Altered Beast Life Lesson:
If you consume balls, it will make you stronger. If you consume four balls in quick sucession you will become a beast!
Columns Life Lesson:
Stacking stuff on top of other stuff can be fun.... just not much.
Golden Axe:
If you hit small people loot will come out.
House of the Dead Life Lesson:
Goldman will make you suffer like G did.
Jet Set Radio:
In Japan, knowledge of the English language is not required to write a song in English... in fact, it usually makes it better... SUPER...... BROTHER...
Landstalker:
A hero named Nigel is no less of a hero, he is just more of a fag.
Phantasy Star Life Lesson:
'Replacing 'PH' with 'F" made things sound cool in the 80's.
Shinobi III Life Lesson:
Despite popular opinion hoverboards DO work on water... ninjas ride them.
Shining Force:
If you talk enough to people who look important they will eventually join you.
Yogurt is awesome and pointless.
Sonic Life Lesson:
If you jump on computers you will eventually gain invincibility.
Streets of Rage Life Lesson:
In the darkest of hours a mandroid that is half chinese, half android will come to your aid.
Note that mandroid works both in the sense of 'Man' and 'Droid' but also as a combination of 'Mandarin' and 'Droid'. That is how awesome my naming skillz does be.
Now some of you out there are probably thinking that an android is an automated intelligence while what i've described is more of a cyborg. Well, here is why he is an android:
A) Mandroid sounds cool
B) I believe that the mechanical parts of his body consist of both a cybernetic intelligence and are completely seperated from his biological functions. So yeah... seeing myself write theories like this makes me worry that the medication I take may be out of date.
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It only takes three balls to power up in Altered Beast -- a little like your mum.
ReplyDeleteAs for the game shopping, it is completely insane. I've never seen so many stone-cold mint condition games anywhere. The size of the Dreamcast, Saturn, Mega Drive, SNES (well, Super Famicom, I should say) and Game Boy libraries is absolutely amazing. (And then there's everything else.) Just as an example, I can pick up Soul Calibur on Dreamcast for 350 yen -- or about four bucks.
The current consoles are also amazing, too -- the PSP sections alone are almost as big as many JBs' entire game sections.
This hasn't made it any easier to choose what to buy, though. Too much choice.
(And don't get me started on the records.)
So tell us the tale of this chick who wouldn't sell you the console.
ReplyDeleteThe PSP thing wouldn't surprise me, supposedly it is the second biggest (next to DS) console in j land.
Have you picked anything up?
I bought my PSP in Singapore ... Jackie enjoyed playing Katamari on it so much that she wanted one of her own, and in J-Town they're about $175. So she picked up the voucher and took it to the counter.
ReplyDeleteThere, the girl said that Japanese PSPs only play Japanese games. Jackie had also taken up a two-pack containing two Megaman PSP games (which I'd picked out for myself). The girl then said that Japanese PSP games only work on Japanese consoles.
Jackie then walked away from the counter to talk to me; I was pretty sure that PSPs were region-free, and I told her that. I've got a Singaporean PSP, and it's playing my Australian games fine. I also told her that you have a Japanese PSP. The only thing that could have thrown me was if the region locking was introduced for the 3000 series, but that still seemed very unlikely. In any case, I told her that there's no way a game can lock itself -- the console has to recognise the lock-out. So that meant, no matter what her problem with her console, my Mega Man would be fine on my Singaporean machine.
Jackie went back to the girl and told her that, but she insisted that it wouldn't work -- game, or console. Jackie didn't want to lay down two hundred bucks for a brick, so we left the shop. We then asked at four more shops -- one said they were region-free, and the other three said they were locked. Didn't make any sense to me, and we finally found one guy who absoutely assured us they were region-free, and said the other sellers might have been assuming that we were asking if the menus could only be shown in Japanese. (Which still isn't true, but, hey, I don't know.) So, Jackie bought her console from there.
I'm still Mega Man-less, and everything else-less, too. There is just too many things to consider, and I don't know what to get. I'm trying to avoid anything with too much text in it (hence the Mega Man), but I truly don't know what to get. Seeing the entire Dreamcast library in basically one place is an awesome experience, and the Saturn libraries are amazing too.
So, I wasn't kidding before -- give me some ideas. I'm spoiled for choice her.
Ummm...for you I'd say those megamans are awesome. If you could find the Mega man X collection on the Cube that is pretty rare in the US too.
ReplyDeleteOuendan 1 & 2 for the DS are great music games that have no reading.
Oh and there is the Parodius and Salamander collections for the PSP (gradius type Konami shooters) they were launched as budget.
Geoff, you would be constently wetting your trousers here. Not just for the games mentioned above, the girls here are gorgeous (even Kieren thinks so).
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Constantly, rather.
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Actually, I said that, on the whole, they look better than Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteSome of these dudes are flamin' hot, though.
Dudes eh?
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm pretty sure the chicks (and dudes) would be hot.
Three questions:
1) Have you seen someone walk down the street in something totally bizarre... like a monkey outfit?
2) Have you seen any totally hilarious English translations?
3) Have any trouble with the toilets?
I have to agree, the women in japan were absolute hotties.
ReplyDeletewhere abouts are you chilling? I stayed in the asakusa district when i was there. I really rate japan, love to head back there.
also, funny post geoff, i lol'd. I actually live by the golden axe rule.
I'm in Akasaka, which is the diplomatic/government district, from what I can tell. It's only ten minutes by train from Shinjuku or Shibuya, which is where I feel most at home in Japan -- with all of the electronics goodies.
ReplyDeleteAs for your questions, Geoff:
(1) I suppose how you define "totally bizarre". In Shibuya we saw a bunch of teenaged girls wearing kimonos -- it seemed to be a "thing" that day.
(2) English translations aren't great, but they're not too awful, either. Most of the time there isn't really any English. I associate China with the idea of dodgy English translations.
(3) I've only ever used the toilet in my hotel, and I'm using it just the regular way. I did try the bidet spray once, and I didn't exactly hate it ... does that make me gay?
Shibuya is meant to where all the cool people go, thought you would hate it. Akihabara is for the mad geeks, which may be part of it.
ReplyDeleteOh and the bidet is gay only if you get a boner.
When is it you are coming back to Oz?
Also, I think my mechanic misplaced/stole some of my cds, Logjammin may have been in there.
We went to Asakusa yesterday and saw the 'golden poo' statute thingo. Oh, we also saw some ancient temple, but who cares. FYI Geoff, Akiba is also where there are young girls dressed as game characters in short skirts handing out pamphlets.
ReplyDeleteTokyo has been awesome but exhausting...definitely need to come back to see the country properly - I wish we had time to see Kyoto and the snow monkeys bathing in hot springs!
And as for the toilets - they're weird. The ladies' toilets have a 'background music' button so people outside can't hear you do your thing. The best thing about these toilets is not the bidet, me thinks, but the seat warming function which would be very nice for winters. And the remote control for the toilets does everything for you, except flush the toilet. Oh, and you can usually choose a western high-tech bathroom or a traditional squat one - eeek.
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Oh, Shibuya was definitely a "cool" sort of place, but I tried to avoid the people as much as possible. It was a case of get in, go to the best record store in the universe, and then get back to the train station as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteMy problem with the place -- and with most places where people congregate, actually -- is that people have done things for no other reason than thinking, "By doing this, I believe I'll look good to other people". That's just an idea that makes me extremely uncomfortable.
As for my triumphant and bombastic arrival, I shall be back in Sydney on Wednesday night. I'd be up for boogie-ing on Thursday, if you wanted to.
I found tokyo much better than kyoto. Could have been though cause it was end of the trip when we got to kyoto. toilet warming was bliss to the posterior. We went near the snow monkeys but opted to go to the fire festival instead, people getting smashed on sake, trying to set fire to each other, awesome aa
ReplyDeleteSure thursday night is cool, I expect stories to be told and for me to laugh at them.
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
Type up a list of what you bought... do it!