Goosebumps Books

Books, You know those things that can provide hours of entertainment and can take you away to fantasic 
worlds of wonder and imagination, You know those things.

So i'm going to bang on about books, Namely the


Goosebumps series.
When I was young there was only one place to go for something scary and that was goosebumps. Ok there were
probebly other places like movies, But these were steered much more towards kids and were massivly popular.

Authour R.L. Stine started the original series of books in 1992 with Welcome to Dead House and ended in
1997 with Monster Blood 4 and in the span of thoose 5 years released 62 books.

It was a lot to keep up with and I dont think I ever remembered anyone with a full set, But now a days you 
can find the books on ebay and alike.

Goosebumps is still going today and is well worth looking into.  

Retro Review - WWF Super Wrestlemania

Well this is one of the biggest weekends on the pro wrestling calendar, collectively now known as Wrestlemania
weekend.
Tons of events are taking place across New Orleans this weekend leading up to the big event its self,
Wrestlemania 34, So I thought i'd have a look at a few old wrestling games.
Now I was going to play the Smackdown games or No Mercy on the N64, Oh or even Wrestlemania 2000, 
But I decided to go with Super Wrestlemania on the Sega Megadrive.
Now this reviews going to be shorter then most i will admit, purely because I can't really find much to say about it.

WWF Super Wrestlemania was released in 1992 for both the SNES and the Megadrive. Both games were developed
by Sculptured Software but published by different companies, Flying Edge published the Megadrive version and 
those proprietors of garbage LJN, This may explain why each version got different rosters.
Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Ted DiBiase were on both games, other than that each version of the game got a unique roster. The Undertaker, Sid Justice, and Jake The Snake Roberts along with tag teams the Legion of Doom and Natural Disasters for the Super Nintendo and The Ultimate Warrior, Shawn Michaels, The British Bulldog, Papa Shango and  Irwin R. Schyster for the Megadrive, This is annoying if you didn't care for some of the wrestlers on your respected 
console, Also why did the SNES version get two tag teams and the Megadrive none. Weird.

The gameplay is what you'd expect for the 16 bit era, It had a kind of tug of war style of grappling system, where players grapple with the other players or the CPU and then beat them by tapping the A button more than your opponent to perform a move. Every wrestler has the same move set but only the megadrive has signature moves, Well that's what having  different publishers does.

Each version has the same three exhibition matches, 1 on 1, tag team and a 4 on 4 match resembling the Survivor Series match.
Again the Megadrive had an extra mode. A WWF Championship mode in which the player can take any superstar through the ranks to win the WWF Championship. This wasn't to bad and was the closest the game got to a story or career mode.

Super Wrestlemania wasn't bad but there was better out there at the time and only a year later WWF Royal Rumble and  soon after WWF Raw came out so it really only lasted the year as most sports games are.

If you find a copy for cheap give it a shop or just find a lets play on you tube.

Jason Tillotson 


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Fortnite Battle Royale - Review

Unless you've been living under a particular interesting rock with a good book for the past year,
you'd have noticed that battle royale games have become all the rage thanks to the likes of Player Unknowns Battleground. More and more games have been adding a battle royal mode from the likes 
of GTA: Online to Paladins.

Now PUBG wasn't the first of these games and if you take a quick look at the steam listings you'll
notice more and more popping up like worms in an apple and I've been playing one of them
Fortnite Battle Royale. (A spin off from the main Fortnite game that has been on development for about 7
years)

Fortnite follows what has become the standard for these battle royale type games.
up to 100 players get dumped on an island via in this case by a flying bus named the 'Battle Bus'.
Weapons, Armour and other support is randomly distributed and the play area gradually decreases forcing
players into a single point insuring combat gets hectic. 
The goal however is simple, Be the last player Standing.

Where Fortnite differs from games like PUBG is its crafting system. Gather resources such as 
wood, steel and brick from the local buildings and use them to construct things such as walls and stairs.
Players can use these to traverse the map or shield themselves from enemy fire.
The introduction of this does mean a lot of games descend into tower building competitions between the last few players desperately trying to protect themselves.

Between Fortnite and PUBG Fortnite is differently my preferred choice. The cartoon style looks a lot better
then PUBGs 'realistic' look and the inability to go prone seems to stop games turning into giant sniping 
matches. Also being free to play allows you to get a taste of the type of game without the need of investing 
any money.

As with any free to play game there is of course micro transactions which come in the form of V-Bucks
that can be used for cosmetic upgrades and Battle Passes which increases the rate in which a player can 
increase their level. V-Bucks can be earned in game via daily quests and missions.

If you're looking to get into the battle royale genre then Fortnite: Battle Royale is well worth a look
I mean its free and you don't need to pay any micro transactions to enjoy.
So check it out.   

Jason Tillotson


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