G'Day everyone……. Its a nice sunny Saturday here today……. Its been an ok week….. Not much has happened…… Been quite hot so ive been spending most of the time indoors…… Been going out for walks early every morning before it gets to hot……. There was one day of rain…….. It rained in the morning and then stopped….. So I decided to go for a walk……. Only get half way down the road and have it piss down rain……… So I didnt get far that day…….

Managed to get the car out for a run today…… Been a few weeks since ive taken it out…… Living in the town you dont really need a car…… Unless you work outside of the town then you absolutely need to have a car/motorbike…….. As there are no trains or buses or taxis or ubers or anything like that here…… There are train tracks and a train station here…… But the government shut down the train service here about 30 years ago………

As for gaming this week I played…….

Arcade

Desert Assault (1991 Data East) - Run and Gun
Gokujō Parodius! (1994 Konami) - Shoot 'em up - Horizontal
Insector X (1989 Taito) - Shoot 'em up - Horizontal


Console

ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004 Sega) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)
Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997 Nintendo) - Super Nintendo Game Boy - Platformer
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (2003 Nintendo) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Golf)
Mario Power Tennis (2004 Nintendo) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Tennis)
MotoGP 08 (2008 Capcom) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Racing)
NCAA Football 11 (2010 EA Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)
Tecmo Super Bowl 2023 (2022 TecmoBowl.org) - Nintendo Entertainment System - Sports (Football)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (1992 Konami) - Nintendo Entertainment System - Beat 'em up


PC

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (2006 Sega) - Sports (Racing)


NCAA Football 11 Steve Austin Road to Glory

Another nice little touch with NCAA Football 11 is that it has fan letters sent you from fans…… There is usually one a week and they either talk about how great you are or what a waste of space you are…… You sorta get to know how your career is tracking by the letters…….. Its a nice little touch and shows why Madden/NCAA games are held is such high esteem unlike the current day Madden games…… Which are all about the mad money making screwjob that is Madden Ultimate Team……...



Two fan letters for Steve Austin……..

This week the undefeated Boise State Broncos (3-0) would travel to New Mexico to face the winless New Mexico State University Aggies (0-3)…….

As per usual…… Austin spent 1 day studying and the other 4 days training…. And put all new skill points into speed…… Speed is now maxed out at 99…… And any new points now will go into agility for the next week or two to make his jukes and spin moves even more dangerous……. Before focusing of acceleration…….


Lee Corso picking the Boise State Broncos to beat the New Mexico State Aggies……....


Steve Austins attributes…..

Steve Austin rolled into New Mexico State University on a very hot 82 Degrees Fahrenheit day with a chip on his shoulder…… What about??…. No one knows……. But he was merciless as he decimated the Aggies defense…….. 12 carries for 12 touchdowns and 684 yards…….

The maxed out speed has made Austin a monster of a running back who is near unstoppable once a hole is made by the O-line……. He is so quick that hes able to zip through the hole like the Road Runner before the D-line has a chance to close it……..

Austins first touch came part way through the 1st quarter after the Aggies won the toss and elected to receive the ball first……. After a short pass to the tight end was just short of a first down the ball was handed to Austin to finish the job……. Through the hole he went with the greatest of ease and spun out of a would be tackle by the safety to get the touch down…….

The Broncos defense also needs a lot of credit for the wins….. They have not allowed any points to be scored since the 1st round and are now the the #1 ranked defense in the country……. I can only control Steve Austin so the defense is doing this all on their own…….

With Austin able to score almost at will……. The opponents get stuck behind the 8- ball and start playing more and more hero ball as they fall further and further behind in the score….. And the Broncos defense is just eating them up……..

The broncos mascot almost died of dehydration thanks to Steve Austin……. The mascot had to much dancing and celebrating to do after every touchdown from Austin that it ended up being much for him and he was not seen in the 2nd half at all…….. Meaning the cheerleaders had to pick up the slack…...


The Boise State Broncos mascot dancing up a storm in the hot New Mexico sun…… Before being replaced by the Cheerleaders after half time…...




Boise State Cheerleaders



Boise State celebrate touchdowns by Steve Austin……


Steve Austins rushing stats again the Aggies…….


NCAA Offensive and Defensive Players Of The Week…….


Steve Austin still #1 on the Heisman watch list……


Campus Gazette issue 6…...

Next game Boise State will be at home against the Toledo Rockets…..


MotoGP 08 Stone Cold Spider Career


Round 3 at Circuito do Estoril…….

Its time for round 3 of the 2008 125cc World Championship in Portugal……..

After the short qualifying period I put the bike on pole again….. Only just……. The AI is much better in the wet……. They can carry much more mid corner speed than I can……..


On the grid waiting for the lights……

I actually got a good start and lead into the first turn before I lost the rear end slightly in the wet and had to slow down and recover before I fell of the bike…….. dropped me down to 3rd place……. I managed to get back into the lead by the end of the 1st lap and there I stayed…… I did not have any other problems I just stayed in the lead and have a very boring race……… I never had much of a lead thought as the AI is better in the wet……. But I managed to hold on and take the win by 1.52 seconds……

I hope there are not to many wet races in the championship……...

I extended my points lead in the championship to 19 points…...


First page of the race results for round 3……


First page of the Championship standings after round 3…..




Some nice images of the cool down lap………

Next week I am off to the Shanghai International Circuit in China for Round 4…..


Insector X


Yep…… Its just what you would expect from a game called “Insector X”

What a weird and wonderful game this is……. Play as a guy on a rocket/helicopter thing…….. And shoot bugs and other critters in this weird and wacky shoot ‘em up…… There are flies and bees and lady bugs and spiders and snails with rocket silos on their shells and mushrooms with rocket pods as well…….. Who ever designed this took a lot of drugs before hand…….. And the art team was on the same shit……. The whole game is like a fever dream……. Its right up there with J. J. Squawkers……... It plays just fine….. Nice and responsive and even the hitbox is very fair……. Well worth it for anyone who wants to play a shoot ‘em up but is sick of the space ship is outer space trope……..


Spider boss……

Well thats it from me…… Have a good week everyone……

Now for my bad joke of the week……
I just read the book “100 Things To Do Before You Die”……… I was very surprised that “Yell for help” was not one of them……..
*ba dum.... tssssh…...*