ARGH!

Does anyone else get this… ? Duolingo glitched on me when I ran out of time on “Timed Practice”, and I never got the points that would’ve kept me alive! (Each correct answer gives you more time) So this was pretty frustrating to say the least! (It wasn’t the only time either…)Filed under: Glitches and […] ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1IYr9uM

Progress!

Progress! I may not be fluent, but I’ve gone far in half a year!Filed under: Other gaming stuff Tagged: Browser Games ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1JfY7mj

HA!

I was asked to give the translation of “sofa” in Italian, which I forgot, so I quickly just typed il sofa, and I was right, Ha! …Well, I thought it was funny…Filed under: Other gaming stuff Tagged: Browser Games ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1GNkcZy

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

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Really… ?

Are you kidding me Duolingo… are you fucking kidding me!?Filed under: Other gaming stuff Tagged: Browser Games ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1FlNUXn

Thanks Duolingo!

I just thought I’d post this, since I haven’t posted nothing in ages, I was playing on Duolingo again, and I was doing a timed practice, and there was a sentence that I wasn’t 100% percent sure about, so I hovered over it to get some hints, then this happened… No complaints from me! Also, […] ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1yfRpv3

Duolingo Glitch

I was playing Duolingo, practicing my Italian on Duolingo, and I was doing timed practice, and then this happened, see that big number on the top right? That’s counter, in minutes and seconds, I kid you not! Usuallly, you have 30 seconds to start with, and 5-10 seconds if you get a question right, 2 […] ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/1u1fhAG

Retro Diary - 24/6/12 - "This-Game's-Great!"

Monday 18th June 2012

I finally got around to playing the Browser version of Plants vs. Zombies, and I really enjoyed it, the Game of the Year edition of the game is only £5 brand new on Amazon, so I suppose it's a why not, I'm getting it!

My PC got sent off to get fixed today, well, I hope they actually fix it, I have a gut feeling they'll just send it back, broken...

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Tuesday 19th June 2012

My MDickie compilation DVD arrived! I was expecting the Disc to contain absolutely, pretty much like it was claimed to, but sadly, it didn't, a few DOS games and the original version of the 3D Big Bumpz was missing, I've downloaded the rest, as they're all free, but it would've been nice if they were on the DVD as well.

However, I found that the DVD contained 2 mods to his popular Wrestling Mpire 2008, one of them being called "The Wrestling Channel 4: Fight!", which featured far improved graphics and presentation, and the game had a better atmosphere too, I can honestly say that this is the best wrestling game on the PC now, it'd be awesome of Matt Dickie himself and the team and modded it joined forced to make a sequel, how awesome would that be!?

So yeah I've been playing that, even if it runs like crap on my laptop, I want my PC so bad...

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Thursday 21st June 2012

My sister came up to my room to play some Mega Drive, she reached the same spot before getting bored, she keeps saying to me she'll come over and we could complete it like we did with Sonic 2, but never does, I'd be lucky if she even comes up to play it half the time.

I've just noticed, my brothers have nearly finished school, which sucks, I was hoping to spend those extra weeks off by playing some awesome PC games while my brothers are at school and aren't here to annoy me, but my luck doesn't want any of that, and my PC broken down, seriously, why me!?

I suppose on the bright side, I haven't heard anything back from ASUS, no "we can't fix your PC", or any of that crap, so I suppose no news is good news, but I have a feel it's still just in a very long line of PC that are to be inspected, and I bet knowing my luck, it's be weeks until they finally get to my PC and say "Sorry, we can't fix it!", making all of that time, waiting for it to get "fixed" gone to complete waste!

I saw Wolfenstein 3D + Spear of Destiny on eBay, and as a bonus, that particular copy also included Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, all on PC... Ordered!

I was once looking at a "Let's Play", or rather a "Retsupurae", which makes fun of bad Let's Plays, and found one on Ultimate Doom, so I decided to look at it, and saw that this guys copy ran faster, had a different HUD, and was running on a bigger resolution, I thought, "Wait, how come my copy isn't as good!?".

It turns out, he had a mod put in which makes all those improvements and more into all the Doom games, it's called Z-Doom, called so because you can look up and down, unlike the original, I tried it out, and it was like upgrading a computer or to a new computer, you suddenly get a massive improvement in performance! I was in awe playing it, the resolution could go much bigger, and therefore looked so much sharper and clearer, it ran much faster, the new HUD rules, and tonnes more, I practically fell in love!

Later on, I was browsing for my games because I was bored and wanted something to play, then I discovered a few PC games I've had for years, but never played, one of them being a £1 budget game called "Winter games", I decided to try it out.

I've tried other budget games published by the same people, and they were quite enjoyable considering they're only £1, but this one sucked!

However, I discovered trial games that came free with the game, one of them being "Brick Buster", which is a 3D breakout game, I decided to give it a try, and I really, really enjoyed it, so I looked it up online to see if I could find a copy cheap.

You can download the game, it costs £10, which is outrages, however, on eBay, I found a retail copy which also came with another game, and that was less than £2, seriously, why do people digitally download games these days?

Physical copies are usually cheaper, you can install them on other PCs/Consoles, and if you feel nostalgic for a game years later, chances are, the digital download will no longer exist, but you can still install the physical copy!

My sister came into my room to play my Mega Drive again, which I don't mind, she gave up, again, because she wasn't doing as well as usual, so I had a go, and done even worse...

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Friday 22nd June 2012

I've been told I will get my PC on Monday, hopefully fixed, but they haven't said otherwise, so that's a good sign, but I'm still not getting my hopes up...

I discovered a Free-to-play game on Steam called "Trackmania Nations Forever", which is a game all about whacky tracks, and the fact you can make your own! I had a go of it, and I loved it! Unlike every other F2P game I've ever played, it doesn't ask you for money anywhere in the game!

I might know where they'd get income then, from their other, more advanced game, Trackmania United Forever, Nations is a Free Trackmania game, everything else is like a mainstream game, a case with a disc, that costs you about £20-£30. United Forever is all of the Trackmania games and expansions put together into one game. After playing and Loving Nations, I'm definitely getting United Forever!

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Saturday 23rd June 2012

My sister came into my room and played Sonic 1 for a bit, then gave up, so I gave it a try, and I actually reached Labyrinth Zone Act 2, by far the furthest I've ever gotten, until I got a game over!

I completed Episode 2 of the Ultimate Doom, and the end boss for that episode, is absolutely merciless, I couldn't defeat him no matter what I did, I lost count of the amount of tries it took, not that I counted in the first place.
So I decided, f*ck it! I put a cheat in to get the BFG, and then I completed him my first try... Alright, second try!

I realized it was 3DO next week, and I didn't have a working copy (or even a proper one at that) of Twisted, and that games makes 3DO week, 3DO week, so I went online, and there was only 1 copy left, it was £15, but I made an offer of £10, and not even a minute later, he accepted it, so now I'm getting a proper copy of Twisted! Hopefully it'll arrive before next Sunday...

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Sunday 24th June 2012

It was Mega Drive this week at grans, unfortunately, I only had one controller, so I brought along the Sega Master System controller, in hopes that it would work... It didn't.

I was playing a bit of Mortal Kombat for a while first.

Then I played a bit of Aladdin, still trying to figure out the level skip cheat I knew of years ago, it seems it's activated when I press A, B, B, A, while rocking the D-pad, but it doesn't do it when I leave it alone or hold it in any direction.

Then Giancarlo played Streets of Rage for a bit, he reached the boat level before getting a game over.

Then Steven came in a while later and played Spiderman, and couldn't get past the first level.

Then he played Bart vs. the Space Mutants, same thing there, couldn't get past the first level.

Then he played Micro Machines 2, he played a lot of races before getting bored. We have something new to say during the countdown of that game, while it counts down, in rhythm with the countdown, we say "This-Game's-Great!"!

Steven decided to let someone else play a game, so Giancarlo then played Sonic 2, because we couldn't go through Mega Drive week without playing that, no really, we couldn't!

While he was playing, he mentioned that once he gets a job, he's getting an Xbox 360, and he also mentioned he's getting a computer as well.
I thought "What's the point?", I mentioned he could just get a gaming PC, sure it may cost more to get a gaming PC than a console, but you're going to buy a console and PC anyway, it doesn't cost much to get a PC that can play all the modern games and PC games are generally cheaper than their console counterparts to pre-order and get brand new the day a game comes out. (Sometimes with £15 in difference!)
Besides, me and Steven play mostly on the PC now, so it'd be awesome if all 3 of us did!
It's his choice, I know, but I'd go for PC gaming if I were him, but then again, no one's like me.

He reached the Casino Stage Act 2, but then Giancarlo had to go, so Steven took over, and reached Hill Top Zone Act 2 before we left.

I bidded for an item of "Ultimate Quake!" for the PC, basically, that's the first 3 quakes (including 3 arena) for I think modern OS PCs, luckily, no one else placed a bid on it, I wouldn't think anyone would, these days, if anyone who's not me wanted a PC game, they'd get it on Steam, not me, I hate digital download games and try to avoid them as often as possible, luckily, I don't need to download anything to play Quake 1, 2 and 3 Arena any more!

Next week is 3DO week, it's time to land on the Challenge Square!

Retro Diary - 17/6/12

Monday 11th June 2012

Day 5 with no proper PC, and I can tell you, it's boring as f*ck, I have no idea how I managed without it before, well, probably because I didn't have games that needed a PC that powerful, but the fact is that I do, and I want more games that need it, this sucks!

I ordered the MDickie collection on DVD today, you'll get the link to do so on his website if you want to as well, it's only £10, and you get basically everything he's ever created, everything on his website on a DVD, including his old DOS games, offline versions of his flash games! It may be pointless as everything on his site is free now, I'm preparing for if the site ever goes down and loses everything, if that ever happens, I can still play his games using his DVD compilation.

So I decided to take my mind off it by playing a bit of Gran Turismo 3, FIFA 12 and Toy Story 3, all on the PS2, mostly GT3.

I realised there's an unlockable feature on FIFA 12 on PS2, which I didn't see on the PC version, and that is funny SFX, which replaces, all of the game's sound effects to funny ones, for example, when I shoot, instead of hearing a kick, I hear a rocket! Or if I hit the post or the bar, I hear a bell noise, the same for when someone headers the ball, only it's a different bell sound! It's fun to have on, even if it gets old fast.

Throughout the whole day, for some reason, I wanted to play a racing simulator game, like Gran Turismo, or Sega GT. So I decided to play the one I've had for months, but never played, Gran Turismo 3! So I've been playing that, and enjoying it, even if it's frustrating as hell to get the licences!

One of the games I wanted for for PC that only my broken PC could run, was Toy Story 3, after playing the Wii version and really enjoying it. In excitement in getting my PC fixed and playing, I've been playing Toy Story 3 for the PS2... so yeah...

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Tuesday 12th June 2012

Day 6 without a proper PC, and I'm seriously on the brink of insanity! I want to Play games like Sims 3, left 4 Dead 2 and Toy Story 3 so bad, but I'm not able to!

So, out of extreme boredom, I decided to play one of the few games the laptop I'm using can play, Peggle Extreme! I decided to give this a shot, as I never got the chance with my now-broken PC, and I really enjoyed it, I will be getting the full game if I get my PC fixed, because you can get both that and it's nights expansion in retail form from Amazon!

I also played Codename: Gordon, and completed it! Now I only have to finish Half Life 2 Episode 1 & 2, and Half Life: Blueshift, and Half Life: Decay... Well, I'm one step closer to completing all of the Half Life games out so far.

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Wednesday 13th June 2012

Day 7, a full week without my PC, and I am officially losing it, seriously, I hope writing this will keep me sane, if not, then god help us...

My Amazon basket a.k.a, the list of PC games I want, is filling up, and I realised that some items would be quickly going out of stock, one of them only having 1 left, no big deal, right? No, Except that, that item didn't have other sellers, if I place that order for that one copy, I can forget about getting that game at all, so I thought since my laptop could probably run it anyway, I ordered it thankfully, it dispatched, so I got the last copy.

The game I'm talking about is Peggle, the full game, I also ordered Peggle Nights, the sequel, and I also ordered Doom: Collectors Edition, which is all 3 of the original doom games made playable on modern Windows Operating Systems, plus, you also get a demo of Doom 3, chances are, my laptop could at least run the original Doom games, so I got that as well.

Throughout the day, out of total boredom, I decided to check out a few DOS shareware games, such as Doom and Duke Nukem 3D.

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Thursday 14th June 2012

Day 8 without my PC, and I swear to god, I'm going to go insane, I mean insane asylum kind of insane, I know it shouldn't be a big deal, but I did everything with that PC, played games, make stuff, do browsing, my laptop does an awful job in comparison on all 3, especially games, I can hardly play anything on this toaster! I can't take my mind off it because pretty much everything reminds me of it!

I have just about given hope on my PC, I am very confident that ASUS will not repair it, and all the PC repair shops will end up charging us more than we have, so I'm f*cked, £1150 gone right down the drain, it's nothing more than a paperweight now, and there's f*ck all I can do about it!

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Friday 15th June 2012

Day 9 without my PC, and usually at this point, I'd be totally insane and wrecking the house, but I'm not, and I'll tell you why.

2 things, first of all, my copies of Peggle and Peggle Nights, as well as Doom Collector's Edition have arrived, so I won't be as bored.

Secondly, but by no mean least, when I was bored, "knowing" I can't play games like FIFA 12, PES 2012, NBA 2k12, Left 4 Dead etc., I looked at my game boxes to make sure of this, and I found out that, theoretically, this laptop actually can play them all on low settings! It'll do until my PC gets fixed, if it ever gets fixed, so at least I can still play FIFA Euro 2012 in the mean time. The most surprising thing is, this laptop is 5 years old, and can still play some fairly new games, and when that was new, that couldn't play any games released at the same time at high settings.

If my PC gets fixed, and that can play todays games on high settings, I'm looking at, at least 4 or 5 years until that becomes obsolete! So yeah, I'm all cheered up knowing that.

I played a bit of Revenge of Shinobi for the Mega Drive, and I got farther than before because I accidentally did the unlimited shrunkens cheat, which also gave me more lives, I managed to reach Round 2 Level 1, in other words, level 4, before dying, it may not sound far, but this game is very hard, I'm lucky to reach the end of level 2!

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Saturday 16th June 2012

I went to the cinema today to see Men in Black 3, I really enjoyed the film, although the 3D effects were mediocre at best, which wouldn't usually be a problem, but it costed us £50 to get in! What a rip-off! Despite that, like I said, I enjoyed the film.

I tried out FIFA 12 on my laptop, and minimum requirements my ar*e! My laptop could barely run the game on arena, where there's only 1 player and 1 goalkeeper, and half a pitch, if even that! On an actual match, it was just unplayable! The game literally run at like 2 frames a second, if even that, and my laptop surpasses all the minimum requirements by quite a bit, I'd hate to try it on a laptop that just only meets the game's "requirements"!

My sister also came to my room to play a bit of Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive, but only for like 1 level, until she went out.

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Sunday 17th June 2012

It was Wii week at grans today, unfortunetly, Giancarlo forgot to bring his Wii, fortunately, however, I brought mine, just in case this would happen.

I played a bit of No More Heroes first, and it make me think why I stopped playing in the first place, I really enjoyed it, maybe I'll dig it up, because I still have No More Heroes 2 sealed, unopened, from a couple of years ago, and I want to open that up, and play it, but I want to beat the first game first.

Then me, Giancarlo, his sister, and Steven played a good few matches of Super Smash Bros. brawl.

Then we played Wario Ware Smooth moves, and we had a blast!

Then we played a few Gamecube games, first being Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects! Me and Steven played a match or two.

Then we played a couple of matches of Beyblade V-Force: Super Tournament Battle.

Then we played a few races of Mario kart Double Dash.

Then we went back to playing Wii games, by playing Super Mario Galaxy, it didn't take long for us to get bored, though.

Then we played Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010, the game ironically wasn't as good as the Wii sports golf game, and PGA tour was dedicated, we played a few for a few holes, though. One thing we did notice was that the graphics were so good, our gran thought it was a real match on TV!

Finally, we played Sonic Heroes on the Gamecube.

After we went home,my mum got my uncle to photocopy something, and she would go over to collect it half an hour later, I wanted to go as well, so I did, and I showed Steven the Peggle games, and showed him the 'Weird Al' Yankovic song: "It's all about the Pentiums" and he showed me the Plants vs. Zombies game, and he said there's an browser version to try out, so I'm trying that out right now.

So next week is Mega Drive week, we're going back to the start of the cycle, time for some blast processing!