Nintendo DS

Some things, are just great. I've recently come into possession of a Nintendo DS and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I'm a huuuuuge Zelda fan having lost many a long hour to the series.

However, as I didn't really get into it until it turned 3D (having done most of my gaming on the Amiga rather than a NES/SNES) I've, wait for the shock, never actually played a 2D Zelda before.

Phantom Hourglass, is, admittedly, more of a top down isometric style view, but the game play has more in common with the old style 2D stuff than with the others I've played.

This is reassuring to me on many levels - firstly, I've already happily whiled away a lengthy train journey exploring dungeons etc, only mildly embarassed by blowing at the DS and talking to it when the game requires.

Secondly, it reconfirms my belief that I like innovative interesting puzzle games the most (after having gotten into Call of Duty and its ilk on my Xbox) and am therefore an interesting and suitably geeky gamer that doesn't value HD gun fests above interesting puzzles.

Thirdly - It's gotten the missus interested. She's probably spent as much time on it as I have (but hasn't got as far - ha!).

So all that's needed now is to find her a nice blonde friend and a couple of green outfits and I'm away.

Mario Kart next.

Ms Cubo

Cubo
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

My new favourite thing is to wander off and leave ms cubo on my desktop looking around at things. This is really, really cool and a completely useful use of my time. I recommend everyone has a look!

Sensible World of Soccer

Aah - memories. Winning the European Cup with Stenhousemuir in their awesome purple shirts, signing Matt Le Tissier who could score from literally everywhere, Signing the same five cheap, speedy players for every club you manage (Valentine? Thomas Lagerlof anyone?)



Yep - I got Sensible Soccer off of XBLA and it feels like I'm twelve again, when footie games only used one button and were slightly more interesting than girls.*

Happy days.

* Alright - that last bit isn't true - more easily accessible than girls is probably more likely. In fact, just plain accessible is more likely, being that girls didn't like talking to me when I was twelve - probably because I talked about Sensible Soccer all the time...

Found A Video Of Mike...

And he is in a, shall we say, compromising position.

The things you find when you're fixing Dad's media player. I'll keep quiet about the other stuff I found squirreled away. For now.

Anyway - first he'll have to explain this one to his sisters...



I think the impressive thing is definitely her ability to not spill any booze. Top Marks!

In my defence here: Mike's at university now which means he's plenty old enough to have the piss taken out of him via the internet...

New Bikini...

Ok - so there are some new hoilday snaps over on Flickr now - like this one:



You can see the rest over here: Guernsey, Summer 06

Cheers for now.