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Last night I saw an amazing film called The King of Kong. It’s a documentary about various people trying to beat a high score on the retro arcade game Kong. I wasn’t sure what top expect with this film - although I love computer games, and particularly retro gaming I thought maybe this film wouldn’t hold my attention. Luckily I was dead wrong. Just as with a fictional movie this film contain goodies and baddies, trials and impossible odds that must be overcome by our hero.

If you have ever watched the incredibly funny film, Grandma’s Boy (also about gaming) you will notice that there are many parallels with this film. For a start off, although The King of Kong is a factual documentary, it is extremely funny. You couldn’t make up characters as typecast and hilarious as the ones in this film. The villain is a guy called Billy Mitchell, who after watching this movie I hate with a passion I cannot describe with mere words alone - I would quite happily punch this guy in the face if I saw him. (Well ok, I’m exaggerating a bit here!) Interestingly, he reminds me of the evil guy from Grandma’s Boy too - except he’s not made up.Watching this film you see our Hero Steve Wiebe, fight against a corrupt team of gamers lead by evil and spineless Billy Mitchell – desperately trying to prove his skill as a hardcore gamer. I should point out that this movie does seem to be edited in a way the enhance the positive and negative traits of a persons character - making the baddies seem more evil than they possibly are, and the good guy completely innocent.

Evil Billy Mitchell

The other people in this film as just as funny sporting Doom t-shirts and getting so hyped up about a game, these middle aged, sunlight deprived men make me smile and remember the good old days when games were all that mattered. It is literally like going back to the 80’s – in a funny, tacky kind of way.

I cant say too much more without spoiling it, what I will say though is rent, buy or steal (not literally) a copy of this film as its a must see!

I would rate this movie 8/10

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Rom (USA)

Yes! I have been waiting ages for this. the Japanese one has been out a while but I’m not interested in that. Download the rom here

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is now out on dash roms. Wonder if its any good? I expect it will be!

Click here to download the rom

Recently I’ve been playing a lot of online gaming, both on my Nintendo DS (Zelda and Mario Kart mostly) and on my Xbox 360 (Halo 3, Pro Evo Soccer and Dead or Alive 4). Online games are great but some people do ruin the game for me. People that call you a “noob” just because you lost a match make me quite angry. Anyway, I found a great, rather tongue in cheek post today entitled “Ten golden rules of online gaming”, have a read:

“People who are new to a particular game are terrible vermin who you should not fraternise with. These subhumans are known as noobs and they are the pariahs of online gaming. You, however, were never a noob. You were playing games online before the Internet was even invented. In fact, you’re so awesome that you were playing Dizzy the Egg team deatchmatches on your Commodore 64. ”

Read the rest here

Why aren’t they all like this:

Click here to find out how to overclock your own DS!

According to my web statistics a lot of people are entering the site looking for information about nds-roms.com along with the word “closed”. Sure enough, when I look at the site I get a server error. Does anyone have any more information on this?

Top 10 games for the DS, Ever.

Lists are great aren’t they? Ok, now everyone’s taste is different, so below you will find my very own personal list of the best DS games ever. Obviously this list will be outdated at some point, but so far there are thousands of games to choose from, and I think most people will agree that I have listed some great ones here.

1. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Why its so good: Well the single player game is wicked to say the least but multilayer rocks! The only downside is that people cheat and turn their DS off when they lose, thus depriving you of your well earned points! Read the full review here.

2. Mario Kart
Why its so good: Fast frantic game play and brilliant multilayer will keep you playing for hours.

3. New Super Mario Bros.
Why its so good: In a word, Mario. A great take on the old school Mario games adding a pseudo-3d visual style and great game play. Unlocking all of the levels can be pretty taxing!

4 Worms: Open Warfare 2
Why its so good: Multi-player games are brilliant and there’s a load of depth and variety of gameplay. Read the full review here.

5 Big Brain Academy.
Why its so good: The is a very personal; choice but I could never get into the other brain games, they seem like they are trying too hard, when I personally doubt how much brain improvement can be done with a game. This is a fun way to tone you thinking muscles!

6 Mario 64 DS
Why its so good: when Mario 64 game out many years ago on the infamous Nintendo 64 people knew what a great game this is. The tweak version is great fun on the DS although the controls take a while to get used to.

7 Yoshi’s Island 2
Why its so good: I love Mario style platformers and this game is pretty close to the sort of thing I’m after. I got bored halfway though so its not as great as some of the games listed above.

8 Contra 4 DS
Why its so good: It brings me back to the years when computer games were the most important thing in my life. Sadly I was a lot better at games back then and this game is too hard for me now! Boo hoo! Anyway you can download the rom here

9 Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Why its so good: A lot of people think this is the best game on the DS, I personally think its a pretty good tactical game, not the best game o9ut there though.

10 Mario Party DS
Why its so good: Lots of fun with loads and loads of mini games. Its much better to play with real people and with no wifi mode, this lowers my score.

Well there you go, that’s my list. Have I missed any? Mortal Kombat just missed 10th place, whats your top 10?

I know we have Contra 4 which is great (very hard though!). We also have Mortal Kombat which I think is an equally good game, and its fantastic online! But apart from that, I haven’t seen any good games come out for a while. I am kind of looking forward to Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games which due out soon, but that’s all. There are dozens upon dozens or horsey games, virtual pets and even a few about looking after babies. Look, I know the DS is primarily a kids system, but come on, how many variations of the same game do they need?

Pull your finger out Nintendo!

EDIT: The site seem to be back online now! Whoo!

First there was Romulation, now another great rom site has been closed down - Dash Roms. Dash Roms offered http downloads of all kinds of roms, from Mame to Nintendo DS. If you visit their website now you will notice there is but a single line of text stating “This site has been suspended.”

Recently Dash Roms had removed their direct downloads and instead used third party hosting for the roms . In fact most of the roms on this site were sourced from Dash Roms, and we are not the only ones using their roms. I think to have their account suspended, they must have been dumping the roms themselves. I hope so anyway, otherwise I’ll have to remove all links to roms off this site!

Ultimate Mortal Kombat Rom Download

Score 8.5/10

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