Welcome to Willamette, Colorado! On entering this lovely town your first thought will be “hey, what a lovely town” followed closely by “where can I get some stylish consumer products?” Not to worry, just head on over to the Willamette Mall for all your shopping needs. You’ll meet new people and have loads of fun, [...]
Games are better than movies and TV - this is just my opinion, it isn’t my fault it happens to be right. The interactive element of video games is something that can’t be matched by other artistic pursuits (aside from emulating traits of it) and technology is rapidly catching up to insane developer dreams. Except, [...]
It’s Chrono Trigger, just go and buy it.
Okay, fine. Chrono Trigger (Square Enix - DS) is that well-known and much loved RPG, originally released on the Super Nintendo in 1995 - it was also released on the first Playstation in some areas, trivia buffs. It has recently been polished and re-re-released as a Nintendo DS [...]
When I was a teen-aged teenager, we went on a school camp to a nondescript bushland area. At some point our group stumbled across a big cliff which pushed out over a large watering hole. Given our age and situation, some people decided to climb up to the top and dive into the water below. [...]
There are zombies everywhere. The gaming industry is bursting with extended franchises, long-running series, and ongoing characters - many of which started before some of their audience was born. It isn’t madness, of course - ontinuing an established brand has shown itself to be a crowd and pocket pleasing idea - but it does have [...]
Platform games frustrate and infuriate me. I am too impatient, running in half-cocked and trying to soar across the lava pits like a magic eagle only to die horribly and repeat the act a half-dozen times. It’s the same urge that makes me blaze through to final bosses without levelling in RPGs and refuse to [...]
My first gaming experience was pretty inauspicious - although not to me at the time. I was about 7 years old and it was Christmas; my parents had been awesome and gotten me a state-of-the-art (sort of), brand new Nintendo Entertainment System. It was accessorised with a very shoddy and tiny colour television from a [...]