As my reward for cooking and washing up throughout Debbie’s exam marking season, on Saturday I bought an Xbox 360. There are reviews of the 360 all over the place, so I’ll keep my first impressions brief.
I got the premium pack - with a hard drive and a wireless controller included. The Core alternative [...]
Coming in late September, this one’s looking smashing. Emboldened ones mean “John approves strongly”.
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Anastasia - Left Outside Alone
Avril Lavigne - I’m With You
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your [...]
Gary and I filled Gary’s car with consoles and controllers and stuff, and went down to Sony Stratford, Milton Keynes for a day of game playing with like-minded Internet people. Highlights included:
Two player Guitar Hero 2, with big speakers and a projector
Various Wii games on the projector, including 9 player survival mode Wario Ware
“Pacman [...]
Wow, this one’s going to make New Year’s Eve go with a bang!
“This Charming Man”, “Life on Mars”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Daydream Believer”. Fantastic.
Aretha Franklin-Respect
Barry White-You’re The First, The Last, My Everything
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Blur-Parklife
David Bowie-Life On Mars?
Depeche Mode-Enjoy The Silence
Dusty Springfield-Son Of A Preacher Man
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong-Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Elton [...]
Another Code: Two Memories — known in other countries as “Trace Memory” is another Nintendo DS game, which Paul bought and I borrowed.
My Mario Kart DS Badge - (Flickr user ukslim).
Have you been racing me? If your opponent was called →slim� and he had an orange Dreamcast badge like this one, then you were. I expect you beat me.
Subversive, huh?
I was in town, and I was supposed to be buying Debbie a birthday present — and I did — but while I was there I had a peek through Game’s pre-loved games basket, to see what was on offer, and I came away with a copy of Project Rub for the DS.
Known as [...]
My Gameboy DS didn’t get on with my wireless access point at first; making one minor change to the access point configuration solved the problem.
If you want to get a DS working with a Linksys WAP11 access point, here’s the secret:
Get to the Web administration page (by default, http://192.168.1.251, but only available from the [...]
The second game I put in my DS was the one that came in the box: Mario Kart DS.
There’s not a great deal to say: it’s as perfect a rendition of Mario Kart as you can get, on a handheld. There are new courses and “retro” courses from the SNES, N64, Gamecube and Gameboy [...]
We felt we needed to clear out some clutter.
At the same time the Nintendo DS began to emerge as a desirable thing to own — a number of interesting games were appearing, including a new Sonic game, and a crop of games which are playable on the Internet over WiFi.
So, I decided to trade [...]