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Tom and his mum are experts at the wonderful Lego Star Wars on the PSII, in which Tom was able to recreate his own invented Jedi persona,
Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight.
Lead me out on the moonlit floor.
Lift your open hand.
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance,
silver moon's sparkling.
So kiss me.
rare games:
DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou
ESPGaluda
Mushihime-Sama
Ibara
Haunting Ground
Wild Arms 5
Growlancer Generations
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Jumanji
Lemmings
London Racer 2
London Racer - Police Madness
London Taxi Rushour
Lotus Challenge
Madagascar
Midnight Club 1
Midnight Club 2
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix
Midway Arcade Treasures
Need For Speed: Carbon Collectors Edition
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
Need For Speed: Underground
Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast
Paris-Dakar Rally
Playboy the Mansion
Police 24/7
Racing Simulation 3
Rally Championship
Rayman 10th Anniversary
Rayman Revolution
Hitman 2 if I'm remembering right was a game I was made curious by due to it's timing, plus review scores.
One of my best friends back in High School was off on holiday to USA, and because I had a US Gamecube I figured I'd give him some cash (which was an exchange rate win too) and get him to bring me a game back whilst over there.
...Hitman 2 happened to be the chosen one.
In fact it was that same friend who brought it home to me with whom I sank the most hours into this game with, and this isn't even a multi-player game!
We literally spent hours and hours during weekends or week nights just messing around with guards and having fun with the game.
Hitman is a series that is focused on stealth gameplay, in which you must kill your target(s) without giving yourself away. Ideally making it look like the death was at the result of an accident or suicide, and sure... We'd play the game the "correct" way to unlock the next levels, and try to unlock the full extent of available weapons in the game but that wasn't were we had our fun.
Oh no...
The fun was in stocking up our Agent 47 with the weapons that had the power to lift people off the ground, or better yet, juggle their ragdoll like bodies through the air.
To hell with mission plans, and to hell with stealth... The game became a work of art to us, we'd be constantly looking for new ways in which to have the most hilarious unrealistic fun in killing people.
Shooting bank guards and staff down a laundry chute type thing (and then going down to the basement to see the carnage).
Dragging bodies into 69 positions for other guards to see (even though there artificial intelligence had no idea what a '69' was).
Shooting people off roof's and trying to see who could air juggle them as far as possible.
I'd probably need to consult my friends to help remind me of more of the immature things we had fun with in the game, but rest assured there was a LOT.
(I included a screenshot of an example of the immature fun in the photo. Those guards and Pizza Boys didn't get half naked on there own, and nor did those legs poke up like that either)
It didn't end at immaturity though. Due to the vast amount of free roaming some levels offered, as well as a good number of characters wandering around within these levels opened doors for us to set all sorts of random restrictions or weird tasks on each other to fulfill whilst completing levels in order to further stretch out the game.
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Childish/ Playful times aside though. Hitman 2 was a solid game for it's core gameplay aspects, which is why it got a lot of praise.
Each level required a good amount of investigation, a bit of curious 'trial and error' experimenting, and many of the levels (when played properly) had me to the point were I was on the edge of my seat hoping to full extent that I don't get caught. I was totally immersed within the games world, and had a sense of nervousness and fear, as if the situations my character (Agent 47) was in were actually affecting me personally, and it's moments like those that highlight why video games are such a great entertainment form, one that can rival movies in terms of making you 'feel'. At least that's my view anyway.
Overall the Hitman series has been one I've followed with a lot of admiration. I actually got to speak to one of the people that worked on the game briefly a few years ago as he was contacting an old workplace about Motorcycle parts, and his e-mail address was at IO-Interactive (makers of the Hitman games), so I asked him about it and he was open to speaking about it all, which was cool of him.
He gave me a heads up on "Mini Ninja's" (another game they did) about a day or 2 before they did there press release too. My first exclusive! Hehe.
...I wish I was still in contact with him today though, so I could grill him about when we're finally going to get another sequel!!
NEH434 was a Brush bodied Leyland PS2/5 new to PMT in 1950 as SN434, renumbered to S434 in 1953 she is seen parked by the Nicholson War Memorial in Leek in the days before the town's bus station was built. Behind is one of the VEH or XVT Reliances with light cream roof from either the 1955 or 1956 batches, personally speaking from memory I'd say it likely be a VEH reg as these were mostly prevelent in the Moorlands then. Those earlier Reliances had thin rectangular shaped side marker lights instead of the later rounded type.
To the right of the War Memorial is seen the side of the Talbot Hotel now closed and in front on the pavement is a teak memorial bench replaced in the late 1980's by the Leek Regeneration Committee's design of "Gondola" type seats which were not altogether that popular amongst locals then, although with a passage of time they are quite distinctive and do help stamp an identity to Leek as a tourist town.
S434 lasted until 1962 when sold to Cowley dealer in Salford who later resold the bus to Sir Alfred McAlpine Contractors in 1963. In the left background is the roofline and chimney of Cawdrey Buildings on the corner of Ball Haye Street and Fountain Street, for many years this was an electrical store run by Rumbelows.