By Christmas 2007 (around the same time I bought mine) they’d begun phasing out the old chipset for a new smaller, more efficient one that was far less prone to overheating, so chances are very good you got one of them (I made damn sure to check the serial number of mine to make sure I got one). From that point there…

Oh, I totally understand why people get it wrong, it can be confusing, especially when you get things like the Wii and Wii U having similar power to consoles from the previous generations, and only a three-year gap between the Xbox and the 360. I’m fully expecting people to claim that the NX is a ‘half-generation’, or…

Well, there are a lot of people who call the Wii U “Previous gen” because of the power, and don’t realise that’s not what dictates it. Even if the NX comes out by the end of next year that’s four years after the Wii U, it’ll still be the start of another generation, just after a slightly shorter the usual period…

Wii U is a current gen console. The generations have nothing to do with power, it’s to do with the cycle of when consoles come out.

Man, that’s making me even more excited to give it a go again. I hope there’ll be battling over wifi as well as trading!

That’s awesome! I’m going to have to be very careful not to lose hours there!

Ooh, why was that? I know Jolteon was the best electric (suck it, Pikachu) but didn’t know he was best for PvP.

Full-on grind! I read somewhere that the stat boosts from a genuine level up were marginally better than from a rare candy, so by the time you’re at 100 there could be a significant difference. Combine this with wanting my ‘perfect’ squad (I found an amazing website that compared the stats for each Pokemon at level…

The main thing for me was the fact that the emulator I was using ran at about 500% speed. Getting my *almost* perfect squad up to level 100 didn’t actually take that long!

I wasn’t going to say anything about emulators...but there’s a very good reason my best friend and I both put hundreds of hours into the first gen Pokemon games around the same time, but he never caught ‘em all and I never got my ultimate squad...

I’d be pretty averse to playing a game with jump scares on a platform I have to hold and could potentially drop if suddenly startled...

It’s interesting, I texted my best mate when I saw the news. His first thought was ‘finally, I can catch them all!’ whereas mine was ‘finally, I can complete my ultimate squad with an Alakazam instead of settling for a hypno.

Except it’s not cheating when everyone can do it. It’s a perfectly valid tactic, one that you can work with but that can also work against you.

I keep hearing people say “Play Goldeneye now, it’s terrible”. Except just a few years ago one of my Uni friends brought their N64 and Goldeneye into halls. We spent hours on it. Sure, it looked like ass on a 42 inch HD TV, but that didn’t matter. Still great fun.

It almost looks like a PS2 game. When the PS3/360 is capable of handling games like GTAV and The Last of Us it really does seem like they’ve gone out of their way to make it look crap.

The Kotaku/Gamespot/IGN level is “you need us more than we need you, so go pound sand.”

I have been known, upon defeating a particularly stubborn boss, to flip it the double bird whilst it’s in its death throws. I...guess that’s similar?

Sadness leads to depression, depression leads to anger, anger leads to confusion.

In the UK we didn’t get Chrono Trigger until about 15 years after it was released...

That’s what I mean - the getting crap for it. That just doesn’t seem to happen in Italy, it’s a completely different mentality.