Visit DanC1989's Gaming Arcade, One of the best and most long standing boards around!

• 29Mar 08

  Dear Ms Byron

  Yes there are (apparently!) a lot of problems about how games are age rated here in the UK, and this week's report from Tanya Byron is here to recommend what changes are needed to combat what's going on at the moment. Lovely, you know...if it improves the situation it's all good but as they say, first impressions are paramount. Now look at the cover of this thing! Are they having a laugh, or what? I know it doesn't matter one bit, and I haven't read it (never planned to, it's 250 pages plus for starters!) but this sort of publicity is a joke on the part of the gamers of this world.
  
  IMO the real problem is with parents buying games for their kids when it's been already slapped with a massive '18' rating on the front, not the rating system itself. They really can't make it any more obvious, and apart from that some of them don't seem to care which is the real worry. I despair...but then again I've bought games underage before (and asked my parents to get them) so I don't want to be a hypocrite. I'd have done anything for a bit of Grand Theft Auto. In other news, I went to see the mighty England Under-21 international this week at Wolves' Molineux ground which looked a bit like this full of English and Polish fans hoping to see the stars of tomorrow duke it out in a good game of football. Let me say, the highlight of the whole game was the Polish fans (I believe) starting a good ol' Mexican wave. Because the football was awful beyond comprehension, I can't really remember getting anywhere near getting excited about any passage of play throughout the 90 minutes. Thankfully the tickets we used were complimentary, else I'd have asked for my money back with compensation on top for such a wasted night!
  
  DanC
  
  PS- The big PSN blog I promised last week is still coming, I just haven't had time to finish it plus I checked and I wasn't online straight away so it should be here on Monday or Tuesday early next week. Thanks for reading, and I hope you all had a good easter, I'm "too old" for eggs now so mine was rather naff.>_>
  • Posted Mar 29, 2008 9:49 am GMT
  • Category: News
  • 13 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg
• 16Mar 08

  Nubless

  Oh noes! Disaster! My PSP has been stripped, stripped of its dignity...the other day I got home after using the PSP on the bus as an MP3 player (I don't have the collection to really warrant ad decent IPod.) and when I pulled it out of the little sleeve it looked like this.

  

  On a side note...how the hell anyone gets decent pics in their blog is beyond me. Any tips? GameSpot doesn't like them at all, and you can't even squeeze them down to the blog width without them expanding back again as soon as you've clicked submit. Glitchspot FTL.

  I know it looks like it's had a rough time, but it is a good few years old and the sleeve isn't the best protection. But where's the God darn analogue nub?! I've no idea what happened to that, must've fell off sometime during the day because I've looked up and down for it since I took it out of the sleeve. And yes, I've tried playing it like that..and if you thought that the normal controls were bad, just try it without the nub.

  Any recommended replacements? I'll have a peek on Amazon/ebay tonight..

  DanC

  PS- That'll probably be it for the week, next Sunday's the PS3 launch anniversary so I'll be doing something for that. Something big...

  • Posted Mar 16, 2008 2:22 pm GMT
  • Category: News
  • 16 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg
• 12Mar 08

  Double Metal Slime

  It seems like such a long time since Metal Slime to me, the infamous GameSpot user level that is a lot harder than it should be. (think Through the Fire and the Flames even on easy, to noobs playing GH3!) Infact I'd give you the exact date thanks to the Achievement threads that once lurked within the Gaming Arcade but it'd take a while plus it's not that interesting anyway. Maybe if I compare it at level sixty?!? Now that'd be interesting..

  Away from the memories, and back to 2008 and the present day. I've hit Level 40 (Abobo)! It's about time too, 39 has been the slowest ever thanks to many things but I won't dwell on that. Does anyone care about levels anymore? I sure don't, but after about L35 it's tiresome and the same goes for post counts post 10K and it is only the nets after all. Question answered.

  Here's to another twenty?>_>

  PS: The other day I was lurking around on my old PC that is a bit of a dust hoarder at the moment and I found a load of old GS stuff, like screens of the old site, old sigs and reviews that I've got in Word Docs. Shall post some of them soon if anyone's interested. (bar the reviews, obviously!)

  DanC

  • Posted Mar 12, 2008 10:29 am GMT
  • Category: News
  • 29 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg

See Previous Blog Posts