Happy 25th Gameboy-day!

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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…

Goodbye 2013

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So what happened in 2013 then? It was another mixed bag. The best thing ever happened: I stopped smoking. And I don't even miss it. I'm not suffering from some black depression because I'm holding myself back from smoking my precious cigarettes, I'm not deluding myself by switching to an eCigarette, I'm not counting down the hours until I can…
Zombie Pikachu

Zombie Pikachu

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So here are some sketches I done for a friends tattoo. She came up to me one shift and said "You're good at drawing, aren't you. Design me a tattoo. You know what I'm like. Go nuts." And this is the result.

From the Forum: What is ration?

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melatonin wrote: Elite Four done again. So much easier the second time round. You know you're good when your biggest problem is PP usage rather than actually managing to win. Cynthia done also. Bitch. Guess there isn't much else to do now really? I feel empty. Lost and Found wrote: Seventeen days. You had it for seventeen days and you…
Reading list for August

Reading list for August

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LOL GOT YOU! I've not read anything for months, mainly because we've not bought any new books. Instead, I've been playing videogames. I'll be honest - I'm struggling a bit with Pokémon Emerald. It's not the difficulty, it's just the slog. The areas seem a lot farther apart in this game and I've not found Fly yet, and as such,…
MGM – Mew? Two please

MGM – Mew? Two please

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Back in the glorious days of the original black and white (or black and horrible shade of yellow/green, to be more accurate) Gameboy, I owned a game called Pokémon Blue. You may have heard of it. My brother had Pokémon Red and a Gameboy of his own, and while we very rarely battled, we quite often traded Pokémon in an…
Fighting fire with fire

Fighting fire with fire

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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

Emerald is Excellent

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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

Off to catch Mewtwo, BRB

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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…

My Pokémon adventure continues…

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...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…