Month: May 2011
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Old Game Tuesday – The Worms Series
The Worms series of games has it’s roots in the earliest recesses of computerized gaming, as a spiritual successor to the various ‘artillery games‘ like Scorched Earth. At their core, you have two teams of cartoony worms facing off, firing weapons ranging from simple shotguns to homing missiles to holy hand grenades to the super…
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Lightning Movie Review – Rango
Things are returning somewhat to normal around these parts, enough so that I took my family to see Rango at the Movieland 8. I enjoyed it, and it’s interesting that we had a trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2 in front of it, as Rango feels much like Kung Fu Panda – a good representative…
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Vintage Gaming – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, another Koei game, actually I will cover the whole series of games, at least the ones I’ve played. Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are at their core turn based strategy games centered around the eponymous timeframe in Chinese history. You’ll remember that from my talk about Destiny of an Emperor. There have been…
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More on Thor: Come ON, Roger
Roger Ebert is one of the few critics I play attention to. Â I don’t always agree with him, but he thinks really hard on even the silliest movie he has the misfortune to see. Â That is, most of the time. Â He didn’t review Thor officially, but mentioned in his ‘Journal’ today. Â I can understand him…
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Book Review – The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham
I just finished The Dragon’s Path, the latest novel by Daniel Abraham. Once, dragons ruled the land where the book takes place, but mostly what is left are the roads. The city of Vanai, often used as a token swapped back and forth between empires, is again threatened by war. It’s a war former hero…
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Movie Review – Thor
I went and saw Thor at the IMAX 3D last night, solid, enjoyable movie. I was never a fanboy of the Thor comic, mostly only reading it when it came in the big bulk packs that I bought, but I’m glad I went to see this movie. This is normally where I’d explain who Thor…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
To all the Mommies out there, have a great day!
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Things our kids won’t believe
For sports: Baseball was played mostly during the day. The only way to track the stats of your favorite players was through the box scores in the newspaper. There were no Russians in the NHL. The Mets were good and the Red Sox were perpetual losers, often in heart-breaking fashion. For media: MTV showed music…
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Vintage Gaming – Destiny of an Emperor
I’m showing my age again to some of you young bucks, but when I mention my favorite classic RPGs, this one probably elicits the most blank stares. Destiny of an Emperor was released by Capcom way back in 1990 for the NES, and was a fairly typical JRPG. There were a few key differences, and…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
I came to know Morrowind (I only figured out it was the third game in a series after the fact) through a friend. He had taken time out from Everquest to play a new single player RPG that I hadn’t heard of. I sat and watched for a while, and was intrigued. There were a…
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Classic Rock Will Never Die
…because we keep slipping the songs into our kids’ movies. Whether it’s Elvis records via Lilo & Stitch, to Crazy Train, Welcome to the Jungle and Bad to the Bone in Megamind, to every other movie ending with a dance party of some type thanks to Shrek, these songs are everywhere. That’s not even counting the comic book…