Far Cry Insticts Predator (Demo) (360)

This appeared on the Marketplace this week, so I downloaded it this morning and had a play. It’s multiplayer only, and I had a game of 8 vs 8 capture the flag. Well, specimin. Or something. It was pretty good fun, but the controls seem somewhat, well, jerky, and the map was a bit small. Some lag meant the sniper rifle was almost pointless (which was a shame, as there were some great sniper spots). I also couldn’t figure out …

Time Pilot (360)

Played this for quite a bit this evening. Managed to get another achievement, but still need to get to 2001 without losing a life, and to destroy 10 bombs in 1910. Both of which seem somewhat hard… I also played against Trousers online. He beat me. Three times. However, I still have the highest score on my friends list (and I’m 44th in the world at the moment), which is far more important. Obviously.

Texas Hold’em (360)

Played, and won, a whole actual tournament today. Hurrah! It seems the best thing to do is just chip away slowly, waiting patiently until you get a good hand and then start betting slow (or everyone folds) and then hook a fish and reel him in. Or something.

Time Pilot (360)

Time Pilot was on the Xbox Live Arcade downloads thingy today. I have played it a bit before (and actually have a copy of it on Konami Arcade Advanced for the GBA), but I don’t remember it being very good, nor me being very good at it. So I bought it anyway (400 points, about £3.40-ish), and it’s great. I think it’s the online leaderboards that make it – just like Pac-Man and Frogger and all the other arcade “classics”. …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Bluebear and Purrl were having a conversation today. It went much along these lines: Purrl: “You’re not dancing hard enough!”Bluebear: “What? This a dance-off? I’ll win!”Purrl: “Woot! WOOT WOOT!”Bluebear: “Woot! WOOT WOOT!”Purrl: “This is so much fun! It’s like THE BEST THING EVER!!” Scared, I am.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360)

Hopped back into this for a short while, to kill some more vampire hunters in Skingrad. That was an easy enough task, but the guards caught me and I had to pay a fine for murdering them. Bah. So the Count was pleased with my killing spree, and gave me some information for Trevan back at the Mages Guild. I passed on what he told me, and Traven said he’d have to consult with the Council over what course of …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Crazy Redd had nothing of interest for me again today. I haven’t had a new painting in months now, I don’t think. I got a letter from Bunnie. She’s moved out. Tch. I’m not really bothered, as I had her picture anyway, but she didn’t show any sign of moving on (unlike Kabuki and Kody who both seem to threaten to go every day or so). In her place is Purrl, who is a cat. I’ve stolen her from my …

Secret of Mana (SNES)

I didn’t really intend to get into this. I’d only set my US SNES up to test it on my new TV, but somehow got drawn into it. I’ve not really played it much before, but I’ve put a couple of hours into it this time so may “go for the win”. You never know. So I’ve started off, killed the giant Mantis Ant, gone to the Water Temple, found a girl in a castle who joined me, went to …

Assorted Xbox Live Arcade Games (360)

Played a few of them, but not for very long each, so I’m listing them all together. Firstly, I played Uno online for a few rounds, and almost won one of the rounds when someone joined and instantly won the entire round with 341 points on a single hand. Gah. Then I played Marble Blast Ultra, which looks especially nice in HD and lets you see a lot more of the play area as a result. Got par times for …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

I’m still playing. I keep thinking I’m bored of it, and yet still play and enjoy it. It’s either genius or crack. I don’t know which. Anyway. Animals were not after anything today. I thought I’d go bug-catching, but couldn’t find a single bug. I also realised that I’d forgotten again that I hadn’t seen Joan and bought turnips. Bah.

Tetris (Famicom)

Aha! I’m not as crap at this. Played for a good 20 minutes or so, and only stopped as I had something else I needed to do instead. Like Pac-Land from earlier, the controls are a bit wonky – down is rotate, and A is drop. Bizarre.

Ai Cho Aniki (PCE)

Best most gay game ever! I don’t really like shooters, and this isn’t really that great an example of the genre, but in the same way that I love playing Parodius because of its amazing levels of sillyness, this is just bizarre to great excellence. Sadly, I’m rubbish at it and so only got as far as level 3.

Bomber Man ’93 (PCE)

Another PCE game to play for a bit. Bomber Man is always great, isn’t it? Well, except that shonky Atomic Bomber Man for the PC. Or Bomber Man: Act Zero. But aside from them, they’re all ACES. And this is ACES too. I finished all of the first world, and then set about the first couple of levels for World B. One thing which this version does, which I don’t recall any other version doing, is it flashes the block …