Yesterday, i made a couple accomplishments.

First, I beat Friday the 13th without losing any lives, and I completely blew away Jason! The 3rd Jason tried to attack me in the open, and i just kept throwing torches and died within seconds! My weapons stock for my six players included 2 torches, 2 machetes, an axe and a knife. I also had the shirt that reduces damage infliction. Only 4 lake children died.

Also, I beat Thunder Spirits- the first time i actually COMPLETED an side scrolling shooter for the SNES. It went something like this:

STAGE 1- Died once, pathetically enough. But i figured, life goes on.

STAGE 2- Died once, on a little fireball. Then i missed several key power ups. At that point, i would have done my usual ceremonial yank of the controller to make the SNES come tumbling from the TV cabinet, but i refrained.

STAGE 3- Did not die. Piece of cake. This is my favourite stage in the game too. I like the coneshaped lasers and bubbles that move you up. Love the corals and the music.

STAGE 4- Did not die. No sweat. Just had to memorise where some of those enemies were that fly in really fast.

STAGE 5- Died once, on the first form of the boss. Very undisciplined death. Got through the rest of the level no problem, having gone through it several times. The fast part where you inevitably crash into the wall never haunts me; It only does the first time you go through it, or if you miss the shield power up.

STAGE 6- Died twice on the evil asteroid storm that happens before the boss. Other than that, i was able to plow through level easily using the "H" weapon (homing, i assume).

STAGE 7- In addition to dying on the Life Force like cheap ass pole that closes on your ship if you don't move ahead of time, I cheesed about 4 or 5 lives on the boss, who is the hardest part of the game. I caught myself breaking a little sweat while concentrating on dodging all the moving blocks and the notorious laser that passes through the middle of the screen. I got to the boss of level before, having spent ALL my lives on him carelessly. But i assured that wouldn't happen this time. The rest of the stage wasn't to much of a problem, as i had remember to use the "F" missile weapon, which is particularly effective in closed spaces (like stages 5 and 8).

STAGE 8- Nothing to worry about, since I had my trusty F (F stands for ?) and confidence...OK, maybe the game's final boss had me worried a little bit. There was a crazy brief mazelike part of the pathway right before the seemingly easy miniboss, but i was able to manoeuvre it without hesitation. I must have again lost about 4 or 5 lives, but my excuse is that it was only the first time i got to him, and, i guess i had some more experience too. A few bullets here and there on the first form didn't faze me at all- not like they used to. Managed to dodge the first, unpredictablly gigantic fireball that shot out from the second form, and i think i lost a couple lives before eventually destroying him. I dodged those bullets with the rhythm of my heartbeat as if i was fully aware my heart was going to explode at the instant my ship would get hit by a little pebble. And when i beat the final form of the final boss, there was about a 5 to 10 second period where the brainball that you shoot at to hurt the boss plopped on the ground while the rest of it exploded. I momentarily felt like an Efrafan, thinking, "O no, a bigger rabbit than Bigwig!?". But thankfully, this was not the case; the deceivingly motionless brainball suddenly popped, with it's little chunks fountaining in the air for a firework to celebrate my victory for the completion of the game. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

Ok, so I got carried away. But why not? After all, I did save the world from some evil BIO-whatever-the-fuck-it-was.


Today, on the other hand, sucked. I went on a horrifically sensleless binge of creating acts of self disgust. After taking a test at school, i came home to attempt to fix my ghetto computer for almost 2 hours and failed. Such frustration led to a chain reaction of about 4 other things of which I wish not to disgust- I mean- discuss. It eventually led up to me becoming so enraged that i punched a hole through my restroom door! My sister is not going to be happy when she comes home...There's no excuse. It was the same me a few weeks back who had unsuccessfully marathonned through Super R-Type for hours and through it at the wall to make an enormous dent. Crawl and Amitirus are right- R-Type games are some of the hardest shit out there.

Neh, why did I type so much. I'll be lucky if anyone reads it. But in such instances in the past...heh heh heh...