I’m one of those fanboys that preordered the GTA IV pack with the duffle bag and safety deposit box, lolza, yeah I know I’m a sucker but that shit might come in handy one day when I inevitably need to do some home invasions to survive. Anyways, IGN have given GTA IV a 10/10 review, there’s only two other games in the past 10 years that have scored a perfect score at IGN and one of them was Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, so it’s safe to say I’m pretty excted about this game, see below for the video review. I also heard that there’s a radio station on there called Classics which DJ Premier (!!!) spins on, bad ass!
Well, not quite but I was perusing the GTA IV website the other day and one character in particular caught my attention… turns out there’s a character in the game called Phil Bell and he’s a bad muthafukka, lol. Shit, if there’s any game I’d want my name popping up in it would be THAT game but alas with a name like mine it’s never gonna happen by coincidence :(. In fact my name is so obscure that I’m pretty certain that in the entire history of the world no person has ever walked the earth with the same name as me, lol. Anyway, here’s the video just for the hell of it.
Last night’s episode of South Park reminded of a doco I’d seen earlier this year, King Of Kong. King Of Kong is about Steve Weibe’s quest to gain the world record for highest score on Donkey Kong and all the resistance he faces along the way, it has all the elements of a classic showdown - the underdog versus the villain and all his disciples, I know it sounds really lame but it is one of the best films I’ve seen in the past year or so. I think it’s coming out on DVD soon and I’d highly recommend that you check it out. Check out www.billyvssteve.com and the trailer below for more info about it…
*interestingly this doco shares some of the same soundtrack music as one of my other favourite doco’s Scratch.
For those of you that can already clock normal tetris up like this dude, you can now literally step it up to the next dimension. I had a crack at this and I was fucking hopeless, I can’t do that spacial shit. But I’m lame at normal tetris too, anything where you dont do fireball or dragon on the joystick aint really my deal. Some of you guys might be good though. Play it HERE
While we’re on the topic of quirky Guitar Hero mods check this shit out. The following is a demonstration of the Air Guitar Rocker by Jada Toys which turns your lame air guitar antics into authentic rock anthems, haha. I guess we should expect to see an air scratch toy soon…
Since Super Mario Galaxy I’ve acquired a new reason for D. to visit me, that is Guitar Hero III. In fact our New Year night was spent thrashing out rock songs on my toy guitar haha, great fun and even the wahines got involved. My flatmate sent me this video of a turntable mod for Guitar Hero that’s pretty clever and looks a bit more fun than that lame DJ game that came out a few years ago (I think there’s still one at Yifans).
So the new Mario game is out now for Wii - Super Mario Galaxy. My routine when i go round to Glacier’s house generally goes something like this. Walk in the door > say hello > walk to lounge > turn on xbox 360 > play Halo 3 online for the next 2 hours. Sprinkling it with the odd grunt of conversation here and there. Last time I went round though, I was gutted to find no credit left on the Xbox live account, what a fucking disaster. I love Halo 3, but single player doesnt even feel like a game after playing online… it feels like a chore.
Due to the dire circumstances, Glacier’s suggested I play the new Mario game they’d acquired recently on Wii. I havent played a Mario game since … sheeit, Mario Kart maybe? And I was a bit skeptical as to how enjoyable manoeuvering the cartoon plumber could be, especially when compared with shooting shotguns and throwing grenades at various cunts online.
How wrong I was.
The game is fucking mean-ah. Admittedly I view Mario with a somewhat rosy tint being that the N.E.S was the first console I owned, but nostalgia aside.. Nintendo really know how to make games. The controls with the Wii-mote are easy enough for your mum to play, yet its still fun as for even the staunchest gaming dude. I aint even gonna get into the in-depth reviewing I’ll leave that to the pros here(Peep the numbers). What I will say though is the game is worth playing just to get to the ‘Ray Surfing’ stage. Fun-est shit out! See below.
p.s Is it just me or does it look like they bit the whole Mario flying through the stars thing for Kanyes album artwork.
Shot to James for putting me onto this. That’s a screenshot from the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix(ha) they’re developing. You really need to click on the image to get an idea of how fucking glorious it is looking. See this blog for more. They’ve got some footage of it being played but it’s handycam from a distance so it just end’s up looking the same as normal.
To put this all in perspective, watch this vid and see how far we’ve come.
For those who haven’t already seen it, heres the trailer for Street Fighter 4. Obviously not in-game footage but I’m hopin the graphic quality isnt dissimilar. Im leaning towards the folk who are hoping for a 2d fighter, as the EX series is straight rude and Tekken has 3d mechanics on lock so hard I cant imagine anyone else coming close.
I’m gonna do a few more posts about Street Fighter 2 and its significance in the coming weeks, been toying with the idea of a shotthen.com SF2 tournament even(on Hyperfight of course :P) so anyone who’s interested in that sort of carry on, let it be known.
I used to hate dumb cunts at school that called Alex Kidd, Alex da kid. You may not have had them at your school but I had plenty of them at mine. These would be the same kids who said Guile did ‘Tonic boom’ on Street Fighter and that you could pick up the rock and throw it on Chun Li’s stage.*SMH
Anyways, my flatmate found THIS SITE after we had a discussion about the N.E.S and Sega master system. I’ve read somewhere that at that point Nintendo had something like 80 - 90% of the console market in the world and when I went to the U.S as a child it reinforced that theory. Nintendo was fucking everywhere. Contrast that to home though, and you were hard pressed to find kids who had even played a Nintendo let alone owned one. Sega RAN shit in our little country and continued to do so up until Playstation came along and fucked the game up. Alex Kidd in Miracle world was a gem of a game that came built into the Sega master system 2. Looking at it today I realise its basically an inferior bite of Super Mario Brothers, but at least for most NZ 80’s babies - Alex Kidd is THE platform game. The jump off. If you’ve lived in the shame of never clocking it here’s your chance ..
