Testing my blog; I can't post my 2006 Videogame Awards for some reason...

Hello everyone.  I'm sergioalb64, and I was thinking a few days ago that the possibility of people lying about themselves is certainly out there.  I want to prove to you that I'm real and to let you know who I am with more detail.

My name is Sergio Gonzalez, a 19 year old from Mexico currently studying videogame design in California.  I don't have many pictures of myself, but here's one that I used for my GAM101 design course.

That's me and my twin brother Albert.  Just kidding, it's a mirror :)

As you can see, I use glasses; I have poor vision, and actually, I'm left-eye blinded. 

I'm a huge, HUGE DS fan.  Here are a few pics of my collection, and it is a real collection; everything's mine, nothing is borrowed, and I paid for everything.


The Tower of Divine Sacredness

I don't have any pets, and I live with my mom, sister, and stepfather. 

I don't know what else to tell you, but I hope this has proven my real self and given you a better idea of who I am.  If you have any questions, post them here and I'll answer them.

So one day I went to Home Depot, and as I was browsing their flowers section, with those flower seeds in bags, I noticed that I couldn't find any green flowers.  'What's up with that?', I thought.

Well, maybe it doesn't make much sense, grass being green and all, but green flowers should be more popular.  Take a look at this great shot of awesome-looking green flowers:



I will make sure I plant these at home...if I can find them.

First of all, let me tell you; I'm left-handed.  Here are some interesting facts straight from Wikipedia:

-Only 8 to 15 % of the adult population is left-handed.
-Left-handedness is more common in males than females.
-In many cultures, the word 'left' or some variation of it means something bad or evil.
-Some tools, such as scissors, knives, and rulers, aren't left-handed-friendly (I hadn't noticed any problems before though)
-Until the latter part of the twentieth Century, Roman Catholic nuns in the US would punish children if they attempted to write with their left hand by snapping their left hand with a ruler (ouch).
-International Left-handed Day: August 13
-In many parts of the world, such as Indonesia, it is imolite to accept gifts or eat with the left hand.

Here's a big one:

Shigeru Miyamoto is left-handed, and so is Link from the Legend of Zelda.

Any of you left-handed?  Me, my cousin Jorge, and his mom are :)

Hey everybody!  How are you?  I'm fine; still drowning in homework, but fine nonetheless.

But I've been learning a lot, especially about design.  I'm now using this program called Adobe Illustrator and it can do a lot of awesome things!  I'll keep posting whatever good designs I do, and to begin, I will show you a piece I did, tracing an image from the internet.  This will become a window decal (sticker) very soon!



And the other day I found this AWESOME TO THE MAX picture:



DS is so successful that its market has expanded to the animal kingdom!  Great job, Nintendo!

So yeah, I'll post blogs here and there.  I'm currently done with 99.1% of Twilight Princess, so I'm ALMOST done!

Take care!

I go for The Legend of Zelda, all the way :D

In fact, I'm going to list all the games, the number of times I've beaten them, and the number of times I've completed them (you know, getting every item and side-quest).

In order of release...

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (NES)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 0

ZELDA II: THE ADVENTURE OF LINK (NES)
Beaten: 1 time (hard!)
Completed: 0

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST (SNES)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 0

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: LINK'S AWAKENING (Game Boy)
Beaten: 3 times
Completed: 2 times

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME (Nintendo 64)
Beaten: 5 times
Completed: 2 times

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ORACLE OF AGES / ORACLE OF SEASONS (Game Boy Color)
Beaten: 1 time each
Completed: 0

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK (Nintendo 64)
Beaten: 2 times
Completed: 1 time

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER (GameCube)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 0

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES (GameCube)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 1 time

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE MINISH CAP (Game Boy Advance)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 0

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS (GameCube / Wii)
Beaten: 1 time
Completed: 1 time

UPCOMING TITLE; THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS (Nintendo DS)
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So what's your favorite game series?  The Mario games?  Mega-Man?  Castlevania?  Share your thoughts :)

Wow; it's been a while without a 'What's your Favorite' blog, eh?  Well they're back!

Today I ask; what's your favorite videogame soundtrack, or, if you can be more specific, your favorite videogame song?  Personally, I love the music in the Zelda series.  I believe Ocarina of Time has the best game music, but surprisingly, my favorite videogame song first appeared in Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES); it's the Hyrule Castle Theme (click link to listen).  It's amazing; the game starts, the story unfolds, and Zelda is in trouble; you enter the castle and this amazing musical composition is thrown at you; amazing stuff.

What about you?  What game series would you say has the best game music?  What game in particular?  Any specific song?

Like I said before, I like to have an updated list of my DS games handy, so here it is.

1-Super Mario 64 DS
2-WarioWare Touched!
3-Yoshi Touch & Go
4-Polarium
5-Zoo Keeper
6-Meteos
7-Nintendogs; Dachsund and friends
8-Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan!
9-Trauma Center; Under the Knife
10-Pac-Pix
11-Feel the Magic XY/XX
12-Trace Memory
13-Pac-n-Roll
14-Phoenix Wright; Ace Attorney
15-Mario Kart DS
16-Animal Crossing, Wild World
17-Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
18-Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
19-Metroid Prime Pinball
20-Daigasso Band Brothers
21-Sprung
22-Kirby Canvas Curse
23-Ultimate Spider Man
24-Advance Wars: Dual Strike
25-Castlevania; Dawn of Sorrow
26-True Swing Golf
27-Electroplankton
28-Super Monkey Ball: Touch & Roll
29-Frogger Helmet Chaos
30-Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
31-Viewtiful Joe DS
32-Super Princess Peach
33-Sonic Rush
34-Cameltry On the Ball DS
35-Tetris DS
36-Metroid Prime Hunters
37-Rayman DS
38-Brain Age
39-Dig Dug: Digging Strike
40-Monopoly/Boggle/Yahtzee/Battleship
41-Bust-a-Move DS
42-Pokemon Trozei
43-New Super Mario Bros.
44-MegaMan Battle Network 5 DS
45-The Rub Rabbits!
46-Age of Empires: Age of Kings
47-Big Brain Academy
48-Magnetica
49-Break Em All
50-Lost Magic
51-GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
52-Spiderman 2
53-Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
54-Star Fox Command
55-Point Blank DS
56-Mario Hoops 3-on-3
57-Sudoku Gridmaster
58-Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
59-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
60-Mario VS DK 2: March of the Minis
61-Cooking Mama
62-Clubhouse Games
63-Yu-Gi-Oh! DS
64-Resident Evil DS
65-Tao's Adventures
66-Magical Starsign
67-Contact
68-Children of Mana
69-MegaMan ZX
70-Pokemon Ranger
71-Elite Beat Agents
72-Puyo Pop Fever
73-Bomberman DS
74-Scurge: Hive
75-Yoshi's Island DS
76-Final Fantasy III
77-Lost in Blue
78-Bomberman Land Touch!
79-Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
80-Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
81-Nanostray
82-Deep Labyrinth
83-Over the Hedge
84-Spiderman: Battle for New York
85-Gunpey DS
86-Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
87-Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
88-Hotel Dusk: Room 215
89-Uno / Skip-Bo / Uno Freefall
90-Touch Detective

I have LOADS, and I mean LOADS of homework; LOADS.  I just want to update you all; I AM alive, but I'm dead inside, or something like that.

Anyways, I said I was going to share with you my TOP GAMES OF 2006, but I haven't done it yet; I will, however, tell you my top 10 games of the year, and I will complete the full list sometime later...when I finish everything...probably next...month.

10. Tetris DS
09. Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
08. Pokemon Ranger
07. Trauma Center; Under the Knife
06. Star Fox Command
05. Daigasso! Band Brothers
04. Gyakuten Saiban 2 (Phoenix Wright 2)
03. Elite Beat Agents
02. Castlevania; Dawn of Sorrow
01. GAME OF THE YEAR - CLUBHOUSE GAMES

This is not based on last year's releases, but rather, on the games that I played during 2006.  And yes, they are all DS games :)

I'll leave you with a picture of my cousin/nephew Eden and I'll start the first ton of homework.  Bye!

Just letting you all know that I'm back from Mexico, once again.  I had a good time with my family, playing games and hanging out, same ol' stuff.

I have two gaming resolutions for 2007:
1 - Play and beat every Zelda game out so far (including Phantom Hourglass for the DS).
2 - Reach a DS collection of 100 games (should be easy; I already have 83)

I hope you all had a great time during the holidays.  I will soon work on my personal Games of the Year Awards and I'll post it here on my blog, so look forward to that.

Laters!