Category Archives: Videogames
April 27, 2015 Q*bert Shirt
It has become frustrating that everything we see isn’t readily available. It used to be if you didn’t watch a show when it was on, you had to hope you’d catch it in reruns eventually. We dealt with it because that’s just how it was. Now, we fir up Netlfix or Hulu or even YouTube to […]
Tags: Q*bert
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April 20, 2015 Rock Band 4 WIshes
You have no doubt heard by now that Rock Band 4 will be here soon (and by “here” I mean here in my house after I buy a copy). This has made me extremely happy and I’m already looking forward to scheduling an Endless Setlist day. I have a lot of faith in the Rock […]
Tags: Rock Band
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April 15, 2015 Unreasonable Expectations
It’s often fascinating to me to see how games work and why they’re set up the way they are. I don’t remember when I first realized on-rails shooters were set up that way to show you specific scenes in specific ways or that Resident Evil’s weird camera angles were to maximize the chances you’d get scared, […]
Tags: Simpsons, Sims, Tapped Out
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March 18, 2015 A Familiar Face
I was watching the trailer for Pixels when I noticed a well-loved celebrity (no, not Adam Sandler): Now, I was planning to see the movie anyway (you can’t just throw in a bunch of classic arcade games and expect me not to show up), but now I have to see what happens with Q*bert. Given the […]
Tags: Q*bert
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March 6, 2015 The Curse of Immortality
Here’s Honkus Pants again. You might recall a while back that I stopped playing The Sims Freeplay because they added an aging component and I didn’t want my Sims to die. A couple of weeks ago a friend started playing, and she needed a neighbor to have a loungechair by the pool so she could finish […]
Tags: Sims
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- Posted under Mobile, Videogames