Video games of all kinds.
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When I had an iPhone, I had Orbital. It was one of my go-to games, I'd pull it out and play it all the time. It never really got old, and when I got my Galaxy S 2, the first game I went looking for was Orbital. It wasn't available.
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Before I start, I have to admit something. Lawrence, I didn't know that you were the Lawrence mentioned at the Acts of Gord website. I finally put two and two together just over a month ago, when it dawned on me that it was the same Gamer's Edge store.
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This was given to me and my sister as a kid, second hand from our cousins who had the newest nintendo and didn't even look at the old sega anymore (because blowing on things sucks).
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Microsoft make some great hardware. At least, in theory. Their mice and trackballs are solid, offering the only consistent competition to Logitech, but their forays into gaming have seen mixed results.
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A long, long time ago I wrote an article called 101 Secrets of the PC Engine, and it contained a lot less than 101 things about the PC Engine that most people didn't know. It's not exactly a serious article, as you might expect from something called 101 secrets with only...
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It's funny how things work out. A couple of years ago I was doing some freelance writing for the Official Nintendo Magazine (UK), and I'd done a review of Mario vs Donkey Kong. As part of this review, I had put together a quick look at Mario:
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Babo Crash was one of the first games I picked up for my Galaxy S II Android phone, and it was the first Android app I paid for. I figured it would be a good investment when I considered how much time I spent on it on the iPhone.
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Lately there's been a lot of talk about MAMEdev (and MESSdev) adding crazy new code to emulate the old CRT monitors from the arcades of my youth. We've covered the idea of CRT emulation before, and quite thoroughly I thought, but it's nice to see other people...
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Found via GameSetWatch a thread on the polycount.com forums that has a lot of artists posting their 3D re-imaginings of some pretty awesome video game characters.
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Back when I ran my game store we had little round stickers which we'd use to indicate that we'd tested and approved 'em. Today someone I know in Calgary (some eight hours away from my store) bought a SNES cartridge with the sticker attached!
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I had a chance to play with a 3DS today, and it's a very attractive piece of hardware. It's incredibly well built, as you'd expect from a modern Nintendo product, and the 3D works amazingly well. I can imagine that most of the sales are based solely on the incredible effectiveness of the 3D.
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While trawling through some ROMs I found a Kaneko game called Bakuretsu Breaker, and was quite surprised to find most of the ship sprites were very similar to a game near to my heart: Seibu Kaihatsu's Raiden.
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I like to keep tabs on interesting things, especially now that I've lost so much of my shit in the flood. Here's some interesting stuff I've noticed in the last month or so:
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A guy I know likes to crack open PS2 games and peer into their guts. He tears into custom 3D datafiles and extracts their gooey bits, works out how they function, and reassembles them in other programs. Watching him re-create levels and ships from R-Type Final was fascinating.
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I've been repairing a PS3, and I'll post about that later over on GamesX (after I succeed, or after I give up.) But as one of the test cases I've been popping a random Playstation game into the system to see if I can make the unit crash after a particular repair attempt, and the one that's been on hand the most is Colony...
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The Playstation Portable is like a family sedan with delusions of race car glory. People should really be using it for little short bursts of activity, but we keep being encouraged to take it for long and grueling professional outings. It wants to be much more than the portable system good for a quick go with Lumines, but...
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There are generally two types of people who play racing games, those who love cars and those who love driving. While there's some overlap, you can usually pick one side or another based on the games you play. I fall pretty squarely into the latter camp, as I prefer the immediate action of competition between equals.
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There's a stereotype that the majority of video games are space combat simulations. It's a misconception that frightens parents and confuses journalists, and it is based on an outdated but certain kernel of truth. From the incessant rhythmic pressure of Space Invaders, to the clean lines and unending labor of Asteroids,...
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Possibly one of the best games you've never played, Mezase Senkyuoh (known as Battle Balls outside Japan) is a little-known game from Seibu Kaihatsu, the shooter masters who brought us Raiden.
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