10 Reviews In One Day!

 Well OK I cheated. I scanned them from old old issues of Megazone I had stored away in the garage. But the transfer from print to screen was not smooth. OCR (Optic Character Reading) technology is a little wishy washy at best. But sure beats retyping them totally. These are the old games revisited:

 

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter - Atari Lynx

 

Test Drive 2: The Duel - Mega Drive

 

Streets of Rage - Game Gear

 

Mick & Mack: Global Gladiators - Mega Drive

 

RoadBlasters - Atari Lynx

 

NHLPA Hockey 93 - Mega Drive

 

Mickey Mouse: World of Illusion - Mega Drive

 

James Bond: The Duel - Mega Drive

 

Contra III: The Alien Wars - Super Nintendo

 

F22 Interceptor - Mega Drive

 

Yeah I know. Some real crusty ones in there. But I'm extrating these reviews as I find them. No order of preference! Quite a trip down memory lane indeed!

Old Skool Revisited

Ambitious I know but it's been bugging me and until I complete it I won't rest! I am cataloguing all my old reviews in Mega Zone, Hyper and any other rag I've been published in and getting it online. I'll be posting up the reviews on my www.gamespot.com profile (sirbargearse off course) and placing links to finished work up here on my blog as I go along. I have a box of old mags to go through that weigh a ton and so this could take a while.

 

Wish me luck!

 

 

GTA: Vice City (Benny Hill Style)

Feel in a stupid mood? Wanna see something that'll get a laugh out of ya? Watch this crazy ass GTA Vice City video some guy has put together using a PC mod and GTA: Vice City in a kinda tribute to Benny Hill! Enjoy!

 

 

Job Envy

Just got word that a mate of mine who use to be all jealous of the fact that I was working for Sega here in Sydney Australia on the Sega Hotline as a professional game player is now working for Sega in Japan! So basically he saw my Sega Hotline job and raised me a Japanese location! This guy speaks fluent Japanese which is something I never got the chance to learn in school. Back in 1990 I was running my own Fanzine (as we didn't have internet back then we resorted to more dire actions to get our opinions out there!) called "The Sega Times" and once I got my job in Sega I kinda let it go and stopped running the fanzine. But we wanted to run up a magazine of our own simply called Vid Gamzin' which was going to feature ALL consoles. We had our own artist who thrived on drawing SF2 characters with huge muscles and small heads! We had mates queing up to get reviews printed. There was me with the internal access to Sega and Gwyn my mate who wrote the longest reviews in a flash and LOVED RPG's!

Well the magazine didn't eventuate for one reason or another. Mostly because I was as poor as anything spending money on going out on the piss! But mostly because some people who promised to kick in and fund it ran off when the time came to produce the dough. But who'd have thought 10 years later there'd be this whole internet thingy and games would be downloaded and portable colour games would be played via a thing called Wi-Fi and against people from around the world?

Good luck with the job in Sega Gwyn and you know one thing is for sure. I'm as jealous as all &*^&^%&! LOL

Peeved Off at Cronulla Sharks

If it weren't for Cronulla Sharks (THAT'S MY THAT'S MY TEAM!) I would have had a perfect round in this week's footy tipping comp at work. Instead an upset in the form of a skeleton crew, Broncos, knocking over my team to ruin what would have been a nice way to end the weekend. Stupid stupid stupid Sharkies. I blame the Sharkettes. It's obvious they didn't cheer the boys on hard enough. Maybe they were too scared of the horse as it kept doing laps whenever the Broncos scored!

1st Anniversary Already!

Just a brief entry to say I can't believe that Yutang and I have been married now for one whole year already! Seems just like yesterday that we were as tired as anything waiting at Sydney Airport for our flight to Gold Coast the next morning only to find that we were to be stuck on the tarmack and then diverted to Brisbane due to flooding!

 

Just for the record we went to an Italian restaraunt in Cronulla to celebrate and a last minute live Orchard (with a more decent present to come) was the gift from yours truly!

More Photo's Now Uploaded

I've finally done it! Tagged and catalogued all my pics from Japan & China. That's a total of 793 photo's in total stacking up to about 2 Gigs I believe the volume came to. I've hand picked the good ones away from the fillers and put them online for you on my pic site with www.flickr.com. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangledcontrolpads/ and don't be scared to join up to Flickr for yourself to be able to leave a comment or two. I have a total of 138 pics online now and hope to add more soon. Below are a small sample of what to expect!