June 15th, 2008
Yeah, my sentiments exactly—that is, if I belong to the generation of basketball fans (especially of the National Basketball Association) that only knows Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Yao Ming. But I belong to the previous generation of basketball fans that idolizes Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Michael Jordan.
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May 11th, 2008
Okay, I’m stumped. Not that I mind, really. Not much anyway. It’s a little annoying knowing that you can’t beat a video game that you’ve played before. I’ll get over it, though.
Before I begin another mind-numbing round of Dungeon Keeper, which is, to me, one of the best games ever produced by Bullfrog Productions, I’m […]
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May 4th, 2008
Today’s generation of gamers have it easy. They’ve got dozens of gadgets at their fingertips and all the data they need to finish the games they play on these gizmos. Talk about spoonfeeding.
Yesterday’s generation, on the other hand, went through the haystack to find the needle, which represents information on how to solve difficult puzzles […]
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March 16th, 2008
How many of you have watched the Harry Potter movies? Okay. How many of you remember watching Harry and Ron Weasley play a round of Wizard Chess, with Hermione Granger commenting how barbaric the game is? No, this post is not about an old Harry Potter video game since the Boy Who Lived probably wasn’t […]
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March 7th, 2008
No other role-playing game has filled my sleeping and waking hours more than The Bard’s Tale, from Tales of the Unknown to Destiny Knight to Thief of Faith. Well, this isn’t entirely true, especially if you consider all the RPGs that have come out for the PC and the myriad consoles. But The Bard’s Tale […]
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January 21st, 2008
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, the coolest thing about this writing gig is I get to write about games I’ve played before. So what’s way cooler than that? Why, telling you kids out there that your daddy used to play games that had blocky, two-dimensional characters, that’s what.
In this first installment of Your […]
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