I've been writing First Hour reviews now for about 15 months, one review a week with a couple of full reviews thrown in when I get around to them. Would you believe my surprise (and dismay, and OMG, and many other emotions) when I discovered Games for Lunch. A blog written by Kyle Orland, a professional game journalist, writes nearly the same thing as I do. Kyle writes stream of consciousness reviews of just the first hour of video games, five days a week, and he started writing them about a month before I did!

This was all pretty stunning, and I was a bit shaken. Here I am, amateur game reviewer, thinking I was unique among the vast sea of video game reviewers and journalists. I questioned the whole site and the point of it. Kyle gets games sent to him by the publishers, I'm stuck digging through my 15 year old SNES collection looking for The Lion King. We also have an eerily similar layout with both of us noting the time and writing some notes.

I won't stop writing though. I don't write reviews in order to have readers, I have readers in order to write reviews. And the readers are here. We've existed peacefully and unbeknownst to each other for over a year, no need for me to quit. So hopefully you'll check out Games for Lunch, but also stick around at the First Hour, as I have some awesome reviews in the pipeline over the next few weeks.

Plus I have lots of awesome screenshots.