Greetings one and all!
Today I wanted to go into some of the titles that I've had kicking around my head for making videos for my youtube channel.
As anyone whose seen some of my videos might be able to tell, at this point I'm still trying to settle in and find my [i]thing[/i], my style or just how I'm gonna DO this.
You can also tell that I've yet to finish a proper series. I'm honest about this, no point in hiding it, the videos are there as evidence.
Nevertheless.
I have plans, I have thoughts and I have ideas.
In that realm of ideas, I present a few gaming titles which I plan to do at some point.
- Spyro the Dragon 1, 2, 3.
- Tombi 2 (MAY touch the 1st one, need to decide what to do about the music because oh my it's... an exercise in retaining your sanity)
- The Lion King (Sega Megadrive 2 version. When I'm ready to do this I WILL be practising that damn move I mentioned before that I got stuck on)
- Aladdin (PC version!)
- Bioshock 1 (Anyone who knows me well re games will probably have to pick their jaw off the floor on this one. I don't blame you, I'm still considering the state of my sanity since I made the choice to do this one and actually bought the game too. This one may well be a little further down the road when I've worked out my [i]thing[/i] so I can bring something other than half blind terror to the game. Oh, and this would be semi-blind as I've never actually PLAYED the game before)
There's probably more but those are all I can think of off the top of my head right now.
So yeah, that's what my channel has to look forward to ontop of things I need to arrange such as:
- My Minecraft Realm. Coming as soon as I can finally make an edit of some footage I have that I'm happy with.
- Multiplayer. I WILL have more multiplayer on my channel, I just need to sit down and arrange details with others.
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
Sunday 29 June 2014
Monday 23 June 2014
Starting with the past. Part 5
Greetings one and all!
I wasn't sure what to write about today. So many games that they all started to blur a little, however, as I was randomly browsing the internet I stumbled over an article of REALLY bad games that the writer believed should never had been written.
On that note I'm writing about a game that is NOT on that list (but is related to one that IS)
Toejam and Earl 2: Panic on Funkotron.
Sega Megadrive 2 (Are we noticing a trend here yet?)
I'll quickly mention that I never played the first game. This game came with my 2nd hand sega megadrive 2 along with a few other titles. I did know someone who was in my class in year 4 who HAD the first game, but could never get them to agree on a time I could borrow it and then the year ended and we went to different middle schools (I was schooled in a 3 tier system. R-4, 5-8, 9-11/13. That's school years, not age years)
So this game.
Fun
Silly
Bonkers
And yet, there's an extra depth to it I've come to REALLY appreciate in the last few years.
It. Is. BRIGHT.
Seriously.
I loaded this game up (via the steam copy I happily own) and my eyeballs nearly disowned me on the spot with how many bright and almost neon colours were assulting my eyes. It's beautiful to look at, silly to play and a lot of fun.
Sure there's some frustration, but that was kind of the THING at the time, and I can appreciate it.
It held your hands a touch at the start, gave tips along the way and let you get on with it. Heck it even takes the mick out of you at times by hiding rubbish in items where your searching for food (health) or special jars or points or something. Meaning if your not paying close attention to what your doing BAM! A tyre to the head, or a rubbish bin accross the bonce.
There's also the collecting items element, which if I remember rightly was REALLY difficult, even more so in a time before the internet and there sure as FIG NUT weren't any walk throughs in the local shops! Oh good LORD no we were not living in an area important enough to have a walkthrough or help guide we could buy. Even in a shop that sells games. No no no.
I don't think we ever got everything. I remember us getting MOST of the items, because they were hard to find, but yeah. A really really good game that's more than a little bonkers.
In terms of what I mentioned before about a game that was on a list of games that should never be made?
TJ+E3... For the xbox.
I never played it. I remember being REALLY excited when I heard it was an actual thing.... then I saw the box art and back cover and just gave up ALL hope.
Because turning two groovy aliens into 'hip hop' or 'rap' characters.... *shudder*
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
I wasn't sure what to write about today. So many games that they all started to blur a little, however, as I was randomly browsing the internet I stumbled over an article of REALLY bad games that the writer believed should never had been written.
On that note I'm writing about a game that is NOT on that list (but is related to one that IS)
Toejam and Earl 2: Panic on Funkotron.
Sega Megadrive 2 (Are we noticing a trend here yet?)
I'll quickly mention that I never played the first game. This game came with my 2nd hand sega megadrive 2 along with a few other titles. I did know someone who was in my class in year 4 who HAD the first game, but could never get them to agree on a time I could borrow it and then the year ended and we went to different middle schools (I was schooled in a 3 tier system. R-4, 5-8, 9-11/13. That's school years, not age years)
So this game.
Fun
Silly
Bonkers
And yet, there's an extra depth to it I've come to REALLY appreciate in the last few years.
It. Is. BRIGHT.
Seriously.
I loaded this game up (via the steam copy I happily own) and my eyeballs nearly disowned me on the spot with how many bright and almost neon colours were assulting my eyes. It's beautiful to look at, silly to play and a lot of fun.
Sure there's some frustration, but that was kind of the THING at the time, and I can appreciate it.
It held your hands a touch at the start, gave tips along the way and let you get on with it. Heck it even takes the mick out of you at times by hiding rubbish in items where your searching for food (health) or special jars or points or something. Meaning if your not paying close attention to what your doing BAM! A tyre to the head, or a rubbish bin accross the bonce.
There's also the collecting items element, which if I remember rightly was REALLY difficult, even more so in a time before the internet and there sure as FIG NUT weren't any walk throughs in the local shops! Oh good LORD no we were not living in an area important enough to have a walkthrough or help guide we could buy. Even in a shop that sells games. No no no.
I don't think we ever got everything. I remember us getting MOST of the items, because they were hard to find, but yeah. A really really good game that's more than a little bonkers.
In terms of what I mentioned before about a game that was on a list of games that should never be made?
TJ+E3... For the xbox.
I never played it. I remember being REALLY excited when I heard it was an actual thing.... then I saw the box art and back cover and just gave up ALL hope.
Because turning two groovy aliens into 'hip hop' or 'rap' characters.... *shudder*
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
Sunday 22 June 2014
Starting with the past. Part 4.
Greetings one and all!
Following on from yesterdays post, within about 10 minutes of finishing that one I knew exactly what I was going to go into today.
Firstly we have:
Puggsy.
I found this game both fun, and yet unbeatable as a kid. There was this witch level I could get to and get no further, and a couple of others levels where I just had NO idea what in all of the cosmos I was supposed to do.
Usefully, as my copy was second hand and did include the manual, someone had written down one of the hideously long passwords which opened up all bar the last few levels.
So although I think I either finished this game or got REALLY close, I never actually completed it.
Now, somewhen in the last year I did some live streaming, playing this game from the start.
I wrote down the password when I was finished with the stream and held onto it with intent of carrying on at another point. I haven't yet.
However for those interested, this is the password I wrote down:
357 503 151
656 764 533
710 340 204
That password takes you to after the 3rd boss.
If you intend on using it?
HAVE FUN!
That said, I've heard people saying the game is stupid, weird, uncool, hard and all that. I can see where they are coming from, because you know, the game is about an orange alien landing on a large island where Racoons are the main animal and they're out to stop him. Just with extremely specific walk patterns.
Yes it was hard... but then these games WERE hard, they weren't just aimed at 7 year olds you know. That said it had an easy mode with finished with the first boss, so you could get better and eventually kick ass!
Maybe one day I will have finished all the levels, maybe..... says the woman whose got more games unfinished kicking around than she'd like to ever admit...
For a 2nd game, this one I only briefly remember as I believe my next door neighbour was borrowing from someone else so there wasn't much time to play it.
Micro Machines V2.
Sega MegaDrive 2 again.
Yeah, I don't remember much of this, just that the controls were REALLY slippy and you went everywhere. I don't know if that was just because I didn't play it much or it wasn't really my thing. Dunno.
Either way, the top down perspective was kinda cool.
Join me again soon for more ramblings about games I've played!
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Following on from yesterdays post, within about 10 minutes of finishing that one I knew exactly what I was going to go into today.
Firstly we have:
Puggsy.
I found this game both fun, and yet unbeatable as a kid. There was this witch level I could get to and get no further, and a couple of others levels where I just had NO idea what in all of the cosmos I was supposed to do.
Usefully, as my copy was second hand and did include the manual, someone had written down one of the hideously long passwords which opened up all bar the last few levels.
So although I think I either finished this game or got REALLY close, I never actually completed it.
Now, somewhen in the last year I did some live streaming, playing this game from the start.
I wrote down the password when I was finished with the stream and held onto it with intent of carrying on at another point. I haven't yet.
However for those interested, this is the password I wrote down:
357 503 151
656 764 533
710 340 204
That password takes you to after the 3rd boss.
If you intend on using it?
HAVE FUN!
That said, I've heard people saying the game is stupid, weird, uncool, hard and all that. I can see where they are coming from, because you know, the game is about an orange alien landing on a large island where Racoons are the main animal and they're out to stop him. Just with extremely specific walk patterns.
Yes it was hard... but then these games WERE hard, they weren't just aimed at 7 year olds you know. That said it had an easy mode with finished with the first boss, so you could get better and eventually kick ass!
Maybe one day I will have finished all the levels, maybe..... says the woman whose got more games unfinished kicking around than she'd like to ever admit...
For a 2nd game, this one I only briefly remember as I believe my next door neighbour was borrowing from someone else so there wasn't much time to play it.
Micro Machines V2.
Sega MegaDrive 2 again.
Yeah, I don't remember much of this, just that the controls were REALLY slippy and you went everywhere. I don't know if that was just because I didn't play it much or it wasn't really my thing. Dunno.
Either way, the top down perspective was kinda cool.
Join me again soon for more ramblings about games I've played!
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Saturday 21 June 2014
Starting with the past. Part 3
Greetings one and all!
Since I started to touch on console games last post, I'm carrying on now to some more.
Starting with one that STUMPED me and my neighbour for a fair while.
The Lion King - Sega MegaDrive 2 version.
LOVED this game.
Loved The Lion King, and loved the way this game covers both kid simba and adult simba.
Wasn't so keen on the Wilderbeast section, that involved some real memorisation of the damn thing and even then if you weren't quite right. BAM, dead.
However that wasn't what stumped us.
What stumped us was how to beat scar.
See, the thing the game DIDN'T tell us how to do, was that attack where you lunge at an enemy who is panting, and roll under and flip them.
It was pure chance that one day my friend was playing the game in adult mode with a controller with FAR too many buttons. Twice the standard, plus repeat buttons and a weird circular directional pad. It was kinda for cheating, but when using that and randomly mashing buttons Simba did this new move!
It took a bit longer to work out HOW to do the move intentionally, but then when we did it, we beat the game. It was good. We had overcome the nightmare that was Scar!
WE RULED!
That said it didn't make the hyena level any bloody easier.
Another game I played a lot as a kid on the Megadrive 2 was James Pond 2.
Now...when I was a kid I never noticed this, but in the UK version, you can see there are a LOT of McVities products (such as penguin bars and such)
When I found out as an adult I paused, blinked, looked it up and holy moly!
That said, game is HARD and LONG. Hard as in a lot of the jumps or beasties can be pixel perfect. Go the wrong route and BOOM, your as good as dead.
Sadly, this is one of FAR FAR FAR too many games I could think of that I own, that I have NEVER actually finished.
(I'm currently trying to work my way through my steam list to finish off games I've had sitting here a few years. Sadly the Steam Summer Sale has just started so such an endevour is going to take a lot longer!)
Anyway, I'll leave it at that for today.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Since I started to touch on console games last post, I'm carrying on now to some more.
Starting with one that STUMPED me and my neighbour for a fair while.
The Lion King - Sega MegaDrive 2 version.
LOVED this game.
Loved The Lion King, and loved the way this game covers both kid simba and adult simba.
Wasn't so keen on the Wilderbeast section, that involved some real memorisation of the damn thing and even then if you weren't quite right. BAM, dead.
However that wasn't what stumped us.
What stumped us was how to beat scar.
See, the thing the game DIDN'T tell us how to do, was that attack where you lunge at an enemy who is panting, and roll under and flip them.
It was pure chance that one day my friend was playing the game in adult mode with a controller with FAR too many buttons. Twice the standard, plus repeat buttons and a weird circular directional pad. It was kinda for cheating, but when using that and randomly mashing buttons Simba did this new move!
It took a bit longer to work out HOW to do the move intentionally, but then when we did it, we beat the game. It was good. We had overcome the nightmare that was Scar!
WE RULED!
That said it didn't make the hyena level any bloody easier.
Another game I played a lot as a kid on the Megadrive 2 was James Pond 2.
Now...when I was a kid I never noticed this, but in the UK version, you can see there are a LOT of McVities products (such as penguin bars and such)
When I found out as an adult I paused, blinked, looked it up and holy moly!
That said, game is HARD and LONG. Hard as in a lot of the jumps or beasties can be pixel perfect. Go the wrong route and BOOM, your as good as dead.
Sadly, this is one of FAR FAR FAR too many games I could think of that I own, that I have NEVER actually finished.
(I'm currently trying to work my way through my steam list to finish off games I've had sitting here a few years. Sadly the Steam Summer Sale has just started so such an endevour is going to take a lot longer!)
Anyway, I'll leave it at that for today.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Friday 20 June 2014
Starting with the Past. Part 2
Greetings one and all!
Continuing from my previous post I wanted to share another few games I grew up with.
Frogger.
I played a fair amount of Frogger when I was a kid. I can tell you simply that I've NO idea what version of Frogger I played a lot, but I did.
Marble Drop.
This was kinda educational, as it taught a little about physics and how things worked, and in theory some of the ideas from great ancient thinkers (I forget exactly who). Me and my neighbour played a LOT of this, and I don't think we actually completed it. Or if we did it was only once or twice.
Taking into account consoles and handhelds I move onto games like:
Tetris.
Now, my mum's the one who mostly played Tetris in our household, but I certainly played my fair share. We played the GameBoy version (somehow we had 2 in the house) but never played against each other. I can take a pretty good guess that I'd of gotten trounced.
Bubsy.
Or also known as Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind.
I LOVED this game as a kid. It was frustrating, there were spots where you could die if you weren't pixel perfect and you know what.
I didn't care then, and I don't care now.
It was a challenge, a tough challenge that kept me going back years after I originally played it. If I had a copy, I'd probably do some videos on it, and get my ass handed to me. I'd be frustrated, I'd probably be angry, but on the whole, it wouldn't bother me as the memories of all the little tricks and such came back.
Anyone hating on it because it was too hard.
Yes, it was hard. I still don't care. A really good game.
Oh and for any interested, I played the version on the Sega Mega Drive 2.
So, with all these games I loved. I'm gonna mention a game I hated.
Chefren's Pyramid.
URH!
Okay, context here.
On occasion, we were very lucky and got to have our Maths lesson in the computer room. This meant we got to play the educational game Chefren's Pyramid. (Cheop's is the sequal from my understanding)
I swear that we had to start from the beginning every time as the program was on computers that didn't allow us to save our progress properly.
As you can imagine, this meant a LOT of having to run through the same puzzles over and over and over and over and over... yeah you get the picutre.
Now for some, like the actual adding and subtracting puzzles, these were randomised, but for the geography questions it was actually a doddle once you'd got them right once.
It probably wasn't too bad, and if I remember rightly the whole class enjoyed the chance at a break from our normal classroom and to play on the computers.
It just sucked we had to start from the beginning. Every. Single. Time.
Ah well. Things move on.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Continuing from my previous post I wanted to share another few games I grew up with.
Frogger.
I played a fair amount of Frogger when I was a kid. I can tell you simply that I've NO idea what version of Frogger I played a lot, but I did.
Marble Drop.
This was kinda educational, as it taught a little about physics and how things worked, and in theory some of the ideas from great ancient thinkers (I forget exactly who). Me and my neighbour played a LOT of this, and I don't think we actually completed it. Or if we did it was only once or twice.
Taking into account consoles and handhelds I move onto games like:
Tetris.
Now, my mum's the one who mostly played Tetris in our household, but I certainly played my fair share. We played the GameBoy version (somehow we had 2 in the house) but never played against each other. I can take a pretty good guess that I'd of gotten trounced.
Bubsy.
Or also known as Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind.
I LOVED this game as a kid. It was frustrating, there were spots where you could die if you weren't pixel perfect and you know what.
I didn't care then, and I don't care now.
It was a challenge, a tough challenge that kept me going back years after I originally played it. If I had a copy, I'd probably do some videos on it, and get my ass handed to me. I'd be frustrated, I'd probably be angry, but on the whole, it wouldn't bother me as the memories of all the little tricks and such came back.
Anyone hating on it because it was too hard.
Yes, it was hard. I still don't care. A really good game.
Oh and for any interested, I played the version on the Sega Mega Drive 2.
So, with all these games I loved. I'm gonna mention a game I hated.
Chefren's Pyramid.
URH!
Okay, context here.
On occasion, we were very lucky and got to have our Maths lesson in the computer room. This meant we got to play the educational game Chefren's Pyramid. (Cheop's is the sequal from my understanding)
I swear that we had to start from the beginning every time as the program was on computers that didn't allow us to save our progress properly.
As you can imagine, this meant a LOT of having to run through the same puzzles over and over and over and over and over... yeah you get the picutre.
Now for some, like the actual adding and subtracting puzzles, these were randomised, but for the geography questions it was actually a doddle once you'd got them right once.
It probably wasn't too bad, and if I remember rightly the whole class enjoyed the chance at a break from our normal classroom and to play on the computers.
It just sucked we had to start from the beginning. Every. Single. Time.
Ah well. Things move on.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Tuesday 17 June 2014
Starting with the past. Part 1
Greetings one and all!
Today I wanted to talk about games I loved in the past. The kinda games I grew up with.
I went through a LOT before I got here.
Although there were a few games that stuck with me before this one. I thought I'd start with an educational game that I played SO MUCH it got almost silly.
The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System.
I really loved the cartoon The Magic School Bus and when my local library got some copies of this game put onto their new computer systems I was hooked. I'd try and get to the library a little earlier on a Saturday morning so that I could get a computer in order to play this. (I strongly remember that the poor server system they had couldn't handle more than a few people playing the same game at once for some reason and would take a while to get going in the morning)
I remember struggling with the jumping puzzles, looking up answers to some of the quiz questions in the library books on the shelves.
This game, was a GREAT example of learning and gaming working to educate kids.
Seriously, there were arguments about who could play it that week.
That said, whilst thinking about the good ones, I did think of some of the real stinkers I came across as a kid. The below is one of them, though I can't exactly remember why I hated it.
The Hooray for Henrietta series... I'm POSITIVE we had a Hooray for Henry as well but I'm finding so little information on the Henrietta one that I'm questioning my sanity. I remember the title, something about custard either on the packaging or in the game, and that I didn't really like it. Nothing else.
I suppose it did well enough that I remember many many years on the title, but I really doubt it taught me much.
So yeah, a few games from the past.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Today I wanted to talk about games I loved in the past. The kinda games I grew up with.
I went through a LOT before I got here.
Although there were a few games that stuck with me before this one. I thought I'd start with an educational game that I played SO MUCH it got almost silly.
The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System.
I really loved the cartoon The Magic School Bus and when my local library got some copies of this game put onto their new computer systems I was hooked. I'd try and get to the library a little earlier on a Saturday morning so that I could get a computer in order to play this. (I strongly remember that the poor server system they had couldn't handle more than a few people playing the same game at once for some reason and would take a while to get going in the morning)
I remember struggling with the jumping puzzles, looking up answers to some of the quiz questions in the library books on the shelves.
This game, was a GREAT example of learning and gaming working to educate kids.
Seriously, there were arguments about who could play it that week.
That said, whilst thinking about the good ones, I did think of some of the real stinkers I came across as a kid. The below is one of them, though I can't exactly remember why I hated it.
The Hooray for Henrietta series... I'm POSITIVE we had a Hooray for Henry as well but I'm finding so little information on the Henrietta one that I'm questioning my sanity. I remember the title, something about custard either on the packaging or in the game, and that I didn't really like it. Nothing else.
I suppose it did well enough that I remember many many years on the title, but I really doubt it taught me much.
So yeah, a few games from the past.
I hope you all have a lovely evening!
Monday 16 June 2014
The Beginning
Greetings one and all!
Welcome to my blog, where I intent to put up thoughts, ideas and musings I have mostly about video games.
I also have a Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Magic_Sky_Lady
And my Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MagicSkyLady
Please feel free to drop by on any of these, take a look at whats going on, and feel free to leave a comment/like/share/whatevergooglecomesupwithtoreplaceGoogle+cosICK!.
Thank you for reading.
Have a lovely evening.
Welcome to my blog, where I intent to put up thoughts, ideas and musings I have mostly about video games.
I also have a Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Magic_Sky_Lady
And my Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MagicSkyLady
Please feel free to drop by on any of these, take a look at whats going on, and feel free to leave a comment/like/share/whatevergooglecomesupwithtoreplaceGoogle+cosICK!.
Thank you for reading.
Have a lovely evening.
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