Japanese release day highlights: 12.21.06

Trains are great. We ride them most days of the week. In fact, today we took a train ride in order to buy two new train-based videogames. That's the scary extent of our railway passion. To avoid those funny looks we keep getting from the station master, we also picked up copies of the games listed here. Just so that we could look at their non-train-related packaging on the way home, to pretend that we weren't really thinking about trains. Mmm ... the 16:09 Express to Kyoto ...

Sorry, those games:

• Ys Origin (Falcom's legend returns, again; PC)

• Seiken Densetsu 4 (Mana, Mana, Mana; PS2)

• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (ice cool Capcom; Xbox 360)

• Let's Go By A-Train HX ("Artdink" is the funniest developer name ever; Xbox 360)

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Snake crawls back to Japan; PSP)

• Armored Core 4 (PlayStation 3)

• Railfan (for the jotter and flask crowd; PS3)