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The rosters in NBA Street Vol. 2 are based on the 2002-2003 NBA season. That year, Derrick Coleman, nearing the end of his career, averaged 9.4 points per game. He was a serviceable role player on an above-average Philadelphia 76ers team that was built around the dynamic Allen Iverson.  That same Allen Iverson stars for the 76ers in NBA Street and he has the skill-set to shine on the asphalt: speed, agility, explosiveness, a killer crossover and a nice headband. Yet it has been his older, slower, less dexterous teammate who has been making my life miserable in perhaps the greatest NBA game ever made. An ankle-shattering crossover, then a step-back 3-pointer. A between-the-legs, 360 windmill dunk on my entire team. A block at one end followed by a tomahawk jam at the other, where his knees grazed the top of the backboard. Time and time again, Derrick Coleman has delivered well above reasonable expectation and foiled my attempts to beat the Sixers. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ag...

I love a proper console reveal and all the shared excitement it brings. Games, hardware features and specs, a price, and at last a launch date for all of us to look forward to. A new console made real. Last night's excitement was almost too much for me, and I was thoroughly knackered by the end of the Direct. I was mentally exhausted from attempting to parse all the new details while also balancing multiple online conversations with different groups of friends, as well as hosting the dialogue in my head that sometimes spills out here. Two hours after the Direct had finished and I was still squinting at my phone, tucked up in bed but unable to sleep, trying to digest all the news and gather my thoughts. I had hoped to blog about the Direct as it happened, but I quickly abandoned that idea. However, I did leave some notes, which survive here as mini-headlines that I fleshed out this morning. Switch 2, June 5th. Let's have it. There's a cow on a scooter!  Mario Kart World will...