Two minor achievements to report!

Firstly, I’ve answered my own request for a Gradius V playthrough video and uncovered a heap of speed run sites to raid. The Gradius playthrough video can be found on the first site listed below. You’ll also find Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun playthroughs too!

http://benjamin.bouloch.free.fr/ben-shinobi.htm

http://www.ikaruga.co.uk/files/

http://speeddemosarchive.com/

http://www.archive.org/details/gamevideos

http://home.comcast.net/~arcthelad/movies.html

http://www.vortiginous.com/

Second achievement and one earning me some seriously hardcore bragging rights: I’ll be playing Shadow of the Colossus in the next 24 hours. This won’t mean much to some people but I’m expecting my OPM October coverdisk to be with me shortly and it features a playable demo of this highly anticpated game.

Go me!

Sometimes my timing can be a bit off. I recently chucked Final Fantasy Tactics Advance back onto my GBA and started afresh. It’s an awesome game with some of the highest production values that you could possibly throw at the little machine.

However, this week (today in fact) is the release day for Rebelstar Tactical Command. Huh? What? Well, it’s UFO: Enemy Unknown Advance by any other name.

UFO is a legend of gaming that, truthfully, has aged rather badly, but was one of the most engrossing and enjoyable games I ever played back in the days of MS DOS. My life doesn’t have time for FFTA and this and I know which one’s going to get the boot by the end of the week.

I’m expecting great things of this. Gollop, don’t let me down!