Over the past month or so, I have been playing a fair bit of minesweeper. You know what minesweeper is, that silly little game that comes with Windows. You probably wonder why I have been playing it, because it is a boring game to play and there are real games available, for purchasing or for obtaining illegally. The main reason of doing it is to compete with a friend. We have been trying to get the lowest score out of the both of us.

After the many hours playing Minesweeper, I have become pretty decent at it, to the point where in a lot of instances, I don’t have to think about where to click, I just click right. My high scores on each of the modes are as follows, beginner at an amazing 6 seconds, intermediate at a quick 85 seconds and advanced as a decent 342 seconds. I’m sure anyone could beat those scores so go ahead, if I can do it that quick/slow, you must be able to do it much faster.

With all the hours of Minesweeper down my sleeve, the game has turned into an obsession. I think about minesweeper and dream about minesweeper. I think that is one sign of insanity and I must now put my minesweeper glove and mouse down and move on to bigger and better things. I enjoyed playing and trying to get the fastest time I could.

The past week, without a laptop, I have been playing Pokemon on my PSP. You are probably wondering how it is possible to do so, but it is simple. Just like for the PC, there is a GameBoy Advance emulator for the PSP and it works very well for the popular GBA titles. I have been using it to play Pokemon Emerald.

I really like PSP homebrew because it allows me to do this, and many more things. gpSP is an amazing emulator, even though it is still in beta. It plays the game perfectly fine, but the only issues will be with trying to use cheats because the system isn’t quite done yet. But that is not an issue anyway, who cheats in GBA games, especially pokemon. Not me.

Pokemon Emerald is too easy. My starting Pokemon is at  level 60 whereas my opponents Pokemon are generally around level 30, half my Pokemon’s level. What this means is that generally, I can take down an opponents Pokemon using only one attack. It is silly they have done that for it allows me to zoom fast through the game without training, or even capturing other Pokemon.

Anyway I still enjoy playing Pokemon on the PSP and reminds me of when I was seven playing Pokemon Yellow on my GameBoy Colour. Weren’t those the days.