Posts Tagged by Videogames

It never fails. You’re playing a platformer video game, doing pretty well, and then BAM! Ice level. That’s the level where the designers thought something akin to: “You know what would be really funny? Let’s make the players do the same precision jumping dodging and attacking as every other level, but instead of adding some feature or theme to make it fun and interesting, let’s add one that intentionally makes the controls unresponsive and kludgey and stopping impossible, and let’s make sure it doesn’t effect…

GMingAdvice01

WOPR: “Would you like to play a game?” It is the beginning of a new millennium.  The anointed champions of the two greatest empires in existence square off for what may be the decisive battle for superiority. Rumors fly as the two champions and their massive armies prepare to take the field.  In the supersaturated environment, conjecture morphs into assumption nearly overnight, and the fans quickly divide into two camps, trading verbal volleys as the battle approaches. Is this a presidential election? The Olympics? No,…