Well by tomorrow anyway. Last week I decided I didn’t really care if I finished the game so I put it up for sale on half.com. I picked it up for rediculously cheap clearance so I’m making a small profit, but mostly it’s just not too thriilling. So if I get to finish it by tomorrow when I have to mail out the order fine and if not, that’s fine too.
Jun 272005
Jun 182005
After finishing Sphinx I decided I needed to open another still sealed game that I picked up at extreme bargain prices and Wario World was it.
I’ve never played Wario game before so I don’t know what it’s about but in this case it’s like a 2D side scroller where you beat things up and collect coins (taken to extreme levels) but rendered in 3D. And there is some depth to what’s going on since 3D gives you more flexibility even in a 2D style side-scrolling game.
The controls are a bit touchy but end up being ok once you get used to them. It seems like this will be a short game but I think I wouldn’t want this to be too long.
Jun 182005
This morning I finished “Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy.” I enjoyed it all the way to the end and I with they would make a sequel. I doubt a sequel will ever be made because I think they released it during the holiday rush and it got buried under all the big name games and hence didn’t sell well.
If you haven’t played this game, you should!
Last save point time: 18 hours 15 minutes. Add something like 15 minutes for the final bit for about 18.5 hours of game time. It probably would be 20 on the original save since I didn’t know what I was doing int he beginning on the first save.
Jun 162005
So after defeating the Geb Queen I was given more curse stones and went back to playing the Mummy. After I came back to controlling Sphinx I didn’t bother to save right then because I didn’t expect another boss fight within 30 minutes of the last one. So I had to do the mummy part and the boss fight again.
The first boss fight was probably about 12 hours in, the second was probably 3 after that. I’ve now completed a really complicated mummy section (enough that they gave you a save in the middle while still being the mummy) and it looks like I’m about to do something big but I resisted temptation and decided it was time to go to sleep.
Jun 022005
The other day I was feeling like getting a Games Magazine, so I did! The End.
No, I’ve been going through it and I think I’m doing better than I used to when I was younger. Though based on some of the obscure stuff you need to pull up answers for on the easy puzzles, the hard ones will probably kick my ass.
Apr 282005
I made it past the bug in Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. The game is getting more action oriented with more things to fight and kill. There are still plenty of puzzles though. If I get stuck on one I can pretty much guarantee that I will wake up and be able to clear it right away. Not a game for the tired.
For anyone about to play… The second time you get control of the mummy, save at the beginning of that stage and DO NOT save again until you go back to controlling Sphinx.
Apr 102005
I was playing Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy and saved my progress. After a few minutes I was tired and turned off the Gamecube and when I turned it back on I couldn’t get anywhere from where I saved. I check on-line and sure enough, it’s a glitch in the game that if that was your last save point you can’t continue the game from there and you have to start over.
One the one had it’s really a bummer that I have to start over. On the bright side, it’s a fun game and I’ll get to that point a lot faster the second time.
Mar 312005
Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole’s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the only one of those I missed was Video Pinball.
Bermuda Triangle is a bad game.
Mar 302005
I have this new projector that is capable of HDTV resolutions. I’m moving where all the A/V stuff lives and that also means moving the game systems. First to hook up is the Atari 2600 and of course I had to test it with a little Yar’s Revenge. Projector capable of displaying better than the current generation of video game systems and I use it to play Atari.
Mar 282005
There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it’s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you can see everything that a normal television hides.
And… It can be watched without all the lights out in the room!