Retro Games
What about games?
I have always drawn a not-so-thin line between computer geeks and gamer geeks. Of course, there are cases in which the two merge (coding games?). I am a computer geek. Still, I sometimes play games too.
My favourite are platform games and arcades. I am much in love with retro games, such as 'New Zealand's Story' or 'Bubble Bobble' or 'Tetris' (and my mother was the best player of PacMan ever!). Super Mario, in all of its flavours, is of course a must. I played Kirby, Yoshi's Island, Parodius, Bomberman, Monkey Island, Donkey Kong.. too many to list. My brother and I (yes, I've got a bro :D) played lots and lots of games. We have been lucky; we got a secondhand Nintendo Console when we were kids. We owned a large number of consoles: Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo (SNES), Sega Saturn, Gameboy (vintage), Gameboy Color, GameCube, Playstation, Playstation2 and a couple of all-in-one pre-programmed 101-games-included cheap consoles. And I am probably forgetting something. Oh, and I can rock your socks off when playing Killer Instinct (of course, my character was often Black Orchid, the Aikido goddess :)). As if I was able to perform a single aikido move.
See what I got there? :3
What about the newest games? I'm not into 3D really much. I am more a pixel-person. I like 2D. However, I can do nothing but send huge kudos to American McGee's Alice (by Electronic Arts) and Portal (by Valve). Must-play.
I am not a fan of shooters; most of those games bore me. Instead, I appreciate very much a few games that apparently make large use of physics. I am dying to try LittleBigPlanet (PS3). I've seen a video on youtube and it features the most awesome physics engine ever. Sadly [or shall I say luckily?] I do not own any of the very latest consoles. No xbox, nor PS3, not even WII. If I had to get one, I'd probably go for the third. Why? First, because at first glance, it has the best games (and/or the ones that fit my tastes better). Second, because the Wiimote is the cheapest piece of technology (=cheapest oscilloscope) I can get for my scary experiments :3
What's your favourite game? Your best memories? Your first console, if you ever had one? Do you still own any? Which one? I am so curious to hear from you!
Oh and pretty please, vote for Barbie Computer Engineer. Let's stop this nurses-and-all-that-is plague. Go geeks!