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Well, I’m celebrating (with a hat and streamers and everything) at the news that Pokemon GameCube is on its way. It is a bit stingy that you will need a GBA and one of the latest Pokemon GBA games to play it, but seeing as I will have that well before it comes out, then it is not such a problem for me.

I will admit that owing to some travelling in the past month or so, I have played an awful lot of Pokemon. It does travel so well I reckon. I have also bought Pokemon Blue, so I now have the first 5 GB games. I just need Crystal now, and then Ruby and Sapphire when they come out.

Also purchased/gifted over the past few weeks have been Gran Tourismo 2 (PS1, bought from the new 2nd hand gaming shop that is just round the corner from me, another result for the New Year), Age of Empires (PC, 3.25 in a sale) Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Kotex(I have unfinished business with that game) and Links 2001(PC). So I am quite well stocked on the gaming front. Starfox, GTA3VC, Mario, GT3 and GT2 all are in line for some playing, but my first attention will be on the Pokemon Blue that arrived today. For a few days.

to put a patch on today. Got the fear as soon as I realised this morning, but decided to wait until lunchtime to do something about it. Got to lunchtime, looked at the wind and rain outside, and decided I could wait until I got home. Feel weird now. Spaced and tired. Very spaced. Sore head and slight trippyness. It comes and goes. Fuck me niccoteen is evil.

Only half an hour to go, and it seems like quite a while yet. I will manage it, but it is hard.

Bomberman

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.

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

of things to get, and things to check:

Pokemon Crystal

Pokemon Blue

Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire

Zoonami’s “Game Zero”. All a big mystery

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.

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.