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Now here
is a tool if ever I've seen one. I first saw WIPEOUT at a
mates house just after the PSX was released. Getting one was a priority
and in December '95 I plucked up the £300 to go and buy one. Of course,
I had to get a game with it so I forked out another £44 for RIDGE
RACER. Cool!!! Little did I know that if I had waited a little longer
the price would plummet! Not Cool!!! |
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home and switched it on, my God it could kick out some good stuff. Ridge
lasted for ages and I bought a couple of games afterwards too. Among
them were WORMS, DIE HARD TRILOGY a few more. |
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HARD TRILOGY was fantastic with three games in one. I completed
the first and second levels easy but I never did finish the car chase level. |
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this sort of time I started noticing that I became ill when playing certain
types of games. It finally killed me when I hired DOOM from
Blockbuster and played on it for a night. I was ill for three days after,
feeling unsteady, unbalanced and generally unwell. Then F1
did the same, Alien Trilogy, Wipeout 2097 and loads more games
with first person perspective views. I managed to complete Metal Gear Solid
quite quickly and I didn't get ill from that. That could have been a much
better game if they had dropped loads of FMV story and got on with a game. |
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The only
games I can really play these days are FIFA and things like Resident
Evil and Resident Evil 2. These two games were
absolutely brilliant and I completed RE2 in 13 hours, playing for
a little while every night. |
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now on Resident Evil 1 and I don't seem to be able to get
much further. I'm just about to drop through the hole and I keep getting
stuffed by the snake. |
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Hawkes Skateboarding was a pleasant surprise when I played that.
I didn't really like the idea but the game was really addictive and I only
put it down when it made me bad.Again!! |
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UPDATE: If
I turn my PSX over and on an angle of about 30° I can get it working
well. Please don't mail me to tell me why this works, because I know.
Over the last few years I have had to fix it a couple of times, due to
the laser unit wearing. This is a common problem in the SCPH-1002 which
I have got and just involves a feeler-gauge slice of metal glued to the
carriage. Also you have to tune the Bias and Forward Gain in on two farty
potentiometers in the PSX itself. Each time I have done this it has worked,
but I fear the laser unit is just aged and beyond help. I'm not spending
£40 on a new unit either.
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Playstation
2. I still haven't bought one yet!! Yippee.
I'm waiting for
them to drop to £70. |
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| OH NO!
My 1002 PSX gave up the ghost and now I've had to buy another. Still, at
£80 it's a snip. Now I've also got a dual shock pad to scare the living
crap out of my nephew with. (He came round a while back and had a go on
ACE COMBAT 3 and when he stuffed the MIG into the dirt, the
controller shook. Whoops, I've never seen a two year old move so fast. |
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Well
I've finished RE3: Nemesis and
I must say that it is an excellent game. Maybe a little to easy though.
The only problem I have when playing it is that I have to do it in bits
and bobs. Thats why I had to make 29 saves throughout the 8hrs and 12
minutes of playing. I got a grade F too. I'm a little disappointed but
I will play The Mercanaries now and build up enough cash to buy some guns.
Then I'll be able to take those infested mothers out straight away. If
I was to review this game I would say that graphically it is superb, soundtrack
and noises are spooky and tension building and the enemies are all cleverly
done. But I have to say it was along the lines of Metal Gear Solid a little.
When the route seems so defined, unlike RE1 when you had to double back
on yourself all the time to go and pick things up.
I did like the end
of Nemesis though and tried to get the big rail cannon working by stuffing
the batteries in it, it worked and virtually took out the purple veined
monster on it's own.
I don't use the
PSX any more, maybe once in a blue moon for FIFA 2002 but it stays out
of the way now.
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Updated 25th April 2000 |
