Snakes On A Plane 2: Return Flight

I'm tired of hearing about "mother******* snakes in the mother******* plane!!!!!" but I wanna watch mother******* snakes in the mother******* plane just to hear Samuel Jackson say "I'm tired of all these mother******* snakes in the mother******* plane!!!!!

Umm... I'm now mother******* confused...

More Photo's Uploaded to Flickr

Spent a few minutes today sorting out some photo's, wishing I had a decent digital camera that wasn't broken and getting some study done online. For those of you who are wanting to see some indoor cricket photo's from over the years then head to my Flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/tangledcontrolpads and check out all the other newly added pics while your there. The count now stands at approximately 300 photos and more to come as time moves on. Let me know if you like pics you see there!

 

 

Wayno's 28th Photo's

Wayno's 28th surprise party went off without a hitch! We all went down to Caringbah Bowling Club and basically surprised Wayne by not telling him how many people were going to be there. As an extra bonus we chucked the parents in on the deal too! LOL Wayne's face lit up to see the oldies come up to shake his hand. Long list of people on the invitees included Aaron and his girlfriend, Brad, Owen, Chris, Wanisara, Graham and all of the Brices too. I'm bound to have forgotten some but no offence meant!

 

The tucker was great but the Karaoke wasn't! To add a surprise to the event a possum was caught in the roof during the party! It was hissing and growling at the pest guy. Here I thought possums were cute animals.

 

Take a gander at the pics on my Flikr site by clicking here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangledcontrolpads/ 

Microsoft... What the Blazes Did You Do To My Space?

About to head off to work so this is a short one. Microsoft has gone and messed around with their MSN Spaces. Relabelled it Live or something. What is that suppose to mean anyway? The changes weren't being allowed by Norton on my PC. Had to undo that. There had better be some new bells and whistles with this new look or there'll be people marching in LARGE numbers.

Pick 5

www.Gamespot.com asked visitors which 5 games they could not do without. Got me to thinking. 400 or so in my collection which 5 do I pick? So here's my dream 5!



1) Gran Theft Auto: San Andreas (Xbox) - Man that game would just keep ya exploring for a lifetime me thinks!



2) NHL 2006 (Xbox) - A guy needs his sports and mine is Hockey (strange for an Aussie I know but... I'm strange!)



3) Mario Kart DS (DS) - Does this island have a hot spot? Hmm... may have to reconsider this one!



4) Halo 2 (Xbox) - This almost falls into the same catergory as Mario Karts query. Just shows how important online gaming has become!



5) Shenmue (DC) - Did I hear a pin just fall? No that is my final game! I just spent a week in Japan and I can't believe how well Sega captured the vibe of this country! The innocense of that game is something I truly admire.

Cool Spot (SNES) & Splatterhouse 3 (MD) Reviews Posted

Finally got some time to fire up the scanner and re-release some more crusty old school reviews of mine! This time it's January 1994. Sonics still on the mage covers, Toe Jam and Earl gets a sequel and the most excellent Super Empire Strikes Back gets released. So what does the editor give poor old Brian to review? Bloody platformers! Oh well. They were not too bad though for the time.

Atari Jaguar was also making headlines, not sales. I never knew that the Jaguar had slightly more punch than the 3DO. Both were cool consoles. Just over zealous with their goals. Or no realistic path set to achieve them! "It doesn't matter how good a system looks on paper, without good quality games, it hasn't got a hope. Third party licensees are very important. 3DO have already lined up hundreds of the buggers; Atari have less than 20 and this will probably be Jaguar's biggest problem." Funny the word Sony isn't even uttered at this stage! Hindsight's a wonderful thing.

From Megazone we now go to HYPER!

I've now entered in all my material ever posted in Megazone magazine which now moves me onto the extremely successful Hyper magazine. Back in 1994 a major change in the industry was taking place. Mega Drive was slowly dwindling in sales along with the other 16 bit Super Nintendo. Talk of 32 bit was upon us and Sony of all companies was to enter the games market. Who'd have thought? Get ready for more retro reviews as I log onto Gamespot and post away!

 

In the meantime check out the cover of the inaugral issue of Hyper magazine. 11 years on and still going!