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Sunday, 20 August 2017
Retro Diary #78
Last Sunday, me and my sister watched Beauty and the Beast… on VHS! It was an interesting experience, and the quality wasn’t nearly as bad as I would have thought, considering we watched it on a big flatscreen TV and chances are, the previous owner watched this film over and over again, because that’s what […] ...To receive more of these posts, you should follow my new blog, over at wordpress, the link is: http://ift.tt/2vPd6XS
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Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The Collective Working to Save VHS Tapes Before They Decay | Mental Floss
This article is a hard read, it’s sad to know that VHS tapes, something that is a big part of many lives, won’t be usable any more after a couple of decades. Though on the bright side, the article mentions that digital doesn’t last forever, either. As someone who hates digital, that made me happy. […]
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Sunday, 28 May 2017
VHS is making a comeback… somewhat…
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
Retro Diary - 22/1/12 - "Come here square fists!"
Dear Diary, I totally forgot to write notes for this, so everything written here beyond Monday will be totally out of recall.
On Monday my sister came over to play my Mega Drive, big surprise, eh? However, she, or rather we, I was playing a bit as well, almost completed it, we reached Death Egg Zone, by that point, I was shaking in excitement, my heart rate was going three times it's normal speed, I'd be sweating if I were the type to sweat, this was it, one the first games I've ever played, the game that always got me p*ssed off, the game that I- as a child- played for hours upon hours on end, but never got far, it was time to finally finish off a childhood game, a game that always won, to get past a very large obstacle, to jump over a very high hurdle, I- sorry we, were going to beat Sonic 2 once and for all!... I suck at build-ups...
...and we died, lost all of our lives and continues, bummer...
On Wednesday, I was staying over at a friends house to watch the El Classico, while we were waiting for it to start, we had a few games of FIFA 12 on Xbox 360 and a couple of match of Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 for the same console.
I pretty much lost all of the matches we had of both games, I have no choice but to blame the Xbox 360 controller, I'm usually good at both games on PS2, usually...
After the El Classico, which I enjoyed by the way, we watched The Emperor's New Grove on VHS, then we went to bed.
On Saturday, I got a new TV! Well, not exactly new, my brother had it before, but only since Christmas, so it's still relatively new, and I came across a problem, with the PS1, the the TV takes about a minute to find out what type of picture it uses, so by the time it shows a picture, it's well into the intro or the Press Start screen, it's not a big problem, since it gives off a great picture when it finally shows, but I'd love to get it fixed.
Other than that, I love it! It gives off a great picture to anything connected and I got a HDMI cable for my blu-ray player, and it gives off a great picture, it even does 1080p... but it's only 14-inch, so it doesn't make a massive difference.
On Sunday, it was Nintendo 64 week at grans, I played a fair bit of Turok before my cousin, Steven finished his lunch and then we played a bit of Goldeneye, then we played a bit of Perfect Dark, and to finish off, we played Mario Kart 64. Nothing much happened.
While we were playing Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, we made up playful insults related to the graphics, for example: "Come here square fists!", "Take that Pyramid hands!" and "You can run forever cuboid legs!".
Games we played:
Yeah, nothing much happened from recall. Next week, we'll be Dreamcast week, Chu Chu Rocket!
Article By: Cobra!
On Monday my sister came over to play my Mega Drive, big surprise, eh? However, she, or rather we, I was playing a bit as well, almost completed it, we reached Death Egg Zone, by that point, I was shaking in excitement, my heart rate was going three times it's normal speed, I'd be sweating if I were the type to sweat, this was it, one the first games I've ever played, the game that always got me p*ssed off, the game that I- as a child- played for hours upon hours on end, but never got far, it was time to finally finish off a childhood game, a game that always won, to get past a very large obstacle, to jump over a very high hurdle, I- sorry we, were going to beat Sonic 2 once and for all!... I suck at build-ups...
...and we died, lost all of our lives and continues, bummer...
On Wednesday, I was staying over at a friends house to watch the El Classico, while we were waiting for it to start, we had a few games of FIFA 12 on Xbox 360 and a couple of match of Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 for the same console.
I pretty much lost all of the matches we had of both games, I have no choice but to blame the Xbox 360 controller, I'm usually good at both games on PS2, usually...
After the El Classico, which I enjoyed by the way, we watched The Emperor's New Grove on VHS, then we went to bed.
On Saturday, I got a new TV! Well, not exactly new, my brother had it before, but only since Christmas, so it's still relatively new, and I came across a problem, with the PS1, the the TV takes about a minute to find out what type of picture it uses, so by the time it shows a picture, it's well into the intro or the Press Start screen, it's not a big problem, since it gives off a great picture when it finally shows, but I'd love to get it fixed.
Other than that, I love it! It gives off a great picture to anything connected and I got a HDMI cable for my blu-ray player, and it gives off a great picture, it even does 1080p... but it's only 14-inch, so it doesn't make a massive difference.
On Sunday, it was Nintendo 64 week at grans, I played a fair bit of Turok before my cousin, Steven finished his lunch and then we played a bit of Goldeneye, then we played a bit of Perfect Dark, and to finish off, we played Mario Kart 64. Nothing much happened.
While we were playing Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, we made up playful insults related to the graphics, for example: "Come here square fists!", "Take that Pyramid hands!" and "You can run forever cuboid legs!".
Games we played:
- Turok
- 007 Goldeneye
- Perfect Dark
- Mario Kart 64
Yeah, nothing much happened from recall. Next week, we'll be Dreamcast week, Chu Chu Rocket!
Article By: Cobra!
Title quote provided by: Steven
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Retro Diary - 15/1/12 - "BEEEEEAAASSSSTTTTTT... Robots!"
Dear Diary, sorry I'm late with posting this week, you'll find out why later on.
On Tuesday, My sister came to my house to play my Mega Drive again, she was playing the one I found in grans the week before, like I said, it works better than my other Mega Drive, because it doesn't need the power cord to be plugged in at a certain angle in order to play it.
You guys wont believe this, but she didn't even know how to spin dash in the game! I can understand if she's totally new to the game, but she played it when it came out all those years ago with our older cousins, so I would've though sometime then she would've learned, but apparently not. Oh well, she knows now.
She got to Oil Ocean Act 2 before she got a game over. She had 6 lives and 3 continues and managed to lose them all at that zone. *tuts*
She decided to play through it all again, she's dedicated I'll give her that.
She reached Metropolis Zone Act 2 this time.
Then she decided to play through it all again!
She reached Oil Ocean Act 2, the exact same spot - the boss - before her 3rd game over.
Later on in the day, she came back for a 4th try, this time she reached Green Hill Zone Act 2 before deciding to stop playing.
She later returned though for a 5th play though, well technically 4th, but whatever.
She reached a record of 15 lives! She reached Mystic Cave Zone Act 1 before she had to leave for the final time.
I think I can safely say that after all of that, the Mega Drive found in the closet/cupboard is in full working condition!
On Wednesday, me and my cousin, Steven, had another Robot Wars session on Garry Mod.
After a few battles, we decided to try and build new robots, but neither of us had an idea that worked, so we gave up. I swear Steven's idea of connecting an office chair to a sentry gun with a 100ft pole was going somewhere...
On Thursday, my sister returned to play some more Mega Drive... while I was at college! She said she reached Living Fortress zone when I was away.
When I was there, she reached Oil Ocean zone Act 1.
Her goal it seamed from that point was to get as many lives as possible.
On her second attempt, or at least the 2nd I've seen, she reached Aquatic zone Act 1 with 15 lives before she had to leave.
On Friday, College ended early, but I didn't have my mobile phone, so I couldn't tell my mum that so she couldn't pick me up, so since I had a couple of hours to kill, I went over to my friends house for a few hours.
We played a could of El Classico on FIFA 12, if you don't know what "El Classico" is, it's the Spanish old firm, Barcelona vs. Real Madrid.
Unfortunately, my friend had taken all of Real Madrid's good players and put them on Barcelona, so I didn't stand a chance.
So I went Bayern Munich (Spelling) and he went Milan, and you won't believe this, but I actually scored not 1, but 2 goals against him! He did equalise in the second half and scored a 3rd goal, but I got him back with a 3rd goal from my team, then he scored again, then the matched ended, it was surprisingly close!
We had a rematch, and this time, he scored a goal against me earlier on, and then... no one scored since, and the match ended 1-0.
This guy has been collecting FIFA games for years, so he's most likely an expert at them by now, I'm just a new comer, and I surprisingly came close on both of our balanced matches!
We then watched Aladdin on VHS, it's my first time watching it believe it or not, and I really enjoyed it!
Afterwards, we decided to have another game of FIFA 12 again, but then I had to go.
On Saturday, my Sam & Max DVD boxset finally arrived, after 2 months of waiting! I watched it all at once, it was worth the wait! Brilliant show!
Steven came up to my house, we played a few games in my room, we first tried out Hi-Octane, and it was kind of fun, but it was drag, because the game's circuits have too many laps, seriously, some even go up to 12 laps! They;re not short either, they're pretty long! So it kind of drags on after a while, but for a game that only took 8 weeks to build, it's pretty fun!
We might've played wipE'out 3: Special Edition, but neither of us are sure about that.
Then we played WWF War Zone for the Nintendo 64, like ECW Hardcore Revolution, which we played on the Dreamcast and which is also made by Akklaim, the game is so bad, it's awesome! So we had a couple of matches of that.
We were going to hook up our laptops, he brought his over, to play Garrys Mod on multiplayer using LAN, but we didn't have time, he had to go.
In summary, here are the games we played:
On Sunday it was PS1 week, my cousin was playing a few games of Vib Ribbon, we were about to pop in Tekken to play it, but it wouldn't load that or any other games since, my PS1 just died on me... and that was why I never posted my Retro Dairy on Sunday
Luckily though, I guess, me and Steven brought our laptops to keep us occupied, we wanted to try our Robot Arena 2 multiplayer, if know what that is, it's a Robot Combat game released only in America, however, alot of people in the UK own it due to the popularity of Robot Wars, in fact I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if most of the copies the game sold are in the UK now!
Anyway, we found out that although you need the disc to boot it up, you can take it out after it's loaded, and it would still function perfectly, so we ran the game on both of our laptops, connected each others laptops using a cable to play LAN multiplayer and surprisingly, it worked! So we had a few games, then we left.
In between games, we chatted in the built-in chat system in the robot selection screen, and we were quoting videos from KSIOlajideBT's videos, but adapting them to Robot Combat, the most notable of these was parodying his "Beast" videos, where he talks about good but unknown football players in FIFA: "Shut up and welcome to BEAST! Where we talk about BEEEEEAAASSSSTTTTTT... Robots!"
On closer inspection, and recall, it turns out that I made a mistake, you see, I have 2 PSones, and I was bringing the other one every other week because the one I brought broke, the whole time it was broken, so all of my grieving and being a little mad and stressed all went to vein, well, at least there's not much to be sad about.
I cleaned the lens anyway, just to see if I can bring it back to life, popped in Tekken 3, and it actually kind of worked again, I say kind of, it loaded the intro and menus just fine, but couldn't load the actual game. At least I'm making progress, eh?
In summary, here are the games we played:
So, next week is N64 week, the return of Slapper action in 2012!
Article By: Cobra!
On Tuesday, My sister came to my house to play my Mega Drive again, she was playing the one I found in grans the week before, like I said, it works better than my other Mega Drive, because it doesn't need the power cord to be plugged in at a certain angle in order to play it.
You guys wont believe this, but she didn't even know how to spin dash in the game! I can understand if she's totally new to the game, but she played it when it came out all those years ago with our older cousins, so I would've though sometime then she would've learned, but apparently not. Oh well, she knows now.
She got to Oil Ocean Act 2 before she got a game over. She had 6 lives and 3 continues and managed to lose them all at that zone. *tuts*
She decided to play through it all again, she's dedicated I'll give her that.
She reached Metropolis Zone Act 2 this time.
Then she decided to play through it all again!
She reached Oil Ocean Act 2, the exact same spot - the boss - before her 3rd game over.
Later on in the day, she came back for a 4th try, this time she reached Green Hill Zone Act 2 before deciding to stop playing.
She later returned though for a 5th play though, well technically 4th, but whatever.
She reached a record of 15 lives! She reached Mystic Cave Zone Act 1 before she had to leave for the final time.
I think I can safely say that after all of that, the Mega Drive found in the closet/cupboard is in full working condition!
On Wednesday, me and my cousin, Steven, had another Robot Wars session on Garry Mod.
After a few battles, we decided to try and build new robots, but neither of us had an idea that worked, so we gave up. I swear Steven's idea of connecting an office chair to a sentry gun with a 100ft pole was going somewhere...
On Thursday, my sister returned to play some more Mega Drive... while I was at college! She said she reached Living Fortress zone when I was away.
When I was there, she reached Oil Ocean zone Act 1.
Her goal it seamed from that point was to get as many lives as possible.
On her second attempt, or at least the 2nd I've seen, she reached Aquatic zone Act 1 with 15 lives before she had to leave.
On Friday, College ended early, but I didn't have my mobile phone, so I couldn't tell my mum that so she couldn't pick me up, so since I had a couple of hours to kill, I went over to my friends house for a few hours.
We played a could of El Classico on FIFA 12, if you don't know what "El Classico" is, it's the Spanish old firm, Barcelona vs. Real Madrid.
Unfortunately, my friend had taken all of Real Madrid's good players and put them on Barcelona, so I didn't stand a chance.
So I went Bayern Munich (Spelling) and he went Milan, and you won't believe this, but I actually scored not 1, but 2 goals against him! He did equalise in the second half and scored a 3rd goal, but I got him back with a 3rd goal from my team, then he scored again, then the matched ended, it was surprisingly close!
We had a rematch, and this time, he scored a goal against me earlier on, and then... no one scored since, and the match ended 1-0.
This guy has been collecting FIFA games for years, so he's most likely an expert at them by now, I'm just a new comer, and I surprisingly came close on both of our balanced matches!
We then watched Aladdin on VHS, it's my first time watching it believe it or not, and I really enjoyed it!
Afterwards, we decided to have another game of FIFA 12 again, but then I had to go.
On Saturday, my Sam & Max DVD boxset finally arrived, after 2 months of waiting! I watched it all at once, it was worth the wait! Brilliant show!
Steven came up to my house, we played a few games in my room, we first tried out Hi-Octane, and it was kind of fun, but it was drag, because the game's circuits have too many laps, seriously, some even go up to 12 laps! They;re not short either, they're pretty long! So it kind of drags on after a while, but for a game that only took 8 weeks to build, it's pretty fun!
We might've played wipE'out 3: Special Edition, but neither of us are sure about that.
Then we played WWF War Zone for the Nintendo 64, like ECW Hardcore Revolution, which we played on the Dreamcast and which is also made by Akklaim, the game is so bad, it's awesome! So we had a couple of matches of that.
We were going to hook up our laptops, he brought his over, to play Garrys Mod on multiplayer using LAN, but we didn't have time, he had to go.
In summary, here are the games we played:
- Hi-Octane [PS1]
- wipE'out 3: Special Edition [PS1]*
- WWF Warzone [N64]
* = We think.
On Sunday it was PS1 week, my cousin was playing a few games of Vib Ribbon, we were about to pop in Tekken to play it, but it wouldn't load that or any other games since, my PS1 just died on me... and that was why I never posted my Retro Dairy on Sunday
Luckily though, I guess, me and Steven brought our laptops to keep us occupied, we wanted to try our Robot Arena 2 multiplayer, if know what that is, it's a Robot Combat game released only in America, however, alot of people in the UK own it due to the popularity of Robot Wars, in fact I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if most of the copies the game sold are in the UK now!
Anyway, we found out that although you need the disc to boot it up, you can take it out after it's loaded, and it would still function perfectly, so we ran the game on both of our laptops, connected each others laptops using a cable to play LAN multiplayer and surprisingly, it worked! So we had a few games, then we left.
In between games, we chatted in the built-in chat system in the robot selection screen, and we were quoting videos from KSIOlajideBT's videos, but adapting them to Robot Combat, the most notable of these was parodying his "Beast" videos, where he talks about good but unknown football players in FIFA: "Shut up and welcome to BEAST! Where we talk about BEEEEEAAASSSSTTTTTT... Robots!"
On closer inspection, and recall, it turns out that I made a mistake, you see, I have 2 PSones, and I was bringing the other one every other week because the one I brought broke, the whole time it was broken, so all of my grieving and being a little mad and stressed all went to vein, well, at least there's not much to be sad about.
I cleaned the lens anyway, just to see if I can bring it back to life, popped in Tekken 3, and it actually kind of worked again, I say kind of, it loaded the intro and menus just fine, but couldn't load the actual game. At least I'm making progress, eh?
In summary, here are the games we played:
- Vib Ribbon [PS1]
- Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy [PC]
So, next week is N64 week, the return of Slapper action in 2012!
Article By: Cobra!
Title quote provided by: Steven
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Retro Diary - 20/11/11 - I'm going to keep this one short... sort of.
I'd rather keep this weeks Retro Diary short this week, personal reasons, I really don't want to talk about it. Although I'm sure everyone who has me on Facebook know exactly what the reason is.
Dear Diary,
On Wednesday, I got myself Earthwork Jim for PC for 50p, mainly because the place I bought it from thought it was just an Audio CD. It was built to run on Windows 95, so obviously, I would have problems running it on Vista, and I'd be right, the game itself works just fine, however, there are no sound effects, even when it's set to full blast in the options. Still, the game is fun, as people say it was, but I think I'll just get the Mega Drive version, because the absence of sound effects really bug me.
The next day, I got the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album "By the Way" for the same price, because it actually WAS an Audio CD. With the exception of "Californication", it has every song I liked from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, so that's good.
The day after that, I got myself Actua Soccer 2 for PS1 for £1, the game is good for short blasts, but as a serious football game, it's not very good.
On Saturday, my cousins came over to my house, I'd rather not mention why. I'll say this in advance, I've almost totally forgot the order we played them, so bear with me.
We played Timesplitters first, there's not much to say about that, all we did, was take something, and bring it back, that was always the objective.
We had a game of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 on PS2, I was FC Barcelona, I forgot who he went as, but I was beating him 3-0, then, for the last 10 minutes of the game, my cousin gave his controller to his brother, and he told me "I'm going to annihilate you!", then he scored an own goal... yeah... so the score ended at 4-0 to me, and he said "Not quite the annihilation I hoped...". In case it wasn't obvious, he was joking about when he said he'd annihilate me.
Then we had a game of FIFA 12 on PS2, the game ended 4-2 I think. Then I asked him what he thought was the better game, he said he though PES was better, because the controls were smoother.
Then we played Tony Hawks Underground for the Xbox, we played a game of graffiti then we played a game of horse, and like we did with Pro Skater 3, we but put in random characters to make a word, this week, it was 'BTHABBBBBBBD4'.
During the game, we discovered that shouting "LET'S DO THIS!" curses that turn and makes you bail, and funnily enough, it worked every time! Even when we said it in the others player's turn.
In the end, it was my cousin who was the BTHABBBBBBBD4!
We played Half Life: Decay, which is a PS2 exclusive game, it's a co-op exclusive as well, you can play it in single player, but it totally sucks on one player, because you have to control BOTH of them, you press select to switch between them, and you have to constantly move them to progress through the game, it's just a pain.
It's fun when there's 2 players though, we played through a couple of levels.
Then we played a couple of games of Gran Turismo 2, we initially put Car and tyre damage on, and it sucked, it only took one bump and we struggled turning left, eventually not at all. So we turned them off, and we enjoyed it then.
We then played Resurrection: Rise 2 for the Saturn, even when the handicap was set so that he had tonnes of health, and I had practically none, I still thrashed him, although he DID win a couple of matches.
Afterwards, we played a game of 1080 Snowboarding, or rather, TEN EEEEIGHTEYYY!!! We played a few matched of that.
We played Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for a while then he had to leave.
In a nutshell, here's what we played:
Today, I actually found one of my old Robot Wars VHS recording at my grans today, it'd be collecting dust in a copboard for years, and surprisingly, the quality is pretty good considering what it's gone through.
Well, I said it was going to be short, and I still got kind of carried away, although it's shorter than my usual entries...
Dear Diary,
On Wednesday, I got myself Earthwork Jim for PC for 50p, mainly because the place I bought it from thought it was just an Audio CD. It was built to run on Windows 95, so obviously, I would have problems running it on Vista, and I'd be right, the game itself works just fine, however, there are no sound effects, even when it's set to full blast in the options. Still, the game is fun, as people say it was, but I think I'll just get the Mega Drive version, because the absence of sound effects really bug me.
The next day, I got the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album "By the Way" for the same price, because it actually WAS an Audio CD. With the exception of "Californication", it has every song I liked from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, so that's good.
The day after that, I got myself Actua Soccer 2 for PS1 for £1, the game is good for short blasts, but as a serious football game, it's not very good.
On Saturday, my cousins came over to my house, I'd rather not mention why. I'll say this in advance, I've almost totally forgot the order we played them, so bear with me.
We played Timesplitters first, there's not much to say about that, all we did, was take something, and bring it back, that was always the objective.
We had a game of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 on PS2, I was FC Barcelona, I forgot who he went as, but I was beating him 3-0, then, for the last 10 minutes of the game, my cousin gave his controller to his brother, and he told me "I'm going to annihilate you!", then he scored an own goal... yeah... so the score ended at 4-0 to me, and he said "Not quite the annihilation I hoped...". In case it wasn't obvious, he was joking about when he said he'd annihilate me.
Then we had a game of FIFA 12 on PS2, the game ended 4-2 I think. Then I asked him what he thought was the better game, he said he though PES was better, because the controls were smoother.
Then we played Tony Hawks Underground for the Xbox, we played a game of graffiti then we played a game of horse, and like we did with Pro Skater 3, we but put in random characters to make a word, this week, it was 'BTHABBBBBBBD4'.
During the game, we discovered that shouting "LET'S DO THIS!" curses that turn and makes you bail, and funnily enough, it worked every time! Even when we said it in the others player's turn.
In the end, it was my cousin who was the BTHABBBBBBBD4!
We played Half Life: Decay, which is a PS2 exclusive game, it's a co-op exclusive as well, you can play it in single player, but it totally sucks on one player, because you have to control BOTH of them, you press select to switch between them, and you have to constantly move them to progress through the game, it's just a pain.
It's fun when there's 2 players though, we played through a couple of levels.
Then we played a couple of games of Gran Turismo 2, we initially put Car and tyre damage on, and it sucked, it only took one bump and we struggled turning left, eventually not at all. So we turned them off, and we enjoyed it then.
We then played Resurrection: Rise 2 for the Saturn, even when the handicap was set so that he had tonnes of health, and I had practically none, I still thrashed him, although he DID win a couple of matches.
Afterwards, we played a game of 1080 Snowboarding, or rather, TEN EEEEIGHTEYYY!!! We played a few matched of that.
We played Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for a while then he had to leave.
In a nutshell, here's what we played:
- In the order I think we played them:
- Timesplitters [PS2]
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 [PS2]
- FIFA 12 [PS2]
- Tony Hawk's Underground [Xbox]
- Half Life [PS2]
- Gran Turismo 2 [PS1]
- Ressuection: Rise 2 [Sat]
- 1080 Snowboarding [N64]
- Star Wars Episode 1: Racer [N64]
Today, I actually found one of my old Robot Wars VHS recording at my grans today, it'd be collecting dust in a copboard for years, and surprisingly, the quality is pretty good considering what it's gone through.
Well, I said it was going to be short, and I still got kind of carried away, although it's shorter than my usual entries...
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Retro Diary - 13/11/11 - Prepare to cry, FIFA fanboys...
Dear Diary, and yes, I am going to be adding this every week for authentic-ness, I guess.
On Monday, we sent off the CD32 back to the seller to get it fixed or replaced, because the disc tray wasn't closing properly, we just received an email from the seller saying he got it on Friday and he replaced the top bit of the console and will be sending it back on Monday.
When we played FIFA 11 on PS3 my brother said, for a joke, "Imagine FIFA 13 being released for the Jaguar! Or even the Saturn!", and then I added, "Or, more importantly, the N-Gage!", you know, having a laugh. Why am I telling you this? I don't know, I guess to just create conversation. Besides, it was unusual for my brother to make a joke like that, that's usually the type of joke I would make.
I've been playing both FIFA 12 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 over the week because I had nothing else to do, and also, to decide which is better, because from the little I've played from both, my opinions were more-a-less the same, but I've played enough from both to decide which I think is better.
Believe it or not, contrary to public belief, I actually think Pro Evolution Soccer is better, the controls aren't as stiff as in FIFA, especially when sprinting, and overall just feel better, and the game also has a far better atmosphere than FIFA. Don't get me wrong, FIFA is still very good, but PES is better in my opinion.
As you may already know I went to that charity shop again, and got 6 VHS tapes for £1 and the Matrix Soundtrack for 50p.
What I didn't tell youse, mainly because there was no point, is that on Friday, I got 2 more CDs for £1, the first one is the soundtrack from the Rocky Horror Picture show, I've never seen the film before, but the reason I got the soundtrack is for the Time Warp song! I absolutely love that song! The other CD I got was the Darkness Album "Permission to land", which contained the song "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", which was the song that introduced me to The Darkness, so that was why I bought that.
They both work and I've been listening to both soundtracks.
On Sunday, we went back to Gamecube week.
I played a little bit of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 until my cousins came, nothing else to say about that except I was still playing for a little bit even after my cousins arrived, I was talking about what I said back up there, and it turns out one of them agreed with me and that he always thought the same, and that people only preferred FIFA just because they have more licensed teams, even though PES has the better gameplay. (In our opinion)
We were playing that game throughout the day where we pretended it was a past year, and we act like anything that appeared after that doesn't exist, or that we just haven't heard of it. This week we pretended it was 2004.
After that, we had a few games of Mario Kart Double Dash and when I say a few, I mean, roughly about 20 races, it felt like it.
After that, we played Mario Party 6, which is always a blast to play! Unfortunately, we didn't expect for it to last as long as we did, we set it for 20 turns, big mistake there, the game lasted I think 2-3 hours or something, after we finished, he turned off and were rushed to get back home because it was late. Despite how long it lasted, it was on hell of a game, we had great fun!
In a nutshell, here're the games we played:
So yeah, in theory, since it was Xbox 360 last week, due to one of cousins being absent that week, and now it's back to the usual order, it should be PS3 week next week, but my brother, the one with the PS3 wants to save PS3 for after Christmas. So we're skipping to Wii week, and as we all know, the Wii can play Gamecube games...
One last thing, I was getting sick of my little brother always asking me questions about what happened in Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, spoiling himself, I know he's young, but he should be playing through the game himself to find out these, it's more rewarding, so I told him to play the game himself, then he said he doesn't have it, so I let him play though my copy of Pokémon Red. At the same time, my younger brother asked me if he could play Mario Bros. Deluxe on my Game Boy Color.
Fancy that, I've got my 6 and 8 year old brothers hooked to Game Boy Color games! I don't know if I should feel happy that they're playing proper games, or guilty, because they should be playing games from their time.
That's it for this weeks entry, again, next week is Wii week see how that turns out.
Cobra!
On Monday, we sent off the CD32 back to the seller to get it fixed or replaced, because the disc tray wasn't closing properly, we just received an email from the seller saying he got it on Friday and he replaced the top bit of the console and will be sending it back on Monday.
When we played FIFA 11 on PS3 my brother said, for a joke, "Imagine FIFA 13 being released for the Jaguar! Or even the Saturn!", and then I added, "Or, more importantly, the N-Gage!", you know, having a laugh. Why am I telling you this? I don't know, I guess to just create conversation. Besides, it was unusual for my brother to make a joke like that, that's usually the type of joke I would make.
I've been playing both FIFA 12 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 over the week because I had nothing else to do, and also, to decide which is better, because from the little I've played from both, my opinions were more-a-less the same, but I've played enough from both to decide which I think is better.
Believe it or not, contrary to public belief, I actually think Pro Evolution Soccer is better, the controls aren't as stiff as in FIFA, especially when sprinting, and overall just feel better, and the game also has a far better atmosphere than FIFA. Don't get me wrong, FIFA is still very good, but PES is better in my opinion.
As you may already know I went to that charity shop again, and got 6 VHS tapes for £1 and the Matrix Soundtrack for 50p.
What I didn't tell youse, mainly because there was no point, is that on Friday, I got 2 more CDs for £1, the first one is the soundtrack from the Rocky Horror Picture show, I've never seen the film before, but the reason I got the soundtrack is for the Time Warp song! I absolutely love that song! The other CD I got was the Darkness Album "Permission to land", which contained the song "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", which was the song that introduced me to The Darkness, so that was why I bought that.
They both work and I've been listening to both soundtracks.
On Sunday, we went back to Gamecube week.
I played a little bit of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 until my cousins came, nothing else to say about that except I was still playing for a little bit even after my cousins arrived, I was talking about what I said back up there, and it turns out one of them agreed with me and that he always thought the same, and that people only preferred FIFA just because they have more licensed teams, even though PES has the better gameplay. (In our opinion)
We were playing that game throughout the day where we pretended it was a past year, and we act like anything that appeared after that doesn't exist, or that we just haven't heard of it. This week we pretended it was 2004.
After that, we had a few games of Mario Kart Double Dash and when I say a few, I mean, roughly about 20 races, it felt like it.
After that, we played Mario Party 6, which is always a blast to play! Unfortunately, we didn't expect for it to last as long as we did, we set it for 20 turns, big mistake there, the game lasted I think 2-3 hours or something, after we finished, he turned off and were rushed to get back home because it was late. Despite how long it lasted, it was on hell of a game, we had great fun!
In a nutshell, here're the games we played:
- As usual, in the order we played them:
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
- Mario Kart Double Dash
- Mario Party 6
So yeah, in theory, since it was Xbox 360 last week, due to one of cousins being absent that week, and now it's back to the usual order, it should be PS3 week next week, but my brother, the one with the PS3 wants to save PS3 for after Christmas. So we're skipping to Wii week, and as we all know, the Wii can play Gamecube games...
One last thing, I was getting sick of my little brother always asking me questions about what happened in Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, spoiling himself, I know he's young, but he should be playing through the game himself to find out these, it's more rewarding, so I told him to play the game himself, then he said he doesn't have it, so I let him play though my copy of Pokémon Red. At the same time, my younger brother asked me if he could play Mario Bros. Deluxe on my Game Boy Color.
Fancy that, I've got my 6 and 8 year old brothers hooked to Game Boy Color games! I don't know if I should feel happy that they're playing proper games, or guilty, because they should be playing games from their time.
That's it for this weeks entry, again, next week is Wii week see how that turns out.
Cobra!
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Retro Pick-Ups: 6 VHSes, and a CD Album for a total of £1.50!
Remember a week or so ago, I got a US Longbox version of PGA Tour '96 from that charity shop near my college? Well, I went there again yesterday to see if I could find any more games. Unfortunately, I didn't find any of my interest, but I found something else, something I've always wanted but never came around to getting from Amazon.
I found a copy of Lilo & Stitch on VHS, I used to love that film as a kid! I thought I wouldn't have enough money, because all I had as a pound. When I asked how much it was, and he said "It's 6 for £1", which meant not only did I have enough to get it, but also 5 other films! Assuming they were on VHS.
So I picked out Lady and the Tramp 1 & 2, 101 Dalmatians (Cartoon), Tarzan and Anastasia. Apart from the first 2, wasn't very keen on those films, but hey, they were a pound for 6, why not?
So far, as I'm writing this, I've only tested 3 of them, the first 3 I mentioned, and they work perfect, I watched Lilo & Stitch last night, it wasn't as great as I remember it to be, but it was still great!
Here're a few photos of them all:
I went there again today, just because I had time on my hands before our next class started, I was searching through the CDs, just in case they mistaken a 3DO or even a CD32 game, as they usually come in the thin jewel cases, the latter usualy in a big box, but they're rare and I don't fancy the chances of anyone still having them, let alone give it to a charity shop.
I didn't find any, but I found a couple of PC games, most notable Earthworm Jim, and also, the Matrix Soundtrack, I am a huge fa of the Matrix, I have the ultimate collection, and both Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo for Xbox, just so the Xbox's Black and Green colour scheme matched the Matrix's theme. So I thought I'd get it, I asked how much it was, just 50p, bargain! So I got it.
The disc had pretty much no scratches on it, or even any marks for that matter! I've got the songs imported, and I'm actually listening to the songs as I'm typing this.
I found out though that they were actually 2 soundtracks for the first film, the one I have is the first, so, obviously, it doesn't have all of the tracks from the films, however, all the tracks I liked and wanted from the films are on it, so I don't have any reason to get the 2nd one, except maybe for collectors sake and that I'm a huge fan of the Matrix.
Here's the soundtrack itself:
Now that I think of it, I should've got Earthworm Jim as well, I mean, even if I doesn't work on Windows PCs, it probably would've been 50p because they probably think it's just a CD album, gutted! Ah well, I could just get it tomorrow...
Cobra!
I found a copy of Lilo & Stitch on VHS, I used to love that film as a kid! I thought I wouldn't have enough money, because all I had as a pound. When I asked how much it was, and he said "It's 6 for £1", which meant not only did I have enough to get it, but also 5 other films! Assuming they were on VHS.
So I picked out Lady and the Tramp 1 & 2, 101 Dalmatians (Cartoon), Tarzan and Anastasia. Apart from the first 2, wasn't very keen on those films, but hey, they were a pound for 6, why not?
So far, as I'm writing this, I've only tested 3 of them, the first 3 I mentioned, and they work perfect, I watched Lilo & Stitch last night, it wasn't as great as I remember it to be, but it was still great!
Here're a few photos of them all:
I went there again today, just because I had time on my hands before our next class started, I was searching through the CDs, just in case they mistaken a 3DO or even a CD32 game, as they usually come in the thin jewel cases, the latter usualy in a big box, but they're rare and I don't fancy the chances of anyone still having them, let alone give it to a charity shop.
I didn't find any, but I found a couple of PC games, most notable Earthworm Jim, and also, the Matrix Soundtrack, I am a huge fa of the Matrix, I have the ultimate collection, and both Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo for Xbox, just so the Xbox's Black and Green colour scheme matched the Matrix's theme. So I thought I'd get it, I asked how much it was, just 50p, bargain! So I got it.
The disc had pretty much no scratches on it, or even any marks for that matter! I've got the songs imported, and I'm actually listening to the songs as I'm typing this.
I found out though that they were actually 2 soundtracks for the first film, the one I have is the first, so, obviously, it doesn't have all of the tracks from the films, however, all the tracks I liked and wanted from the films are on it, so I don't have any reason to get the 2nd one, except maybe for collectors sake and that I'm a huge fan of the Matrix.
Here's the soundtrack itself:
Now that I think of it, I should've got Earthworm Jim as well, I mean, even if I doesn't work on Windows PCs, it probably would've been 50p because they probably think it's just a CD album, gutted! Ah well, I could just get it tomorrow...
Cobra!
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Retro Diary - 18/9/11 - "Just because *I* have a working Atari Jaguar CD!"
Despite the impression you might've got from reading the title, it was actually Sega Saturn week! "Well then why the f*ck did you put the Atari Jaguar CD in the title!?" I hear you ask, well, I'll explain later.
First off, though, it's been quite an eventful(ish) week this week, let me tell you everything that happened in chronological order.
I'm going to skip the arrival of my (working) Atari Jaguar CD, as I've already posted an article all about it. My brother, for practically the whole week, was in my room playing Spiderman 2 for the Playstation 2, I saw practically, I mean every minute where he wasn't in school or sleeping, in some nights, he was even playing until midnight, so yeah, he hogged my TV, but I didn't mind, because I enjoyed watching him play it, especially since he comments as he plays, like a let's play, in fact while I eat, I prefer watching him play it than watching something on the internet.
This is sad, I'm going on about how I enjoy watching my brother play a game while I eat, how low I sunk to!?
Anyway, on Thursday, after I came home from College, my Gamecube controller arrived, this is the one that is purple at the front, and clear at the back, and this is an official controller, I never knew Nintendo made these kind of controllers!
I've yet to try it out, I will once I get my old one back from my cousin, and play my brother at a game or two or Marvel Nemesis!
Speaking of college, in college, we play Quake 3 on the PCs at break times, which is cool. Not much to say about that other than, it's alot of fun!
Before I went to my grans today, I went to a car boot sale, and got myself a few still, some good deals, some bad.
but before that, I want to mention that I saw a bunch of Laserdiscs for sale! If you don't know what they are, you could say they were the precursor to DVDs, because they were discs that played videos, but there was one problem with them, THEY WERE MASSIVE! Seriously, I had to stretch out my hand just to hold it from the centre to the edge! The most surprising thing I think, was that this guy had Toy Story for laserdisc, I would've thought that laserdiscs were well dead by the time Toy Story came out, but it turns out I was wrong.
Anyway I got the Simpsons Movie Soundtrack, Special Edition, brand new, sealed, for just £1, and the seller wasn't a con artist, I checked the disc, not a scratch on it!
I also got Theme Park World and a Multi tap for the PS1 for a total of £4, Theme Park World worked just fine, I'm totally addicted to that, but the multi-tap is useless, it doesn't work, I have 2 game that support multi-tap (Klonoa Beach Volleyball and Cubix: Race n' Robots), and it doesn't work on either.
At lastly, I got the Godfather Trilogy boxset on VHS, unfortunately, this doesn't work, in fact, it's the opposite, it almost ruined my VCR! Luckily, we got it fixed in the end, but I am NEVER going to touch that boxset EVER again!
When it was time to go to grans, I brought my Sega Saturn, as it was Sega Saturn week, and just in case, my Game Boy Color, we didn't play that though, it was all about the Saturn.
The game we played:
The games we enjoyed the most were Fighters Megamix and Virtua Fighter 2. Fighters Megamix, if you don't know, and you probably don't, it's rather obscure, it's basically like a Sega Smash Bros., only it came out before, you can even play as a car from Daytona USA!
I mentioned above that I was going to explain why I mentioned the Atari Jaguar CD in the title, well I will now, when I'm losing in a game again my cousins, for a joke, I go "Just because *I* have a working Atari Jaguar CD!", sorry to dissapoint you Jaguar Fans, that was all I had about the Jaguar CD in this, well, I suppose except we have an in joke where we say "When I grow up, I want to be a *Insert inanimate object here*!" and when we were saying silly stuff like that I said "When I grow up, I want to be an Atari Jaguar CD!"... Well, it was funny at the time.
That's about it for todays Retro Diary, now if you'll excuse me, I have a Theme Park to attend to...
Cobra!
First off, though, it's been quite an eventful(ish) week this week, let me tell you everything that happened in chronological order.
I'm going to skip the arrival of my (working) Atari Jaguar CD, as I've already posted an article all about it. My brother, for practically the whole week, was in my room playing Spiderman 2 for the Playstation 2, I saw practically, I mean every minute where he wasn't in school or sleeping, in some nights, he was even playing until midnight, so yeah, he hogged my TV, but I didn't mind, because I enjoyed watching him play it, especially since he comments as he plays, like a let's play, in fact while I eat, I prefer watching him play it than watching something on the internet.
This is sad, I'm going on about how I enjoy watching my brother play a game while I eat, how low I sunk to!?
Anyway, on Thursday, after I came home from College, my Gamecube controller arrived, this is the one that is purple at the front, and clear at the back, and this is an official controller, I never knew Nintendo made these kind of controllers!
I've yet to try it out, I will once I get my old one back from my cousin, and play my brother at a game or two or Marvel Nemesis!
Speaking of college, in college, we play Quake 3 on the PCs at break times, which is cool. Not much to say about that other than, it's alot of fun!
Before I went to my grans today, I went to a car boot sale, and got myself a few still, some good deals, some bad.
but before that, I want to mention that I saw a bunch of Laserdiscs for sale! If you don't know what they are, you could say they were the precursor to DVDs, because they were discs that played videos, but there was one problem with them, THEY WERE MASSIVE! Seriously, I had to stretch out my hand just to hold it from the centre to the edge! The most surprising thing I think, was that this guy had Toy Story for laserdisc, I would've thought that laserdiscs were well dead by the time Toy Story came out, but it turns out I was wrong.
Anyway I got the Simpsons Movie Soundtrack, Special Edition, brand new, sealed, for just £1, and the seller wasn't a con artist, I checked the disc, not a scratch on it!
I also got Theme Park World and a Multi tap for the PS1 for a total of £4, Theme Park World worked just fine, I'm totally addicted to that, but the multi-tap is useless, it doesn't work, I have 2 game that support multi-tap (Klonoa Beach Volleyball and Cubix: Race n' Robots), and it doesn't work on either.
At lastly, I got the Godfather Trilogy boxset on VHS, unfortunately, this doesn't work, in fact, it's the opposite, it almost ruined my VCR! Luckily, we got it fixed in the end, but I am NEVER going to touch that boxset EVER again!
When it was time to go to grans, I brought my Sega Saturn, as it was Sega Saturn week, and just in case, my Game Boy Color, we didn't play that though, it was all about the Saturn.
The game we played:
- In the order we played them
- NiGHTS: Into Dreams...
- Fighters Megamix
- Resurrection: Rise 2
- Sega Rally
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition
The games we enjoyed the most were Fighters Megamix and Virtua Fighter 2. Fighters Megamix, if you don't know, and you probably don't, it's rather obscure, it's basically like a Sega Smash Bros., only it came out before, you can even play as a car from Daytona USA!
I mentioned above that I was going to explain why I mentioned the Atari Jaguar CD in the title, well I will now, when I'm losing in a game again my cousins, for a joke, I go "Just because *I* have a working Atari Jaguar CD!", sorry to dissapoint you Jaguar Fans, that was all I had about the Jaguar CD in this, well, I suppose except we have an in joke where we say "When I grow up, I want to be a *Insert inanimate object here*!" and when we were saying silly stuff like that I said "When I grow up, I want to be an Atari Jaguar CD!"... Well, it was funny at the time.
That's about it for todays Retro Diary, now if you'll excuse me, I have a Theme Park to attend to...
Cobra!
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