Went out in search for games for my new handheld. There are two places not to go if you want Didj games: Wal-Mart and K-Mart. Neither of these places has games for it. I guess I'll try my luck at Toys R Us next weekend. I also went to Value Village. There were a few Sega CD games, but I don't have a Sega CD. Also two 2600 games: Jungle Hunt and Combat. Knowing them they probably wanted $2.99 for the Combat cart. Went to Dairy Queen and got a mint oreo blizzard. Yummy. Went to the other video gam
putting the batteries in was hard. As it turns out, they go in two seperate little containers, much like how you put batteries in a Virtual Boy. And for a while I couldn't make the switch work. As it turns out, you have to hold it down for a little bit longer than you should. Then, it prompted me to enter a name and grade (I'm in the 3rd grade now LOL) as well as choosing an avatar (which I accidentally skipped over because I was frantically pressing buttons wanting the thing to do something.) T
I bought a Didj. Not as expensive as I thought it would be. Can't beat that. The older games were less expensive than the newer ones, so I got an older one. I was expecting to spend about $100. Total cost (system + one game): $85. Why did I buy one of these? It just looked interesting. The idea of educational games (there's now 15 of them). I wonder how many of these have sold so far. I was curious as to what a Didj cartridge looked like: It's like a DS card, only a little bit bigger. I need 4
I worked for a few hours making everything just right. Originally, I had a version that flickered, then after a few more programming tricks, I got it to a non-flickered version. This could be used as a title screen to a game or something, I may start a new version of Jellyfishing and have this be the title screen for it. Anyway, here's the result: A nice, non-flickering screen of SpongeBob's face.
I've always wanted one of these, but I've been scared to death of buying one because they cost a bajillion dollars. I don't know why, it just looks kind of interesting, and I've always wanted to see what a cartridge looks like, but I'm going to bite the bullet and actually buy one of these, even though Best Buy refuses to discount it. That is, after my stupid dentist's appointment. Yes, it's been 6 months already, and god forbid I don't come to see them every 6 months. They have some sort of fet
Pac-Man Collection is a collection of Pac-Man games. First, there's the normal Pac-Man, playable in either full-screen or scrolling. Then there's Pac-Man Arrangement. This one puts Pac-Man in sort of a Super Mario Bros.-style worlds. Of course, you're still in a maze and same goal is to eat all the dots, but there's additions such as pills which do various things, new enemies that try to ram you, and other interesting things. Of course, the game gets real hard real quick but lucky you: you have
...and there is time for Klax. Just found a good deal at the Goat Store. Sometimes they're overpriced, sometimes under. DP's website says Klax for the TG16 is worth $20. I bought it for $12. It just seems weird to say that it's the teens. Someone has been buying a lot of TG16 games apparently. Last time I looked there were fewer than I saw the time before last. Why Klax? It looked like the only game I'd even remotely enjoy for under $20. There doesn't really seem to be very many puzzle games for
Went to the game store. Saw the Colecovision with about 15 or so boxed games for $130. If I had $130 I'd buy it in a heartbeat. But I don't. So my new collecting fad is boxed Super Nintendo games. I got Pinball Fantasies, Harley's Humongous Adventure, Zoop, and Jeopardy Deluxe, all with boxes and manuals, for $21.80. Looked on Nintendoage and according to them, Pinball Fantasies is an R7! I only paid $10. And it's tied with Miner 2049er Volume 2 and Atari Video Cube as the rarest games I own (bo
Well, I didn't think it would actually happen, but there's a second (annual?) Planet Virtual Boy Coding Competition. Instead of putting my work on Castle of Doom into it (I don't think I could get it finished by the November 1 deadline), I've decided to do something relatively simple: A (playable) Tic-Tac-Toe game called "Tic-Tac-Toe '10." I say playable because the other tic-tac-toe game needs two players, so I may use some of the coding from the TI-Tac-Toe project for the TI-83+ I programmed a
Has anyone else watched this History Channel show? It's about the theory that aliens landed on earth a long time ago and helped build Stonehenge, the pyramids of Giza, etc. It's got me convinced. In fact, I wanted to watch the newest episode which was on at 8pm, but I fell asleep. Luckily, there's a repeat of it Saturday @ 8pm. So by now you assume (correctly) that I believe in aliens. The proof that aliens exist is here on earth, like I said, with Stonehenge and the pyramids, and ancient Peruvi
I'm working on a 2-letter-word dictionary. Right now, I have 124 entries. It's been hard to define what can go in, but I have narrowed it down to this: a common everyday word that is not an abbreviation (unless it is the first two letters of the longer version of the word). This means words like WI and FI (Wi-fi) can go in, but other words like TV can't. This seems to be the mantra of the Scrabble dictionary, but Scrabble players aren't using proper nouns, which I have included, as well as a few
Just to let you guys know, I got an extra Donkey Konga 2 game that I'm selling in my newly formed Store. A great game if you either have the bongos or don't. More information here. I got Cookie Monster Munch. Can someone hack the game so it uses the joystick, or would that be impossible? It uses the keypad, so the controls are kind of weird moving Cookie Monster around with no joystick. I'm wondering how they did the giant screen-filling Cookie Monster animation after you put the cookie(s) in th
So, I went to the record store today. There was a note on the door saying "It's 2:40 be back in 45 minutes." Being 3:30 and deciding that he wasn't going to show up again, I started to leave, and just as we pulled out, the guy came back. So, I went inside, and found another long song for my records collection: Rush's "2112." It just ended playing on my record player. It didn't sound very good. It's either the record or the player, I don't know which. I think next month I really NEED to get a new
So, I wondered if there was a way to get my records off the floor. After looking at my bookcase, the lower part having two shelves, I determined that I could move the shelf up so my records could fit. I must admit, I have a very eclectic collection, the one thing all my records have in common is that each album has at least one song over 15 minutes long on it. I think I have a few rare ones (The Nice, Tangerine Dream), but I like my small record collection. LPs are quite a bit bigger than CDs, b
I've had this idea floating around my head, and then with all the Air Raid stuff going on, I finally found a place to use it. I might make some more of these if I get a positive response from this one.
I hope the government doesn't find this blog post. They're the ones who forced us to go digital. Why couldn't we have a choice? They're the ones who say frequent audio and video disruptions are better and LESS annoying than constant audio and video but with a fuzzy picture. Assholes. I remember the days of analog TV (it's kind of hard to forget a few years ago) when these stupid interruptions didn't happen, and TV was way better without it. Now these idiots come in and say "Even though the TV yo
For a little over a year, I couldn't recieve KWVT due to their switching from analog to digital. Now it seems as though they've upgraded the tower or something and I can once again get the signal. So one of my favorite TV channels (the only one I can't get on cable) is back. Yay!
This has two big things going against it. First, it's an RPG. I don't know how to play them. So I couldn't get out of the first area. Second, there's also a battle mode which has horribly difficult computer AI and I die first all the time. So right there, those two things combined rival Castlevania for the worst game I've played so far in this blog category. Bomberman is one big BOMB.
up next: Pac-Man Collection
(I couldn't find the Nintendo Power issue that had this game in it, so no specs this time.)
This is an interesting game where these red and blue potatoes scroll up the screen. You control a car (or something) with six potatoes in it (two rows of three each). Your job is to launch the potatoes from the car to make matches and clear the potatoes out of the way so the car can go through. This is a good example of a new concept presented in a good way. I didn't expect much from BAM!, but I was unde
Company: 3DO
Release: 6/11/01 - Launch Title
Size: 32 Megabits
NP's Rating: 3/5 (v. 146 p.117)
ESRB Rating: E (mild violence)
This plays like an uber-hard version of Doom. I just don't get how the game expects you to not get hurt when there's three men shooting at you at the same time. I can't complete the first mission because of this fact. And that's on Easy setting. So suffice to say, I don't like the game. The game is basically going around trying to shoot as many tan army men as pos
It appears as though my quest isn't quite done yet. I still want the following games: Double Dragon, European Soccer Challenge, Fidelity Ultimate Chess, and Super Off-Road. So, sometime soon I shall go looking for these. I suppose they're pretty spendy (because they're 6-7 rarity). I just got back into the Lynx after a long absence from caring about it. Then I put in Xybots for the Lynx HSC. While the game itself is lousy, the system it's on is very cool. So I'm gonna play some more Lynx in the
I was looking for Game Informer issues in the pantry. There actually was a time where I was pressured into GameStop to get a one-year subscription to their magazine. I found one issue. It has a cardboard thing on it that says "RENEW NOW FOR UNINTERRUPTED DELIVERY!" in big, bold, black letters. I didn't. Well, anyway, out of all the issues I could have found (all 10 or so), I found one with a review of Donkey Konga 2 in it. So I scanned the review and put it up in the DK Bongos Society page. I wa
Since I got the bongos, maybe you've been wondering how I like them or not. The answer is I do like them, especially since I'm playing it on the right TV. The DVD player which I hooked it up to in the living room had a slight pause between the action and the actual on-screen goingson, which made a timing game such as Donkey Konga go all off-kilter and I hated it. So, then I went to play it on the VCR hooked up to the TV in my room, and suddenly I got a lot better at the game. I also got Donkey K
If you've been reading this blog, you'd probably notice my love of crossword puzzles, both making and solving them. The poorest-quality of puzzles I've ever seen published professionally is every week in my local newspaper's TV listings. It looks as though they only have 7 designs and just keep reusing the same designs only the words are different. There's a close-up of a famous person's face in the center, and some squares have asterisks, and once you've completed the puzzle, you unscramble the
I'm beginning to think getting the TG-16 wasn't such a good idea after all. After getting 5 games I thought I'd be interested in, all of them turned out to be duds. JJ and Jeff and Victory Run came in the mail today. I couldn't beat stage 1 of either of them. The other games I have are Keith Courage, Splatterhouse, and Bonk's Adventure. Nevertheless, I think it's a cool machine. I like the looks (small), the game cards (smaller than a cartridge), and the design of the cart cases. The controller
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