Daventry Tescos prove apocalypse is coming

Well seems the booze section in Daventry Tescos is indeed an amazing place, I cant imagine that these will last long or maybe it is just that the world has not got much longer left!


Your eyes are not deceiving you that is indeed a 2 litre no extra 50% free bottle of white lightening .

Prophecy has it that when space raiders > 10p && dfs != sale && whitelightning < 3 litres the world will end, so thats one of the tick sheet can any one confirm the other 2

Crackdown - halo 3 Invites

halo 3 invites will come to the uk version of crackdown

zone of the enders all over again, I wonder how many people will purchase this and attempt to return once they have the invite, shame really if its anything like zone of the enders, which in itself was actually a pretty decent game, for those that played it

sure it will generate some revenue for m$

Top 7 Game series ruined into the ground

http://www.gamesradar.com/us/psp/game/news/article.jsp?articleId=20070123142252250050§ionId=1006&pageId=20070123143240511035

Mame Machine is Alive

Well I got two arrivals in the post today, my replacement ArcadeVGA, I have to say it really was great service that I received from Andy at www.ultimarc.com . The replacement is working absolutely brilliant and first impressions are anyone that doubted buying this card, just go ahead and buy it, the difference between playing on a PC SVGA monitor and a true arcade monitor is staggering.

Also received the two marquees I ordered from www.mamemarquees.com , Again great service and the marquees are everything I could have hoped for and will really help finish of the cabinet, when it is complete.


So got it running with my pc, the next steps are
to configure mamewah
wire in the buttons for 4-6 and the coin mechanism
mount everything securely inside the cabinet
make my rgb scart convertor and kick harnesses so that I can put in some consoles easily.

future things to do will probably be to replace the t moulding with some that is black or silver
change the control panel slightly and include a 4 way stick and a spinner much like the neon mame design over at arcadecontrols

Managed to knock out an 85k score on pacman at the first time of asking which is higher than I have managed on the xbox 360s controller :)

Microsoft vs the world

Picture showing just how many competitiors Microsoft has, got to hand it to them really when you see that map, as its not even including Apple to name on other competitior

No chance to develop for iPhone

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/apple_lockdown_iphone/

Well its a bit of a shame that you wont be able to put your own apps on the iPhone, and think potentially Apple have dropped the ball here, as I am sure given 3-4 weeks you will be able to put apps on it anyway same as the ipod so whats the point of locking it down!

Always 50 Million

The magic number which is the answer to everything raises it head again

It appears to be a succesful game you have be around the 50 million mark

This is a list of the best selling game franchises of all time

1. Mario (Nintendo): 193 million
2. Pokemon (Nintendo): 155 million
3. Final Fantasy (Square Enix): 68 million
4. Madden NFL (Electronic Arts): 56 million
5. The Sims (Maxis/Electronic Arts): 54 million
6. Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar): 50 million
7. Donkey Kong (Nintendo): 48 million
8. The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo): 47 million
9. Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega): 44 million
10. Gran Turismo (Sony): 44 million

The Apple iPhone

Well the great god jobs has delivered the next coming heres some pictures

http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/TheRealAppleiPhone/799003

and Nokia getting worried, but dont fear the iPhone isnt 3G so no one will buy it

http://techdigest.tv/2007/01/nokia_responds.html

Say no to road pricing

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Important link to sign if you ask me, we already have road pricing in effect, its called fuel tax

3 reasons why this is a crap idea

1) We already have a road pricing tax
2) Great for Londeners where I assume this idea was cooked up, who have an alternative and the money can be pumped back in to improve exisiting public transport, what about the people who live or work in bum fuck no where.
3) Government + massive IT system != success || value

Actually point 3 could mean potentially I could sign up to get onto one of these government gravy train projects that never ends and pays a fat final salary pension.

Upright mame machine

Well decided to retire my cocktail and get an upright arcade machine, which will be better suited for the dining room in our house as it will happily hide by the wall leading to the lounge

any way here it as it arrivedHeres a picture of it playing Golden Tee 97 that came with the cabinet the picture is actually very sharp, affect of the camera and glass I assume causing it to look interlaced
Printed out a rough marquee to see what it would look like will order one properly printed from mamemarquees.com

unfortunately the arcade vga card I received from ultimarc arrived non functional am in the process of getting a replacement, have to say ultimarcs customer service is second to none and I thoroughly recommend them not only for supplying quality solutions but also backing that up with good customer service

Tescos Promote responsible drinking and consumer choice!!

When drinking that much half price beer a pack of Nurofen may come in handy, every little helps!

Always good to have your partners work with you as Jean Coussins, Chief Executive of The Portman Group, said:

“We are delighted that the alcohol industry has played such an active role in taking the alcohol harm reduction strategy forward. This groundbreaking approach demonstrates the benefits of the industry, government and other stakeholders working in partnership around a shared agenda. Indeed, this initiative takes the government’s initial proposal for a voluntary producers fund much further by involving retailers such as Tesco and Enterprise Inns too.”

Full article here http://portman-group.org.uk/newsdesk/66.asp?coid=267&recordcount=1


Guess the advertising to promote reponsible drinking must have missed Tesco Daventry


Tescos to promote responsible drinking

By Jenny Wiggins and Elizabeth Rigby

Published: October 24 2006 02:00 | Last updated: October 24 2006 02:00

Tesco is to run in-store TV adverts telling shoppers to drink alcohol responsibly over Christmas, in the latest sign of the pressure retailers are coming under from the government to tackle binge drinking.

The move follows a ban on pubs promoting cut-price "happy hours" last year and talks under way with alcohol producers about introducing health warnings on alcoholic drinks.

from http://www.ft.com/cms/s/90c8b898-62fc-11db-8faa-0000779e2340.html


Maybe its just Daventry being the Birmingham Slum clearance area, possible town with a forthcoming land locked marina and monorail to look forward to, we need to drink more to block out the perfect world, Tescos not wanting to harm their profit margin need to make sure we are however feeling well enough, with the aid of liquid Nurofen to get back to the store to purchase more half price beer!

Digg this article

10 reasons not to buy a mac and why there are wrong

http://hastalasiesta.org/index.php?/archives/27-Top-nine-reasons-not-to-buy-a-Mac-refuted...-and-the-tenth-conceded..html

not much of an argument really saying the price isnt different is completely untrue, as is the hardware support, hes detailed pluggin in stuff rather than actually upgrading that mac

mac = shiny pc in my opinon that cant play games, most people I know who have one install ms office

Ultimate Gamer Quiz

Available here

quiz

78% to beat, ill go and sit back in the nerds corner till someone makes me feel better

3 new Dreamcast games

Seem the prototype xb0x 360 will never die

http://www.seganerds.com/2007/01/01/dreamcast-still-strong-in-2007/

The Best Games you never played

Intresting link on the top games you never played

http://www.ampednews.com/features/230

cant say I played any of them and not really conviced to either!