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All things games that I love… digital and analog

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Like most kids of the 80s, I enjoyed the awesomeness that a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and a Gameboy brought to my life. I had a modest library of solid games at the time, but as the 90s rolled in my interest in console games waned and I moved on to computer games. At this time I handed my NES [...]

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So for the uninitiated, I grew up during the golden age of video games, the 1980s, which includes the era of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). By current standards, the pioneering games of that era were graphically and logically quite primitive. Coupled with the fact that many of those games have imperfections and areas that could stand for improvement [...]

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Just today I discovered Lord of Ultima, a web browser-based game. Besides the fact that it has really nothing to do with the original Ultima game series (other than its namesake), it's still kind of a neat game concept. It plays a bit like a simplified version of Age of Empires with players building cities across a large singular continent [...]

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Since, I built my first new computer in nearly seven years this Summer, I've been trying to catch up on a long list of computer games that I've been dying to check out. At the top of the list was Bioshock, which turned out to be a pretty awesome game in nearly every aspect. The story and setting was hauntingly [...]

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I just picked up World of Goo with the "pay whatever you want" sale (similar to what Radiohead did a few years back). I didn't drop as much money on it as I should have, since I try and watch my spending. But it's well worth it for this sleek little game. The indie game market is really picking up [...]

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I went to Gen Con every year through the 90's up until it was moved out of Milwaukee. I miss it even though I admittedly never took part in the actual gaming that went on there. I did, however, enjoy exploring the exhibit hall and gazing at all the hard-to-find stuff that you couldn't get anywhere else. I especially liked [...]

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A year ago this month, Napoleon's (a local pen and paper game shop) closed it's doors. It was a store that was around for almost my entire life, one that my old elementary school was across the street from, and I would walk past it nearly every day going to and from school. At one point in it's history, it [...]

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The first of my many rants is now online.  This one is about Online Gaming.  My future rants will include the "new" Battletech, computer game development, the 9/11 attacks (maybe), software piracy, Sci-Fi TV shows, and the quality of computer porn (well, maybe not that last one.) Playing games over the Internet is a fairly new innovation.  It originated from [...]

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I wrote a story that I want to make into a Neverwinter Nights mod, la-de-da.  It's part of my new strategy, as to landing a decent job... maybe.  Unfortunately, this game won't be out until spring (*praying*), so I have no idea if it's even possible for me to create this mod.  We'll see...

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This is an attempt I made at a floor plan for a tabletop run of D&D. It only consists of two floors of an inn and a relatively linear dungeon. I was inspired to make this while playing Baldur's Gate. This was made in Photoshop, and I have never used this in any practical manner. The Severed Hand Inn Map [...]