On Saturday, before the Sharks killed the Bulls, I picked up my new (to me anyway) Kodak Brownie 8mm Movie Camera I bought on bidorbuy. Knowing our excellent postal system, I chose to collect it directly from the owner. So we started chatting about what he does, and then he showed me this:

The mother collection of old handheld games. Mario. Donkey Kong. It was insane. Plus they’re all worth quite a pretty penny now. Good times.

The owner, apart from auctioning and selling goods on bidorbuy, owns and runs Cool Things. Check it out.

I was at D’aves place last night showing him a soopa game called “Painkiller“. So I showed him the amazing graphics of the game and he ran around blowing undead things to ittie-little-bits. Painkiller has to be the most fun I’ve had since Quake 1. The lowest memory requirement for the game is 300 and something megs RAM and I’ve only got 256. The levels do thus take quite some time to load.

Now on to the network gaming… We played a bit of Quake 3, then switched to Serious Sam Demo. Quake 3 was alright but Serious Sam was the winner of the day (We couldn’t play painkiller on D’aves machine because of lack of space and his processor being a little short of a few gigahertz). We had a few other options (Starcraft, Quake 1, Blood 1 & 2 etc.) but time was running out. Anyway, the reason for this post is that I discovered just how much fun playing the “older” games can be. You don’t always need to have the latest and greatest hardware (but it helps) to get the most out of your box.

BTW: What happened to co-op play in games? None of the new games (maybe with a few exceptions of which I don’t know about) have this option under the multiplayer settings. C’mon, Painkiller would be 10 Gazilian (excuse the spelling if it’s wrong) times better if someone could join me in the fight against evil and not just your standard head-to-head multiplayer game.

Thanks to Bianca for the great foodies. Veggie food isn’t that bad after all

Found this on coda.co.za.

Very basic game, Mac and Windows compatible, that keeps you going for a while…

Yup, small things…