I am a strange person. I’ve heard it all throughout my life. There was nothing more fun to me as a child than getting up on a Saturday morning, watching cartoons with a big-ass bowl of cereal and then spending the rest of the day gaming on any and all systems that I had access to. Growing up a gamer in the early eighties has enabled me to see the rise of every game console except for the original Pong. I’ve been gaming since I learned to read at the age of three, when I learned how to run my old man’s Commodore 64 all because I wanted to play Time Pilot.

Many of you have been fervently reading and commenting on my other posts that I’ve done since my inception to MEGATONik, and I can’t thank you enough for your support. In thanks to you, the community, I’ve decided to put in a ton of work and bring you a special post that near and dear to my heart, my Top 50 Console Games of All Time.

I will try my damnedest to explain the reasons why I think why a certain game is deserved of it’s spot. Certainly many of you will disagree with the order I have put the games in but I always welcome your comments and suggestions. It is thanks to all of you in the community that I have been able to hone my craft by subjecting you to my subjective opinions about video games. Without any further ado… let’s get this thing started! Hit the jump to be defeated by a wall of text designed to titillate and please you.

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Not only does the Halo series promote violence, but now it’s starting a new trend with school kids: teabagging. The Asbury Park Press reports that in Point Pleasant Beach, kids are teabagging each other outside of school grounds.

The report states:

A group of boys has been involved in bullying others, and officials said their actions have included physical attacks, taunting and sexually harassing victims by making their crotches touch other boys’ heads while fully clothed — something apparently inspired by the Halo video game series, in which players can perform a posturing move over a defeated enemy.

Jane Chmielewski said her son, a seventh-grader, was assaulted by a pack of boys who then sexually harassed him. However, since that incident took place outside school grounds, district officials said they were not able to investigate the situation or punish those involved.

Jane Chmielewski’s son was apparently approached by 10 boys, put in a headlock, and teabagged. He was also recorded with a cell phone camera. Before this incident happened, another altercation occurred, in which the boy was thrown to the ground, kneed, and got a garbage can placed over his head.

Schools classify this as sexual harassment, and that this new teabagging trend is most likely inspired by the Halo series. The Board of Education has introduced a new policy that allows them to punish students bullying outside of school grounds. The punishments range from verbal warning, to expulsion.

A new backwards compatibility update has been released, unexpected and unanticipated as usual. Right when everyone was getting excitedslightly interested in the upcoming dashboard update, a whole slew of original Xbox games get made to work on the Xbox 360. Like a ninja, the update silently and secretly approached until the final moment when it was suddenly revealed. Except instead of getting a shuriken in the back and your throat slit, you get to play many more of your old games in 720p and 1080i without needing to bring out the old forgotten black box. There’s a total of 84 (popular number these past few days…) new backwards compatible games, so here is the list of all those added:

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Over the past few months, I began to notice something. No, not that Marky Mark deserves to be nowhere near anything named Max Payne. Instead, I have noticed a sharp decline in the amount of platforming games released for many next-generation consoles, most notably for the Xbox 360. While the Playstation 3 has great platformers like Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, and Wii owners will be blessed this week by Super Mario Galaxy, the Xbox 360 has nothing of the sort. This is quite surprising because, with such solid platforming games like Psychonauts and Blinx: The Time Sweeper for the Xbox, one can only ask, “Where have all the platformers gone?”

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According to Variety, Mark Walhberg is considered for the role of the pissed off and constipated cop movie, Max Payne. The film is to be directed by John Moore (Flight of the Pheonix, The Omen remake, Behind Enemy Lines) and released by 20th Century Fox. The script is being written by newcomer Beau Thorne and will follow the same plot as the original video game had: Payne is haunted by the murder of his family and wants to avenge their deaths by going after the drug syndicate responsible.

If Marky Mark does want to play Payne, he would first have to complete his role in Peter Jackson’s The Lonely Bones. No word on when the film is being released, or if there are any plans on doing any sequels have been announced yet.