what we want in a Mario game on this new portable console?

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I know its late, but retro Mondays review is here… on Wednesday!
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By Ironhide127

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When a good amount of people this year heard the title, Battlefield 3, they would automatically start bringing up the Modern Warfare series and bashing Battlefield, same thing with Battlefield fans bashing on MW fans. Thing is, they are both First Person Shooters, but the same KIND of shooter, they are not. MW and the rest of the Call of Duty series carries the same style as Goldeneye 64. So it’s classified as an, “Arena” shooter, you run around in a big square shooting at each other until either time runs out, or a certain amount of kills are reached. Battlefield is a, “Tactical” shooter, you have an objective that needs to be completed, and squads within the team work together to either complete the objective, or stop the opposing team from reaching their goal.

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When Sega had revealed the trailer for Sonic Generations, there was an easy divide between the camps of Sonic fans.  Those who were unbelievably skeptical, and those who were unbelievably hopeful. Given the Hedgehog’s inconsistent track record for the past decade, it was easy to look back and see that this game, for all intents and purposes, was just an easy cash in on a brand that was in need of some genuine rejuvenation.

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Where is the retro review for this week? Well, Its right here you silly geese, I was just distracted with Arkham City and lost track.

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