speaking of TFU: I played the hell out of the games on the PS3 way back when and I had a tube television. There was one level that kept giving me trouble because it was hard to see where the enemies were that were attacking me but whatever, I was able to beat the game. I upgraded the TV that year and was playing through again and found out that the developers were lazy and were pan & scanning the game by locking the game into the middle of the letterboxing. which I guess isn't really scanning, but anyway. There was information to the left and right of the level that showed enemies over there and that's why I kept getting hit when I played on the tube tv.

also I went out and bought The Orange Box (harder to find than I thought it'd be) and Portal 2 to have something to play over Christmas break with my son. He likes puzzle games and the humor should be just right for him. And maybe one of the other games will spark an interest with him, who knows.