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Well apart from all the usual dull stuff that most 24 year old scottish guys do I'm going to be starting uni in sepetember, I'm going to abertay in dundee to study computer game technology. I just really hope it will be more useful than my physics degree.

Oh and I'm a bit of a liberal socialist nutjob which means I find more things offensive than Christians do but I can turn the other cheek... most of the time. If you ever see me calling anyone a neo-fascist bastard I'm probably just having a bad day.

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Final Fantasy 3 (or 6)
Mariokart Wii



Console History

Commodore 64
NES
Gameboy
SNES
N64
Dreamcast
Gamecube
DS
Wii

My top 5 list are not with the benefit of hindsight and not roms
they are just from what I remember playing at the time. Yes I
wasn't exactly wealthy as a child, or now actually. I'd just rather do this than have the same top 5s as everyone else.


My top 5 commodore 64 games

5)Fantasy World Dizzy
4)Paperboy
3)BMX simulator
2)Bombjack
1)Ghostbusters

My top 5 NES games (the only 5 games I owned as a child)

5) Castelian
4) Teenage mutant ninja turtles
3) Totally Rad
2) Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
1) Super Mario Bros. 3

My top 5 Gameboy games

5) tetris
4) kirbys's pinball land
3) Pokemon Red
2) Sensible Soccer
1) Super Mario land

My top 5 SNES games

5) Mortal Kombat
4) Wing Commander
3) Unirally
2) Super Probotector
1) Tiny toons buster busts loose!

My top 5 N64 games (Bought this with my own paper round money and all the games)

5) 1080
4) Goldeneye
3) Perfect dark
2) Zelda ocarina of time
1) Mario 64

My top 5 Dreamcast games (bought right at the death cause it was cheap)

5) Virtua Tennis
4) Metropolis Street Racer
3) Phantasy star online
2) Shenmue
1) Shenmue 2

My top 5 Gamecube games (now it's getting hard, off to uni and sharing a console so I played everything)

5) Animal Crossing
4) Skies of Arcadia legends
3) Tales of Symphonia
2) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
1) Resident evil 4

My top 5 DS games (left uni now and back to being broke)

5) Final fantasy 3
4) Pokemon pearl
3) Sonic Rush Adventure
2) The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
1) Elite Beat agents

My top 5 Wii games (well there ain't that much choice, yet)

5) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
4) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
3) Super mario galaxy
2) Mario kart wii
1) No more heroes
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Codemasters get CBEs?!?
niacin | 8:14 PM on 06.14.2008 9 comments


Random news story of the day for me was seeing David and Richard Darling, the founders of codemasters in the queens birthday list getting CBEs. BBC link

Now personally i would of told the queen to fuck off but I suppose it's still nice for the Darling brothers to finally get some recognition. Well Dizzy was awesome.



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wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2008 20:42
wardrox
Good on them. they started codies in their bedroom in 85, and now look at it :) (even though they both resigned last year)
David Houghton 's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2008 21:16
David Houghton
Fucking excellent. It was Codies games on the spectrum that got me into gaming in the first place, and they're one of the few big British success stories left in the curren gen. God bless that egg.
Rogue Trooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2008 22:00
Rogue Trooper
Holy shit it's true, David is still around!
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2008 23:55
Brian Szabelski
Codemasters does make good games. The Race Driver series is on the same level as Forza or Gran Turismo, and DiRT was a pretty damn good racing game.

From this racing genre fan, they deserve it for that alone.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2008 07:09
Batthink
Yay for them. I spotted the news yesterday, congrats on the honours. :O)
Anus Mcphanus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2008 09:10
Anus Mcphanus
Good on them it's well deserved and even though they resigned heres to lots more great games from codemasters! and hopefully some of them won't be racing games
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2008 14:19
Rifter01
Woot.. I also remember Mastertronic (sp?).. Thanks for posting this !
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