Games Spends 2012

Total amount spent on games in 2012: £617.39. A lot higher than I wanted to be honest but I did buy 2 NTSC NES consoles, an NTSC N64 and a 3DS XL.

I bought 43 games but beat 57 and removed 3. For 2013 I'm not going to buy a single new game until I have at least less than 10 unbeaten games in total.

Purchase Record 2012

January's Game: Assassin's Creed
Cost: £7
Status: Beat

February's Game: Goldeneye 007/CC Pro Bundle
Cost: £19.99
Status: Beat

March's Game: Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Cost: £9.99
Status: Beat

April's Game: Mega Man X4
Cost: £20.76
Status: Beat

May's Games: Arma 2: Combined Operations
Cost: £20.29
Status: Bought solely for DayZ

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Cost: £0.99
Status: Sold

Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana's Movie Madness
Cost: £1
Status: Beat

Donkey Kong Land 3
Cost: £8
Status: Beat

June's Games: NTSC N64 + 6 games
Cost: £63.99
Status: Beat

Wario Land 3
Cost: £10.00
Status: Sold

Raystorm
Cost: £2.00
Status: Beat

July's Games: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (SMS)
Cost: £3.50
Status: Beat

Wonder Boy (SMS)
Cost: £3.50
Status: Beat

McDonaldland
Cost: £8.00
Status: Beat

EA 4 Pack
Cost: £1.00
Status: Beat

Ys Origin
Cost: £5.19
Status: Unbeaten

Trine 2
Cost: £2.99
Status: Beat

August's Game: Sanitarium
Cost: £10
Status: Not playable on my current hardware.

September's Games Shikigami No Shiro 3
Cost: £5
Status: Beat

NTSC NES + 2 games
Cost: £44.14
Status: Beat

Battletoads
Cost: £11.68
Status: Unbeaten

Super Mario Land
Cost: Free
Status: Beat

October's Games: 3DS XL, Charger, NSMB2 & MK7
Cost: £232.98
Status: Beat

Star Fox 64 3D
Cost: Free
Status: Beat

Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm
Cost: £10
Status: Unbeaten

CIB NES Challenge Set
Cost £75
Status Beat

Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
Cost £15
Status Unbeaten

November's Game: Star Trek Generations
Cost: £1.25
Status: Not playable on my current setup

December's Games: Jet Set Radio HD
Cost: £3
Status: Beat

Humble Indie Bundle
Cost: £3.92
Status: Unbeaten

The Walking Dead
Cost: £10.49
Status: Beat

Fortune Summoners
Cost: £3.24
Status: Unbeaten

Direct2Drive and my lost games

So apparently Direct2Drive became Gamefly and I lost 3 out of the 5 games I purchased on there. I lost Swat 4 Gold, Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Complete. I do still have Gothic 3 and Mount & Blade but I have those on Steam anyway so who cares?

So yeah, fuck that and fuck them.

The Culling Returns

And the DS dosn't make the cut! Off you go my friend, maybe your next owner will actually use you.

Another Spring Clean

The PSP's going, all my PAL NES games are going, some of my NTSC NES games are going, all my PS2 games bar Ridge Racer 5 are going as well. The Dreamcast.... I don't know, I really should sell it, I love it but I don't play on it, it's only there because of the memories it conjures up and I really feel it's time to move on.

New PC! From the 90s!

I finally picked up a 9x gaming PC. It's a 500MHz P3 with 128MB RAM, a 20GB HDD and a built in ATI Rage Pro. Overall it's not too bad, plays just about everything, it's a prebuilt Compaq machine and although I am quite impressed with how they managed to fit so much stuff into such a small case, it's quite limited when it comes to upgrades. I was pretty bloody excited when it came and immediately installed Windows 98 SE. For some reason it just refused to boot though and after spending a couple of hours trying to sort it out I gave up and just threw ME on there because really, all I wanted to do was see if all my old games worked, and they did!!!

ME's impressed me quite a bit actualy, it has mass usb storage drivers out of the box and had drivers for all of my hardware. The GPU drivers had to be updated of course but apart from that it was ready to go from the first start up.

In the future I'll probably build my own custom machine, this system's more of a mid to late 90s 9x machine than a DOS machine as well so I'd love to pick up some older hardware, the Amstrad Mega PC would be great to own for example. It's a DOS PC AND a Megadrive for crying out loud! And it has a dual sync monitor, it's on my wishlist.

Stolen bikes, broken consoles and moronic ebayers

My bike was stolen, chain and all. My PS3 is now on eBay as spares and buyers that have no clue what they're doing are accusing me of selling faulty PC parts before sheepishly apologising when it turns out they missed one stupidly basic step when fitting said items. Throw in some council tax bullshit and some kind of infection that took over the back of my throat, mouth and right ear and I'm just about ready for this month to end.

Goodbye Gaming PC

My Macbook Pro arrived on Friday, work have a deal set up with Apple that allows you to get a Macbook (and the OSX/Windows versions of Microsoft Office) at a discount. I've been wanting to downgrade for a while now and I've been quite impressed with the iPhone so I put in for one. All in all it's very impressive which is to be expected I suppose. I tried some games on it and it holds its own well enough. Not as great as my PC of course but that's OK. The plan now is to give some of the parts from my PC to my parents to speed theirs up and sell the rest. I'll probably buy an OEM version of Windows 7 at some point for the occasional bootcamp game before putting some money aside for a 46"-50" TV. Then I'll put a HTPC together to go under the telly and I'll be all set.

I'm also abandoning current gen console gaming altogether. So little of what's out there interests me, a couple of old consoles, the occasional handheld and Steam all do a far better job as far as I'm concerned.

Oh yeah, PIC! ^_^



I installed Steam and instantly had 47 games including Civ V. Gota love those SteamPlay titles.