Dear Dairy, I've had a pretty busy week this week, this week was mostly Sega-orientated.
On Monday, 23rd January 2012, my cousin, Steven came up to our house again, and as usual, we played a bunch of old games.
We first played Mashed: Fully Loaded on the Xbox, I won 1 race, he won 2, somehow, and the CPU won a game. If you read my blog regularly, you'll probably know that Fully Loaded is almost exactly the same as the original, because of this, during the countdown, we say, in tune with the countdown; "This-Game's-The-Same!".
Then we had game of Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction on PS2, it was a 6-man annihilator, I won it.
He brought his laptop along with him, so we had a game of TF2 ware on Team Fortress 2, I have no many games we had, tonnes, we were addicted! The game has alot of players, most of them almost impossible to top in a game, but somehow, I
won a round!
Then we had a race of Sega Rally 2 for the Dreamcast, which I won.
We then had a game of the Go Kart mini game on Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast, I was 2st, he was 6th, or should I say last.
After that, I showed him a trailer for Rise of the Robots, it had fake claims all over it, it said stuff like
Take on droids in order of their technical sophistications in a cinematic 3D arena, with full 360 degree freedom of movement!
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Rise of the Robots features fighting moves conceived by a martial arts expert and VR inspired backgrounds designed by an architect!
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Opponents actually learn from their mistakes and read your moves! Making strategic decisions down to the last microsecond! There's never been robot opponents this lethal!
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Awesome five round bouts are more than kick and punch! Multiple rounds build drama and excitement as gamers sweat every swain, every move!
and last, but definitely not least;
Rise of the Robots redefines the fighting genre with a futuristic motive proven in focus groups!
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If you have ever heard of Rise of the Robots, you'd know they're all lies.
Click here to watch it.
We played the game itself on Amiga CD32 afterwards, we had played 3 matches, all of which were with the Sentry Droid (a.k.a. "Rook"), He won the first match, I win the second match, and he won the third.
Lastly, we played Mario Kart Double Dash for the Gamecube. we had 2 races, one in Luigi Circuit -I was 1st in that one, he was 6th- and one in Peach Beach -I was 2nd in that race, he was 5th-.
Here's the list of the games we played:
In the order we played them:
- Mashed: Fully Loaded [Xbox]
- Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction [PS2]
- Team Fortress 2 [PC-Steam]
- Sega Rally 2 [DC]
- Sonic Adventure 2 [DC]
- Rise of the Robots [CD32]
- Mario Kart Double Dash [GCN]
On Friday, 27th January 2012, we went to our grans, because it was my late dad's birthday, and to celibate, we were to set off Chinese lanterns.
I was just playing Urbz on the GBA, with the aid of a Strategy Guide, of course, while waiting for our cousins to arrive.
After we set off the Chinese lanterns, we went back in our grans, and it turns out my uncle had brought his Master System, we set that up, and played some games on it, and he let me keep it, if you want read the full story about it if you haven't already,
click here.
Here's the list of the games we played:
In the order we played them:
- Urbz: Sims in the City [GBA]
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 [SMS]
- After Burner [SMS]
- Sonic the Hedgehog [SMS]
On Saturday, 18th January 2012, our cousins came up for dinner, me and Steven as usual, came up to my room to play a bunch of games
Of course, by tradition, we started off playing Rise of the Robots on the Amiga CD32, and like always we had playing it, or rather laughing at it, I wasn't able to keep track of how many matched we had, though.
We then played the sequel, Resurrection: Rise 2 for the Sega Saturn, this game fixed all of the problems the original had, and it actually a pretty good game, in fact, there was a part of the narrative in the manual that took the mickey out of the original game, I already mentioned this, but since it was so long ago, I'm mentioning it again, it did so by saying, and I quote:
The next generation of robots now had actual intelligence...
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Then we had a couple of games of Sega GT on the Sega Dreamcast, we played a race in the normal, oval course, which he surprisingly won, then we had a race at a city level, which is more advanced, and I won that race, by quite a bit, despite his 3 second head start.
We then played Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast, we had 2 races at the go kart mini game, one in the intermediate course, one at the expert course. Then we had a few games of the action stages, most of the at the shooting one, he surprisingly won most of them despite almost no experience with the game, and we had a game of the running game, which I won.
Then we played Metropolis Street Racer for the Dreamcast, we had a couple of races, and it turns out the game has widescreen support! Perfect for my new TV!
We then played Mashed: Fully Loaded on the Xbox, and as always, he had a blast! Quite a few, actually!
Lastly, we played Sega Touring Car Championship for the Sega Saturn, I've been hearing the game was awful on the D-pad, I've mostly been playing it with the analogue, but I only had 1 3D controller, so I gave Steven it, and decided to use the D-pad, at first, I didn't like it, but I got used to it, and started to enjoy the game anyway, it's not so bad, frankly, I have no idea what all those game reviewers were b*tching about.
Sega Touring Car Championship was one of those games you could casually play while talking to your friends, usually the guy you're playing, and I love those types of games, because we'd still be getting our doses of gaming goodness, and also have good conversations with other people, you know, socialising, the thing they say gaming takes away from people...
After that, Steven had to leave, aw! I wanted to play him at Mario Kart Double Dash!
Here's the list of the games we played:
In the order we played them:
- Rise of the Robots [CD32]
- Resurrection: Rise 2 [SS]
- Sega GT [DC]
- Sonic Adventure 2 [DC]
- Metropolis Street Racer [DC]
- Mashed: Fully Loaded [Xbox]
- Sega Touring Car Championship [SS]
Today, at grans, it was Dreamcast week, good timing, I've been in a Dreamcast mood lately!
While I was waiting for my cousins to finish their lunch, I was playing Urbz on the GBA for a bit.
I don't remember much from this despite being recent, so not everything here happened in the right order.
The first game we played was Mortal Kombat Gold with my cousin, Giancarlo, it was hilarious to play, and not in the it's-so-bad-it's-good kind of hilarious! After a good few games
Then we played Metropolis Street Racer, me and Steven had a couple of races, and then I had a game with Gianni.
Then we played Sonic Adventure 2, we had a couple of Go-Kart races, one with Gianni, and the rest with Steven.
We then had a game of Chu Chu Rocket, we would've had a 4-player game, but Gianni had to leave, so it was just the 2 of us, we had a few games, then I became bored.
We put Sonic Adventure 2 back in, and we had a few go kart races again, then we decided to play a few of the shooting action stages, a couple in the Egyptian level, and a few at the highway level, I won the former battles, and most of the latter, he managed to win a couple of them, then we played a few action stages, and boy, were are matches then tense and epic! We had 3 matches as I recall, all of them at Sky Rail and he somehow won 2 of them:
One of them was because I had fallen off at the worst moment, and whenever you reach a checkpoint, even if your opponent never reaches it, they'll go to that check point if they die, so to my recall, I reached the third checkpoint, Steven didn't, he was around the second checkpoint, and he died, and went to the third checkpoint, so it was a race to see who reached the goal, and then I died, and he caught up to where I was and reached the goal.
The second game we had was so, so close! It was virtually neck and neck, constantly switching back and forth being first, both dying at the same time and respawning the same spots and stuff, then when we were at the end, and we were virtually at the goal the same time, it looked like I inched it... but then the game gave the victory to Steven...
The third match we had wasn't as tense as the first 2 games, but it was still epic, at least for me! I was watching my ring count, using time stop as often as I could, made sure not to fall off, and I finally reached the goal first! It was close, but I made it!
Whoo! That was epic! I think Sonic Adventure 2 is my favourite 2-player game of all time now!
Then we had a game of Sega Rally 2, we had a few races, not much to say about that.
and Finally we played Metropolis Street Racer, we had a load of races, then we had to leave!
I think I can safely say that was one of the best weeks we've had since we started this whole week thing!
In short, here're the games we played:
In the order I think we played them: (All DC unless stated otherwise)
- Urbz: Sims in the city [GBA]
- Mortal Kombat Gold
- Metropolis Street Racer
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Chu Chu Rocket
- Sega Rally 2
I've just noticed, we didn't have our traditional 3-4-player game of Chu Chu Rocket or even played Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Dreamcast week wasn't complete, but it was still fun!
Next week is PS2 week, it's a good chance to compare the 2 consoles, see which one's better, Steven thinks the Dreamcast is better, Gianni, at least the last time I asked, thinks the PS2's better, and as much as I love both, I think the Dreamcast is better, so this will be good time to see by how much we prefer them, or maybe we'll change our minds... nah, doubt it!
Article By: Cobra!
Recall help provided by: Steven
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