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Category Archives: Videogames

January 8, 2013 Tuesday 10: Rock Band Songs

The last four New Year’s Eves I’ve hosted a party at my house. Sure, I like getting together with my friends and greeting a new year with people I like, but the main reason I do it is so I have an excuse to put the Xbox out in the garage and project Rock Band […]

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December 19, 2012 Why?

While I was playing The Simpsons: Tapped Out the other day, I said to my wife, “The Muntz house cost me $74,000!  That’s crazy!”  Her response was, “Why do you need to buy it?” I didn’t have an immediate answer for her. The best response, I guess, is “Because it’s there!” You can climb Mt. […]

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December 5, 2012 Draw Something

This game was huge for a couple of weeks about eight months ago.  everyone was playing it, everyone was having fun with it, and then, bam. Nothing. Stopped. Everyone was so over it. Well, most people, anyway. I still play, and I’m glad I have a few friends who still like to play or I […]

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November 29, 2012 Zen and the Art of Angry Birds

Two years ago I bought a Windows Phone, a Samsung Focus. My experiences with it are fodder for another entry some day, but the important thing about it for now is that Windows Phone has Xbox Live games that let you earn achievements. Sure, achievements are totally worthless (well, up until recently, at least), but they […]

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November 21, 2012 Favorite Things: Karate Champ

A block away from where I would wait for my mom to pick me up after school was a gas station that usually had 3-4 arcade games in the dimly-lit back. I wasn’t allowed to go to full-on arcades when I was a kid, it was at this gas station that I discovered greats like […]

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