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GoatUp

September 16, 2011

This week has been depressing for various reasons. At a time when I probably need them most, the last thing I can succumb to are distractions.

And yet a bright spot has been the new Jeff Minter iOS game, called GoatUp. Here’s a screenshot:

Gameplay is tough to describe… An infinite climbing platform game with a high level of challenge and yet an equally high level of “just one more time”. My highest score is 680,000 so far.

At $2 it’s a no brainer if you like arcade games. Another winner from Llamasoft 🙂

Well it seems the 3DS just beat the Vita in the next handheld war even before the Vita was released. In the last week two new Monster Hunter games have been announced for the 3DS. These two games alone guarantee mega sales in Japan, and a boatload of very excited fans in the rest of the world.

Here’s the trailer for Monster Hunter Tri-G

And here’s the ‘concept trailer’ for the next numbered entry in the series, Monster Hunter 4

Both are loading very slow right now. I recommend reducing the quality to 240 if they stagger.

MH Tri-G is released in Japan this year! No news yet on (what I consider) an inevitable US released.

Here’s a shot of how the game looks running on 3DS:

Diehards like myself will undoubtedly get excited by such trivialities as the persistent map on the lower screen 🙂

Look What I Found!

September 10, 2011

This particular blog has been going now for over five years, all the way back to July 2006.

However it was preceded by another blog, which is still lurking online.

Check it out here!

Yep, that’s the blog I kept during out third Japan trip, back in 2006. It looks like we had a lot of fun.

And, for no reason other than it made me smile…

Check out something crazy I did 4 years ago 🙂

It’s rare I re-read any of my blog entries (951 and counting!). Maybe I should start digging through them. Who knows, it may make for a good blog entry 😉