Author: Bryan Berg

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 08.21.03

    Welcome! You’ve stumbled across the Thank God It’s Thursday news report, your one-stop shop for all things video games. Thanks for dropping by. This week is a landmark week in TGIT history. For the first time ever, you will be reading a Mailbag in these pages. See, I got some really good mail this week,…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 08.14.03

    Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 08.14.03 By Bryan Berg Teaser: This week – Nintendo’s REAL business plan! Also, Madden 2004 thoughts and the greatest inventions ever. Hello. Welcome to this bastion of quality gaming news, the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. As always, thanks for dropping by. Got some excellent feedback from last…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 08.07.03

    Hey all. Welcome to the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report for this week. This one’s a little different from the other editions of TGIT. You see, I was writing about Nintendo, and I got a little carried away. I wondered, “What would I do if I were in their position?” As the thought crossed…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.31.03

    Hey all. You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for the latest video game news. I’m Bryan Berg, and I think Nabisco made a huge mistake by changing the Chewy Chips Ahoy Stay-Fresh mechanism from the trusty bar-that-usually-breaks-off contraption to the ridiculous long-piece-of-tape device. Thank God It’s Thursday! This week, I’ve received a…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.24.03

    THIS, my friends, is why we write. And this is why feedback is so important. Good review of Jet Grind Radio, man. I was never really a fan of the console JGR games. They just didn’t seem to click. However, after reading your review, I’ve decided I’ll go and give it JGR a shot on…

  • Jet Grind Radio (Game Boy Advance) Review

    Jet Grind Radio Genre: Skating Platform: Game Boy Advance Developer: Vicarious Visions Publisher: THQ Release Date: June 23, 2003 In Jet Grind Radio, we have a game that was a hit for a home console that has been ported to the Game Boy Advance. Jet Grind Radio was a Dreamcast classic – will the GBA…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.17.03

    Tomb Raider Well, we all know Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness sucked. You even read Bebito’s piece on how the developers knew it sucked. Now, the heads are beginning to roll… some by their own hands. Jeremy Heath-Smith, founder and development director of Core Designs (property of Eidos), has stepped down. Most believe that the…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.10.03

    Hello again. You’ve reached the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, found every Thursday morning here on 411mania.com. Thanks for checking in this week. Last week’s column sucked and I’m sorry to subject you to that. It was the first time in a long time I wasn’t proud of something I wrote. You people deserve…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.03.03

    Hey all. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, which is evidently the 2nd longest tenured news report on 411 Games. How crazy is that? Not even five months ago, I was the new news guy, and now I’ve been around longer than almost everybody! I’m impressed… how about…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 06.26.03

    Hello again, and welcome back to the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, the greatest news report in the entire world. Thanks for stopping by. Unlike Lee, I don’t have any crazy reports on how my weekend was. However, I did lose $80 in Atlantic City on Monday. That sucked, especially when you consider that…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 06.19.03

    Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. Hope this past week has been kind to you all. A huge THANK YOU to Mike Zablow for taking my hours today so that I don’t have to work. Everyone can feel free to IM YankFreak9 and leave anti-Yankee/pro-Mets/pro-Red Sox…

  • The Silent Majority: Sequels 06.18.03

    A common phrase found in every motivational quote book ever written is “If you live life the right way, once is enough”. In other words, do things right and there’s no need to take another stab at them. Now, apply this line of thinking to the arts, and you’ll see that nobody thinks this way.…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 06.12.03

    Welcome! You’ve stumbled upon the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. Here, you’ll find a ton of gaming news, and some extra goodies on the side. Enjoy! Last week, I said something about a more imaginative opening. Well, I forgot what I was getting at, so you get the generic crap again. Sorry about that.…

  • David Lee Roth – Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, NY (6.1.03)

    Artist: David Lee Roth Venue: Westbury Music Fair (Westbury, NY) Date: June 1, 2003 It was almost twenty years ago that David Lee Roth left Van Halen at the height of their popularity. Diamond Dave went on to have immediate commercial success as a solo artist, but soon fell off the charts. He has continued…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 06.05.03

    Hey all. Hope you all had a good week, and welcome to another edition (the 15th, if my math is accurate) of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. And after 14 times of writing it, “I’m Bryan Berg and I’ll be bringing you all the latest in video game news” is quite boring. So…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 05.29.03

    Hello. You’ve stumbled upon the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, the one-stop shop for all the latest and greatest in video game news. Hope you like what you see. As you read this, I’m on the way to the Vet for the Mets-Phillies tilt I mentioned last week. Either that or I’m enjoying the…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 05.22.03

    Hey all. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m Bryan Berg. You may be wondering what happened to TGIT last week. Basically, it was E3 week, and who would have better perspective on E3 than our two guys there, Joseph Stanley and Chris Pankonin? With that in mind,…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 05.08.03

    Welcome! It’s Thursday, and you know what that means – The Thank God It’s Thursday News Report! I’m Bryan Berg and I’m here to report on the latest breaking news in the gaming world. So let’s get started. Square Tetsuya Nomura, character designer for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, has recently spoken in regard to…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 05.01.03

    Happy May Day! Thanks for stopping by to check out the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m reporting here from my room in Hicksville, NY, where Term Paper Week is indeed in full swing. Today (Wednesday as I write this) I had a Marketing paper due. Tomorrow, Management is due and I have a…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 04.17.03

    Hey all. Welcome to this religious holiday edition of the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report. I’m Bryan Berg, and I’d like to wish all of my fellow Catholics a Happy Easter. And to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Happy Passover. War Exploitation Kinda old news, but it deserves mentioning because I don’t think anyone…