Slick-U-Blog

Well, its finally here. I was expecting a big and bulky machine and thats what i’ve got. I thought the saturn was a big square lump but it is quite small and petite compared to this Looking at the design, they look quite similar … not sure who’s copied who but it’s a “hmm” moment when you see them side by side.

At the moment its hooked up via s-video cables as I do not have a scart cable for it, but even without that it still looks good.

It came with 5 games, King of Fighters 96, Art of Fighting 2, Fatal Fury 3, Samurai Spritis and Viewpoint, alas it only has one control pad but i’ll survive. It plays the *cough* games *cough* I sourced for it without any modification so that will save me a packet.

The only downside is the loading times as the drive is a single speed cdrom (300k a second). SNK fixed this deficiency by bringing out the Neo Geo CDZ which is twin speed, but that does not help me I’ll live with it for now.

The audio outputs on the back are giving me a bit of feedback / crap … I think they might be on their way out. Something the auction owner neglected to tell me about. Still, i’ll live. Once I get a scart cable for it, i’ll be sorted anyway.

My copy of Phantasy Star Online for the XBox arrived this morning, I’ve already put about 6 hours worth of playtime on it. I’ve just fought (and defeated) the big dragon thingy under the dome, not bad considering i’m only a level 7.

I played the original Phantasy Star Online on my Dreamcast to completion, it was mighty tough but I enjoyed it. I never played Episode 2 (which is included in the XBox and GC versions), so I have that to look forward to when i’ve finished Episode 1.

My Neo Geo should be here tomorrow, quite looking forward to that, its the last major console I have yet to own (apart from the Atari 2600). My collection is nearing completion. I *cough* found *cough* somewhere to *cough* get *cough* some neo geo cd games from, so i’ll have quite a few games once i’ve sorted them out.

Anyway, sleep time for me. I have to get up early to collect my Neo Geo from the post office depot before I go to work.

Well, I have finally done it. I’ve just won an auction for a neo-geo CD, its not the CDZ (Which I would have preferred), or the AES but its a neo-geo none the less. I also won a set of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Minidisc’s, and I also won a Jeff Wayne’s Ulladubulla cd yesterday … i’ve been a tad busy on the old ebay front this week.

It’s all good, and it’s only money at the end of the day, can’t take it with me when I die, may as well get some enjoyment out of it now.