December 2007
10 posts
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the discovery channel
i’m watching the discovery channel as i’m writing this blog, and they’re having a special on online video games. everyone’s talking about how amazing being connected has been. the vice president of lucasarts just said, “the internet has definitely changed the way we make games.” the funny thing is, i’m not too fased by all of it. yeah, it’s great to...
emulators
emulation is against the law, blah blah blah, i don’t care. i’m posting this in a public place because i want everyone to discover what i’ve discovered: playing old games on your computer is really really fun. a friend of mine gave me an nes and a super nes emulator with literally hundreds of games a few years ago, but i hadn’t really played around with it until last year....
pokemon
i’m going to come right out and say it: i love pokemon. well, let me take that back a bit: i love a select portion of what pokemon is. i was raised on red and blue, i had red but played blue for my friend so that she could get all the pokemon. when gold and silver came out i was in seventh grade, and the craze was starting to die down, at least if you were an “older” kid. but i...
super smash bros
at my house, we have both super smash bros. (the original) and super smash bros. melee (the sequel). both are played excessively, and many classes have been missed and afternoons spent playing either one. my best character on the n64 version is ness, as the game lags a bit and i can pull his moves off better. in melee, we play on my wii, which has a faster processor and therefore makes the...
super luigi galaxy
spoiler alert: the biggest shock you get from beating super mario galaxy is that you’ve only played through half the game. once you beat it as mario, you get to play as luigi, who keeps all his skills and downsides from mario games past, like jumping higher but taking longer to stop after running. whenever i played mario bros. 2 (except on world 4) i was always luigi because i could control...
super mario galaxy
turning on super mario galaxy was one of the most exciting things i can remember in recent memory. right from the getgo the game is a blast to play as you adjust to things like gravity, spherical playing surfaces, and collecting star bits. the latter can be collected simply by pointing the wiimote at the screen and shot at enemies by pressing b. it feels like a true successor to mario 64 that i...
sonic
so this past weekend i finally got our house’s sega genesis to work (we also have a ps2, nes/super nes combo, n64, and wii). we’ve been playing sonic the hedgehog 1-3 ever since. we also have a game called michael jackson’s moonwalker, where, believe it or not, michael has to dance to kill bad guys and save children. but in regards to the sonic games, i never had a genesis when i...
bang bang you're dead
it was the name of the play that first intrigued me. i was working the lights for the marist theatre production of “hay fever” when i found out that “bang bang you’re dead” was going to be the next mccta play. excited, i downloaded the script. i don’t know what i was expecting, but it wasn’t what i found. that’s not to say i was disappointed in the...
