It's been a while since I've put a post up on here and I'm blaming games.... I've been putting some serious hours into a handful of games and none of them seem to have an end in sight.
Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones (GBA) - 9hrs (which is really about 11 with the chapter reloads)
Spectrobes (NDS) - 108hrs (which is really only about 30 hours because it counts time while it's paused)
Zelda - Twilight princess (Wii) - 13hrs (I'm into the 3rd dungeon at the moment)
To top that off I managed to pick up
Half Life 2 (Xbox) for $20 at Harvey Norman (who seem to have 50% off all xbox games), fortunately I've lent it to Tom so is his addiction for the short term.
I also found a great racing wheel for the Xbox. It's a Gamester Race Pac Racing Wheel for the Xbox and PS2. The key to it is that the pedals and wheel are mounted to a seat so there's no need to find a table or worry about the pedals slipping on the floor.
It's been a pretty good solution so far, the only problem is finding enough floor space to use it. It's too big for the games room unless I put it on some horrible angle. I've been rediscovering Burnout with it. It might even turn me to try a more realistic racing game... might.
The newest purchase of the day is a
7" Digital Photo Frame from
Target. They went on sale today for $99 so we ducked in first thing to make sure we didn't miss out. Looks like it will be a pretty good item but I'm leaving it packed up until I get home.
So with all the gaming at the moment there just hasn't been time to blog. I might keep a few more updates on here as I progress through zelda because I apparently have another 58hrs to go! Fire Emblem and Spectrobes are relegated to bus playing. I've also got Children of Mana that I'll kick into once I get through Spectorbes. I had some serious thoughts about picking up a 360 but with all the games I've got (in my collection ie. Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, HL2, NFS:U, Metal Slug 4, DoA3 etc etc) to play on the Xbox I'm going to hold off a little longer. The next step will be an upgrade of the games room.
My LACIE has been doing the Tick Tick Tick noise since Tuesday... I got it working this morning by dropping it while it was on and ticking... managed to get the head to move again, though it probably best to get the data off now... while I can...
There are a couple of display models that are around that I'm planning on picking up that drop that price a little more. It means the 360 will have to wait a little longer but will be much easier to take on a 32" display than the 22" I'd end up with if I got one now.
As many of you know it was my birthday on Friday and we had a bit of a party on Saturday.. Heaps of people made it and (at least I think) it turned out a great day. One of the highlights has to be the cakes (on the left). 5 cakes were a pretty good effort for one birthday. It's hard to pick a favourite, Tom's toblerone cheesecake and Vanessa's Golden Buttercake were my top 2 though.
