Tag: games

That’s a lot of games, isn’t it? With the purchase of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD for Xbox Live Arcade today, I’ve reached 1500 games in my collection. Actually, I’ve got more than that. Lots more. Something in the region of 200 more, in fact, but they’re piles of Spectrum and C64 cassettes and I’m yet to begin the daunting task of cataloguing them all, so they don’t yet count. Lets look at some fun facts: If the games …

It’s that time of year again. Well, actually, it’s not, which is the problem. Traditionally, there’s slim pickings for new games around this time of year. The busiest times for releasing new titles (especially big titles) is normally around Christmas and often over Easter too, but the July-October period is like release death in the UK. Except this year. As well having Bioshock released this week already, there’s fahsands more out between now and the end of November. Before the …

You know, even though there’s a link over there on the left, many of my readers don’t seem to realise I have a second blog. One which is some two years older than this one, and is updated more frequently. It’s my Gaming Diary. Since I’m what you could call an, uh, avid player of games, I set up a diary to track my progress through what I play, and to try and encourage me to stop buying so many …

Ph33r me and my 1337 Missile Command skillz! I’m top of the Xbox Live leaderboard, on just my second go. Uh, however… The thing is, the game isn’t out yet. Not until Wednesday. Some glitch seems to have allowed me and (currently) 13 other people access to it. So I’m best in the world. It’s just a somewhat small world, consisting of 14 Missile Command players who got the game by accident.

I’ve just found SpeccyDS, a Spectrum emulator for the Nintendo DS. Which means I can play Chuckie Egg on it! And Run Baby Run! Aces!

On the 4th of March 2001, I posted this message to uk.games.video.misc: I had a thought today. After seeing the new issue of Zzap!64, and being a reader of www.ys3.co.uk, I wondered if a load of bods from ugvm fancied doing a multiformat web-based magazine. Maybe every few months – you know, some reviews, some news, some letters, etc? Well, it was just a thought. Show Edge/IGN/GamesRadar/etc how to do it properly? I’m not suggesting I “take the reins”, but …

Because Bethesda have released Oblivion: Shivering Isles for the Xbox 360 today. Which supposedly adds another 30-40 hours play to the game. Of course, once I set foot in Cyrodiil again, I’ll need to play the previous expansions (like Knights of the Nine) and the remaining Dark Brotherhood and Fighters Guild quests that I haven’t yet done. Which means my 130+ hours on the game so far could well nudge 200. See you all at Christmas!

Or even, PLAYSTATION 3, as Sony had decreed that you must spell it in all caps. You know, like eleven year old idiots do when they post on online forums. Over here in the UK, the Playstation 3 (I’m not 11) will be released next Friday. Just like the 360 and Wii launches, the media is in a frenzy and retailers are being swamped with pre-order enquiries. Unlike the 360 and Wii launches, however, the enquiries are “Can I cancel …