big mean bunny

Ended up getting a nice DSiXL - The 25th Mario edition today from the games market with charger and in a really nice condition.

They also had a demo of the Gamie lightguns thing that is currently on Kickstarter, anyone seen that? Was very impressed with what I saw.

Cool. That looks perfect as has a free trial and then you can do monthly, so can cancel after the summer holidays. Will investigate later.

I keep thinking about trying some of the Kotor comics as Sheffield's Forbidden planet has relocated and so we frequently go in the new store and spotted a load of stuff in there that looks interesting.

August is my birthday month and so I will not see it tainted and having to sully itself in among the general thread of the riff raff!

Play - Donkey Kong Bonanza - my kid has now made it to the final boss of this and I am just about to hit 4 hours played…but have loved those 4 hours.

Empire Total War - Never got on with this originally as felt too different from what I liked about the Total War series, however I recently upgraded my ROG Ally SSD to 1tb when the deals were on, and decided to have a look how an older Total War would run on it, and the answer is pretty gloriously. Enjoying this much more now as barely played any Total War the last 10 or so years.

Player Manager 99 - Moved to this for my playthroughs, I get I could probably not mention this but it's nice to keep track of things here.

Professor Layton - I started playing one of these I got in a charity shop just over a year ago and liked it, but it made reference to their previous adventure and so I looked into it and spotted I had the 2nd game, I got the first and took it on holiday with us (to sunny Rhyl) and then played a few hours of it and promptly forgot about it until it came time to begin thinking of what to take for this years holiday. So am committed to properly working through it now. It's going well as my missus and kid now like hearing and seeing the puzzles and so that is helping my motivation.

Quake Wars Enemy Territory - Absolutely no one will have seen this coming. I spent two hours this week on Sky Webchat pretending to be my father-in-law (with permission) and was playing this in the background on the solo campaign (that is pretending to be the online game modes if that makes sense) - And have gotten oddly addicted to it. I can't be bothered to learn or play an online game anymore and commit to the grind of getting familiar and good at it. But this Ai/versus the bots mode was covering all my desires for an Online shooter surprisingly well.

Tony Hawk PS3/4 - Still dipping in and out of this for little blasts.

Minecraft Dungeons - We always seem to return to this when it's a significant holiday and it's just the 3 of us, after playing a bit this evening and doing the daily trails, I have purchased the DLC pack finally and so we are going to start playing through these together.

Want - Really into the idea of getting two copies of 'a pokemon' game and then me and my daughter playing them simultaneously. Not even sure where to start as seems that the main Switch one had significant performance issues that weren't fixed. Although would appreciate any suggestions or input here from others?

GoldenTee Arcade collection - Still not sorted out getting this yet. Tried to look into if anyone had gotten a trackball working with in on PC and not had any joy so held off.

DSiXL - Don't need one but now really want one as basically only that and the micro GBA that are the only Nintendo handheld form factors I have never owned.

Off to the Sheffield Games market on Sunday so will keep my eye out!

Bin

Having sorted my games collection out a tad this week I have discovered at least 25 duplicates of games that I have amassed due to error and poor memory. So I will begin checking through and collating the best box,disc and manuals and then will be offloading the rest.

Been trying to organise my games room/cellar the last two days and it's been a real struggle trying to get stuff into a vaguely alphabetical order as so many things are stupidly named or have subtitles and so aren't that clearly named for sorting.

Examples.

Tom Clancys Splinter Cell
Tom Clancys Ghost Recon

So is that a T, a C, or simply going with the actual game name.

FIFA - these move between different name styles and then you have stuff like World Cup 98 to contend with, which is a FIFA title.

Star Wars is at least useful as nearly all called that first or makes sense to all group then in the S range.

I basically gave up with the 360 titles for now and piled them all onto a shelf.

This all started as I keep seemingly keep buying FIFA 2004 thinking I don't have it, only to discover I now own 4 copies of it.