Musings

I'm just sitting here on a sunny Saturday afternoon, at the PC with a green tea and a couple of biscuits, editing the next series of Sonic games (Sonic 2, for those of you who care), thinking to myself that I've not really written anything that wasn't a Friday update on here in a while. I started doing Friday updates…

Friday update 18/7/14

Flippedy-flip-flop is doing well - getting much bigger much more quickly now. Jane said they'll be putting on a pound a week from here on out. Crazy. I was moving some shelves around at work on Wednesday, giant glass ones at that, and I was moving one from one cabinet to the other and as I was lifting it, it…

Friday update 11/7/14

Nine weeks to go until little baby Stewart arrives. Exciting. This week has mostly been filled with angst (not baby-related). Families, eh? Who'd have 'em? As you get older you see things from different perspectives, see things with new eyes almost, wiser eyes, and you realise that things may not have been as cut and dry as you once imagined.…

Friday update 27/6/14

Jane and Flipper are fine - they are both getting quite big now, scary to think that they are only eleven weeks away! We went to Paulton's Park on Saturday for Ethan's birthday treat - was great fun but a little bit too sunny maybe - I felt like I was getting heat-stroke at one point. All good fun though!…

Happy 25th Gameboy-day!

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…
How did I forget these?

How did I forget these?

In my last update, I mean. Ethan has so much Lego. Like, really, so much. I spent half an hour in there the other day, and this is what I made. It is me as a Lego person, riding on my Space Sled, with Jane on the back. And here is a nice little drawing a work-mate drew for me…
2013 videogame targets update and 2014 videogame targets

2013 videogame targets update and 2014 videogame targets

Fail

I made three posts in January of 2013 outlining some targets I had for the coming year, and all of them started well, but fizzled out towards the end. I reckon that if I acknowledge my mistakes, I can learn from them. I’m tackling the videogame targets in this post – You can find the original one here, if you’re interested.

http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=2710

As you can see if you follow that link – I failed my attempt at reaching 100,000 Gamerscore in 2013. I’m not really bothered by this, as I (finally) learned that my time is worth more than some arbitrary number, and I had fun playing some great games in 2013, and that’s what counts. Still, I have made a new target, which roughly works out at 50% of the Achievement score of all the games in my pile of shame, I think. I reckon 50% is about right for any story or Campaign related Achievements in all the games on the list.

Disney’s Bolt

I'm both proud and ashamed by this game, it's a real juxtaposition. I'm ashamed that I'm playing an utterly shit "game", which isn't even a breeze to get the 1000 G's in. I think I've missed some collectibles, and I have no inclination or intention to go back and get them. The levels are over-long and quite boring, and the…

Sonic Virtually Fighting with Vipers

So, fancying a bit of retro fighting action, I downloaded Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers and Sonic The Fighters via the Xbox Live Arcade today. Virtua Fighter 2 was very stiff - the guard button felt very unresponsive, and I felt like there was no real way to counter Lion's low attacks. Fighting Vipers brought back a lot of memories,…