Saturday, February 19, 2011

25th Anniversary for Outrun !! *rant

This year marks the 25th Anniversary for one of my favourite Arcade game that is Outrun !!

Outrun is one of my favourite arcade game during my childhood b4 Daytona and others.



This is the game where it all started, when this game was around every kids knows an outrun car is a ferrari !!

The game was created by one of the kings of video game Mr. Yu Suzuki !!!

I am not going explain the facts n history here but i will talk about my times when i love this game.

I remembered at every amusement park in Malaysia will at least have 1 or 4 outrun arcades even outrunners also a big hit. I will always waste some quaters for playing this awesome racing game bcoz come on u cannot drive a real ferrari so drive a fake one with a girl beside u. Also who doesnt like a video game with some machine moving like a real car.

sadly it is hardly to find one machine here except in Penang n i am not sure if it is still around or not..

i just love everytime listening to Magical Sound Shower which gives an extra boost or love to the game.. anyway...

i cannot explain much about it but i am happy that Outrun has finally made it's 25th Anniversary !!

anyway Ferrari is stupid to pull their license for the Outrun series as they should know if it is not Outrun, Ferrari will never be on our mind !!

Since it is 25?? will there be a special edition or something?

Friday, June 4, 2010

Metal Gear Solid music Plagiarize

I know this news was old and so long ago...

that time i was in University of idiots and bastards..

ok skip that.. somehow it never pop up in my mind about it.. i didnt even know this story happen..

all i know was.. maybe Konami wanted a change like what they did to Enthusia but pity Enthusia for being a flop !!!

Somehow everybody loves the Metal Gear Solid main theme.. until my country uses the song for it's military events !!!

click this link of the copyrighted video to see the Russians informing about the song

somehow in that video you can see Mr. Hideo Kojima was shocked about it !!!

pity him, he didnt even know it was copyrighted...

lets talk a bit of the history of the Metal Gear Solid theme.. it was written by Tappy Iwase and later was enhance and remixed by Harry Gregson Williams. Soon later someone found out the song was ripped-off from a Russian orchestra. Later some Russian met Hideo Kojima and inform him and in the end.. the song was removed !!

some said it was a coincidence.. maybe but i suspected like this.. maybe Tappy was in Russia n fall in love with the song Snow Storm.. so he made a remake of it??

or a fren of his from Russia Japan came n said take this music.. bcoz it is not famous n make it as ur song.. so who knows ??

there is a million of possibilities.. so up to u to think ?

The famous tune from Metal Gear Solid 1
Click here

and here is the most famous from Harry Gregson Williams
Click here

The original 1975 Russian song by Georgy Sviridov
Click here

anyway if the Russians were a bit understanding, i hope that they could get some payment or royalty from Konami for this video game and gave permission to use the original song as a grand finale song for MGS4 !! Trust me !!! it will be a BLAST !!

references:
youtube
Metal Gear Wiki

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Video Games Live Malaysia Promo

Watch my video, if u want a small detail of it !!!!!



if u want to know more to and google "video games live" !!!

this 17th April at KLCC !!!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Games that i am playing now

sorry for not posting anything here since i am busy with college n stuff...

Since I am kinda bored with my PS3, well dont get me wrong, i only have 2 games n 4 rented PS3 games which i have also finished...

need new fun long lasting games for PS3 !! doesn't matter old or new and not sure to buy 1st or 2nd hand ps3 games

since i was busy with college work so i tried some games for my PC, well i manage to fix the prob in my pc by disecting it n solve the prob piece by piece... i manage to download some games which was some old games that i wanted to play during my time i still using the Pentium 1 PC.

1st game was SWAT 3..

SWAT 3 may not be graphically awesome like SWAT 4 but this game requires more strategy just like the SWAT in real life !!

do not ignore what ur boss says and those blueprint of the building are crucial in ur strategy. Controling ur swat members are also one of the important parts in SWAT.

When i use to own this game, i just do some shooting no matter hostage or not !!!

bcoz of the slow and weak PC, i hated the sewage stage !!!! not fast, not clear n always failed !!

but now with a better PC and strategy i felt that playing the right way is more worth it !!

next is AGE OF MYTHOLOGY

yes, i am a big fan of the AGE OF EMPIRE series and they made a spin off called Age Of Mythlogy.

well when it was 1st came out, i guess the PC those days were weak and also many who reviewed the game didnt put the setting to the MAX made the game looks something funny n not as beatiful as BATTLE REALMS.

*OOOOO THE PAIN AND AGONY IN BATTLE REALMS,

well this game is nice and awesome, just like age of empires only you can get help from the mythical gods like the Greek gods, Norse Gods, Eygptian Gods, and Titan Gods..

*hoping for Indian or Chinese Gods bcoz they are also consider as old civilization !!!

in campaign u play some anlantis character n join the adventures of the world of mythology !!!

this game is unique !!!

looks easy but trust me it is tough n fun !!!

overall those are the 2 games i am playing...

fyi, when i am writing this SWAT is on air !! =D

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Kalimaat (the board game)

OK, since my blog here is about video games i will also review n discuss on board games or card games that are available and fun...

There is this new Islamic word game called Kalimaat... created by Baba Ali..





Like the card game Taboo which has word.. Kalimaat also has cards with words and your objective is to remember those words and get points with the given chips.

The game uses your mind to think more...

the rules is something like this.. (for the real rules go to the website and see some video examples)

u need a mininum of 2 groups with 2 people in 2 groups.. and you are given a card which has 10 words includes one Islamic word and one cultural word.. (non-Muslim can play and remove the Islamic word if they dont know about those words).. in the card one person has to give the clue n ur group fren has to guess those words n if he so called knows the words.. he has to put a token for each word he knows. After 60 seconds then he have to say the words that he guess out loud... if it is wrong then... face it.. after that the other group will try steal the tokens that your group cant answer.. and it goes on until who gets the most points wins...

Since this game is not out in Malaysia yet.. i have to wait till i go to UK or buy it online..

more info check it out here

Kalimaat the game!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

COD 5 Trailer

taken from IGN Entertainment youtube



Wow this game looks awesome !!!

Call Of Duty has been one of the best FPS game... i have played COD4 nice but i felt that COD4 sucks... why ???

to much insulting Islam... i dont like it... also u can kill civilians for more points...

basically forget abouot COD4 which the storyline sucks but multiplay ROCKS !!!

i just love this new one.. looks more action packed that the previous installment..

it seems that terrorism hits in the US and ur mission is to kill them terrorist.. it seems people like this anti-terrorism game...

so far i cannot review much bcoz i dont have a PS3 !!!!

so enjoy the vid and the verdict is yours !

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Syarikat Permainan Malaysia

SPM not Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia k !!!

It popped out of my mind when i watched Masaaki Hirano the judge of Iron Chef... he somehow reminded me of my fav game compendium of 30 games which has a pic of an old man, n 2 children playing.



I remembered looking at this pic, how wonderful to see a family like that.. of course and also i dont know.. but i seem to love looking at that pic.

Ok.. here is a brief history of the company.

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Established in 1976, SPM Syarikat Permainan (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is the largest, multiple award winning indoor game producer in Malaysia. At present, SPM produces over sixty models of games and sells over 300,000 sets annually.









It is estimated that approximately 1/3 of Malaysians has played an SPM game at least once in their lifetime. It is now the largest board games producer in Malaysia certified by the Malaysia Book of Records in December 1998.

History



SPM Syarikat Permainan (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. was established on 26th June 1976 by Perak born inventor Ting Sie Bing.

An inventor since his early years, Ting turned his hobby into a successful profit generating enterprise, gaining worldwide recognition in the process. Constantly looking for new ideas and concepts, Ting stumbled upon what would be his flagship product whilst working as an instructor for a government industrial training institute.



One day, he noticed a few of his colleagues using the English word game SCRABBLE® to play in Bahasa Melayu (BM). They were struggling and found that there were a lot of unused tiles at the end of the game. Ting pondered over this and concluded that the frequency of alphabets used in the English SCRABBLE® could not be used when playing the game in BM. For example, the letter 'A' appears three times more frequently in BM than it does in English.

Recognising the need for a BM version of the popular English word game, Ting started to develop the BM version, studying a BM dictionary to determine the frequency of the alphabets needed for a successful BM edition. Working part time, it took Ting four years to research the gaming requirements required for a BM version of the English word game. Ignoring the whispers and comments of those around him who thought that he was eccentric at best, Ting developed the hugely successful SAHIBBA® and SPM Syarikat Permainan (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd was born.

Ting left his job and started SPM to market and sell SAHIBBA® in 1976. Initially working out of his home, Ting has since expanded his business into a multi million ringgit venture and in the process garnering many local and international awards.

Company website

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OK, this thing was around long time ago when i was a kid. I am sure many of my Malaysian friends have one of this. If you cant afford those expensive electronic consoles or maybe expensive games such as Monopoly or Scrabble.. dont worry this games are your local board games.

I know u all will say copyright but i am sure this has copyrighted also if not copyrighted can u see many of this fake board games being created.

Ok back to topic.. somehow the games made by this company are well accepted by many. Many great games they have created which are affordable for kids which are chess, congkak, carrom, dam, saidina (Malaysian version of Monopoly), Sahibba, (a malaysian version of Scrabble), and many more.

If my memory serves me correctly, i enjoyed this games with my cousins and family as well. They are great games. A memory that lasted. In the future i want my children to appreciate this old school games which every men, women and children have played also this is games of our ancestors. Those days we dont have computer games which are also expensive and sometimes makes no sense (E.T for one example).

THis board games i dont care monopoly or what, they should be kept as good old times games. I think now during the economy downturn, I am sure many will buy this games which dont use electric and many many hours of unlimited fun for any sort of occasion.

btw i am out of words about this games bcoz they are just simply amazing... so amazing that i cant describe it with words.. all i can say.. try one n see the differences..