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Well by tomorrow anyway. Last week I decided I didn’t really care if I finished the game so I put it up for sale on half.com. I picked it up for rediculously cheap clearance so I’m making a small profit, but mostly it’s just not too thriilling. So if I get to finish it by […]

After finishing Sphinx I decided I needed to open another still sealed game that I picked up at extreme bargain prices and Wario World was it. I’ve never played Wario game before so I don’t know what it’s about but in this case it’s like a 2D side scroller where you beat things up and […]

This morning I finished “Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy.” I enjoyed it all the way to the end and I with they would make a sequel. I doubt a sequel will ever be made because I think they released it during the holiday rush and it got buried under all the big name games and […]

So after defeating the Geb Queen I was given more curse stones and went back to playing the Mummy. After I came back to controlling Sphinx I didn’t bother to save right then because I didn’t expect another boss fight within 30 minutes of the last one. So I had to do the mummy part […]

The other day I was feeling like getting a Games Magazine, so I did! The End. No, I’ve been going through it and I think I’m doing better than I used to when I was younger. Though based on some of the obscure stuff you need to pull up answers for on the easy puzzles, […]

I made it past the bug in Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. The game is getting more action oriented with more things to fight and kill. There are still plenty of puzzles though. If I get stuck on one I can pretty much guarantee that I will wake up and be able to clear it […]

I was playing Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy and saved my progress. After a few minutes I was tired and turned off the Gamecube and when I turned it back on I couldn’t get anywhere from where I saved. I check on-line and sure enough, it’s a glitch in the game that if that was […]

Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole’s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the […]

I have this new projector that is capable of HDTV resolutions. I’m moving where all the A/V stuff lives and that also means moving the game systems. First to hook up is the Atari 2600 and of course I had to test it with a little Yar’s Revenge. Projector capable of displaying better than the […]

There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it’s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you […]