Video Games
"Ocarina of Time" in a Day?
One of my favorite videogames of all time is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I was very skeptical about it when it came out because I wasn’t sure if it would work in the 3D world of the Nintendo 64. I reserved a copy anyway and picked up the gold cartridge on [...]
Sensors detect another quarter in your pocket
I grew up with arcades. The one I used to go to the most was “Space Port” in the Woodbridge Center Mall. The mall was split into 4 wings and “Space Port” was downstairs from “The Game Room” which had all the D&D and roleplaying merchandise. TGR is still there, but Space Port closed soon [...]
Dear Disney, please don't screw up TR2N
Tron was one of those revolutionary films that was really pushing what movie makers could do back in the early 1980′s. The bluescreen process that Star Wars used had been invented decades before, but was really put to the test by Lucasfilm. Even though computer graphics (CGI) had been used in vector form in the [...]
My love/hate relationships with fighting games
There’s something exhilarating about fighting games. When you’re playing a first-person shooter or an RPG, or even an MMORPG, events unfold rather slowly. In Halo, you’re scouting out an area before being attacked, and in World Of Warcraft, you could ride for miles before seeing something to fight. However, in fighting games, you’re thrown into [...]
Why I preorder my games
This article on Ars Technica brought about a lot of comments about why preordering videogames is a stupid idea. I’d like to defend the notion of preordering and explain a little bit about why I do it. Preordering started with laserdiscs. There were so few printed that if you didn’t get one on release day, [...]
Are Collector's Editions "a bunch of crap"?
Watching “Cranky Geeks” this week, John Davison said that items like the Grand Theft Auto IV collector’s edition and the Halo 3 Legendary Edition are “a bunch of crap”. I have to disagree here because the “crap” is actually insight into how games and movies are made. Back in the days of laserdiscs, Criterion uses [...]
My Xbox 360’s blog (yeah, you heard me)
There’s this rather unique web site called 360voice.com which looks at your Xbox 360′s activity and writes up a blog about it, as if the 360 itself was writing the blog. It’s an interesting concept, but the way the blog is written isn’t anything like I’d write. “I had to set aside my plans for [...]
The Atari 2600 turns 30 this month
Electronic gaming didn’t start with the Atari 2600. In fact, the first console I ever had was a Coleco Telstar Arcade; my sister and I got it for Christmas in 1976 or 1977. For its time it was a wonderful new toy, having three videogames in it, one game for each side of the triangle [...]
Is that Steve Jobs in my Wii?
My kids were playing Bowling on the Wii and I had this idea – since you have other Miis playing Wii Sports with you, why not make a few famous ones? I realize now that the idea isn’t new, but that’ll show you how involved I am in my Wii . In any case, we [...]
Need to get away?
I saw this during the Giants game on Sunday. Classic commerical!
