Το φιτρί αγόρι (colourful life)

“Yeah! All evening watching Eurosport.” I’m quite sure that many of you have listened something equal or similar to this. Put another channel, or add some specific sports. The image of a guy drinking beer while watching basket or soccer will come into your mind. I have to say that I’m not a fan of TV sports, but this last evening I spent it enjoying some TV sports (without beer but with feta cheese).

But I didn’t watch neither soccer nor basket. There is a trick. I found a broadcast of the Championship Gaming Series 2008 on Eurosport 2. I guess it was the quarters of the World Championship: Dallas vs San Francisco. Dallas was the favourite but the last Counter Strike round was amazing and San Francisco got the points.

It’s nice to see again some faces I saw in the documentary Frag. Like the Dallas team manager. At the same time is sad to see how the image changes from having fun playing games to teenagers squeezed by teams that use them to get money from sponsors.

Years ago I was playing games. I wasn’t good, but I enjoyed a lot. We had our clan and we used to meet to play games online and with our computers. We even used to go to lan parties together and had really good moments. We were the TnT Quake Clan. The good of been a free teenager.

Now I don’t play many games. Some times I play Wii Sports (I like to be pwned by betabug at Tennis) and some DDR, but not these times where you get tired of playing. I have some games I want to play still in the shelf. And today I realized that Red Alert 3 is out (but reviews don’t say good things about it). Buah! I want a month off!

By the way. If you’re in Athens and you play DDR or love C&C game series. We have a coffee pending

I confess. I’ve put a chip to my Nintendo Wii. The first good thing is not to spend 50 euros in games that you play 20 minutes and they’re just not for you. But what I love more is to play sonic again in 37 inches using that small Wii. I just love it!

The chip I put was the D2Pro 9 cables with a Wii-Clip. Here I don’t have a good solder for small pins so I asked some friends to bring me the D2Pro presoldered with the wii clip. The installation is only to open your Wii and attach the device. After that it just works.

The only problem was to buy again small screwdrivers for the Wii surgery. I don’t have my disassemble-everything set with me right now, but in Eksarxia I found the famous tri-wing needed to open the Wii.

Some interesting links:

• Open your wii.
• Homebrew Channel (HBC).
• Applications pre packed for the HBC.
• My favourite Genesis Plus emulator for Wii.