Month: February 2011
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Old Game Tuesday – Uncharted Waters
This might be surprising, considering how much I love most other Sid Meier games, but I never got around to the original Pirates! game. I was deep into war games and looking at it, it just didn’t interest me. Another thing I found to be cool were Samurai (and by extension, ancient Japan), which led…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Oregon Trail
I’ve spoken about educational games before, and this is one of the big ones, The Oregon Trail. Most people in my generation (or close to it) played this in school, on the Apple IIe or IIgs in my case, and it was one of the first ‘edutainment’ games I played that was actually fun. First,…
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Spring and Summer 2011 Movies
The meat of the 2011 movie season is coming up, including the Summer blockbusters, and I thought I’d run them down and see which ones I’m planning to check out. Note that as a Dad, the list leans towards animated movies as well as comic book movies and summer blockbusters. I don’t like horror and…