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Being in the studio all of last week gave us downtime whilst Pete (studio owner/engineer/producer) changed drum mics and all manner of stuff.
Which meant time either spent smoking outside and ogling the fit accountant girl in the Mews opposite (I think she wanted me) or sitting around upstairs watching Sky Digital.
Except our singer/guitarist bought a Gameboy Advance and let us have a go.
And it’s…well…alright.
Imagine an N64 in a handheld and that’s pretty much it. Played Mario Racer or something (don’t worry about correcting me, I don’t care) and it was the same as Mario Kart on the N64.
With a really badly lit screen you had to either have this lighting rig attached to or tilt it towards a window to watch cartoony things race around with irritating elevator music in the background.
Looks alright and for about £60, might be worth getting one if you’re bored and of below-average intelligence
And then Pete’s girlfriend came back from NY (she’s an American) and had an Xbox with her.
The others all shrugged and carried on reading mags, whilst me and Pete clapped like happy children and set it up.
1st thing that struck me was “Jesus this is massive”.
I know we’ve all been saying this, but you can’t imagine just how bloody enormous this thing is.
The best description I’ve heard is “Stick 2 video recorders on top of each other”, and you might being to approximate the size of this monster.
But for the money you pay, you expect something that looks impressive.
And it certainly does.
Played a snowboarding game, and it rocks. Photo-realistic graphics, nice handling and the sound is cool.
Didn’t take that long to load and, well, a massive black and green thing just looks cool.
That was the only game she bought back with here, and we hammered that for a couple of hours.
And we then discovered Pete’s old N64 and tried that.
Ah the memories of washy colours, muddy graphics and fumbling, unwieldy controls on International Soccer.
To pass using the A/B buttons and the yellow ones requires the dexterity of a yoga guru, and the staggeringly ordinary graphics and crackling commentary took me back to a simpler age where people happily paid £50 for a cartridge game.
Goldeneye next, and I remember that being the best thing about the N64.
And it’s really, really bad now.
I’m used to PC FPS, and this looks like someone forced my grand-dad to create a Bond game at gunpoint, but he got bored and fell asleep half-way through.
It’s pants.
I’m not even going to go into Diddy Kong Racing, except to say that being in a plane negates every single power-up attack the other player can utilise in the hover-craft/car.
Nice game planning there Nintendo.
So, in summary:
Gameboy Advance – Alright, quite surprised really. Still for kids and ‘tards but not that bad
N64 – I remember every reason why I sold mine and 15 games for £80 to someone stupid.
Xbox – Absolutely huge. I mean massive, and the snowboard game rules.
I’m back at work now, so expect the usual quota of inflammatory posts making fun of Nintardo and Gaystation and Role-Playing Games.
Which meant time either spent smoking outside and ogling the fit accountant girl in the Mews opposite (I think she wanted me) or sitting around upstairs watching Sky Digital.
Except our singer/guitarist bought a Gameboy Advance and let us have a go.
And it’s…well…alright.
Imagine an N64 in a handheld and that’s pretty much it. Played Mario Racer or something (don’t worry about correcting me, I don’t care) and it was the same as Mario Kart on the N64.
With a really badly lit screen you had to either have this lighting rig attached to or tilt it towards a window to watch cartoony things race around with irritating elevator music in the background.
Looks alright and for about £60, might be worth getting one if you’re bored and of below-average intelligence
And then Pete’s girlfriend came back from NY (she’s an American) and had an Xbox with her.
The others all shrugged and carried on reading mags, whilst me and Pete clapped like happy children and set it up.
1st thing that struck me was “Jesus this is massive”.
I know we’ve all been saying this, but you can’t imagine just how bloody enormous this thing is.
The best description I’ve heard is “Stick 2 video recorders on top of each other”, and you might being to approximate the size of this monster.
But for the money you pay, you expect something that looks impressive.
And it certainly does.
Played a snowboarding game, and it rocks. Photo-realistic graphics, nice handling and the sound is cool.
Didn’t take that long to load and, well, a massive black and green thing just looks cool.
That was the only game she bought back with here, and we hammered that for a couple of hours.
And we then discovered Pete’s old N64 and tried that.
Ah the memories of washy colours, muddy graphics and fumbling, unwieldy controls on International Soccer.
To pass using the A/B buttons and the yellow ones requires the dexterity of a yoga guru, and the staggeringly ordinary graphics and crackling commentary took me back to a simpler age where people happily paid £50 for a cartridge game.
Goldeneye next, and I remember that being the best thing about the N64.
And it’s really, really bad now.
I’m used to PC FPS, and this looks like someone forced my grand-dad to create a Bond game at gunpoint, but he got bored and fell asleep half-way through.
It’s pants.
I’m not even going to go into Diddy Kong Racing, except to say that being in a plane negates every single power-up attack the other player can utilise in the hover-craft/car.
Nice game planning there Nintendo.
So, in summary:
Gameboy Advance – Alright, quite surprised really. Still for kids and ‘tards but not that bad
N64 – I remember every reason why I sold mine and 15 games for £80 to someone stupid.
Xbox – Absolutely huge. I mean massive, and the snowboard game rules.
I’m back at work now, so expect the usual quota of inflammatory posts making fun of Nintardo and Gaystation and Role-Playing Games.
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Or†ega wrote:
> X-box weighs about 8 pounds.
My first born child weighed less than that.
> X-box weighs about 8 pounds.
My first born child weighed less than that.
Neither have I. I just put in a search for X-box weight in Google and thats what i got!
Gah, I have no conception of imperial weights or metric measurements, it's really annoying...
X-box weighs about 8 pounds.
Goatboy wrote:
> The best description I’ve heard is “Stick 2
> video recorders on top of each other”, and you might being to approximate the
> size of this monster.
Cheers, that was me.
I have to agree it's bloody massive (well, I can't disagree), and I also agree that you DO have to see it to appreciate how monstrous it is (and I would, because I wrote that in the same post).
Just out of curiosity, how heavy was it? I never got to hold it, y'see. I doubt I could lift it anyway, heh, geeks only need wrist muscles and some minor upper body strength to keep upright.
> The best description I’ve heard is “Stick 2
> video recorders on top of each other”, and you might being to approximate the
> size of this monster.
Cheers, that was me.
I have to agree it's bloody massive (well, I can't disagree), and I also agree that you DO have to see it to appreciate how monstrous it is (and I would, because I wrote that in the same post).
Just out of curiosity, how heavy was it? I never got to hold it, y'see. I doubt I could lift it anyway, heh, geeks only need wrist muscles and some minor upper body strength to keep upright.
Mario Kart on the GBA plays nothing like the crappy N64 version. It plays the same as the original best version of the game on the SNES.
pity you played goldeneye instead of Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark still has the best FPS multiplayer i have EVER played.
Perfect Dark still has the best FPS multiplayer i have EVER played.
I meant, personally speaking, work sucks.
Irregardless of where and what.
Music is my calling, and it will happen. But until then, I will live in a carefully constructed fantasy world where I rule everything, monkeys drive buses and Brian Blessed is President of Everything.
And on a brighter note, Medal of Honour still rocks.
Irregardless of where and what.
Music is my calling, and it will happen. But until then, I will live in a carefully constructed fantasy world where I rule everything, monkeys drive buses and Brian Blessed is President of Everything.
And on a brighter note, Medal of Honour still rocks.
Because the money is good, until I can get where I want to be.
Which will happen.
Which will happen.
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