The guy who used to live in my apartment subscribed to ESPN: The Magazine. He's gone, but his subscription marches on without him.

Woot. 

It's not a bad magazine, especially when you're sitting on the toilet. Like movies on airplanes, all magazines get about 30-percent more interesting if you're sitting on a toilet at the time.

On a recent morning, during one of my porcelain epiphanies, I came across a story listing the top 10 best sports documentaries of all time.

When We Were Kings? Oh, man, absolutely. Hoop Dreams? Great fucking film.

But I was surprised to see Hands on a Hardbody on the lists, and even more surprised to find The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters there.

I mean, I guess there's training involved. And a main event of sorts. And I loved the movie dearly. But is there really such a dearth of good sports documentaries out there that ESPN needed to reach for a videogame docu?

I've got one that you missed, ESPN: Go Tigers! is an IFC-produced movie about the Massillon Tigers high school football team. It's worthy of a spot in the top 10.

Beyond that, it got me to thinking: What are the great, must-see gaming-related movies? Is it possible to come up with 10? Five?

Once Upon Atari is also great. But are there more?

Side note: In Crispy Gamer's one and only restaurant review, Vogel and I once sampled the wings at Billy Mitchell's hot wings palace in Florida. Our stomachs haven't been the same since. The things we do for our art...

King of Kong star Steve "World's Nicest Guy" Wiebe will once again battle Billy Mitchell and his magnificent hair helmet at this year's E3.

http://www.thegamereviews.com/story-3021-Steve-Wiebe-to-Take-on-Billy-Mitchell-at-E3.html

At stake: the world record for the highest score ever in Donkey Kong.

Few people know this, but during CG's early days, Managing Editor Elise Vogel and I travelled all the way to Hollywood, Florida to the flagship of Billy's Mitchell's restaurant chain, Rickey's World Famous.

We nibbled on the chicken wings. We sampled the hot sauces. We drank about a hundred Cokes. We kept our eyes peeled for Mitchell, the Fonzie of the gaming world.

I don't know about Vogel, but I still have Nam-style flashbacks to this culinary equivalent of Mr. Do's Wild Ride. If I close my eyes and inhale deeply enough, I can still smell the heady bleach-regurgitated Schlitz-Final Net aroma of Billy's gut-busting pitstop

Without further ado, here's Crispy Gamer's one and only installment of The Crispy Gourmand. Enjoy.

http://www.crispygamer.com/features/2008-08-15/the-crispy-gourmand-rickeys-world-famous-restaurant.aspx