Beetle Adventure Racing

Beetle Adventure Racing?

The Nintendo 64 game?

Not an Xbox 360 game?

Quite right. I was waiting for a tumble drier to arrive, so I was waiting in my bedroom, which is next to the front door, because my flat is upside-down, so I was playing the N64, because it’s in the bedroom. Clear?

Anyway, it’s aged badly. The frame-rate is horrible, the PAL conversion is horrible, but I did have some sort of fun… for all of one race and then the tumble drier turned up. I’d have had longer, but I’d read Bubba Ho-Tep first.

Xbox 360

Hooray!

Sabre Wulf guy gamer icon!

I was racing a bloke called mwng in PGR3 – good guy, good race – and I noticed he had a Jetpac icon. So I went searching and found out that there were ‘classic Rare’ icons to download. My immediate thought was “I hope they’ve got a Sabre Wulf guy” and, indeed, they have.

Yes, spending money (even small amounts) on pictures to go on next to your name on Xbox Live does seem a trifle, well, idiotic, but it makes me happy. (I also grabbed the theme that puts pictures of classic Speccy games on the background of the Xbox dashboard, because that also makes me happy.)

Xbox 360

So, more PGR3. I got a special badge for winning three online races in a row. I’m great! Or, rather, most of the people in Class C are rubbish. I tried a Class E race and came sixth out of eight. I want to do more online Nordschleife races, because I love that circuit (except those weird banked banked bits I’ve never worked out how to drive on), but it’s a Class B race online and I simply can’t find any Class B cars I can drive. Except maybe that Carbon Viper thing, but I’m not great with that and it’s not every fast. I guess I just need to get good with the Enzo. Easier said than done, mind.

Anyway, after a few time trials round Nordschleife to try and find a car I could drive I left PGR3 and dipped into Mutant Storm Reloaded. Played one game of Adventure Mode. i beat my old high score by about 100,000 points, but – much more importantly – beat Gerplex’s high score. He’s now 100 places below me on the rankings list. Ha!

Friends leaderboards are great.