Gameboy Advance – Iain Douglas Stewart

Happy 25th Gameboy-day!

By Iain 21 April 2014Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

So, the GameBoy is 25 years old today, what a way to make me feel old. I remember when I got my first Gameboy - although I can't pinpoint the exact dates, I roughly know the period. I had left school, and finished college, it must have been between me working at House of Toys in Debenhams and going back…

Fighting fire with fire

By Iain 16 August 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This is all about Firefight, the super cool mode on Halo 3: ODST where you are in an arena and wave after wave of Covenant rush at you, shooting their futuristic neon laser guns in your direction. It was going to be about Pokémon, I figured I'd not written about it in a while. I am still playing Pokémon Emerald…

Emerald is Excellent

By Iain 29 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Even at this early stage, I think I'm preferring Pokémon Emerald to Pokémon Leaf Green. I played Blue to death when it came out, and more than once. I took to transferring over all my Pokémon to Pokémon Stadium on the N64 and then playing through it again, it was insane. This is probably why Leaf Green felt so familiar,…

Off to catch Mewtwo, BRB

By Iain 25 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

I finished Leaf Green - well, beat the Elite 4 at any rate. I went off to try to catch Mewtwo, but it told me I had to do a great deed before I could get in. I thought you only had to beat the Elite 4 (that's how it was in the original games - it was foolish for…

My Pokémon adventure continues…

By Iain 22 July 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

...and I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. I've just beat the final Gym and am gearing up to the Victory Road/Indigo Plateau finale. I enjoyed the three little islands that weren't in the original Red and Blue, although it was a pretty slight diversion. I've caught all three Legendary birds, defeated Team Rocket but probably still need to do a bit…

Infinity!

By Iain 15 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Just a quick one to say that I got an Infinity rating on Lips last night, singing Viva La Vida by Coldplay. Then, immediately after, Jane got an Infinity rating on "a song I can't remember which I'll edit in when I've asked her later tonight". None for two months, then two in a row! Awesome! The Avatar Award didn't…

I’m playing Pokémon on my PSP

By Iain 11 July 2010Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This week I finally got around to enabling homebrew on my PSP. It was very easy, mostly thanks to my PSP being one of the old "Phat" models. I eventually found some suitable emulators and some questionable software - It was a bit tricky thanks to the gamut of sites that are mostly keywords designed to send you round and…

Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2005

By Iain 25 February 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

For the first and second quarters of 2005, I quite possibly overstretched myself and made the charts too unwieldy to continue. As well as PS2, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, PC and Xbox games, I also included several retro consoles such as the Sega Saturn and the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Here are the bloated results.

Essential Charts Q3/Q4 2004

By Iain 25 February 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

For the third and fourth quarters of 2004, the charts were expanded to contain the top 20 “Essential” games for each format. Listening to what the users of Gamesradar wanted, I also covered PC games and the top 10 online console games this time around. Here are the results.

Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2004

By Iain 25 February 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

Back in 2004/5, I ran this thing called The Essential Charts on Gamesradar. The jist is this: Everyone picks their five favourite games and can either rank them from 1 to 5 (the game placed first gets five points, the game placed second gets four points and so on), or just have 5 games in no particular order, each scoring 3 points. I would then compile the scores and we’d have the top 15 “Essential” games for that format.