Gamefly

Sorry that I have not been updating my site lately. I have been busy with school, work, and my girlfriend. I did not have any time to go and update this page. Well, now I will go and start updating my page daily with video game-related content. Everything related to video games.

Well, now let's get to the video games part!

Just recently I subscribed to Gamefly because the cost of obtaining games have went up and movie and game rental places like Blockbuster closed down all of their stores. I believe they have gone digital and postal like Netflix. When signing up for the first time, you could get a 30 day free trial and then have a payment of $8 for two months. After the two months are over, you pay a slightly higher price. I fell in love with the service; you could choose your plan on how many games you could rent at once. Although the service seems to make getting games a lot easier it also has some negative sides to it.

From doing a bit of online research for a bit, I found out that people had problems getting the games that they wanted. Gamefly has something called a GameQ; the GameQ is a list of games you want to rent. Games at the top being the most wanted game to be rented and the bottom being the lowest. Beside the games you put in your GameQ is the status on how available they are. The statuses go by percentages of being mailed out. This made it kind of troublesome to get some of the games that you want-especially some that just recently got released. Another problem with Gamefly is the waiting time for some of the games to be mailed to you.

 Gamefly has some distribution centers all over the country. Depending on how close you are to one of them determines which distribution center mails out the game to you. Well, there are some people who are unlucky and have to wait a long time to receive their games. I believe there was a few people that waited nearly a week and a half to two weeks. Thank goodness I was not unfortunate, I had my game mailed to me in like two days. This was because I live in Miami, Florida and the distribution center is in Tampa. Well, other than those two things I mentioned, Gamefly is a better, cheaper alternative to buying video games and I recommend it to anyone.

Since I am feeling kind of generous, I am going to give out a code that is used to getting the 30 day free trial. The keyword is SWEET.

Hope everyone enjoys this little post that I did. It is good to be back. :)

Siren Blood Curse

I just wanted to talk about one of my favorite games of all time, Siren Blood Curse. You can only play it by downloading it off of the Playstation Network in the United States, but in Japan in Europe you could buy it in hard copy. It is a survival/stealth genre, so just imagine combining two games together: Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid together and you will have this game. This game isn't for the faint of heart; there are lots of moments in this game that are very graphic and disturbing. Pretty much this game is about a group of people who go to this abandoned village in Japan for some kind of television show about the supernatural. Well, they come across these people doing some kind of ritual where they sacrifice someone to a deity. Well, someone interferes with the ritual, causing the villagers to get angry. Afterwards, it begins to rain blood and a loud siren fills the air, giving the characters the ability to sight jack, which allows them to look through the eyes of their enemies. This adds to the tension and fear this game brings out. Throughout the game, you fight these enemies called the Shibito, which are pretty much undead people. No matter how many times you kill them they will always come back. They have a variety of different forms. Well, this is my mediocre way of showing off one of my favorite games. I would recommend this game for anyone who has lots of patience and/or a fan of the Silent Hill/Resident Evil games.

Hidden Game Gems Satellaview

The Satellaview was an add-on for Nintendo's Super Famicom game console that allowed people to download games through satellite broadcast. In order for people to do that, they would have to subscribe to the radio broadcasts of St. GIGA, a broadcasting station that sends out in-game voice acting and game hints. The unit came out in 1995, costing around 14,000 yen. Games could only be played at certain times, but there were some games that could be downloaded to the BS-X cassette, which was a memory cartridge for the system

Since the Satellaview was an expansion for the Super Famicom, it needed to be attached to it somehow. The Satellaview can be snapped to the back of the expansion port that is located underneath the console. It made the console very bulky once attached to it. The add-on comes with the following: a power transfer bracket used to transferring power from the Super Famicom to the Satellaview, a unique Satellaview AV selector and 512kb BS-X cassette that is used for holding games.

Every time around 4-7 PM, there is an update that can be sent via satellite broadcast. These things in the update could be add-ons to maps of games, quizzes, games, and advertisements. The daily quizzes could give away prizes such as phone cards and memory packs for the Satellaview. Some games could only be there for a limited amount of time-like for a couple of days. If you are lucky, you would be able to download one onto the memory cartridge. Some of the games would be sent out in parts, updating throughout each broadcast.

Some notable games for the Satellaview are:

• BS Fire Emblem Akaneia Senki
• BS Mario USA
• BS Zelda no Densetsu
• BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban
• BS F-Zero 2 Grand Prix 
• Mario Excite Bike
• Radical Dreamers: Nosumenai Hoseki
• Wario's Woods

Hidden game gems Nintendo 64 DD

The Nintendo 64DD (64DD Roku Yon Dī Dī^?) ("DD" being short for "Disk Drive", and originally "Dynamic Drive") is a peripheral for the Nintendo 64 game console. It plugged into the N64 through the EXTension Port on the Nintendo 64's underside, and allowed the N64 to use proprietary 64 MB magneto-optical discs for expanded data storage. Although it had been announced before the launch of the N64, the 64DD's development was lengthy. It was eventually released in Japan when the console was in its twilight years. Scheduled for North American release in 2000, it was a commercial failure, and was never released outside of Japan.

The 64DD was announced at 1995's Nintendo Shoshinkai game show event (now called Nintendo World). One of the games that was featured for use with the 64DD was Creator, a music and animation program by Software Creations, the same people that made Sound Tool for the Nintendo Ultra 64 development kit. The game advertised that it could be implemented into other games, being able to replace textures and possibly create new levels and characters. However, there was no playable version of Creator available at Shoshinkai 1995. At E3 in 1997, Nintendo's main game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, speculated that the first games to be released for the new system would be SimCity 64, Mario Artist, Pocket Monsters, and EarthBound 64.

However, the 64DD was delayed until its release in Japan on December 1, 1999. Nintendo, anticipating that its long planned-out disc drive peripheral would become acommercial failure, sold the system mainly through a subscription service called RANDnet and customers would continue to receive games through the mail as well. Only very limited quantities of the 64DD were made available through stores. As a result, the 64DD was only supported by Nintendo for a short period of time and only nine games were released for it. Most 64DD games were either cancelled entirely, released as normal Nintendo 64 games, or ported to the GameCube.

Angry Video Game Nerd

This has to be one of my favorite episodes from the Angry Video Game Nerd. I loved how it talked about one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite games at the same time. Also, how he explains about some creepy occult references that reside in the game. Another thing it talks about is how the movie The Wizard was only meant for a game advertisement for Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. I found that pretty interesting. Anyways, enjoy!

Techno Joey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8bLv8ADVA


I remember making this a couple of years ago. I was high with my best friend. We found my dad's old webcam and decided to make a random video out of it. It's so freaking embarrassing. My friend took the video and showed it to everyone at school...I was known as that faggot who loves to dance to techno music. I was made fun of a lot. If I would, I would go through time and stop myself from making this stupid video. In a matter of fact, I would stop myself from doing a lot of these stupid videos. I don't know what possessed me to make these videos..

People these days

Man, how the world has changed.. It's like everyone these days only care about one thing and one thing only: money. You see all of these pyramid schemes, false get rich quick schemes, and scams all across the Internet. I guess everyone makes those so they could earn a quick buck. I don't know why. I guess the reason why people make those is because they really need the money. Perhaps they need the money to pay their bills, get medication, feed their children, etc. I think money is the root of all evil; it is what drives everyone crazy to do stupid things like murder, theft, and drug dealing. It's what drives families apart pretty much. We need money for food, to have a roof over our heads, to pretty much live. I hate that a lot. I really do..