More Reviews From the Vault of 1992

Uploaded tonight for your viewing pleasure:

Bonanza Bros (SMS)
Pengo (GG)
F-Zero (SNES)
Predator 2 (MD/GEN)
The Simpsons: Bart vs the Space Mutants (MD/GEN)
Speedball 2 (MD/GEN)
Blue Lightning (LYNX)

Of those reviews the most controversial was my review on The Simpsons. It was altered much to my disgust and I think any true gamer will see why when they read it. I was told to get out of the editors office after I gave him a serving for messing with my review!

Just head to my Gamespot page for all the reviews!

Streets of Rage (MD/GEN) Review Now Posted

My Streets of Rage review from Megazone April May 1992 was finally posted today after I re-typed the whole blooming article into the site tonight. That was not one of my best reviews me thinks but I did state that the game had the makings of a classic and still people mention Streets of Rage when talking Mega Drive/ Genesis.



I just wish they'd launch a number 4. Complete with old school game play and new look graphics. But they have to get Yuzo Koshiro in on the action or it'll just not feel right.

Nintendo GB Micro & Mario Kart DS

One of those good day days today. Got Mario Kart DS so NEW Super Mario Bros (gay name I'm sorry) will have to wait a little longer. Got it relatively cheap (AUS$47). But the big scoop was getting a Gameboy Micro for a gob smackingly low AUS$50!!!! I honestly figured it to be a mistake. But no mistake was made. GBM is now mine and I'm really stoked!

Firstly Mario Kart DS. I love this new title. Short time was spent fooling with the settings to get Wi-Fi set up. But a connection was made and my choice to invest in a wireless modem/ router was once again showing to be a god sent. Got stuck into a Region game. No single player nonsense as I figured I'd go straight into it. I was up against some stiff competition first up. Some guy who seems to live on there with 10 times more wins than anyone else plus 2 other guys. I actually managed to come 1st in my first race! But the fun stopped there. Bummed out here and there and ended up 3rd. I loved the new weapons and the new courses look absolutely excellent. I'm looking forward to more MKDS.

As for the Gameboy Micro, well what a buy! Not bad considering I was originally seeing if I could find an original GBA but saw the price tag on the Micro and JUST HAD TO ASK! The Micro is damn small. Bit bigger than a box of matches. Screen is really cool. So bright and easy to view. Buttons handle well but L and R buttons are a little way off to reach in a hurry. This thing is best suited to RPG's I think. Text can be read with little hassles. Face plate is a cool idea. My first eBay search shall be to get the Game & Watch plate as I collect Game & Watches (have 12 G&W's with 3 of them in original boxes!). Down side to the Micro is it won't run Gameboy Colour or plain old sucky GB games. No real heart ache but Zelda: Ages and Seasons are games I'm meaning to finish off! But overall this new mean little monster is one heck of a console. I'm not even sure if you could class it as a console as it's so small!

 

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