Category Archives: What I’m Doing With My Joystick

Day of the Dead Rising 2: brain dead thoughts and some boss battle help

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Daniel

Having finally defeated the original Dead Rising on the 360 a couple of months ago, I was so hyped for the sequel to come out. When I heard there was a download only ‘prequel’ to the second game on the … Continue reading →

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How to cheat (um…beat?) Dead Rising Xbox 360…

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Daniel

When Dead Rising was released for the Xbox 360 last decade, it was the game that almost pushed me to buy the console sooner rather than later. But it wasn’t long before the user reviews began to hit the net…and … Continue reading →

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Silent Dark? Dark Hill? Actor Sean Bean probably wasn’t even sure…

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Daniel

The 2006 horror film Silent Hill immediately became a favorite of mine when I first saw it. As a long time fan of the video game series, I felt it totally captured the atmosphere of the games but also stood … Continue reading →

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How is it possible for a video game to be Obscure twice?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Daniel

Half a decade ago, a survival horror game called Obscure was released for the PS2 and Xbox. A simple takeoff on the original Resident Evil formula and 4-years ahead of the re-vamped Resident Evil series in that it was two … Continue reading →

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Infogrames Warlords remake on PC ALMOST rules

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Daniel

Memories…like the corners of my television screen… Way back in the day—like 1983/1984—me and my friends on my block would cram into my bedroom on the hottest days of the summer, in front of a fan, and have serious sessions … Continue reading →

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Danny’s Lament: Pluck your magic twanger Froggy!

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Daniel

If you know that reference, then you are truly a Frogger junky like myself. Me and a couple of friends spent a majority of the decade from 2001 – 2009 playing the numerous modernized versions of Frogger for everything from … Continue reading →

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Stelladaptor—the god of Atari 2600 emulation on your PC

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Daniel

  I got into the classic video game retro scene in about 2001 when I finally bought a home computer. Within a matter of months, I loaded my computer with pretty much every video game for every console released between … Continue reading →

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You’ve entered the Arcade Zone, where no Activision classic is what it seems

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Daniel

The last generation of game systems was treated to “Activision Anthology,” a collection that had dozens of original Activision and Imagic classics from the Atari 2600 days. If you hooked up an arcade stick to your system, you had a … Continue reading →

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Silent Hill really is going to fall off the map…

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Daniel

Take One: Shattered Memories shatters my hope for the series It was a big weekend for me and my partner in video gaming. Our goal was to immerse ourselves in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a “re-imagining” of the original classic … Continue reading →

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Escape from Bug Island seriously bugged me

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Daniel

This is one cheesy horror survival game with dated graphics and some really annoying use of the Wii controls…yet, I had to finish it. Simply put, a bunch of young people end up on an island and immediately split up … Continue reading →

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