Kraftwerk

I just received my three Kraftwerk CDs from CDNow and have listened to them. Wow, this is some tight shit. I HIGHLY recommend them, as these guys pretty much invented electronic music. Today I received: Computer World, Trans Europe Express, and The Man-Machine. All are badass.

Also, I would like to compliment CDNow on their great service, just yesterday I received my shipping notice and they were here today.

As a matter of personal pride, I would like to announce that I have every single Bad Religion album downloaded. I am the king of mp3z.

The Archives
Well, Big Boy Productions has been up long enough now that our first articles have been taken off the main page and thrown into The Archives. Unlike some of our older sites, the archiving is not done manually; it is automatic.

The main page only keeps the latest 3 days of posts, so if you want see anything older than that, you'll need to head on over to the archives, which is located on the menu bar on the left side of the page under the heading ::Past::. There you can look at every single post we've ever done.

Networked PS2s
Last night Jamie and I went to Best Buy and got a 4-pin to 4-pin i.LINK cable so we could connect our two PlayStation2s together and play some networked GT3. He brought over his PS2 and TV, we linked up the PS2s, and we battled quite a few times. It was really great to be able to race full screen on your TV, talking smack to your opponent, all while knowing that other car on the track is a living human. Cool.

Evidently, it's possible to purchase an i.LINK hub and and have up to 6 players race against each other. Gotta try that sometime.

ph33r the xb0x.

Oh yes, final totals I promised. I never managed to offload the Saturn, World Series Baseball, the PlayStation, GameDay 98, GameDay 99, or Final Fantasy Tactics, and couldn't sell the modchip either. We still earned $218 towards a PS2. Cha-ching.

I still hate Cart-Mart.

One sentence says it all.

Adam and Zakk own a PlayStation2 game console.

Cart Mart Sucks

Proving that true game nerds have no social skills, going into CartMart today was absoluely horrid. The guy rejected my Playstation System, my Saturn system, and 16 of my 21 games. In fact, all he took was Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Crazy Taxi 2 for the DC, and all my N64 games. He only took 5 games and my maracas. What was I bid for that fine piece of work? $94 of in-store credit, $65 in cold hard cash. I opted for the credit, planning on offloading the rest of my games at Software Etc. for cash and then coming back and buying a PS2 GT3 pack.

The guy at Software Etc. ruled. He was informative, funny, and friendly (something Cart-Mart employees have never heard of) and he took all my games except NFL Gameday 99 (which was worth $2 anyway). He came up with a total of $78, which I was pleased with. Unfortunately, it was good for store credit only. No cash. I took the credit, went back to CartMart, and got the cash, which the guy there almost wouldn't give to me (despite the fact that I had been in there a mere 45 minutes ago). He did give me the cash, and I have (so far)... $143 towards the purchase of a PlayStation2.

Lest you not forget that I still have NFL2K, NBA2K, and Sonic Adventure left unsold (I didn't try to offload them at my last Software Etc. trip... I wanted to put them in nicer jewel cases and get them skip doctored by Rob before trying to sell 'em...). I also have 8 controllers I plan on selling, not to mention a GoldFinger cheat device and four memory cards.

PS2, here we come.

Trip to Cart-Mart

Zakk and I have decided we can't go another day without the glory that is PS2 in our home. We've decided to pull out all the stops and insure that we have a PS2 in our house today.

Today is HyVee payday, which will certainly help... but the thing that's going to really earn us a boatload of money is our trip to Cart Mart within an hour or two. We are going to sell so much stuff.

PlayStation
- System
- Modchip
- Two normal controllers
- Two analog controllers
- Multitap
- Two memory cards
- Final Fantasy 7
- Final Fantasy Tactics (Very rare)
- NFL Gameday 98
- NFL Gameday 99

Saturn
- System
- Two normal controllers
- World Series Baseball

Nintendo 64
- Two controllers
- Mario 64
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- NBA Hangtime

Note: we wanted to sell all our N64 stuff, including all four controllers and all of our games... but Zakk and I realized that my sister owns half the games for the N64... Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Diddy Kong Racing are all hers!

Dreamcast
- One third party controller
- Set of Samba de Amigo Maracas
- NFL 2K
- NFL 2K1
- NBA 2K
- NBA 2K1
- NHL 2K
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- Soul Calibur
- Sonic Adventure
- Crazy Taxi
- Crazy Taxi 2
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
- Shenmue

Note: We can sell all of those games thanks to our good buddy Rob. :)

Super Nintendo:
- Two third party controllers

I'll be sure to post how much all this gaming goodness is actual worth later on today.

Jaymz NCAA 2002 Football Review

NCAA 2002 Football

The best college football game hands down. This game is ran after the style of the new Madden 2002 thats coming out around the end of Augest. There are tons of cool features that I have not ever seen in any type of football game. For instance have you ever scored a touchdown and then watch your teams mascot celebrate in the endzone. My team Florida is ranked #1 in the game which has its ups and downs. Now when I play someone they can say "well you had the best team in the game" so I don't really like to use them. I use the Iowa Hawkeys. Some other features include Dynasty which you build up a team, and at the end the season you can recruit players from high school or you can also get fired. One of the coolest things that I like is that you can build up players and then at the end of the season draft them into Madden 2002. I woke up at Zakk's house at 11:30 and Zakk and I started to play a dynasty with the hawks. We were hooked on it, we played from 11:30am to 6pm with a 15 minute lunch break. Before we knew it we were done with 8 games, thats 2/3's of the season. I highly recommend this game. It is that 2nd best game out there behind Gran Turismo 3.
Jaymz - 9.8

Wendy's

Mike, Swifty, Zakk, and I went to Wendy's today. I got my usual (Classic Triple, Biggie Sized, Mountain Dew) and sat down. Mike ordered last, came over, and sat down. He told us that when he got a Mountain Dew (which is what Zakk and I ordered as well)... the short shrimpy kid who took his order said, "What's the deal with Mountain Dew? Don't you guys know it shrinks your wiener?" Heh.

If that wasn't funny enough, Zakk went and got something from the condiment area, then returned to the table and asked Swifty to see his Pepsi. Swifty obliged and passed it to Zakk. Zakk ripped off the lid and Swifty immediately knew that something was going to happen. Zakk attempted to open his coffee creamer and pour it into the drink. However, it broke open and splattered everywhere. It went everywhere... the table... the walls... and most humorously... my face. It looked like I got a huge facial. It was seriously funny as hell.

Oh, and lest I forget to mention that Zakk, in attempting to throw a pudding cup at Swifty's car managed to hit our own car and I had Tapioca pudding all over my back window of my car. It's still there and very gross looking.

Oh yeah, and Zakk and Jamie are obsessed with EA Sports NCAA College Football 2002.

Jaymz Gran Turismo 3 Review

Gran Turismo 3

This game is the best PS2 game out there. I have been playing it for the last week straight going place to place with my PS2. Gran Turismo 3 is racing simulation game with top of the line graphics. There are 37 top of the world manufacturers including: Audi, Jaguar, Lotus and many more. One thing that stands out when your racing this game is the soundtrack for it. It's very well put together and I think the makers of GT3 did a perfect job, some of the songs are Motley Crue - "Kickstart My Heart", Powerman 5000 - "Supernova Goes Pop" and Snoop Dogg - "Dogg's Turismo 3". I highly recommend this game, it's a must have and it's very easy to get addicted to it. There is a deal at Best Buy and other stores for a PS2 and Gran Turismo 3 for $329.
Jaymz - 10.0

NCAA College Football 2002

Jamie purchased NCAA College Football 2002 at Software Etc today. It is the best college football game I've ever played. I think it is a couple notches up on the realism meter versus the NFL 2K series on the Dreamcast, but we haven't seen Sega Sports' offerings for this year's games yet, so we gotta wait and see. It may be more realistic, but at the moment, I find the 2K series more playable and a bit more fun. Perhaps it's because I'm not really used to the controls.

At any rate, in the first game we played, Jamie absolutely bent me over. It was a disgusting blow out... 47 to 7 in the third quarter before I had to leave to work at the 'Vee. My next school after Wash, the Iowa State Cyclones couldn't compare to the Iowa Hawkeye's. I must admit, it does a good job of capturing the college football feel. You've got announcers from ESPN and ABC Sports calling the shots, a dynasty mode where you gotta recruit incoming High Schoolers, authentic fight songs (very cool), and even the mascots. I did get a little tired of seeing Herky the Hawk dance to the Iowa fight song after quite a few touchdowns tho. :)

All in all, looks good, I can't wait to log some more playtime. It's the first PS2 title that has made us put the almighty Gran Turismo 3 down.

ONE ILL SONG

While listening to my rather large collection of Asian rap I found a song that I <3 very much. The name of the song is "azn pride - like hoy". I highly recommend that you all get it and jam to it all night long. ROCK ON HILL BILLY!

FUCK HY-VEE

I am hopping on the bandwagon when I say: I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT SWIFTY'S HY-VEE BULLSHIT.

These guys want to hear about my awesome job at HandiMart.

Anyone else can talk about Hy-Vee except Swifty.

NO ONE CARES

Does anyone honestly care. I mean come on Swifty no one cares about that gay ass Hy-Vee shit. If I am wrong and someone does care email me at murphymcgrath@mikemcgrathauto.com.

**************GT3 UPDATE**************

Here is the current status of the GT3 garage:

1. black Chevy Camaro
2. black Honda CRX Del Sol
3. pink Toyota Vits RS
4. gray Audi TT
5. blue Audi TT
6. Suzuki Alto Works
7. Sports Limited
8. Mitsubishi 3000 GTR 4
9. Mini Mini Cooper

Very nice.

Adventureland

Adventureland rules. Eat my nuts if you think differently. Best ride ever = back cart of the Outlaw, you get the shit beaten out of you. Another highly recommended ride is The Inverter. It's kind of like the Falling Star, but you do all these badass flips on the way up and down. Another good part was being paid my normal rate of 8 dollars an hour to attend, boo-ya.

My Car Repairs
Also, Meineke fucking sucks don't ever go there. I dropped off my car today to get my anti-lock brakes online. They couldn't get it to work and they had my car for nine hours and it was not done when I arrived at 5. Those fucking shit fuckers. Also, my car does not accelerate as fast as it did this morning. Theres this one eyed dumbass who probably fucked it up.

In the last 72 hours of my life, I have spent half of it playing Gran Turismo 3 on my Playstation 2. This was time well spent. I <3 GT3. I go place to place with my PS2, it is my new best friend. All my friends seem to like my new friend too because the last four nights I have been at a one of my friends house with my PS2. You Might think that this wasn't time well spent but as researchers have proved video games make your smarter. If you don't believe me go here:

The Times

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hahahaha swifty has to cook.

GT3 is indeed a fun game, my bro and I are going to pool our funds for one. I <3 Twisted Metal: Black.

And Ben Folds new album fuckin rocks.

GT3 withdrawal... need GT3.... ugh...

My Job

I have the single best job ever. I get paid 8 dollars an hour to basically stand around, eat food, and watch someone else work. Since I don't have any skills at all, I just get to watch and nod my head while they show me things. When I drive somewhere, I also make 30 cents per mile. And best of all, FREE SODA! You all wish you had my job. I also work 8-3:30, so I am making mad green. Tomorrow I am getting PAID to go to Adventureland. The trip is for central HandiMart headquarters. Have fun at Hy-Vee!

PlayStation2 and Gran Turismo 3 Update

GT3 is the most addicting game ever made. Carl, Zakk, Nick, Warren, Jamie, Mike and I are all just sitting around playing Gran Turismo 3. We played it until 4 AM, slept for 7 hours, hooked it up to my l33t Dolby Digital 5.1 surround system and 31 inch TV, and immediately went back to playing. Our badass Vitz held us over for a while, but then we bought an Audi TT and souped it up bigtime, which we now use to win races so we can soup up our Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4. That bad boy already gets up to about 209 MPH and we still can add about 400 horses and do the three stages of weight reduction, plus we still have the default clutch and transmission. I'll be sure to update with how fast we can get it going, plus the location of Jamie's enigmatic PS2.

Last time we went bowling, we decided to piss Woody off by going up to the desk and asking them to make an announcement over the intercom that it was Woody's birthday. So I went up and asked the lady, and sure enough she came over the PA and said, "CR Bowling Center would like to wish Woody a happy birthday. He's 15 years old today. Congratulations." HAHAHAHA.

More bowling with Woody stories. Last Monday we went bowling, because it's cheap. A small cover charge gets you in the door, then hotdogs and games and shoes are all 50 cents. We played a game or two, and I figured it would be pretty funny to see Woody fall down the lane. I told him I would buy him four hotdogs if he threw himself down the lane. I think he was pretty hungry. Next time up, he threw himself down the lane and got the oil all over his shirt and stuff. I bought him the hotdogs.

The other night I was bowling with Woody. He said the gayest thing ever. I don't know we started talking about Matt Ward, but we did. Out of the blue, Woody said, "I bet Matt Ward wears women's underwear for comfort." Is that gay or what?

You know what's gross? Eating a Wendy's Classic Triple and watching all that grease fall back onto your wrapper. Nasty.

Zakk purchased both the Wayne's World 1 and Wayne's World 2 DVDs. They just came out last Tuesday and are excellent discs all the way around. If you at all liked Wayne's World, I highly recommend you give these discs a spin.

DVDFILE.COM: Wayne's World review

Hugh Rodham cleared in Clinton pardon probe

There's one down, over one hundred to go. Thank the maker that we have that sleezeball out of office.

We're only getting warmed up here at Big Boy Productions. We fully expect to get more and more people signed up in the next few days. This ain't your grandaddy's cow farm, and we sure as hell don't know what a beefy gimp is either.

Today is a Sunday

Sundays are the worst days of the week. First I have to get up and go to church. Not that I don't belive in God or anything it is just that All Saints is a very boring parish to go to. Then Sundays also suck cuase there is no one to play tennis with. And at night my parents seem to think that SUndays are for family and God, which means that I don't get to do anything with my friends.

HAVE A NICE DAY