I can’t tell if this advert for Super Mario Sunshine is serious or not.

This advert for Sonic 2 and a Mega Drive smacks of Sega’s 90′s advertising ethos.

This German advert for Zelda: A Link to the Past defies description.

These Sonic Adventure adverts are amazing.

One of my genuinely favourite adverts for one of my genuine favourite games.

Have YOU played Atari today?

There are so, so many more I could post, but I think it’s in everyone’s best interests if I just encourage you to visit http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_games_commercials.asp

Except it won’t be. Confused?

Animal Crossing: Wild World arrived today. This makes me very happy indeed.

I loved writing my Animal Crossing diaries for the Gamecube version, and I would hope to get the same enjoyment from writing them on the DS version when I get the chance – time is very tight at the moment, but I think I can take notes and write them up when I get some spare time. Of course, putting aside time to play a game like Animal Crossing and write a diary about it is quite ambitious, especially considering my workload, but I’m sure I can succeed.

I just need a name for my town and subsequent weblog now. I don’t want to go with Eville because I think it’s actually a pretty poor name for a town, but I’m stuck for ideas. Only eight letters rules out Sonictown, Tailsville and Knucklesopia; Nightopia is too long, none of the NiGHTS or Sonic levels would fit and I don’t really like the sound of Mobius. Some stupid ideas to jot down:

Pippin
Granvill (shame about the missing E!)
York (obviously)
Doninton (slightly bastardised version of my home town)
Joyville (happier version of Eville!)
Happyton
Jolly
Aspinia
Saraband
Balsamo
Remotest
Vagabond
Enrich
Mineral (I wanted Mineral Town!)

I know that most of them are plagiarised but I don’t really care. I am devoid of good ideas, but I think I’ll go with one of the SFIII ideas as I like them a lot.

One excellent website for personal development is www.stevepavlina.com. I can’t claim to know all that much about Mr Pavlina, and I haven’t read a great deal of the site, but there was one article on there which was very interesting to me.

Deciding What to Do With Your Life

Obviously this is something we all think about. At my age, and particularly in my situation at the moment, it’s something I’m spending a great deal of time thinking about. We all want to make the right decisions for the right reasons, and to see those decisions through and make sure they’re successful. I’ve not got the insight or abililty to muse on this subject as Mr Pavlina does, but I will say that it is genuinely nice to read something that makes you feel in control, encouraged and energised to do what you think is best. I don’t want to be someone who plays it safe in life; there are things I want to do, things I think I would love to do, and the only thing stopping me doing them is myself. Reading that article, and others on the site, have made me see that I can do it, and even that I should do it.

When I have a more in-depth plan over what I want to do I’ll post it here. I think I could really get into this self-improvement malarkey.