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Thursday, 10 January 2008

Geeky type post about video games

Years ago when I had my Dreamcast I had the game Ecco the Dolphin, so that must've been around 2000.

It had to be the hardest game I had ever tried to play and it made no sense to me, seemingly with no clear objectives.

The graphics were really pretty though. Anyone who had a DC back then will know that the graphics were pretty amazing on most games, Soul Calibur for example was released on the Play Station under a slightly different title (Soul Edge or Blade) just a couple of years before and you could see the difference, with the PS graphics still being blocky, but as reviewed on ign.com Soul Calibur on the DC was ...
The first game in memory to look better on a console than it did in the arcade, Soulcalibur offered amazing visuals as a Dreamcast launch title, and still remains one of the best-looking and best-playing fighting games years later.
So anyway getting back to Ecco, for Christmas my new fella bought me a PSP, oh I had a choice of consoles but I wanted something I could play round his when he's out so portable was the only option. I bought myself the Sega Megadrive Collection, being the big Sega fan that I am (I used to hang out with the DC chat room administrators).

On the Sega Megadrive Collection there's a whole host of what would now be classed as retro games including Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: The Tides of Time and Ecco Jr.

I get it now and I am managing to progress through the levels. Okay, it's not the action packed game that I normally play but as frustrating and annoying as it is I am enjoying it.


For anyone who is stuck on games try GameFAQs for walkthroughs and help, and for everything Tomb Raider it has to be Tomb Raider Chronicles even if the typos are chronic on their walkthroughs.

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