Tag Archives: video games

The future of all my collections does not compute…

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Daniel

Yes, I’m an obsessive and compulsive collector of media that matters most to me: music, movies, books, video games. It takes a lot of shelves to store all this stuff. I’m always needing to put up more shelves. But these … Continue reading →

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For Adults Only: X-Arcade…the ultimate place to spend all your quarters…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Daniel

I’ve spent the last decade trying to re-experience classic 80s arcade games the way I remember them. Plenty of ‘compilation’ discs have been released for everything from the first Playstation to the Wii, but with these consoles, you’re stuck using … Continue reading →

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Not exactly the scariest nightmares you’ll ever have…

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Daniel

The 80s saw a revival of the horror anthology movie and short story TV show genres, from shows like Tales from the Darkside, Amazing Stories, Ray Bradbury Theater, and The Hitchhiker, to movies such as Creepshow, Twilight Zone – The … 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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Why do they have to ‘remix’ the classics?

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Daniel

Having grown up during the dawn of the 12” single, I’m a sucker for a remix…of a song, that is. But I finally picked up a copy of the Wii video game Namco Museum Remix and find most of its … Continue reading →

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