The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Games Development / September 27, 2005 / John / 9
Manic Miner has been around for a long time and has been available on platforms ranging from the original Sinclair Spectrum to o2 mobiles. Well, I’ve ported Andy Noble’s wonderful remake of Manic Miner to the Mac as well. You’ll need OS X to run this, but it’s ACEBEST. This game is completely free but
Game Diary / September 27, 2005 / John / 0
How could I have forgotten! Before moving on to the Metroid infested area, I kicked Ridley in the spleen to repay it for my earlier humiliation. Now, moving swiftly on – one hour’s play at lunchtime has seen me moving across a single deck to the next save point. Metroid’s are fecking evil. It’s the
Game Diary / September 26, 2005 / John
7 Hours in. Screw Attack Get! It’s a mixed blessing really. Ok, it opens up loads of new areas and is a very effective attack strategy, but it can make negotiating tricky areas a tad more difficult due to its habit of annihilating platforms. Anyway, I’ve reached Taurian and finding corridors full of dead space
Game Diary / September 26, 2005 / John
SUPER MISSILE GET! Yay! Gubbed by Ridley. Boo!
The Tube / September 26, 2005 / John
Muhh – watched this last night. Well, we had to really – after watching Jurassic Park and all. God, the dialogue in this movie is dreadful 🙂 I mean, in the original it was reasonable, with the exception of Sam Jackson’s Liscene(sp?) speech, but in Lost World it’s a never ending stream of techno-babble blurted
Game Diary / September 26, 2005 / John
Best Metroid Game EVAR. Ahem. Let’s see – five hours in – VARIA SUIT GET! HIGH JUMP GET! WAVE BEAM GET! SPEED BOOST GET! 120 MISSILES GET! FOUR ENERGY UNITS GET! SOME OTHER STUFF I’VE FORGOTTEN GET! Oh no! Ridley’s spacecraft has landed and I have a funny feeling I’m very soon going to be
Game Diary / September 25, 2005 / John
Muhh! Big Green Froggy Dragonny Thing Pwn0r3d! One boss down and it’s yielded a speed boost upgrade. Which is nice. I have a cool 85 missile capacity but only two energy units and I still haven’t found a charge beam. So, before I do much else, it’s exploring I go to try and rake together
Game Diary / September 25, 2005 / John
So, I have two minutes to get things ready before I’m herded off to hospital – what do I take with me? Gameboy Advance, of course – we all know how long hospital visits tend to take. “Aha!” though I, “the perfect opportunity to complete Metroid Fusion!” Oh no! Little Miss Dotty has deleted the
The Tube / September 25, 2005 / John
We watched Jurassic Park (again) yesterday. It brought back a lot of memories. I think JP was the first film which made me realise that the cinema could do anything with modern technology. I have distinct memories of sitting in the theatre (the Odeon on Clerk Street in Edinburgh – a proper cinema, none of
Ramblings / September 25, 2005 / John
Had a bad day on Friday. I’d been feeling a bit unwell on Thursday morning and on and off during the day. It got bad enough to prompt me to make a doctors appointment on Friday morning. So, in I toddled. The doctor was making a flap about blood clots, lungs and “why didn’t you