March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
3 posts
My Top 5 Game Center CX Episodes (+1) →
A post by Ray Barnholt - GCCX superfan and creator of the ultimate (English) GCCX Episode Guide - on 1UP’s Retro Gaming Blog.
January 2009
21 posts
Big plans
I’m actually planning to actually update my actual blog by the end of this month. I have at least three unfinished pieces I should finalise this weekend and post this coming week. I’m also thinking of naming my blog, instead of using the default “username’s blog” title, but I’ll have to think of a good name first. I also start too many sentences with...
Avoiding housework
Today was supposed to be Happy Laundry Day, but I just couldn’t do it. Avoiding housework is a fine art that, when mastered, can prove extremely effective against chores that demand precious hours of your life. Or so I’ve heard.
So, instead of doing laundry, here I am writing about whatever. The subject, I’ve just decided, is “what I did yesterday”. Not a...
1UP Show producers launch new show "CO-OP" →
The first part of the premiere episode is up, more coming next week. Lots of familiar faces in there.
Also! Don’t forget to check out these two podcasts, both by former 1UP employees:
Rebel.fm
The Geekbox
Hidenori Maezawa: King of the Konami Sound →
Post on 1UP.com’s Retro Gaming Blog about the composer behind such games as Castlevania III, Contra and Gradius II. If you’ve played a Konami game from the NES days you should be able to recognise that particular “Konami sound”.
This interview comes at a very appropriate time, as I finished Castlevania for the NES earlier today and have already played some Castlevania III,...
Retronauts Episode 62
The final pre-buyout episode of Retronauts is out and it features the regular cast of five discussing the years 2008, 1998, 1988 and 1978(!) in gaming.
This is a special episode, because it’s the last one recorded before the recent changes in 1UP, by which I mean its acquisition by UGO and the subsequent firing of… mostly everyone, really, as well as the cancellation of the 1UP Show and a few...
Changed theme. It’s a bit busier than the previous one, but it looks and functions better. Didn’t lose any comments!
The Humorless Humor of Brian's Smiley Smile →
In-depth review focusing on the use of, you guessed it, humour by Brian Wilson. The reviewer reads way too much into the autobiographical and psychological aspect of the album, but in doing so makes some very important observations. Pay more attention to the part where he examines individual songs, especially Heroes and Villains, Vegetables and She’s Going Bald.
As much as I’d love to...
Just testing a dashboard widget for posting on Tumblr.
I’d also really like a tuna sandwich right now, but it’s 2am.
Films of my 2008 Christmas break
Get Carter: A 2000 Stallone film. He sports a mafioso beard and beats people up to avenge his brother’s death. Micky Rourke is in it and so is Queen Elizabeth from Blackadder. A remake of some old film. I was actually kind of surprised this wasn’t as good as I’d hoped.
Lethal Weapon 3: Hey, look, it’s Mel Gibson’s mullet out to get some bad guys again. First Lethal...
December 2008
8 posts
The reason why vinyl is inferior to CD
IT WON’T LET ME SKIP THOSE YOKO SONGS ON DOUBLE FANTASY!
I just enabled comments
Just in case anyone ever feels like saying something. First visitor to comment wins a cookie or its monetary value in unmarked bills.
Achievements are, like, totally fun →
Sent to me by a friend. Also seen in Kotaku and in Rock, Paper, Shotgun and in - I’d imagine - many more video game blogs. This is what you get for buying an Xbox 360, folks.
People should only play games that were made before the mid-90s.
