Music and the effects on the mind,

I'm a huge fan of music. I love listening to it all the time. Many times I find myself wanting a game, it's because I enjoy the music in it. I find that silence clouds my mind, I really can't say why, but it does.

When I listen to music, it's weird, because I find it helps me focus on other things, such as whatever work I'm doing, or when I'm having problems with games. In fact, if you've read my previous post, You will remember how I was talking about how much I suck at Asteroids. Well, that high score I couldn't beat before? I managed to beat it and then some. Through out the game, I was listening to the soundtrack to Castlevania. Yea, I don't know how, but that managed to work quite well for me.

Like I said, it helps me focus. It's like it clears my mind. When I was a high school student, I use to always want to listen to my CDs during math class. My teacher rarely ever let me do as such, but when he did, I found that I just cruised through my math as if it was no problem. By the way, I rather dislike math, it was one of my least favorite subjects in school.

I also find that music helps me sleep. Probably because as I said, it helps clear my mind.

My music is my life, be it in games, work, or whatever. I guess I just felt that I needed to talk about music here.

Thank you for reading, and keep on reading. I will hopefully have plenty to post as life goes on :)

The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field....

So, I was on Gaming Union forums in the arcade earlier, and I was playing Asteroids.

Ok, so for the record, I love classic games. Of every game I have ever played, classics hold a special place in my heart... And then there's 2 games, Asteroids, and Missile Command....

I can't say that I hate these games, or even dislike them. It's more that they don't like me.

Missile Command, I don't play much because I don't have anywhere I can play it at the moment. I could play it more if my PS2 worked, as it's in Terminator 3 the video game as an unlockable, but it just doesn't seem to play well for me. Now that's not saying much anyway, seeing as I seem to suck at that game anyway.

With Asteroids.... I hate my abilities in Asteroids. For a quick overview. The one I play on GU forums is pretty much basic Asteroids, not regulation (as in close enough to the arcade version), but its standard. You get 3 lives, and gain an extra life for every 10000 points you earn (I'm not sure what the arcade version or the Atari 2600 version does it at, but I know that's not it.)

So I'm playing it tonight, and I'm trying to beat the current high score. Only problem is, my high score goes back to December of 2008, and I've not been able to even get that close since, AND THE HIGH SCORE THERE IS OVER 65000! My high score the time of posting this is 46940, and its third place. I'm lucky if I can scratch 30000

Ok, maybe I'm over thinking this, or I'm not giving myself enough credit, but the broken spacebar, the sore hands, and the huge chunks of hair laying around my chair (ok, maybe none of that is true... but it give you an idea of my frustration!) should merit more than an average of 21000 per freaking game!!!

Sorry this was simply just me ranting. I rather hate losing, and it seems to happen way too easy on that game.

Red Ring of ...... life?!?!

Today, I have witnessed what I think to be the craziest thing ever in the world of gaming.

Ok, do you know what an Xbox 360 is? good! Do you know about the infamous Red Ring of Death? Odds are, the answer there is yes. Here, about a month or 2 ago, My best friends 360 started red ringing. Oddly enough, it still works, but it does red ring. sometimes it will come on before doing so, then before reaching the dash, put up an error code. Sometimes it just freezes.. Sometimes it even works perfectly..

Well, today, his 360 Red Ringed again. Oddly enough, its while he's playing Alan Wake that it usually does this (I think its simply because he has an older model 360 that's been refurbished...) I had turned the system off after it froze during the game (again) and he turned it on. About 30 seconds after he had turned it on..... 3 red lights... So I reached to turn it off, and all of the sudden, it came on! The red lights were still flashing, but it was on, and was working... It worked for like maybe 10 minutes, I was getting ready to run home and grab my camera so I could put this on youtube... and then..... it froze..

Yea, so it froze, but the important part there was that it was running while red-ringed O_O Technology is strange sometimes

I really have not been playing FF1 a lot lately.

uhh... yea... I've actually not been spending much time on the white mage challenge recently. I've had another game taking up most of my time. Digimon World.
Its a great game. I love it

Check it out. In fact, check out all my reviews at on My youtube review playlist

You could also check out My youtube channel while your at it :)

Gamer 2K1 Speaks: Mega Man 10

This is speculation on MM10 based on what I do know

Frustration setting in....

I seem to have reached a complete standstill in any progress for FF1... I'm trying to get through the Temple of Chaos past, while leveling, but I always encounter parties of 4 dragons that always seem to overwhelm my party. After getting game over twice in a row, I tend to shut the PS1 down, because I don't think my PS1 controller can take the aftermath of a 3rd time in a row.

FF1WMC back on

Well, after doing some tinkering and cleaning, I still didn't have it working... But somehow, all of a sudden, the game started working... I really don't get my PS1 sometimes @_@

FF1WMC on hold?

Yesterday morning, Fired up the PS1. My thought was to pop Final Fantasy Origins in and see what I could do to progress in my white mage challenge. Sadly, after attempting to get it to read several times already, It would not. I'm not sure if the laser is even moving, let alone if its picking up any info on the disk. After thinking about that, I decided to check if it's even reading. So I decided to take another game of mine: Digimon World. Shortly after poping the disk in, Sure enough, it was picking up data, as it came up with "Please insert Playstation format disk". This was the outcome I expected (and hoped), as my PS1 doesn't read that game for some reason. I can play it on my buddy's PS2, but it doesn't work 100%.

So here's the deal: This challenge is temporarily on hold until I can figure out what's wrong and get it working again. This may not mean too much to you readers, unless you were waiting for the latest on my progress here, especially since I have not updated on my progress in a while.

I have other challenges though that I've been planning for when I have finished this one. Do you think I should just jump to the challenge I was planning on next?

Until I figure out what to do, You can check out my Youtube Channel

Its time to randomly plug a random site :)

This site just got their online community started, their site has been up for a while, but they just got forums going.

CtrlAltKill Check it out, its a great site. Their podcast is also quite good (a little long sometimes, but still fun to listen to). And don't forget to join the forums while your there. Tell 'em Gamer 2K1 sent ya :)

A Life of Gaming

When I was just a child of 2, I picked up my first video game controller. It was an Atari 2600 controller. The game inside the system was Ms. Pac-Man. It use to drive my mother crazy watching me, as I would tend to chase after the ghosts when they were normal, and run away when they were blue. It was not too long after that I learned how to hook the system up myself. My parents were amazed, as it was a sunday morning, and I had the stereo on (the way my father had the entertainment system set up, I had to run the game through it.) It woke my father up, he was getting ready to kill one or both of my brothers, thinking it was them. My mother came out right behind him. As they entered the living room, they stopped dead in their tracks, staring in disbelief. without saying a word they looked toward one another, and went back to bed.

Who knew that would lead to the gamer sitting here today?

At age 7, I played my first M rated game: Doom, for the PC. I always liked to kill everything with a chainsaw, I don't know why. As I got older, I started hearing about how these violent games made kids violent, So how do they explain someone like me?

Anyways, It wasn't until I was 13 that I truly established myself as a gamer. It was 2001. I had decided that I would be a console gamer who's forté was RPGs.

Nowadays, I play a little bit of everything, but I'm more partial to RPGs, Racing, Wrestling, Puzzles, Rhythm and Platformers, with a slight dislike in Fighters and Shooters.

Yea, growing up, I have seen many changes in gaming, and some within myself. Who knows what changes may come in the future, But I can only say one thing for sure, This is truly a life of gaming.

When you wind up with writers block

With me not updating my status on the white mage challenge for this week (just leveling right now) I figured I would write something else, but sadly, I can't come up with anything that seems worth writing about :(

Zeus Kitty: in memorium

From the day he was brought home, I knew he would leave his mark. I never knew it would be on the back of my shirt while we were sitting on top of the truck (thats what I got for hanging with a cat that tends to spray).

He was a good friend, and a very happy kitty. Every time you walked in his direction, he would purr as loud as possible.

His way of life was an odd one, he would love to get love and attention all the time, but he would not often want to come in, even in the most horrific of weather. He had made many friends within the neighborhood cats, taking younger ones under his wing.

I shall never forget the first time I found him curled up next to Porch Kitty, whom oddly enough looked much alike. Although they had their issues, they lived together fairly peacefully.

It seemed rather appropriate, the weather today suited the mood. For when I called him for breakfast this morning, He did not come. And now, sadly, He will never be sitting on the porch with Porch Kitty again, sitting and waiting for me to come out to feed them, and then meowing at me when I go to feed them. Nor will he purr at the sight of me walking towards him, in hopes that I will stop to pet him.

Zeus, you will be missed. Will you forever rest in peace.

FF1WMC: The crystals shine again

Alright, i almost forgot about this. Looks like i'm getting ready to face Chaos.

Just FYI, I'm going to do a LOT of leveling, thus i may not update on this as much.

News regarding the FF1 White Mage Challenge

Because i was so busy unexpectedly this week and do not want to again go without updating. I will be playing on monday instead this week. With that, I will then update on monday night/tuesday morning.

I thank you all for your patience

Next sunday, I will update on schedule as usual.

FF1WMC: Leveling up again.

as of right now, all but Cara are at level 27 (she's 26). I began thinking to myself just as I shut of the PS1. Am I in a good level for facing Tiamat? or am I even farther than my level should have allowed? I guess i'll have to do a bit of research to find that out.

FF1WMC: Tiamat, YOUR NEXT!

Alright, to put it short, I got the Rosetta Stone, got it translated by Dr. Unne (who ever he is) and got the bell from the people of Lufenia. next stop, Tiamat!

FF1WMC: Calm Waters

As the four warriors stood watching the water fiend Kraken fall, They saw the crystal. Returning the light to the crystal, the seas all around the world began to calm down. Now they must find the Rosetta Stone, so that they can learn the language of the ancient people. What they might get from these people, who knows.

Oh, I also doubled back to the citadel of trials to grab the rest of the items from there :)

FF1WMC: sadly, life gets in the way sometimes

Sadly, I just had one of those days that things just kept coming up and I was not able to play, so no play = no progress.... sorry

FF1WMC: Error code:404 - Title not found

ok. while you people are probably getting ready to vomit at the horrible title (which obviously i had no idea what to post as a title) I must say that I did do something today. It wasn't much, I went into the water shrine, got a few items and did some leveling up.

FF1WMC: Major progress

This week, I didn't expect to have much to report, just the fact that I was exploring and getting all the chests i missed.... but then I went to the volcano (Gulgan Volcano/Mt. Gulg) and found my way to Marlith and beat her fiery behind!!! thats 2 crystals down, 2 to go!

I do plan on hopefully beating Kraken by next week, but we shall see what happens :D

I just need more armor that can use magic