Missing The "Sega Years"

Every now and then I get all teary eyed and sentimental about having worked in a games company back in the one time in history things were getting interesting. Now that Sega are not producing consoles any more (maybe again one day) and that Sonic is just a memory it scares me to think that all that Mega Drive era is but a memory. I don't want anyone to not know about how excited I use to get buying a copy of Mean Machines or C+VG and drooling over the next lot of console releases. Things like Sonic 2, Streets of Rage 2 and not to mention all the Electronic Art titles that never ceased to amaze us console junkies.

 

I keep getting tempted to create a site that documents and records a page to each game ever released. I know that it would be a tough task to undertake. But so far there is no site that covers these old (and even current) games and I found myself frustrated as I tried to catalogue some of the older (and dodgier) Japanese Mega Drive releases. I am looking at jacking the Mega Drive up to my PC and creating screen shots for the countless titles that have no online record to speak of. I do have close to 500 titles all catalogued so far. Screenshots and covers listed for most of them too. So maybe I may set loose onto the net with a site of my own. Weirder things have happened eh?

 

If there was a site set up that tracked EVERY game it could possibly do and was seen as being reliable, would you bookmark it? Let me know. Also... is there other video game collectors out there like me who scrounge eBay and 2nd hand shops like I do for old golden nuggets?

Cats Gone Funny

Last Thursday when I got home from work that cat of ours was meowing non stop. To even hear anything above the normal little chirping sounds she makes is unusual. But this was full blown roaring meows. She was rolling all over the place at my feet and acting weird. "Oh great!" I thought as I figured she was on heat. So this Monday I've got to take her out of the house for the first time ever and get her operated on. Hope then she'll be back to her normal ol' self!

Gotta Love Getting Sick...

Seems as though every winter that goes by I manage to get myself a case of the flu. What makes it worse is that I may have caused tension with work as I have taken yet another sick day which means I now have a 4 day weekend. I'd love to be happy right now with all that time off... if only I wasn't feeling like a lump of crap right now!

 

Gotta love getting sick...

Things are Up and Also Down

Things are kind of topsy turvy at the moment. Work is suffering with an increase in customer complaints (and of course I'm the one who has to hear them directly from the customers). But work is beginning to show signs of a big change in direction for me personally. Nothing concrete yet but I may be responsible for the Intranet site for work. My challenge is learning how to use a program called MySource. Currently in my Indoor Cricket (www.blackouthouse.com) site I use MS FrontPage 2002. It's easy as it is simply a matter of cut and paste what you want in an easy WYSIWYG format. It also has some plug in programs to do some fancy bells and whistles stuff to impress the visitors to the site. But this MySource looks robust however clunky. No cut and paste here. No no no. If you cut and paste then you'll copy over all the messy coding with it and end up with silly html coding all over your screen. But I've seen sites that use MySource and one thing I've noticed about them. They are clean! No mess on the screen and very tidy looking. Something that impresses me.

 

Bottom line is that I must now look at learning this new software and then impressing my work with my finished product. Maybe (and that's a big FAT maybe) I'll be asked to do it full time!

Congratulations Kimmy!

Have to make this a quick one as my shift's starting time is looming upon me. Got to say congratulations goes to Kim and Scotty on the birth of their baby girl, Faith some time ago now. Sorry I didn't get around to contacting you earlier but weddings, babies and other announcements are in abundance at the moment! Hope you do get to read this and looking forward to seeing the little blue eyed girl soon!

It's Not Over Yet

Just when you thought the commotion of a wedding is behind you another surprise is announced. Wayne (my brother for those not in the know) is to get married on the 31st October 2005 to Dannielle. Seems the bug has bitten these two and that they must now tie the knot as well!

 

They'll be at an advantage over Yutang and I as we went into the whole wedding thing with no big plan. But it got me to thinking. Why must there be a plan? They announced that there'll be a rehersal. I declined to turn up to this on principle alone. A wedding is not something that must be "to plan". The event itself is the plan. The mistakes and mishaps are sometimes what makes up the experience. Surely though you need a rough guide as to what will occur on the day. But to plan who makes a speech, who drives who where, who even SITS where? Well I can't say our wedding was without faults. If I was to do another one I'd make sure that some people are nominated as drivers. I'd also get someone to be prepared to make a speech. But I wouldn't do a "rehersal". Sounds too contrived.

 

The bottom line is that the wedding itself has become too traditionalised. I think that the wedding is just the process you need to go through to announce your commitment and vows to your partner and that your marriage mustn't be overshadowed by "the wedding".

Grand Final Loss

Well just a brief update. Blackout couldn't win in their Grand Final match up which saw a depleted line up of 7 players take on a pumped up Hurricanes outfit. They just were switched on at the right end of the season and were good enough to end our 7 game winning streak. This is de javu for us as we had a Grand Final match against Radmillos in similar conditions (winning streak, depleted line up) and we lost that one too. Well we'll just have to wait till Summer 2005 for our next shot at the title in division 3.