This was my experience of setting my Xbox 360 up again for the first time in three months, so I could play Lego Indiana Jones 2, which I got for my birthday yesterday. I unpacked it. Then it all went wrong. There were FIVE system updates, one of which froze my 360 (as is usually the case with system updates). After that I couldn’t connect to Live, except I was connected, could see messages, send messages, browse the shop, etc., …
If there’s one game that defines my childhood gaming more than any other, it’s Chuckie Egg. From clocking it on my Spectrum, to beating my friend’s high score on his MSX, to the covert Chuckie Egg competitions on the BBC Micro in the school library, it was THE 8-bit game of choice. Of course, you’ve all played it, right? If not, DO IT NOW RIGHT HERE!
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Well, would you look at that! I actually have some sort of usable internet connection! After a month of virtually nothing! It’s the most exciting day ever.
I don’t really like side scrolling shooters. There are a few in the genre that have interested me over the years – Side Arms, Zero Wing and Sol Feace. Of course, I loved Parodius and Ai Cho Aniki too, but they’re “comedy” shooters. I was never a fan of most of the “big name” shooters – Gradius, R-Type, Thunderforce, etc. I don’t know why. I played an unhealthy amount of Gynoug, but never really liked it. But one game I …
Just look at this! It’s AMAZING! You know the OneStation handheld Famiclone? What do you mean “no”? I wrote about it right here! This, the “Digital Dragon System”, is actually just another OneStation. It even says “OneStation” on it. But it’s a different shape! And! It has 999 games built in! And! The cartridges are a different shape! Gasp!! Other than that, it’s the same thing. A poor quality handheld Famiclone with fewer than advertised games (they’re almost all duplicates) …
Just to finish everything off, here’s my other remake of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator – for the Game Boy Advance. I wrote it in 2004, and it was actually a lot easier than writing the Game Boy version. I even added a “SNES Mode 7” style rotate to the title screen, and included music (from the film The Lawnmower Man). Sadly, the only onlineable emulator I could find (Boycott Advance Online) runs too fast and without sound. Ah well.
In 1999, I entered the Bung (remember them?) Game Boy homebrew coding competition with a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. It was the first, and only, Game Boy game I’d ever written, and required me to pretty much learn C just to be able to code it. The other day, I found a Java based Game Boy emulator (JavaBoy), and so, combined with my GB version of ALS, I present to you an online playable version! Woo! Oh, and in …
“The highly classified bio-augmentation procedure is a Spartan candidate’s final and most difficult ordeal before joining the ranks of the legendary soldiers. The dramatic interpretation of Carter’s rebirth as a Spartan embodies the themes of courage, sacrifice and honor in “Halo: Reach” and gives viewers a unique look into the origins of a central character in the upcoming blockbuster game. ”
Since I’m working on a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the Amstrad NC100 Notepad Computer (see this post), I thought “Lets Play! Friday” this week should be the original. If you’ve never played it before, prepare to be blown away.
I am programming a version of Duncan MacDonald’s seminal Spectrum classic Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the Amstrad NC100 “Notepad Computer”. Yeah, and NC100. Who needs an iPad, eh? (Answer: Me). Here’s the “game” in its current state!
A few weeks ago, I had to ditch Virgin (I didn’t want to – I just couldn’t get their service any more) so was on the look out for an alternative. For cost and features, the best all-in-one TV/phone/broadband package seemed to be Sky. BT Vision looked pretty good, but none of it is HD, and it relies on broadband of “an acceptable speed” – something I couldn’t find out until after it was all installed. So I duly went …
I’m thinking of making Friday “Lets Play! Friday”. What do you think? One of the most visually impressive Speccy games, with huge sprites and colour-clash-be-damned graphics, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper was rated highly but then mostly forgotten. With just 90 seconds before the bombs in his body explode (they don’t make ’em like this any more!), Trantor must find the items to slow the detonation.
