Who would have thought that between saving the galaxy from Dr. Nefarious and rescuing the princess from Bowser Jr. that I'd have the time to write one thousand PTB entries?  It's true though, and here we are again to take a look back at my favorite of the second five hundred entries on PTB (if you missed the first five hundred favorites then there's still time to catch up).  Let's begin.

• The Best Games Make No Sense (Blue skies are a must)
• Take My Money, Please! (Why is it so hard to buy a game off the shelf?)
• Xbox 360 Shortage?  Not For The Stars (Famous trendy people are apparently better than you)
• Dishonest Disconnect (Learn to recognize players who drop connections when losing in Mario Kart DS)
• Anticipating The Mario Kart DS Expansion Pack (I'm still waiting)
• Looking Ahead To 2006 (The annual predictions piece)
• The Gift Of Games and Birthday Wishes From The Mushroom Kingdom (Personal essays about games given as gifts)
• The Lost E-Reader Levels Of Super Mario Advance 4 (The other lost levels)
• What's Captain Falcon Doing In Sonic Riders? (A little image I made of F-Zero's star racing through Sonic Riders was picked up by other sites as being legit)
• Who Will Speak For K.K. Slider? (A singing dog told me I could download games for free)
• Memories In A Box: The Best Video Game Compilations (Retro gaming hits mainstream)
• You're Not Spending Money Fast Enough! (When companies believe we should buy products just because we're told to do so)
• Proving The Existence Of Shy Guys (I put to rest a long-held pet peeve)
• It's Hammer Time! (I think I've seen that pose somewhere before)
• Equal Time For Rumors (I still hate absurd rumors)
• Chilled Tomatoes Make Great Gifts (I once tried to buy the rights for an obscure Game Boy puzzle game, Kwirk.  A old friend did the next best thing.  Twice.)
• DS Redesign Still Months Away and Nintendo Announces New DS (Curse you, David Yarnton!)
• Why We Love (Keeping personal and professional affections separate)
• Accessing The F-Zero Data Within (Create your own custom cars in F-Zero X at last)
• Meet Your New Addiction (Please!) (Throw puzzle games at the wall and see what sticks)
• Sony Fans Demand Free Games, Ponies (Keep reaching for that star, kids!)
• Solving The Wrong Problem (Free advice for Sony's PSP/UMD woes)
• Pretentious Japanese Warrior Robots (Raijingeki!)
• The Cheetahmen Will Fight For You! (The future was truly here in 1990)
• Xbox 360 Camera Gets You In The Game (Worth it for the piece's image alone)
• The Nostalgia Of Link (Zelda II deserves some love)
• Anticipating The Next Metroid Evolution (A wish list for future games in the series)
• Plok's Platforming Perfection (You still haven't played Plok, have you?)
• Some Words With Joshua Buhler About Duck Hunt And Beyond (So many neat projects in the works)
• There Goes The Neighborhood (Hell froze over in May 2006 when I bought a Sony PlayStation 2)
• Abandon All Fun Ye Who Enter Here (Journalists apparently enjoy video games too much)
• E3 Video Album and E3 Photo Album (Check out my week in Los Angeles covering the show)
• Square-Enix Issues Demands (The company's staff rushed the AMN cameras at E3 to put a stop to photography of their booth)
• Irresponsible Journalism Strikes Again (Poking holes in a local news segment)
• Monopoly: Nintendo Collector's Edition Coming Soon (This entry spread like wildfire across the Internet over the summer)
• We'll Always Have Los Angeles (Farewell to E3)
• Rebuilding The Sony Brand (More free advice)
• Keeping Time With Mario and Applause For Retro Figurines (A look at an old game watch and some Mario toys from 1989)
• You Never Forget Your First and Barbarians And Commandos And Quarterbacks, Oh My! (Remembering my first encounters with video game magazines)
• Where EverybodWii Knows Your Name (How much can fit in just 6 KB of memory?)
• Donkey Kong's Pauline Set To Return (The original damsel in distress)
• King Koopa Is Soopa Doopa (This is just bizarre)
• Let Me Play Among The Stars (Where are the realistic space games?)
• Consumables?  I Called It! (A follow-up to my essay against micropayments)
• Samus Aran's Twentieth Birthday (Never ask a bounty hunter her age)
• Gimme Back My Cartridges (There's a downside to digital delivery)