Hopefully Not Stupid
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Recent happenings: "Grow," Curmudgeon Gamer, Paranoia XP, Movie Reviews
Haven't updated for a while, so here's several things in one neat, easy-to-clean package:
1. Boingboing posted a link to "Grow," (follow link and wait a few seconds for redirect), a weird Flash game as only the Japanese can make them. A couple of hours experimentation revealed one solution to it (word is there are at least several). Don't try this at first, as most of the fun of the game is trying. My solution is to place the materials in this order: Egg, Cube, Mountain, Ball, Ladder, Pipe, Propeller, Tornado, Gear, Dish, Rocket, Screen.
2. I've started posting reviews at Curmudegon Gamer of the twenty-four arcade games included in Midway Arcade Treasures, an incredible value containing twenty-four classic Atari, Williams and Midway arcade video games, for twenty bucks. Rampart, Gauntlet, Marble Madness... actually, every game in the compilation is very tight. I think it's probably best for Gamecube players, however, as they can play the three- and four-player games without any sort of adapter.
3. Paranoia XP! A new, good (that is, non-5th Edition) update of Paranoia, one of the most inventive, unique, and get this, socially relevant of all roleplaying games. Many of the original people are working on, or at least advising for, this version, so hopefully it'll turn out a lot better than... oh, I've already ranted about that. Onward!
4. Movie Reviews. I've been writing strange little pieces for the school newspaper discussing movies, a topic that, for all intents and purposes, I am not at all qualified to expound upon. But that never stops anyone, and for some people it's their primary selling point, so I'm doing it anyway. Not all my reviews make it into the paper (they seem to only want one an issue, heh), so I may be posting some of them here. In particular, I have a review of Torque that I'm a bit miffed never made it into print, seeing as how the movie quite deservedly rapidly left theaters.
Haven't updated for a while, so here's several things in one neat, easy-to-clean package:
1. Boingboing posted a link to "Grow," (follow link and wait a few seconds for redirect), a weird Flash game as only the Japanese can make them. A couple of hours experimentation revealed one solution to it (word is there are at least several). Don't try this at first, as most of the fun of the game is trying. My solution is to place the materials in this order: Egg, Cube, Mountain, Ball, Ladder, Pipe, Propeller, Tornado, Gear, Dish, Rocket, Screen.
2. I've started posting reviews at Curmudegon Gamer of the twenty-four arcade games included in Midway Arcade Treasures, an incredible value containing twenty-four classic Atari, Williams and Midway arcade video games, for twenty bucks. Rampart, Gauntlet, Marble Madness... actually, every game in the compilation is very tight. I think it's probably best for Gamecube players, however, as they can play the three- and four-player games without any sort of adapter.
3. Paranoia XP! A new, good (that is, non-5th Edition) update of Paranoia, one of the most inventive, unique, and get this, socially relevant of all roleplaying games. Many of the original people are working on, or at least advising for, this version, so hopefully it'll turn out a lot better than... oh, I've already ranted about that. Onward!
4. Movie Reviews. I've been writing strange little pieces for the school newspaper discussing movies, a topic that, for all intents and purposes, I am not at all qualified to expound upon. But that never stops anyone, and for some people it's their primary selling point, so I'm doing it anyway. Not all my reviews make it into the paper (they seem to only want one an issue, heh), so I may be posting some of them here. In particular, I have a review of Torque that I'm a bit miffed never made it into print, seeing as how the movie quite deservedly rapidly left theaters.
