I think this will be a monthly post, to blog about some of the statistics for my blog. The blogpost is mostly for my self so I can compare from month to month how many visitors I have, but also so that you have someone to compare to.
In February 2010, I had 729 visitors. They came from:
United States 30,45 %
United Kingdom 10,43 %
Norway 8,09 %
Canada 7,13 %
Germany 5,76 %
France 3,16 %
Netherlands 2,88 %
Poland 2,61 %
Australia 2,06 %
Denmark 1,92 %
To read my blog, they where using:
Firefox 44,72 %
Internet Explorer 28,12 %
Chrome 11,52 %
Opera 8,09 %
Safari 5,08 %
People came from the following site to my blog:
google (organic) 237 32,51 %
(direct) ((none)) 75 10,29 %
gonintendo.com (referral) 68 9,33 %
images.google.com (referral) 54 7,41 %
yahoo (organic) 38 5,21 %
Google is the most used searchengine with 80.6% of the serach hits for my blog, followed by Yahoo with only 12.3%. The most used searchterms to find my blog:
The Vancouver Olympics was great. I guess I’ve watch a bit too much on television, but it was a great watch. The Norwegian broadcaste NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) went HD on February the 12th, the same day as the Olympics startet. So it’s have been great to watch everyting in HD.
The Olympics started tragically with the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili in luge training.
In the eyes of us Norwegians, it was a great Olympics. It started a bit slow, but in the end we got 9 gold medals, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. That’s a total of 23 medals, only surpassed USA, Germany and Canada.
On March 3rd, Japanese Nintendo DSi owner can download the DSiWare game Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda (立体かくし絵 アッタコレダ). I don’t know what the games about, but I do love the 3D interface. It’s use the middle camera between the two DSi screens to track you eyes and use that information to display the right angel of th content on the screen. Watch the video bellow to see how it works. If you move your eyes or your DSi, the objects in the game moves. Pretty cool.
I find curling very fascinating and I’m following the Norwegian team which do very well at the moment. They lost the opening match against Canada. But have since won against USA, Germany, Switzerland and China.
But what interessting, is all the buzz the Norwegian team have got over their crazy pants, also referred to as clown pants. The Facebook group The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team’s Pants have at the time of writting 182 000 followers. I quess Loudmouthgolf.com have had some extra hits this week. You can also buy similar pants on eBay.
It’s not only Norwegian press that have written about the curling pants. Msnbc.msn.com and usatoday.com are some of the international ones. The Today Show have also covered the new fashion, which you can watch bellow.
There is one gaming company that I do remember from the 80′ies, Epyx. They made a lot of good games. One, which I’m very fond of, is Winter Games on Commodore 64. The games was released on ‘all’ formats under the sun. And since it’s time for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, I thought it was time to digg the game up and make a small review of it.
This is the emulated Commodore 64 version on Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console (only available in Europe I think).
Winter Games have 7 eventens, detailed bellow. The games was released in 1985 and is 25 years old this year. Is the game still good? Yes, I think so. The graphics is quite blocky by todays standards. But all those 8-bit games have some sort of soul that many new games don’t have. Remember that these games ran on a 64 Kb computer. It’s amazing what they achieved with so little memory.
The characteristic C64 sound brings back good memories. The game emulates very well, it only lack a Tac 2 joystiq.
Under my YouTube-video, you will see a small description of each event.
Hot Dog
This is a freestyle event. Make your twist and turns and try to land stright.
Biathlon
Find a nice pace with the left button to get a good rythm of your skier. Watch your heart rythm since you will get tired and slow down uphills. It will also be harder to hit your target while shooting. This is one of my favourite events.
Speed Skating
This event is pretty easy. Find a good rythm with the left and right buttons, and you will win easy.
Figure Skating
You have 1 minute to do your jump and spins. Sounds easy, but you have to land stright to get good score from the judges.
Ski Jump
The key in Ski Jump is to time your jump right, have a nice flight down the hill and try to land standing. As you see in my video, this is something I’m not good at.
Free Skating
My only criticism to this game is that this event is the same as Figure Skating, except that you now have 2 minutes to do your athletic movements.
Bobsled
This is my other favourite event. Learn the curves and when to press the button, and you will do great.
In other words: Play some Winter Games. It’s still a great game after 25 years.
