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An old game and a new TV
Apr. 7th, 2007 07:36 pmI sat next to a fantastic old Russian woman on the train home yesterday who watched rather enthusiastically over my shoulder while I played Grand Theft Auto. In truth I was rather embarrassed about doing anything illegal while she was watching and sort of pootled around the city aimlessly, trying to remember where the completely non-offensive delivery missions were. She actually laughed when I shunted a couple of emergency vehicles out the way, though. It was a bit weird in all honesty.
I made a throwaway remark about buying a new television to replace the one in the living room this week, and it's been taken rather more seriously than I thought at first. We now have the most gigantic cathode ray tube TV I've ever seen sitting on the living room table - it was a display model at Best Buy so we got it very cheap indeed for what it is ($190 if you take back the cost of the gift card that we got for buying it). Spending the equivalent of a hundred pounds doesn't seem like anything to me now, and ten years ago I was on 50p of pocket money a week. How things change.
As we have no transport of our own we took a taxi home, the driver being confident that leaving the boot half-open would be fine even though we could hear the boot lid thumping on top of it every time we went over a bump. And after finding out that it was just narrow enough to fit through doors but not narrow enough so that you don't scrape all the skin off your hands while trying, and a minor flattening of Whitney's head when we moved the old one out of the way, we got it set up. It's now sitting dominating the living room looking gigantic and silver and intimidating. It looks fantastic when I put Crystal Towers 2 on it, though.
I've also entered a Gameboy-styled game making competition on one of the Click community members' sites. So far I've discovered that four-colour graphics are just as difficult as full-colour ones and that I still can't think up a decent idea for a non-platformer game, but I'll keep you updated on just how badly it's going.
I made a throwaway remark about buying a new television to replace the one in the living room this week, and it's been taken rather more seriously than I thought at first. We now have the most gigantic cathode ray tube TV I've ever seen sitting on the living room table - it was a display model at Best Buy so we got it very cheap indeed for what it is ($190 if you take back the cost of the gift card that we got for buying it). Spending the equivalent of a hundred pounds doesn't seem like anything to me now, and ten years ago I was on 50p of pocket money a week. How things change.
As we have no transport of our own we took a taxi home, the driver being confident that leaving the boot half-open would be fine even though we could hear the boot lid thumping on top of it every time we went over a bump. And after finding out that it was just narrow enough to fit through doors but not narrow enough so that you don't scrape all the skin off your hands while trying, and a minor flattening of Whitney's head when we moved the old one out of the way, we got it set up. It's now sitting dominating the living room looking gigantic and silver and intimidating. It looks fantastic when I put Crystal Towers 2 on it, though.
I've also entered a Gameboy-styled game making competition on one of the Click community members' sites. So far I've discovered that four-colour graphics are just as difficult as full-colour ones and that I still can't think up a decent idea for a non-platformer game, but I'll keep you updated on just how badly it's going.
