Singstar (PS3)

Spent a fun Saturday evening with SingStar, my wife and a bottle of Jack Daniels. We only spent five pounds in the store – a very tight limit, as there were about twelve songs we felt we really needed – but that was five pounds well spent. It turns out I can’t sing The Ramones,

Used up the final dregs of credit with the Playstation store to get some new songs. Then had fun singing them. Oddly, I did really well for the first few songs, then was worse than ever for the last few. I hardly hit a note in Total Eclipse of the Heart and the playback had

Got four new songs today, none of which I can sing. No surprises there. As well as those, my wife and I took it turns to choose songs to duet from our existing library and it was great until my voice cracked and died. Cough cough, like.

It’s a PS2 game, but I’m playing it on the PS3. Mostly excellent song selection, but unfortunately one of ours mics has developed a fault and cuts out now and again, which means my scores were even more pitiful than they should have been.

It took a while, but I found my PS2 component cable, my two Singstar mics and – after a good long search – the little box that goes between the mics and the PS2. I took the blue mic and my better half took the red one. Several hours later we’d exhausted both Singstar Legends