Epinions Recent Reviews for smjg

The great British face of one numbers game releases a book on another

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 08:17:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Back in 2004, two British newspapers started publishing daily Sudoku puzzles. Other newspapers followed suit, and eventually it became a craze. Personally, I first came across it in the Daily Mail (which called it Code Number for the first few...

These Words are my own: Natasha is lovely

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:16:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - First there was Daniel Bedingfield, and then it wasn't long before little sister Natasha came onto the scene. Unwritten is the debut album. As Dannii Minogue knows from bitter experience, becoming as famous as your sibling is no easy...

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for Game Boy Advance: Link goes Minish-ture!

Wed, 18 May 2005 14:12:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - The Zelda games are one of the lines I follow, at least to the extent they're appearing on the Game Boy line of platforms. So needless to say, The Minish Cap was one to add to my collection. This is, as far as I know, the first single-player Zelda game...

Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda for GameBoy Advance: Zelda, a real legend

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:40:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Many years ago, the original Legend of Zelda was one of many games I played on the NES at a friend's house, though I never got far with it. I have now acquired this game for myself. Ever since the Game Boy Advance came out, it has bugged me that...

An AS boy + a canine murder = a strange story

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:10:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - One day someone mentioned to me a new book about a 15-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome. She seemed to think it was called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Garden, which I immediately took to be a parody of the famous Sherlock Holmes...

A book that discusses, marks and uses

Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:26:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Yes, I'm a stickler. I've been one ever since I can remember. I've known all too many people, many of whom ought to know better, who have no idea how to write English properly. Our language is in danger of descending into anarchy - that is, assuming...

A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and now ... Subway!

Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:29:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - (OK, I agree that song's silly, but I couldn't resist it nonetheless!) I first came across Subway in Coventry, though not while I was at college there. I was on a 'rag raid' (that's where we go and rattle money pots on the street for charity) with a...

Wario Ware, Inc. for Game Boy Advance: Great addictions from tiny games grow

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:31:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Early on, Wario was the one who tried to take over Mario's castle only to be eventually thrown out. Then he was a videogame hero in his own right with a dream of harvesting enough money to get a castle all his own. Soon after, he was competing in a batt...

Wario, a mere mortal once again

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:36:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - The Warioland games have always been of interest to me, so this one was an obvious choice of game to pick up when I bought my G
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Boy Advance SP. Every Warioland (or Wario Land in the case of the odd-numbered ones -...

Is it a freak? Is it a geek? No, it's a boy with AS!

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:25:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Those who've been following my epinions closely'll know that I have Asperger Syndrome (AS). As the familiar ones among you would know, it isn't easy to describe what this means in a few words. What can be said is that it is part of the autistic...

Advanced power, advanced visibility, advanced portability

Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:40:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - My Game Boy Color was getting rather old. The main symptom is that it's now quite difficult to find games for it in the shops. After some undecidedness I figured that it was time to open my options up a bit more. For once, I had a decent amount of...

One baby chicken, hundreds of eggs, hours of puzzle-solving fun

Wed, 14 May 2003 07:10:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - This is another game that I was idly browsing the video game store to find among the few Game Boy Color games that remained. My machine was crying out to have more stuff to play on it, and this was a nice cheap title that looked interesting so I picked...

As if this game could keep its own balance

Fri, 9 May 2003 11:11:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I thought that all Game Boy non-Advance games had disappeared from the shops, until I was idly browsing one of them and came across this little gem. Well, maybe it's not exactly a gem. It's an interesting game, but let down in a few ways.

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The thirteen books of the Elements, neatly fitted into three pairs of covers

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:21:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - Having been a keen mathematician since my school days, and having heard of the Elements since my college days, it was in my undergraduate days that I discovered this set of books on Amazon. Now, as a postgraduate, I have acquired the work I've been...

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 for Windows: Ever seen an injured dog enter a hospital alone and be healed in seconds?

Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:20:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I've no idea why Red Alert 2 (RA2) was nowhere to be seen in the shops for quite a long time after it was allegedly released. Almost two years on, I finally managed to get my hands on a copy.

Like in the original Red Alert (RA1), the war is...

GeoMag 42-Piece Magnetic Construction Set: Harnessing the constructive power of the magnet

Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:26:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I hadn't heard of Geomag before receiving it as an unexpected Christmas gift (pardon the tautology), but I have been having fun building with it ever since.

The set consists of 24 magnetised rods, each about an inch long, and 18 steel balls,...

Build your own city, and now add even more to it!

Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:07:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - It's been some years since I played Sim City 2000 (SC2K), which I found interesting. Since the college where I used to go stopped having it, I've longed to relive the experience. Now I can do that, in an updated form, since I have finally acquired Sim...

Sticking the blocks together ... and it's not just for kids!

Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:31:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - As I was browsing my local video game store I saw this colourful box and, on the back, screenshots looking like they're of a fun puzzle game. I instantly wondered what the game was really like to play. But I did notice a website address...

Darth Maul! Fragile! Handle with care!

Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:01:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I acquired a Darth Maul Cube from Hessport's Rubik Shop as a freebie on spending a certain amount there (though I forget how much that had to be, and I doubt the offer's still on).

The Darth Maul Cube is a...

More save slots for your favourite Game Boy games

Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:55:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I grew up in the days when every Game Boy, NES or SNES game I had played, if it allowed you to save your progress through the game, had three slots for doing so. This was until I acquired Wario Land II, which for some reason has only one slot. This...

Q-bert for Windows: Teaching an old Q*Bert new tricks

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:05:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - It seems I'm one of the few people who never played this game when it was originally around, at least as far as I can remember. But I happened to come across this game in a shop, and it was cheap and seemed interesting so I bought it.

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A game to get some Qix out of

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:00:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - For ages when I had an original Game Boy, I tried to find the original Qix game without success. But since acquiring a GBC I discovered Qix Adventure, which is this and more!

Note that it's "Qix" and not "Quix", and so should be pronounced in...

Microsoft Outlook Express: Buggy Newsreading

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:57:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I used Outlook Express as my newsreader for a while. It has some useful basic newsreader features that are probably in most newsreaders (though maybe not in all free newsreaders). But over the years, I've built up quite a list of the annoying...

Textpad: The colourful way to code

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:13:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - For the webmaster

I was once involved in a Usenet discussion on HTML editors. Needless to say, most of them were talking about those WYSIWYDG (what you see is what you don't get) editors as I like to call them, until someone asked if...

Hessport's Rubik Shop Online Store: Hessport's Expensive Import Shop

Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:13:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author smjg - I came to this site just over a year ago (January 2001) when I discovered that Rubik's Revenge was available for a limited time, or perhaps a limited offer in some other respect. I had communicated with a few companies to find out if it was available...