Archive for February, 2008

22 February, 2008 | 1 comment

God goes digital

Bible Adventures! A Google search produces surprising results–especially since growing up I could NEVER find this game (beyond the one time I DID find the game, however).

When I drove out to California from the East Coast, I’m sure I’ve passed many people that swear God is addictive. This cart only affirms that! What an addictive little selection of games for those seeking a healthy fear of our Lord! Whether you had to get baby Moses to the water or animals in the ark, the game played the same–you carried and threw objects to get them to go where you wanted them to go. In the meantime, other things try to stop you from achieving your goal.

For a religious title, I certainly didn’t stop and ask people if I could take their sheep, cattle, etc. and put them on my boat. No one seemed to care, actually, so I just stole a whole bunch of livestock, sealed up the door to my boat, and let humanity drown all over themselves. F them. I’ll save myself (and their animals, which will make great steaks during the long flood).

What did we learn? Take your neighbor’s cattle without asking and let them rot and die while you’re nice and safe. And they say video games only recently became truthfully violent….

13 February, 2008 | 3 comments

Zelda: A link to the past

I never learned more about navigation and finding my way than I did in Zelda: A Link To The Past. Working between two different worlds, you had to completely understand the way the map was laid out (because one world crossed over into the other).

Not only was this another wonderful game, but you got to throw chickens! I couldn’t find a place where anyone can play Zelda, but I still had to go forward and post about A Link To The Past regardless. It’s a wonderful cart and I want to make sure it was on the list of the things I’ve learned because without it, I’d never find my way around Southern California (and would probably end up in South Central).

 

8 February, 2008 | 2 comments

Rampage!

One of the best lessons I’ve learned in life is that no matter how glamorous Hollywood may have trashing an entire city appear to be, it gets really boring after a while.

hmmm. I think that sums it up, pretty much.

You can play Rampage! by downloading it from the Underdogs, though…

6 February, 2008 | 2 comments

Final Fantasy

 

When I think back and look at life, I’m reminded continually of how one finally arrives at where he or she thinks they were to end up.  Living happily in a relationship, working at a great job, living in a particular city…only to find that, in six months, all that has been stripped away and we’re forced to start over.

Que Final Fantasy.  Arguably one of the greatest video games of all time.  You had to play for nearly 15 hours to defeat the first boss (unless you rush, but then what’s the fun in that).  Only AFTER you beat the first boss and set out to cross the bridge to the next town, do you find yourself face to face with an opening title screen!  15 hours just to get to the title screen!  After all that work, you would never have guessed you’d be face-to-face with the beginning of the game.  Much is the same in life, just when you think you’ve got yourself going, an opening title screen smacks you in the face and you realize that your journey is NOW just starting to begin.

I couldn’t find a site where you could play this online, but I figured I’d still give you something.  If you want to play the music from Final Fantasy, visit this site to download sheet music and midi files from Final Fantasy.