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Like sounds through an hourglass, so are the weeks of our games (DLC content for the hourglass will be available at launch). Here is your weekly wrap-up for this week in video gaming.
Frogger World Record is Squashed
Virginia resident Michael Smith is the new all-time world champion on the classic Frogger, racking up 970,400 points while moving his car-sized frog across a senseless traffic slow and river with impossible currents and horrible boating conditions.
Not to be outdone, Seinfeld’s buddy George Costanza sent a friend with a blurry videotape on the first flight to Virginia.
Achievement Unlocked: 10G – Combined a overused Seinfeld joke with an overused King of Kong joke, hoping to finally make the internet realize they aren’t funny anymore.
Anger Management
Angry Birds Trilogy has hit the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3, combining three of the best-selling 99 cent iOS titles into one shiny console release.
It costs $40.
I decided to take my $40 to Target and buy other household items instead, only to notice later that they all had the Angry Birds characters on them anyway.
Achievement Unlocked: 20G – For $40 I will just sling things around with a real slingshot
Shall We Play a GAME?
Hasbro has announced board games based on casual gaming properties including FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends.
No confirmation yet on if the instructions for the board games require people to run from house to house requesting people play the games with them and returning numerous times daily to ask some more after you’ve already said no many, many, many times.
Achievement Unlocked: 30G – Pre-writing my restraining orders now
Call me a noob one more time
From the “well, it’s big news to me” department, this week marks the 31st anniversary of my gaming habit, which started at the end of September 1981 when I dropped a quarter into a Pac-Man machine in a Dallas suburb.
I’ve had fun with this thing the whole time. I also have fun when a kid on XBox Live tries to convince me that he’s old school because he played the original Halo. I also could probably shock the system of the mainstream media by combining news of my big anniversary with the fact that I have a wife and two kids and earn a living off of video gaming, nor have I ever shot a person.
Achievement Unlocked: 40G – 31 years down, 31 years to go.
Wii U, What Did You Eat?
Nintendo released a full list of titles coming out with the November 18 launch of the Wii U as well as a myriad of other games coming out within the “launch window” for the console.
The official rundown lists by studio name, thereby putting 505 Games and the earth-shatteringly promising game title of Funky Barn at the top of the launch list. For those that don’t know, Funky Barn is not where the producers of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse bought the outfit for Laurence Fishburn’s Cowboy Curtis character. It is also not the redneck version of Soul Train. Instead, it is described as a “farm simulation game in which players plant trees, care for animals, and add buildings to plots of land.”
Is that Hasbro calling again with a board game idea?
Achievement Unlocked: 50G – Adding the Funky Barn to my restraining order
Check back each Thursday to see the latest weekly rundown from the video gaming world.
Patrick Scott Patterson – who has written 91 posts on The Jace Hall Show.
Patrick Scott Patterson is a Video game personality & historian who has been gaming since 1981. He contributes two weekly columns for The Jace Hall Show: "This Week In Video Game History" and "This Week in Gaming News".

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