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Category Archives: Videogames

March 14, 2013 Springfield Update

My corn crop came in last night. Remember my corn crop? So apparently I’m still playing 90 days later. I’ve made my peace with that. I had every intention of capturing screenshots of the crop being ready and then harvested, as I figured such a momentous occasion should be immortalized in JPEG form. Unfortunately, in […]

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March 13, 2013 I Apparently Hate Ghosts

It’s probably Pac-Man’s fault. I was John Rambo, minding my own business in the maze-town, chomping on pellets, when these four ghost-cops start chasing me all over. “We don’t want your kind here” is what they would have been yelling if the arcade machines of the day had voice capabilities. I just wanted to be […]

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March 5, 2013 Tuesday 13: Favorite Videogame Women

I am in no position to offer anything new to the “women in videogames” discussion: I am a white, middle-aged male, and my viewpoint is exactly the sort of thing that gets eye-rolled over. I happen to think my opinions on the matter are more closely aligned with the “right” opinions, but most people think […]

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March 1, 2013 Get Your Game Face On

Yesterday I started playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, carrying on a tradition of playing golf videogames that has lasted almost twenty years (my first was Links 386, and my brother and I still quote “Looks like I hit the tree, Jim” to each other from that one). For me, a gaming console needs to […]

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February 28, 2013 The Q*bert Game Watch

When I was in high school I had a watch I could play Q*bert on (this site has some pictures of it). I loved that thing. Every cube had room for four bits of LCD: Q*bert, Coily, a ball, and a “hopped-on” cube. The Q*bert LCD was hollow so if he hopped onto a cube […]

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