I tend to mostly cover more serious topics on my blog, but occasionally you have to take a break and have some fun too. Which brings us back to the topic of video games. My wife and I picked up New Super Mario Bros Wii the week it was released and have been playing it [...]
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Guitar Hero Tournament at COSI on Friday
Do you like the Guitar Hero? I know you do! I’m going to be judging at a tournament on Friday. Details are here if you’re interested in competing! Should be a lot of fun!
Happy Resident Evil 5 Day!
Yep, I’m a nerd. I get excited about video games, and today is a very exciting day: the long awaited Resident Evil 5 is being released (on a Friday the 13th no less). While not a direct sequel of Resident Evil 4, much of the gameplay elements appear to be unchanged from that highly enjoyable [...]
Eighteen Months Later…
Exactly 18 Months ago (November 19, 2006) Anne & I were out at midnight trying to score a brand spanking new Nintendo Wii. I didn’t think pre-ordering one was necessary, and there was no way I was going to stand in line for 24 hours like those other goofballs. I figured there would be enough [...]
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
I consider myself to be quite the hardcore nerd most of the time. I’m from a generation that’s grown up playing video games. I started on the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 and have played just about every major game to come along in the last two decades. But I’ll admit that things have slowed [...]
Sticking up for video games
This is a post I made on the Columbus Underground defending video games today. Man, I’m such a dork. The original poster is here in italics. My post is the long part below it. pardon my ignorance, but why do people have to constantly upgrade video game systems?? I can’t see how to justify paying [...]
My Console History
I was thinking… over the years I’ve played a lot of video games and owned a lot of consoles. Here’s my personal list of my systems (excluding computers (that’s a whole other can o’ worms)) that I’ve gamed on: Atari 2600 My parents got one of these when I was around 3 years old. I [...]