I think i might give up on watching Coronation Street, it’s on too damn often, it’s started to own your life. Whose idea was it to put it on twice on a monday with a half hour gap in between just to make sure that if you fancied going off to do something else for a bit you won’t have time to even get started before it’s bleedin on again.

Only got 10 minutes now. Hurry hurry.

I hate CNET for buying up sites that ppl love and then destroying them under the weight of a thousand highly graphical and bandwidth intense adverts.

But concerning this Jeff fella I’m on CNets side, I’m glad they got rid of him, he’s the one that only gave Twilight Princess 8.8. Maybe now he’s gone they’ll sneak in and fix the review.

Bit depressing actually because up until completing it i’d be waking up of a morning declaring to myself “ooooh i can’t wait to see what zelda has in store today.”  Now i’ve no zeldery goodness to look forward to.

A lot of people are shouting off saying it’s not as good as others are saying, and also gamespot went all mad and only gave it 88% (despite also making it one of their games of the year)  Well I dunno, it must be a me thing, I like cute video games and zelda is one of the most adorable (just look at link’s big eyes!) around, and I just loved every second of the game to bits.  Heck I must have because it’s a 60 hour+ game and i played through it all in just a week. lol  That really is a record for me.  Most games spend time gathering dust before i get around to finishing them, if I even bother to.  I should probably look back at the list of my favourite ever games which I seem to remember doing a year or so ago, and see where i’d put this zelda.
I want more zelda!  *cries*

Being without the iMac is difficult, I’m suffering cold sweats. I checked the repair status but alas nothing has been noted yet. I hope they are treating it well

I’ve finally managed beat that bastard with the helmet in Zelda, I must have only been lacking by about one swing of the sword all them failed attempts, the relief was massive. So cannot wait for the Phantom Hourglass on the DS.

Zelda 3 “Link to the Past” was originally release on the SNES (Super NES, or Super Famicom, or that one that had a shitty looking bolbus case in america but had a nice slimmer and more colourful case everywhere else for some reason, as if they figured american’s would only buy it if it also had a fat arse) and the difference between that and the 2 NES games is incredibly stark. I now can’t believe what a jump in technology it was. It must be particularly stark with this Zelda game because the artistic design was a triumph. It looks beautiful because the use of colours and the bitmaps are faultless. And so is the gameplay, I had forgotten what games are like when they get your adrenaline pumping, because I haven’t played a game that manages it in so freaking long. When you reach a boss at the end of a dungeon in Zelda 3 you perspire and shake with desire to throat the bastard, and when you finally manage it you can hardly walk straight with a buzz. I haven’t played Animal Crossing for 2 days, Gabi is going to be so mad at me.

Just so that you hate NeoOffice more than you already do it sometimes, upon loading it opens a browser window with their homepage. Thanks, I’m sure all your users really appreciate that. Well, the jokes on them, because when it opened last, you’ll see from this screenshot that one of the Google Adsense Adverts had quite an unpleasant word to say about your mother.

I’ve fancied playing through the early zelda games for a while and heres a perfect chance. On the GBA they released/ported the 1st one (Legend of Zelda… originally on the NES) the 2nd (Adventures of Link… NES) and the 3rd (Link to the Past… SNES), plus also one specifically for the GBA called the Minish Cap which was something like the 11th so there’s a bit of a jump there.

These games don’t seem to be available on either play.com nor amazon.co.uk nor any of the usual suspects dot com so I hit ebay and there seems to be enough copies going around for everyone to own them so yay! I bought them 4, along with Yoshi Island which is one of the Mario platformers I never played.

Unfortunately, unlike a bonefide GBA you cannot play Game Boy/Game Boy Color games on the DS, and nintendo haven’t (as far as I can tell) released the game boy zelda titles in a manor that can be played on a DS. If they released a game boy adaptor I could play all the way up to zelda 4…. and even more, if they released a port of Ocarina of Time to the DS (please please please please please) I could play all zelda’s up to … 9!

That surely would be enough zelda to understand the whole history of hyrule.