Weirdly enough, Halloween is dying in the US (and I don't disagree with you dodes, it was dying when I was growing up back home too), but it's growing every year in Japan.
BTW, I'm thinking of buying a PS2 hard drive and broadband adaptor. Then I could get HD Loader and just copy all my games there and never have to worry about putting in and taking out discs again. But it's kind of expensive just for the sake of convenience.