Memories
Have you ever thought of something…only to forget it? Or forget a good start to an article?
Gaming is just like that, one minute you remember that there are games and you need them, the next you’re sitting there waiting for it in shops or just plain forget about it.
Most games coming out will end up like this, now you can guess what this article is turning into, another “Why the hell is Australia so lazy with Video games” article, if you guss that then your right.
Going to a “local” (Well I was on holidays so I would call it local for that reason only”) BigW I look around on the launch day for Another Code: 2 Memories, only to find, there out of stock or haven’t got it in, wait it was that they haven’t got it in.
Reluctantly trying another store chain, I go to Target only to find the same thing, I then look at EB, BigW and a few other shops only to find that they haven’t gotten the delivery yet.
The next day I didn’t have time to check out any shops, nor the next because I was going to Sydney. When I got to Sydney I recently felt the evil gas and pollution smells coming to a conclusion of “How do people live there?”. Then I went to the new Westfield shopping center that opened up at Bondi junction. There was an EB there, as you can guess the game was there, only one copy, but it was $70 like all EB DS games. I look at the box and get a shock at the ratting M+15. At the moment that is the highest you can give a game, but soon the new ratting system will come into play. Anyway why M+15? If you read my article about it you would see that the people who ratted that game were pansies and didn’t like the story and fought it was to horrifying for the game to be G or G+8, so they gave it M+15. Now look at Europe they have 7+ playing the game, why can’t we do the same.
Asking my dad if he can buy it he adamantly asked the price, when I told him $70 he said lets go and then we went into this weird shop which sold kiddy things like those mad ball objects which have “hairs” on them.
It was all fine then. I could live with dad not buying it then, but when I got back to the city I was staying it I found out the cries was worse then before. Yep not in stock, and it was about 4 days after the launch. Talking to the lady at the counter who knew nothing about video games (she did say that to me to ^. ^) she basically took along time just to look through a big folder then she said “There’s nothing in here about Video games only CDs and DVDs”.
Then it got worse, coming home after 1 day I decided to check out BigW as it was the only shop open at the time, to find, nothing in stock. I relied then that “Nintendo should get off there @$$ and publish more games of good titles”. I checked to see if it did came out, and so it did (I didn’t have any internet access while I was on holidays).
I then checked some online shops looking around I sore the following in bold on a lot of sites. “Out of Stock”, “Shipment coming soon”, “Back Order”, “We are a uninteresting shop which doesn’t have the game you want (not really)”, so then I decided to look at more only finding the same 3 lists, some didn’t have anything but hinted that it was “Out of Stock/Shipment coming soon/Back Order..ect.”
I added it to my wish list on DVD crave, and also got some updates about the game in there newsletter. So hopefully I will get something soon, because I’m board of waiting for such a master piece of quality from Cing/Nintendo.
My last hope is to check out EB games on the weekend (they recently opened in my small country town lol) to see if they have it, hopefully they will and I can stop waiting, for a game which wont come due to Nintendo’s bad decisions to ship less titles of the games, which delays in shipments ect. Have been happing a lot recently.
Articles - By Trent Petronaitis at 1:59 am
Food for the gamer
Let’s face it, most gamers like to eat food, while playing a game, or before, here are some food ideas depending on what you’re doing also a few trinest food recipes.
Chatting on the computer is what almost everyone dose, well what should you been consuming then? Well an old fashion glass of milk will do the trick any day, also a pie or hamburger.
Playing a computer game, shooting or online RPG? Well don’t stand there hungry go to your fridge and get some ice-cream.
About to log of your computer? Want to eat something before you go? Well don’t get angry, because your kitchen has food which you can eat, pull out your bread and toast it, put something like Jam or another spread like that and then go back to your computer and eat it.
Playing a DS or PSP or another handheld item? Well you need to eat sometime, pull out some chips or a milkshake.
Now time for some of Trinest’s secret food recipes
Honey, cheese and Strawberry Jam sandwich
You can have it toasted or you can have it as a sandwich, put butter on it, then honey on one pecice of bread, flowed by Jam on the other then cheese on one, and then put both slices of bread together.
Hot chicken pie
Its not that hot, but it’s hotter for the more chicken salt you put on the pie, put some sauce on it, and just use any pie.
Articles - By Trent Petronaitis at 1:58 am
Has the DS done what Nintendo wants it to do?
The 20th of January was known for 1 thing, it was when Nintendo reveled the DS idea to the public on there official site, this is what they said:
“Mystery” Product to Launch Later This Year
REDMOND, Wash., Jan 20, 2004
An unprecedented approach to video game play– holding two separate game screens in the palm of your hand– hits the scene later this year when Nintendo introduces a new portable game system, code-named Nintendo DS.
From information made available today, players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in a soccer game, users can view the whole game on one screen while simultaneously focusing on an individual soccer player’s tackle or goal on the other screen.
Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character’s ongoing battle and a map of the environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other. Today’s announcement is but a glimpse of the additional features and benefits that will be shown in full at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in May. Once fully revealed, players will see innovative advances in game interaction.
“We have developed Nintendo DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for the 21st century,” explains Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president.
Nintendo DS features two separate 3-inch TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It’s scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004. In addition to Nintendo-developed software, the company is in discussions with third-party game developers around the world.
Nintendo DS will be marketed separately from the company’s existing Nintendo Game Boy Advance portable system and Nintendo GameCube home console.
The question is, has Nintendo’s first idea actually happened? In some ways yes.
Nintendo has said “..Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective…” which is good, the DS has done that, but if you look at most of the new Nintendo DS games, the touch screen has become the action, and the top screen a map or status screen.
Nintendo also said “players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives”, so far no games, show 2 different perspectives, at the moment if I want that, I have to put down my DS stop playing and watch TV. Basically no developer so far has truly made 2 different perspectives on the Nintendo DS to date.
One major broken promise was “. It’s scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004.” This didn’t happen, the DS was launched in America on thanks giving, then Japan latter on in December, the Nintendo DS didn’t launch in other regions for that time period Nintendo said will be worldwide, but the DS did launch in Q1 and almost early Q2 of 2005 in Australia the UK and a few other regions.
Nintendo also metioned it to be marketed separately from the GBA, in some ways it is, in some ways now with what most fans expect of an expansion packs marked on GBA carts to be played with Nintendo DS games.
