Since I talked about my idyllic summer relaxing and playing video games, this seems like an apt time to highlight some of the many, many, many video games that were popular at the fraternity in my time there.

We were all hooked up to the incredibly fast CWRUNet and had our own computers, which meant that we all had access to endless file shares ( Read more... )

Birdie arrived just before midnight, and by the time we got back to our room it was a new day. The fun was just beginning ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I wrote about how I was playing a little bit of Moon Patrol at work. What makes this even more interesting is that I otherwise seem to have lost my taste for computer games in general, or at least my taste for playing games for hours and hours. Somewhere, my sixteen-year-old self is very confused ( Read more... )

As I mentioned a few months back, my department moved into a new building in January. Among the amenities in the new building is a game room. There's a pool table, several video game consoles (the new XBox, I think) hooked up to large screen televisions, two pinball machines and two arcade cabinets of the "choose one of several dozen older games" ( Read more... )

Instrumental
Theme From Query For Glory
Mark Siebert

Come a hero from the East
Free the man within the beast
Bring the child from out the band
and drive the curser from the landLike pretty much every other guy I've met my age, I played video games a lot when I was a kid. My grandfather got me an Atari 2600 one year. That was the only video game ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles

Given my general lack of coordination I'm not terribly good at Rock Band. However, when it comes to singing my "not terribly good" approaches legendary proportions. To quote A Chorus Line what I lack in ( Read more... )

A coworker lent me Civilization 4. Yes, I know that it's two years old already, but it's new to me. This version, as you may know, has added religions, which is appropriate as my soul is definitely in mortal danger. It's the first time I've geeked on a game hard core since Warcraft III was originally released, or maybe Dungeon Siege, so I think I'm ( Read more... )