Memorable Gaming Moments

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Find the rest with this tag: MGM We all have them, surely. Moments in gaming that transcend simply playing a game, completing it and moving on. Some memories stick with you for a long time. Indeed, some of my personal memories are from as long as 20 years ago. Also, for one of the first times, it won't just be…
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…
Bubble-heads unite!

Bubble-heads unite!

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There I was, playing Halo 3, waiting for Matchmaking to do it's stuff, as you do. The teams popped up, and whose was the first name I noticed, directly above mine on the blue team? Blimey, it's only GRcade moderator The Alchemist "Tiarny" Penguin. I fired off a quick "hi lol" message to him just as the game was starting…

Revenge of The Jobcentre

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So, I went to the Jobcentre on Wednesday, not in the hope that they'd give me free money (I was 99% sure they wouldn't), but in the hope that they'd give me a letter that I could show to the bank so I could open a new bank account with Natwest. Jane banks with them, so it'd make sense in…

Quiet week

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Last week was... quiet, not a lot happened. I found out Barclays closed my bank account because it was inactive, and wanted me to spend £80 on a passport to re-open it. Rubbish. Jane was off for a few days last week, her appendix was grumbling, giving her jip. Poor girl. Next week will be quiet in a different kind…

Delving into the memory banks

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If you read the forum at all, you may notice I'm trying to drum up some support for this idea I had for a nice little feature on here. Called Memorable Gaming Moments (the post tag will be "MGM" so you can easily find all the articles in the feature), it is basically what it sounds like: People write about…

Tenpeat – 50g

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Don't hold back your true potential! Win 10 Ranked Matches in a row! Well, after a few failed attempts at trying organise a boosting session for it on TrueAchievements, I managed to win it legit. It was so different to how I won the win-10-ranked-games-in-a-row Achievement in regular Street Fighter IV. There, I was flitting between ranked and custom games,…
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…