17/09/09 14:09 Filed in:
Gaming Goodness "Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis" came out in 92, and I was able to snatch it up shortly after it's release. How could I not? "The Last Crusade" turned me onto adventure gaming. After "Last Crusade" I dabbled in many other adventure games, but none had the same effect on me as my first adventure with Indy.
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11/09/09 10:03 Filed in:
Gaming GoodnessMemories are like photographs. And "time" is your
average crappy photoshop user playing with the contrast slider. Time likes to crank the contrast up on your photos with each passing year. All the darker gloomier elements of your photos slowly fade into blackness at the bottom end of the spectrum. At the same time, the lighter happier elements become brighter. Meanwhile, all the finer detail in your photos gets lost, and all you're left with is a polarised view of your memories. Things you liked when you were a kid, you now remember loving. And things you didn't like or were indifferent towards, you now remember hating. I tried to compensate for this when compiling my list, but it's damn hard when all you can see is blinding white when remembering games long past. Modern games that have made this list must be truly special by that logic. Either they have shown me something completely new, or are refinement approaching perfection.
Mass Effect falls into the latter.
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03/09/09 09:45 Filed in:
Gaming GoodnessIf you know me, you’ll know that my favourite gift of all time(next to my puppy) was the
Sega Master System that my mother gave to my brother and I when we were kids. We played a lot of games on that system. Standouts were
Zillion,
Quartet,
Space Harrier,
Ghostbusters, and
Rambo. Sega treated me very well with that system. That’s why it was so hard to shun the
Genesis and pick up a
SNES instead. My brother and I can’t remember exactly how we got the SNES. But we think we sold our Master System and games in order to buy it. Man we played a lot of games on that system. I fondly remember playing
Super Mario World,
F-Zero, and
Starfox(I fucking hate you Slippy you tool). But of course, those all paled in comparison to
“The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past”.
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26/08/09 17:11 Filed in:
Gaming GoodnessWhen I was in high school I got my game on with my
Super Nintendo, a
Mac IIsi, and a little
386 PC. I could go on for hours talking about that Mac IIsi or my super nintendo. But I don’t remember much about that PC at all. I don’t remember what software I used on it or where it was located in the house even. The only thing I remember about that little computer...is
Bloodnet...
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26/08/09 17:10 Filed in:
Gaming GoodnessYou know that friend you have that’s really into music, games, or movies. Well you and him are trapped in an elevator. 2 hours into it you’re struggling to think of something new to talk about. So you blurt “What’s your top 10 bands/games/movies?” And you instantly regret it. Not because you’re uninterested in what that person has to say on the subject, but rather because that is a horrible amount of pressure to put on someone. I mean how many bands/games/movies has that person listened to/played/watched? Well I’ve been asked that question from time to time, and I have had no answer, regardless of the topic or genre. Recently I seriously wondered what are my 10 favourite games of all time, and what order they ranked in...
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