Sonic CD is coming to XBLA and PSN in just a few short weeks. Which is awesome, because it is awesome.
And fiftyquagillion times more exciting than Sonic Generations coming out for the 360 and PS3 tomorrow. Why? Well, there’s this reason for starters:
So The Hut has this thing. Here.
Which means Sonic Generations for the 3DS, plus Super Monkey Ball 3DS, for £34.95. Then take £3.50 off with a 10% Off voucher, and then 94p further for Quidco, and you get Sonic Generations 3DS for £15.26 and one silly, silly boy.
Bah.
Why must you do this to me? Why, after all the terrible, terrible things I’ve seen and heard about Sonic Generations, why, after all the times you have burnt me in the past, WHY, oh WHY, must you then do this?
I mean, that looks AWESOME. Oh I hate you, Sega. So very very much. Because now I need to buy this game, and you KNOW I will, and then you’ll make me pay for trusting you again by putting Amy and Big and Cream and all the other rubbish characters in it and having 17 Tailses and making the game physically stab my eyes while I play.
Gaaah!
That Harry S Price was a card, wasn’t he? Ripping off loads of Spectrum games, altering their graphics, selling the game on as his own. Nawty.
One of these game was The Steelyard Blues. Which I loved, until only a few years ago when I found out it was a shameless clone of “Cheekah’s Exploits” by Julian Wood – a game published as a type-in in Your Computer. Tch.
Still, it’s a competent and difficult collect-em-up platformer, complete with level editor (which often seemed to corrupt or crash the game for me – a few typos when copying in the program, eh Harry?).
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A year ago today, one of the few people I know online who I could call a proper actual friend, died suddenly.
I won’t go into it all, as I’ve written everything before, but I wanted to mark it in some way.
I’m still sad he’s gone. Something about the online fora I frequent, and Twitter, has changed a little. They’re not the same. Sure, he was just one of many in those places, but he’s one who made an impact in them.
Two things that affected me personally over the last year as a direct result of Owen’s death.
1) iPhone games
Owen was a big fan of iPhone gaming. To the point where most of his gaming was iPhone based. He would enthuse about great new games, many of which I bought on his recommendation, and he was mostly spot-on with them too. Aside from Words With Friends, Hanging With Friends, and Carcassonne (two of which I had before his death), I’ve played almost no iPhone games at all in the last 12 months.
More seriously, though:
2) Chest pains
A few months ago, I started getting severe chest pains. Now, I’ve been having pains for the last 6-7 years. Constantly. Sometimes flaring up, but always at least slightly uncomfortable. I’ve had tests in the past that all came out clear and stuff, so it was put down to irritation. When they got bad this time however, I got it checked out with a doctor, had some tests, and then took myself down to A&E and told them to have a damn good look. Turned out to be nothing but the same thing I’d always had – skeletomuscular irritation made worse with a bit of acid reflux topped off with stress that I’m going to die. After reassurance and some industrial strength Settlers, it was fine. But I wouldn’t have gone down to A&E and got it sorted without knowing what happened to Owen.
As a result of this fear and panic, and general unfitness, I bought a bike, and now do 12-15 miles a week on it.
In summary, Owen’s death has saved me untold amounts of money (er, except the bike), and potentially my life. Sort of.
Rather have him back though 
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It isn’t. That’s a complete and utter lie. A rest is far better than change, unless the change is a change from not resting to actually resting, and even then it’s not as good as a rest, it IS a rest.
Stupid phrase.
Anyway. Nonsense aside, you may have noticed I’ve done a bit of decorating. I don’t know if it’s all going to stay or not yet, but it’s about time I updated the theme to something, well, updated. The old one was from WordPress 1.5 or something equally archaic. Hope you like it.
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Hello! It’s been a little while since I last posted anything, mainly because I’ve been busy. Thought I’d just mention a few upcoming games that’s I’m really looking forward to, and some other game related stuff.
It’s been a slim few months for releases I’ve been interested in. Partly because there haven’t been that many big games over the summer, and partly because due to the £18 Rule I don’t get much on release any more and by the time they’re cheap enough to buy, my interest has waned enough not to bother. And I have lots of games to get through anyway – not least Fallout: New Vegas, which I recently bought some more DLC for and have been having fun with that.
It’s probably also worth mentioning that I’ve not actually bought any physical 3DS games since it came out either. Yes, there have been some good games since then – Starfox, Zelda, Resident Evil – but nothing to interest me. I already own $hlmun copies of Ocarina of Time anyway, and have never managed to get more than a few hours in before getting bored with it. 3D Zeldas aren’t my thing, despite my love of Zelda games. 2D all the way!
I have, however, bought a pile of GB and GBC games on the 3DS Virtual Console – Link’s Awakening DX, Mario Land, Mario Land 2, Donkey Kong, Mario’s Picross… all excellent games I’ve put lots of time into. Then there’s the 3D Classics versions of Excitebike, Xevious, Twinbee and Urban Champion, and some DSiWare games as well. On top of that, Nintendo gave us 10 free NES games, and a copy of Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, which was awfully nice of them. So – plenty to play. Too much, even.
Things are going to change soon, however…
Sometimes there are things that just need to escape my head.
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