Lefthandedlayup

Annoyingly, it's this:

Notice the 'frequently'?

A few minutes ago, I finally achieved the dream:

1st attempt:2nd attempt:

Remember those old Gallaga, PacMan, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong (and Donkey Kong Jr.), Mario Bros., and all those other token eating gadgets where we wasted spent most of our youth learning valuable skills for later on in life? (or at least thats what I told my dad)

Where can you buy those things now?

Joey Alarilla would probably be interested in this bit of news about Lara Croft.

Not necessarily because of Lara (more on her later), but about how the article says how one of the problems of the video game industry is its 'lack of celebrities'.

The shooter position in the Indiana Pacers team is an esteemed place in the basketball world.

Mainly because you're gonna get comparisons to Reggie Miller, a tall order if there ever was one.

I got the idea from Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear episode wherein he tried to beat his time of 1 minute 41 seconds in Gran Turismo on the same track on the same car except in real life.

After a very very stressfull whole of last week, I had pretty much decided to just stay in and zzz the day away, but my gaming finger got itchy, and I was getting bored with NBALive 2k6.

I turned to Google for whatever downloadable game out there, and after scratching Need For Speed (3.5gb., too big), and others, I came across America's Army, available quite conveniently as one big FREE 903mb exe file. After some searching for torrents and several failed attempts to download I managed to miraculously find a working one, here:

Was it four or five years ago now? I was watching the Argentinian team in the World Basketball Championships, and this particular spitfire caught my eye in an otherwise boring game. He was wiry, around 6"4 or so, had long curly hair like the European soccer stars, and was an absolute whirlwind on the court.

No one could touch him. He was jumpshooting, shooting threes, stealing the ball, running all over the place, and on one occasion on an all alone drive, he slammed the ball Jordan style, legs apart with one hand just like the Nike poster. It was astounding, and I decided to remember his name, Manu Ginobili, pronounced by the announcer as "Jeeno-beeli".

Which brings me to this point, where I will sadly bewail the other end of the spectrum, the worst video game to movie adaptaion imho, Tomb Raider, which for the most part I wouldn't mind at all, I mean a sucky movie's just a sucky movie, except for one thing - you will probably not find a bigger fan of Lara Croft than me.

It was a pioneering first person game to begin with, but the characters absolute lack of fear and 'astig' factor just blew me away. As far as the first version Lara is concerned, she had no room for fancy gadgets, relying on deft skill, smarts, and dexterity. As long Lara had her pistols, all was good.