Double Posted
Arg - my site is syndicated on LiveJournal through a "feed" and gets
picked up roughly once an our. This generally leaves me a window to
throw a piece up, edit it, and have the edited, complete version be the
one that gets aggregated.
Tonight, I got smited by the gods of fate, and my Mame piece went out to
the Friends lists without pictures, with typos, and will now be double
posted when the aggregator hits my site again. Grrr. I need to set up a
"Staging" site where I test out articles before they go live.
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Nostalgia Gaming
Joust - Donkey Kong - Pac Man
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Centipede - Galaga - Bad Dudes - Street Figher. These were the games that defined our youth, played endlessly in arcades and pizza shops while we waited for the adults to do whatever it was they did, on our Colecovisions and our Atari twenty-six and fifty-two hundreds.
I've grown out of videogames. In all honestly, I haven't sat down and played an entire game by myself since beating the crap out of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night over 6 years ago. Sure, I've had little affairs with games since, but they're always been too fast and un-centered, for lack of a better word, for me to enjoy. Games with a 3D camera make me alternately frustrated and dizzy, and it's near to impossible to find a game without one anymore. I don't really care how realistic the lighting or the bump-mapping looks, beyond a geeky curiosity, and I don't need a Hollywood budget or plot. To me, the best games are the ones that, in the words of my "Othello" box, take a minute to learn, and a lifetime to master.
To find the games that I really enjoyed playing for any amount of time, it was time to stop waiting for the next great first person shooter, and start looking backward.
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