I Know, I know... and NES!!!!

YES ITS BEEN A WHILE!!!

Well alot has happened as you can guess since what?... JULY! But I wont go into great detail and just talk about the past month...

I'm back at Uni now for my third and final year in Animation and starting to work on my third year project, which is a three minute animation based on my own idea (see 'The Metahumans Blog on the side of this blog!). Its finally starting to kick in... I feel the work aproaching!

Anyway in terms of social life I have now been living at Pottergate in Norwich for about 3 months and I am loving this house. For a student house it's amazing, I'll post some photos up some time. Also I am living with a very easy to live with bunch of chaps. However living with another Ben can be quite confusing heh heh. I am also the one who brought shit loads of stuff! I mean I have brought with me 10 consoles! (Megadrive+MegaCd, Dreamcast, Wii, PS3, Gameboy, GB Advance, GB Mini, DSi and PSP!) 11 if you include the purchase I made last month!

I finally bought a NES! Nintendo's console that dominated the 80's! I got it off eBay for an amazing price as I got with the NES console; 2 Controllers, Zapper Gun, Arcade Stick, 2 Boxed games (Gyromite, Duck Hunt) and 14 games not boxed! But the best thing of them all (to any Nintendo fan anyways) is R.O.B the Robot Operating Buddy! This toy robot that worked with the NES console is quite rare to get hold of sometimes sold over £100 alone! I payed for all this for £159!!!! And now after geting hold of this and playing on it with my Nintendo fan boy friends, I have really got into the console and getting hold of my fave NES games...

The other Ben and I tested the 16 games that came with it when I got it to our house from my parents and there certainly was some gems; Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Metroid, Rad Racer, Duck Hunt, Gyromite and Teenage Mutant hero turtles. But there certainly was some stinkers. The most memorable would be the games Sword and Serpants which was JUST AWFUL and so hard to actually see what the hell was bloody going! Basically Ben and I played as a party of heros you named and played in a dungeon fighting of pixelated piles of vomit called monsters in a shoddy first person view. We honestly couldnt get the controls! Another is Karate champ... not much to say except stay away! Unless you up for a good laugh at how shit some games can be... thats all I can say really. The others were so awful I've basically forgotten them lol



But that didnt put me off the NES as I sold the 9 games for enough money to buy a boxed Metal Gear on the NES I have also now got hold of Punch-Out!, Super Mario Bros 2, Golf, Operation Wolf, Tetris and a golden Zelda 2! And there is still more to get! But I'm pacing myself lol. To be honest I wouldnt be suprised if my girlfriend dumped me... although she now LOVES Duck Hunt... so SAAAFE! Oh and just let me say if it wasnt for R.O.B being rare-ish there would be no point to buying it. It's basically useless. But I love it lol.
Anyway before I go let me just mention Comic and film related stuff. I may have mentioned the Manga; Pluto by Naoki Urasawa.
Very very good I am now finally on the final volume and it has been quite a ride! The books are based on Osama Tezuka's Astroboy story about his fight with the evil robot; Pluto except its more of a realistic and mature aproach. I have to say the best Manga I have ever read in terms of story and art! I highly recomend it! I have also seen what I believe to be one of the greatest films ever; SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD!!! Its the TITS!! It's like my perfect film, so much videogame refrencing! Its exciting, funny, interesting and just over all awesome! Go see it!!! I am now on volume 4 of the books and although they're good they are not as good as the film but to be honest the whole Scott Pilgrim thing is awesome and I am now a HUGE fan.... so should YOU!

Anyway til next time, AND CHECK OUT MY PROJECT BLOG!