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It’s Much Easier to Play A Game When You Can Tell What The Buttons Do
Over the years, I’ve dabbled in a hefty number of video games. I’m pretty used to sitting down and picking up a new system reasonably quickly. It’s part of my job, after all. I may not be good at it right away (or ever), but I can navigate myself around a world and figure out…
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Rekindling My Lust for Adventure, One Page at a Time
My earliest days as a computer gamer were spent scouring static scenes with my mouse pointer, waiting for that telltale shape change that indicated the item or bit of scenery that would lead me to the next static scene. These were adventure games, and they were the closest gaming came to delivering a cinematic experience…
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The Shell Game Has Nothing On This Wooden Robot With Three Arms
The shell game, or cups and ball game, is largely considered to be a scam. A practice only the shadiest of street gamblers produce under the guise of an actual, winnable game. But it’s not. Not even this wooden robot will give you a fair shot. It’s probably got some sort of mechanized magnet, triggering…
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The Most Magical Match Three Puzzler My Wife’s Played in Ages
Most match three puzzle games forego a deep and involving story in favor of getting players right into the stuff-swapping thick of it. Owloh’s WizSchool: Magic Book Puzzle layers on the lore and colorful characters to create the a truly engrossing puzzle adventure. I downloaded WizSchool on my Transformer Prime tablet on Friday afternoon, lured…
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One Stranger Made a World of Difference to a Fifteen-Year-Old’s Journey
Since the year before I got married, it’s become an annual ritual, an immutable part of my life. For one week every summer, my husband’s family all get together in a bunch of little apartments down by the beach, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The horde of us are about thirty strong, these…
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This Prototype Legend of Zelda Cartridge Can Be Yours for a Mere $150,000
Why spend $15 on a box-less copy of The Legend of Zelda for the original Nintendo Entertainment system when you can spend $150,000 on a mustard yellow NES cartridge adorned with a faded label with the game’s name typed on it? It’s collectible craziness available right now on eBay. Now I can understand paying a…
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2‘s Fight Lab Looks a Lot More Fun Than… Tekken
Some people live for the thrill of intense, one-on-one fighting. They thrive on the click of arcade stick buttons and sideways glances at the player attempting to steal their thunder. Me, I just want to be a robot kicking a bear wearing a ballerina costume while dodging chickens. Most of my Tekken memories involve me…
By Mike Fahey
