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Do we still skip Mondays when there's a bank holiday? That seems less important now that there's only an average of 2.3 of us doing this every
week.

Play:
--=--

Shamus (GBC) - Oh hey, that's a great price on a Gameboy Colour game...
that I already own and have never played. I should play that! I have a
random pile of Telegames properties lying around in boxes that I've
probably plugged in once to try and have never gotten back to, and
reading about this over the weekend I realised I didn't know it was
inspired in part by the arcade game Berzerk. It's a clever shooter,
something of a proto-Gauntlet in terms of making you explore and look
for keys to go with doors. It's also unforgiving in that traditional and familiar 8-bit way, in that if they made this game today you'd get a
pause menu with a map and an inventory list instead of being made to
remember all that yourself because they didn't have the memory or the
screen real estate to show you back in the 1980s. This is definitely
going into more regular rotation for me.

Monster Hunter 3rd Portal HD Version (PS3) - It's a remaster of a PSP
game, with slightly better controls and the ability to still play local multiplayer with any PSP users who happen to be near your house and your
wifi connection. Is this an option to install all the DLC straight from
the disc without having to download anything? Why yes it is. I'm doing something absurd, in that I have m phone pointed straight at the screen
with Google Translate running in real time so I can painstakingly make
my way through all of the dialogue and menu prompts. It is an offensive
crime that they didn't localise either this new version or the original
PSP release for western markets.

Want:
--=--

All the Atelier games (PS2/PS3) - I think I own seven of them presently?
The three Iris games on PS2 and then the Arland trilogy on PS3, with
another random one I don't quite remember. The exchange rate is terrible
for Canada right now, so I've put in an order with VideoGamesPlus to
leverage some advantageous pricing. These will look lovely on the shelf
next to the others so that I can never make time to play them.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

Expenditure:
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Balance forward - $1,246

Atelier Rorona Plus (PS3) - $25
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (PS4) - $15
Atelier Escha and Logy (PS3) - $25
Atelier Shallie (PS3) - $25
Dragon's Lair Trilogy (Wii) - $50

Total to date - $1,386

-KKC, who needs a nap.
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From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Do we still skip Mondays when there's a bank holiday? That seems less important now that there's only an average of 2.3 of us doing this every week.

Perhaps we should adopt a pseudo-Gregorian PWB, adding an extra day
for every bank holiday except the 100th, but not the 400th.

Play:

Outrun 2006 (PC) - more of this, and although I suppose the graphics
do inevitably still seem a little basic by modern standards, it's
seriously smooth compared to the PSP version. Well, y'know, until it
seizes up at least.

Want:

To try more PC games on my fairly slow and not-very-games-friendly PC.
I'm quite tempted to try Grand Theft Auto 5 at some point, if only to
laugh at how badly it runs...

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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