I beat the game! But it still reports only 33% complete. I focused on moving the main story ahead, without doing the side jobs or rampages, or searching every crevice for secrets. Maybe I’ll go back in for more. What a great game! I used to be a total Nintendo zealot, but GTA3 is the game that finally made me branch out into other systems.

I just missed the concert by a few weeks, but I got the CD! It comes with the December issue of Famitsu Cube plus Advance. Let me tell you, what a magazine! Besides the regular video game content (which I can’t read), it had:

• the CD
• fold-it-yourself cardboard CD case
• pullout walkthough of Yoshi’s Island
• stickers
• IRON ONS

…all for only 590 Yen!

As my gift to you, the viewing public, here’s one of the tracks: Dr. Mario. Get it while the getting’s good, it may disappear at any time.

Most obscure music on the CD that I was able to recognize: MACH RIDER.

Pictures from the Tokyo Game Show. I was in Japan on my honeymoon a coupla months ago while the show was going on, and my new wife and I took a whole bunch of pictures. If those pictures are interesting to you, you might also like the rest of our pictures from Japan.