Steam brings additional awareness to these games. The biggest problem these games have is a limited player base due to fewer people being aware of them. Also, Steam brings the Steam Wallet. This allows for you to have microtransactions handled by a single, relatively well trusted company, rather than having to trust your credit card info to multiple smaller ones.

Resistance 1 had the arsenal on back model and the third one will as well. They decided to play follow the leader with the second one and made it the "realistic" type. The fans did not agree. So you've got at least one game to look forward to with that particular old-school model.

I'm going to have to disagree on the only one path to solve a puzzle in Super Metroid. Just watch any speed run video of that game and you'll understand, but one alternate path that I found was on the way to get your first pack of power bombs. The typical method is to go down into Norfair and get the ice beam, but you can get them well before then. Just super missile the otherwise indestructible enemies and wall jump up that tunnel. It's a lot harder, but saves a good chunk of backtracking.

I'm not a lawyer either, but you're right. He hasn't violated copyright law. He has violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause though.

I believe it's more sending a copy of the data, and only letting users modify that copy as opposed to the stored data. So yeah, missed the point a bit. This makes it so users can only wreck the copy that they have, rather than the database.

I think the best way to do it would be to split it up over two. Have the first page be short, mostly just the introduction, with everything else being on the second. That way, they still get a bit of click-through, their servers don't get hammered as badly by people who only read the first page, we get an article that doesn't span a dozen pages, and everybody gets a free unicorn... I think that sentence got away from me there at the end. You get the point.

The PSP is $120 used and $170 new, and it can connect to the PSN store. It can handle SNES and earlier games through emulation (assuming a certain willingness and capability to install custom firmware), and can also handle PS1 games, not to mention all of the platform specific games out for it. Not exactly in the $50-$100 range, I know, but it's also not in the $200-$400 range. Just to keep you aware of what's already out there that might match what you'd like.

With MAD, it's more like the rapist has already let you know that he's going to kill you when he's done raping you, so you go ahead and blow the belt. Also, a huge explosive belt would tend to ward off all but the most crazed rapists, which is also in keeping with MAD.

I know it's not the ever popular xkcd, but this comic is just too appropriate here. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081109