Craig Cole's Video Gaming & Pinball Blog
Showing the kids what home video games were like in our day, compared with the games we played at the arcades. (December 2011)
Games
Paperboy by Atari, Moon Cresta by Nichibutsu
Me and Ian playing Track & Field on the Mame arcade machine, with the lads and kids shouting/laughing in the background
Will he qualify?
Background – I found Mass Effect 1 so boring, my biggest gaming disappointment this gen. Whereas Mass Effect 2 I adored, loved the combat, the characters and the story. It grip me right until the end. Was such an epic experience. My only complaint would be that I would have preferred it if they had left in item management. This was simplified too much for my taste.
Mass Effect 3, I was so looking forward to this. anyways after about a good 25+ hrs I have completed the main story line. I struggled with the game from the start, it just wasn’t grabbing me. Think it was to do with the characters and story, I didn’t care for what was happening and to whom. So a very average beginning and middle, however thankfully it did pick up for me about two thirds in, and got ‘great’ towards the end.
I thought the visuals were not consistent, at times they was nice, at times quite dull and ugly. The sounds/music fantastic and was amazing on dolby digital system. I had a great time with the special skills. Weapons felt great and had some weight to them, and they all felt different. Disk Swapping was tedious (even though I installed to hard drive) The controls, holy crap the worst thing about the game. I always found myself attaching to cover whenever I didn’t want to and it was the main reason for many of my deaths, it became so frustrating at times, I even screamed at the TV (I don’t remember ME2 ever having such a problem).
To sum it up, a good game but I was hoping for more, but did really enjoy the last third. We don’t seem to be having much luck with the third instalments of games for this gen, seems like everyone is just treading water and delivering ‘average’, playing it to safe. (looking at you Uncharted 3, Halo3, Gears 3)
Still looking forward to what they produce next, as maybe not up to the bar set by Mass Effect 2. But still better than most.
The DivIDE Interface with a CF card running on a ZXSpectrum, allowing me to play the games with the original hardware, but with current media and fast loads.
DivIDE is an ATA (IDE) interface which takes your ZX Spectrum computing to a whole new level.
As the time takes its toll on ageing media such as audio tapes or diskettes, many ZX Spectrum enthusiasts simply stick to emulation for better reliability and comfort. With divIDE you can put your software collection to a hard disk, CD-ROM or even CompactFlash card and experience your favourite games, demos and utilities the way the were meant to be run – and even better. Using existing firmwares, many users find their Speccy box again a live platform – time for you to make the switch? ;]” (quoted from http://baze.au.com/divide)
The Coles again win at the wii olympics night, eat it Fowler and Dixon family. Funny as hell watching Luke beat Paul at Fencing, again, again and again
