Be Excellent To Each Other

Hello!

Thought you lot might be interested: Stu's first monthly column is up on my site now.

http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/10/29/s ... -label-ds/

There should be a new one at the end of every month from now on. Enjoy!

Interesting... still, I suppose if one wants shmups one could always get a GB emulator and run any of the ones that were available on that system (Solar Striker and Gradius: Interstellar Assault are the two I still own)

I'm not an expert on bullet hell shmups, so I'll take his word for it. I hope his next column is something I'm a bit more interested in.

That doesn't look all that hellish to me. Giga Wing on the DS would be quite something though.

I have no idea what a "hellish shoot em up" is.

I'll tell you, for £2.

I love Mushihimesama Futari ^^

That makes no sense to me at all, it's just a sea of purple and some japanese woman shouting.

It does make sense to you, then.

I mean, that's it?

Yeah, it's all about memorising bullet patterns and dodging them.

So basically Rick Dangerous.

Galaga Legions is a bit of the same... not many bullets so much as swarms of enemies and those hateful spinning pink and red things that are impossible to avoid, but yes - every time I play I get a bit further as I remember where to be for each wave.

Galaga Legions! I knew there was a game that I'd forgotten about. I love that game.

Oh, err. OK.

So it's like Simon, then?

Not played GL (or GW2) for ages now.

Me either. I need to go back to them with a vengeance, though.

I'm struggling for game time at the moment. When I get my 1 or 2 hours in late at night I play either Oblivion or Dead Space rather than my Arcade stuff. I used to sometimes play with Bezzies. But now they want to stay up late and play anymore.

Tonight then - CoD4? I'll stay up late especially.

I have a hankering to play Halo 3 again, if anyone wants to lend me their dusty copy... Dudley?

Your 'writers' bit is broken.
And you never got back to me about the advertising

Yeah ok. I'll see if I can book the AV room for around 10.30ish.

It sounds like I'm doing it out of the goodness of my heart, but I'm not at work until 10 tomorrow anyway.

T'other half is at the pub tonight, so I'll play some CoD4 later on, after getting some Dead Space time in.

CAN I COD AS I HAS LIVE CODE WOOPDAWOOPWOOP

YES YOU CANZ.

So er yeah, Bullet Hell shmups then eh?

Bullet Hell schmups do not appear to be 'me'.

What was that really stupid one called that Stu had on his site at one point?

The announcement about subscriptions?

I'll be on tonight, barring any 'problems'.

I too should be on ce soir.

I for one welcome Mr Chris' old sinister username and avatar overlord.

That "Crazy Game 99" one? That was awesomes.

I'll lend you my copy of Halo 3 if you want, I've owned it for about a year and played it once.

Yes, well. It appears that due to someone uncovering some, ahem, "donations" that I made to one of the mods, the legitimacy of my elevation to Lordhood had been brought into question. In order to maintain the reputation of the Moderatory, and my own good name, I chose to return the ermine gown and avoid any consequent controversy.

The last has not been heard of this, however.

NEVER.

Haha, you fucked Grim... and then got spurned.

That was the one, and PM sent.

Everyone that fucks Grim... is spurned eventually (some as late as lunchtime the next day!).

You're welcome to a lend if you want it, I don't even have a 360 right now.

Intend to fix that at lunch though.

Twat.

Haha, yeah. I was wondering if anyone would remember that.
Not sure what Mali is on about, though.

Gaywood loves you soooo much he remembers everything you've ever posted.

I'm not, either.

Haha, invasion of Syria time!

These aren't the ragheads you're looking for, sir.

My work here is done. See if you can spot it.

*dusts himself off*

"The point is that Towel Head and Camel Jockey are perfectly good substitutes. "

Games like DoDonPachi, Esp.Ra.De and Pro-Gear are by far my favorite type of schmups. And i find them much more accessible and less dependant on trial and error than the likes of R-type where you have enemies dashing and you and coming from all sides.

I like you.

As do I (though I haven't been lucky enough to play pro-gear)

Yeay on new Stu material! Awesomesauce.

Yes, sorry man. We're still interested in the advertising - I'll speak to my boss when he's back on Friday (it's nothing to do with my website, though).

Also, the "Writers" bit is just a category that you're not really supposed to click on because everything that is posted by me or any other writers will wind up in there. The individual writers section still works!