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"It's Bloody Brilliant!"

June 6th, D-day, will be a date for me to remember for a good long while. Why? Well first of all, it was my 17th Birthday, but more importantly....I got a GameCube!

Yesterday, I went to town with two of my best friends, early morning to make sure at least one shop would have a GameCube in stock. Anyway, after the long 30-45 minute bus journey (only takes an extra 15 minutes to walk) I made sure I had the money for a nice GameCube bundle I saw in Game, and travelled along Queen Street until I got there.

Good!
The store's practically empty, surely there'll be atleast one in stock...
None.

So I went round the corner to EB, then Debenhams EB, then to MVC, and as I was getting ready to give up, I remembered Toys-R-us.

1 left!!!

I didn't care how much it was, I had to have it!

Luckily it was the rrp of £129.99, so I handed over the cash, made sure I had the penny change ( :D) and went back to EB to buy some games. I managed to buy myself Burnout, Simpsons Road Rage and even XGIII, and a black GameCube controller (to go with my purple GameCube) and a Memory Card 59. As well as that I managed to buy Leon and Austin Powers 2 on DVD in a special offer at another shop.

Anyway, by the end of the first hour of the afternoon, I went home, unplugged the power and scart lead of my Dreamcast, and plugged in the GameCube. I could feel a tingling feeling in my arms and legs, and I turned on the TV, pressed the 'AV' button on the remote, and pressed the power button on the console.

That was it, set the time, date and any other functions, and I was already playing Tournament mode with my friends and my brother, who swore he'd never play the GameCube and tutted at every mention.

Five hours, 2 burgers (with onions) each, and many turns on the GameCube later, it was time for my friends to go. I opened the door of my room, and the air that entered felt cold. The four of us in one room had heated it quicker than global warming, but we didn't notice, we were having fun.

When they left, I started to play the single player modes, Luigi's Mansion, Star Wars Rogue Leader and Super Monkey Ball, until the early hours of the morning when I eventually decided that I'd better sleep so I can play again the next day.

Let me tell you something. If you ain't already got the GameCube, it's BLOODY BRILLIANT! I've only come online to give my thumbs a break (and I type this?) and to prove to myself that, for at least five minutes, I can bare to be away from that machine...

So if you're thinking of getting one, and you want something to make up your mind, just remember what I said: It's BLOODY BRILLIANT! Now to get back to Burnout...

Yeah, Gamecube rules! I'm so glad I got up at 7am so that I could go and get your Gamecube with you... if only to kick your backside on Smash Bros Melee a whole load. :D:D:D

Edgy wrote:
> Burnout's Bloody Brilliant! Though I'm getting a bit worried cos I
> start driving lessons Thursday....

You think thats bad..

I was at Chessington on Thursday and had about 15 goes on the dodgems, you wanna know how hard it is to resist the temptation to drive your lovely Ford Focus into the oncoming Merc? Also the knowledge that you won't have to pay the insurance on the car makes the urge to smash into somebody even greater!

I love learning to drive! Nearly crashed the other day though, some idiot tried to overtake on a blind bend but my expert reactions stopped me in time...

Burnout's Bloody Brilliant! Though I'm getting a bit worried cos I start driving lessons Thursday....

Simpsons Road Rage isn't the most fun game in the whole world, I admit that, but I actually prefer it to Crazy Taxi 2 on the Dreamcast (haven't got the original Crazy Taxi). Sure, the graphics aren't perfect, and it's a blatent rip-off of Crazy Taxi, but it's fun to play!

The money did matter...especially now I owe my mum 8 weeks pocket money....so that's roughly 12 weeks til the chance of another game, or even just a day out :S, but I've got my GameCube so I don't care :)

My dad and brother are bashing each other at Burnout now, though I'll be kicking them off later :)

Gamecubes easy to get, I went down to Toys'r'us the Tuesday after it was launched and picked one up. Try Curry's and place like that they always have stock.

Wha?????
They had GameCubes in-stcok - in stores????

I'll have to take a look tommorow - and check some prices - if they have any!

But i'll probably still wait with SR.

Think Crazy Taxi with pretty shoddy graphics set in Springfield with no actual pace to the game and little traffic on the roads to crash into. It's fun for maybe 2 hours but after that the whole Simpsons thing wares off and what you're left with is a snooze worthy game. Worth a rent but nothing else.

Already got it for Dreamcast. I was just wondering really, I wasn't going to buy it, my mates were interested in it if anything, I was just wondering if it was a good game in it's own right instead of being compared to Crazy Taxi like most reviews I read did do.

It sucks, get Crazy Taxi if you must have a taxi game.

Nice, I liked the way you casually said you walked into the shop bought the games and some DVD's. Almost as if the money just didn't matter. :0)

I have to ask though, is Simpsons Road Rage actually any good? I've seen it play a little and read reviews and it hasn't recieved anything special, so what you got to say about it?

Whahay, a Burnout lover. Don't get yourself killed, there's not many of us around :)

Simply classic game, how far have you got?