Unusual purple sky
I’m not the best photographer in the world, or even somewhere in the top three, but this scene looked nice and so I took a picture. Lovely.
Gottlieb Pinball Classics (Wii)
Oh shush. Just because I already have 65453435674346 unplayed games doesn’t mean I can’t buy another one, right? Right? So I got this this morning. At first I was confused that a game requiring just three buttons necessitates both the Wii remote and the nunchuk. That’s not a problem, it just seemed a bit odd. Anyway, so I’ve played through Challenge Mode a fair bit, unlocking several tables, but getting stuck on the Tee’d Off table. I’ve also ploughed most …
Bomberman ’93 (Wii)
Killed the plant boss on World 2, and now I’ve moved on to World 3 – Lava World (or something). The levels are getting a bit tricky now, as there are floor panels you can’t drop bombs on (or kick bombs across), and teleporters too.
Super Mario 64 (Wii): COMPLETED!
Right. So that’s now two Wii games completed, but both are actually old titles. Ho hum. Anyway. Most of the rest of the required stars came from Jolly Roger Bay, Tall Tall Mountain, Dire Dire Docks, and the ghost house. Also picked up a few secret stars (two from the rabbit included), and one or two each from Rainbow Ride and Tick Tock Clock. Finally, it was on to Bowser, who I defeated first time (I didn’t even die on …
Super Mario 64 (Wii)
Ploughing through this a bit more today. Got myself up to 50 stars, meaning I could reach the third floor of the castle (and access Tock Tock Clock and Rainbow Ride). The next target is 70 stars, which, if I remember correctly, is all I need to complete the game. Went into Rainbow Ride and got one star, as well as open up the cannon there. Didn’t try for any more after that though. Don’t I have Zelda to play …
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Hurrah! I found a place that had some component cables in stock, so I decided to test them with Twilight Princess. And it looks amazing. Yeah, so it isn’t up there with Oblivion, but it waaaay ahead of anything the Xbox or GC have ever done. So the game then. It was alarmingly easy to get used to the controls, and soon I’d found my horse, rounded up some goats, found a bird, smacked some bees up with it, took …
Super Mario 64 (Wii)
Yes! I’m playing old games on my new console again! There’s something very special about Mario 64 though, isn’t there? It’s also amazing how it’s now 10 years old. It really doesn’t look or feel like it. Anyway. I got a star or two in some of the levels I’d opened up last time – Tiny Big World and Wet Dry World, for instance, and a Toad gave me a star too. That’s taken my total up to 38 now. …
Super Mario 64 (Wii)
So I spend all this money on a new console, and I spend all my time playing ancient games on it? Something wrong there! Anyway. I finished up all the stars on the first two worlds, got most of them in the third and fourth (taking my total to 30), then did the first star in Dire Dire Docks, opening up the entrance to Bowser again. Went in there, defeated him, and then opened the door up to the next …
Erotic Keyboarding
This new mini keyboard with built in trackpad arrived today. I was especially impressed with the “luxurious enjoyment of touching buttons” that it offers.
Elite Beat Agents (DS)
This is one of those games you can just go back to for a bit, then stop for a while, then have another go at and so on. With this in mind, I had a go at the three “open” levels in Hard mode. And failed to complete any of them. I think I need more practice. Which completely negates the thing that I just said just now.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
I forgot to play yesterday to see the “snow blizzard” that was promised, so I set the clock on my DS back a day and went to see. It wasn’t very exciting. In fact, it wasn’t a blizzard at all – just a few flakes of snow, none of which settled. Went and had a chat with most of my animals (most of whom complained about the cold, or remarked about footprints in the – non-existent – snow). Nibbles is …
Super Mario 64 (Wii)
18 stars now! Got a few on Cold Cold Mountain, some in the water world, and some up Thwomp’s Tower. Hurrah for me!
Bonk’s Adventure (Wii)
Bah. How did this suddenly get hard? I got to level 2-2, died, and you have to start from 2-1 again if you continue. Pah.
Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam (Wii)
Well, this isn’t quite what I was expecting. I’ve played (and completed) the DS version of this already this year (just last month, in fact), and I thought this would just be the same game only flashier. It isn’t, exactly. The game is structured differently in terms of locations and events, you can’t go back up hills as you’ve gone down them, and the controls are entirely different. You hold the remote horizontally, steer by tilting, ollie, grab, grind and …
Bonk’s Adventure
It’s dangerous having all these Wii Points sat on my console, as I’ve downloaded another game. Another game I already own at least twice. Cue Nintendo “It prints money!” picture. Anyway. It’s great, but then, it always was, wasn’t it? I’ve gone through the first world, and beaten up the end of world boss (who was easy).