Going to try and write up my last week another time, but suffice to say I now know a bit more about Microsoft Access than I did, or than even I ever suspected I may need to know. On a completely different subject, I have now done 8% more in GTA3VC. Just to give another feel for the game, I was just making a coffee, and thinking about a level where you have to help shoot a load of gang-members. They have very carefully barricaded themselves in, so my route one tactic of driving at them doesn’t work. But I just remembered that I know where I can find a bullet-proof vest, and a flame-thrower. I suspect that will do the job. This is one of the things I like about the game, often an entirely different tactic from the obvious is the best way through. Also got my first helicopter last night, and being able to fly around the whole game is yet another great aspect I’ve found on my journey through it.
Category: diary
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To remember
I have decided to start a new project, to go with all the other things I start and never finish. This one is to try and remember as much as I can about World of Sport.
Here goes. Okay, I can first remember a trailer for what I think was the Autumn of 1976, or possibly 1975. There was definitely something about the lumberjacking games. This was where competing lumberjacks had to race each other by climbing up very tall logs, ringing a bell at the top and jumping down. They had some sort of belt around them and the logs, to make this a bit safer. The technique goes :- Slide the belt up, move your feet up the log, repeat to top.
I think there is a larger page in this somehow. Not an interesting one, but a larger one.
I can also recall ice-barrel jumping, fireman’s games, American football, skeleton bob, skateboarding competitions, airplane racing, bike jumps by Evel Kneival, Eddie Kidd and some other bozo, wrestling of course, banger racing, greyhound racing, horse racing, cricket (occasionally, usually the the Yorkshire vs Lancashire games), Darts, snooker, Billiards, cliff-diving
and rest
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To remind me
of things to get, and things to check:
- Pokemon Crystal
- Pokemon Blue
- Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire
- Zoonami’s “Game Zero”. All a big mystery
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All I want for Christmas is it to be six months time
I bought an American gaming magazine yesterday. BIG BIG mistake. I now would like to own, but will have to wait a minimum of 3 months the following:
- GBA E-card reader
- Gamecube GBA adaptor
- Animal Crossing
- Phantasy Star Online parts 1 & 2
- Gamecube Broadband Adaptor
- All the Pokemon e-card set
- All the Animal Crossing e-card set
- Gamecube Keyboard
- I think there is supposed to be a Phantasy Star Online e-card set as well
- Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire for the GBA
Lets just say that it is possibly the most expensive magazine that I have ever bought.
And btw, this isn’t a Christmas beg list. None of this stuff is out for far too long, and I can’t be arsed with importing it and messing about with stuff like that. I am planning on funding the card habit by selling old cards on e-bay and then buying new ones with the funds. As I do have about 2000 cards, I think it is worth a go. I might even sell off some comics as well, the non-daredevil stuff. I think there may be a lot of people in the market for Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure #1 in reasonable condition.
I’m not that deluded, honest. I learnt my lessons in buying comics for profit after I got my hopes up for Little Shop of Horrors #1 back in the mid-80’s. I think I’ve sold my collection off a couple of times in my life, like completely, and never ever been able to persuade the shops to take it off my hands
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Bleeping Bleep
Like the look of this club night in London. May try and pay them a visit soon. Also, if you want to do some repair work on your pc, do it the easy way
Will be having an enforced break from blogging soon, as I’ll be in London for a week. If I get chance I may well type up my weeks diary on the laptop.
Also may well find myself distracted over the next ten days by celebrity big brother 2. It just appeals to my love of car crash televison.
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Flipping Yoshi
Feel somewhat vindicated that a lot of people are pissed off by Yoshi’s Fruit Adventure on Super Mario Sunshine, which I’ve found pretty heavy going. Mind you, someone also described the level which has taken me about 50-60 goes as one of the easiest in the game, so its 50-50 I guess. Now for the level I’ve avoided going back to in Vice City.
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Food and Drink (lots of both)
Saturday night was out in London for S’s birthday. Went to the Mirabelle which was the most outlandish place I have ever eaten. The food was matched by the service, which was utterly, utterly top class. Can’t say enough about it, may well do later. Also went for a drink at Henry’s Cafe Bar which is a very friendly and extremely Art Decor place.
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A Steller Effort
A Steller Effort
On my part has now resulted in a 12 Shine weekend on Mario. It’s the obstacle courses that hold you up, when you get past those you really can fly through. The end levels are normally pretty hard mind. I’m on one where you have to shoot balloons from a roller coaster, which is as hard as, well, shooting balloons from a roller coaster.
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown
This movie looks like it has a lot of potential, documentary on the musicians who made the Motown sound. And it has Bootsy Collins playing with them. What more could you need? And having just read through the Bootsy site, just linked onto the Fred Wesley site. Another one of James Brown’s funky people.
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Flipping Cats
From the makers of Stars and of Bubbles comes an earlier work, KittyFlip