(It’s Short-Term Memory Week, a celebration of earlier Multiplayer posts with full-sized updates. Today: remember… January 19th and February 20th?)

My dimmest ideas? OK. That's false modesty. I've gone on-record a couple of times suggesting a video game idea.

I wanted to give you an update during this theme week about what happened to them.

Guess what? They're coming true.

Sort of.

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(It’s Short-Term Memory Week, a celebration of earlier Multiplayer posts with full-sized updates. Today: remember… February 2nd?)

It was winter. It was cold. And I was ready to reveal one of my most stubbornly held gaming idiosyncrasies:

For the last few years, I have wanted all of my modern gaming collection to fit on a single shelf in my apartment.

I didn't mind shoving my Nintendo 64 cartridges in a closet. I was happy to toss my Game Boy Advance games in a shoebox. But I maintained that every game I kept, from PlayStation 2's launch until now, should fit on one shelf I originally bought for books. In the February 2nd entry of Multiplayer, I wrote:

...the perfect 21st century gaming collection, no matter what, will fit 27 inches x 12 inches.

Because of this, I undertake a fierce review of my personal collection every few months. I force myself to chuck old favorites because of a bizarre credence I put in the wisdom of some furniture maker who probably designed my shelf to hold Judy Blume or Tolstoy volumes instead....

I held that truth to be self-evident. I stood by it, even as I was later challenged by others.

And then the winter melted into spring and summer. And my wife and I had to move to a new apartment. The future of the shelf itself was in jeopardy.

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(It's Short-Term Memory Week, a celebration of earlier Multiplayer posts with full-sized updates. Today: remember... April 9th?)

It was only four and a half months ago that I first huffed and puffed about Nintendo DS game designers asking players to use the DS microphone for breath-based gameplay.

I was tired of blowing off fingerprint dust in "Phoenix Wright" and making a fool of myself, wheezing along with "Wario: Master of Disguise." What has happened since?

Well, I have two bits of bad news for the many people who agreed with me. First, I have proof that developers keep inserting Huff-n-Puff controls. Second, I'm not as against them as I used to be.

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