The anatomy of a Shoot Em Up game!

I have written a short article explaining the anatomy of a typical Shoot Em Up game on my website erkan.se

Check it out at:

http://www.erkan.se/anatomy-of-a-shoot-em-up-game.asp

White Japanese Sega Saturn

I was told that this white Saturn that I bought had some problems reading CD’s so the price was low, I had to have it. I thought about swapping the internals out for standard PAL hardware but when I tried it at home it worked fine. There was a surprise inside it to since it had a rare 20-pin mod chip installed. 15 minutes after I got it I was playing “Night Striker” and “Parodius forever” with me. Just to let everyone know, the Saturn is the closest thing to having an arcade at your home without a big and bulky cabinet.

English Russia

I have been following interesting links on the net that end up on the blog “English Russia” for some time now. Take a look it’s a fun blog about Russian things.

I especially like the technology section.

English Russia

White Saturn Wireless Joypad

I got this wireless Saturn controller yesterday. They where only released in Japan so they can be considered rare if you live in Europe like me. There where a lot of different Saturn controllers released but Sega’s original joypad released in Japan is considered the best digital joypad of all the time. So I was excited to know that there was a wireless version of that joypad released but I did not know if I would find one because they are hard to find. I would like to have a second wireless joypad so email me if you have one for sale.

Tomorrow I will get my Japanese white Saturn that I am either going to convert to a PAL Saturn by swapping out the main board with a PAL main board. Of course I am going to install a mod chip and a country cartridge to be able to play Japanese Shoot em Ups and Beat em Ups!

Half-Life: Opposing Force - best FPS game ewar omfg

I finished Half-Life: Opposing Force today and was impressed by how good it was. I think it is definitely better than Half-Life since most of the action is in the Black Mesa underground bunker. Some of the levels where quite good and showed evidence of clever level designers.

I think it was the perfect mix of an action and puzzle game.

Since Opposing Force is about 6 years old some of the graphics do not hold up to today’s games. Most textures washes out when near them and so on, but overall it is still an enjoyable game and the sound effects make up for the old graphics. I should probably go play Half-Life: Blue Shift now!