If you owned a personal computer in the 80s and played computer games, you probably played at least one Infocom text-based adventure game like Zork or (my personal favorite) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Known as interactive fiction, or IF, these games used the most powerful computers on the planet for their processing engines [...]
Archive of posts filed under the games category.
Nintendo announces next-gen (strangely named) console
Today at E3, Nintendo announced their next generation game console, the Wii U. The console itself looks pretty much the same but boasts (presumably) increased specs, including HDMI for full HD output (no more 480p!). The real news, though, was the new controller: along with the standard D-pad, buttons, and motion control it sports a [...]
Those birds … they’re so angry!
I have been hooked on Angry Birds since I first played the lite version on my iPhone back in April (and then immediately purchased the full version). I started over from scratch when I bought the HD version for my iPad in October. The other week I finally completed all of the released levels with [...]
Apple iPad
About a month ago I got a 16gb (Wi-Fi only) Apple iPad from work so I’ve had about 30 days to mess around with Apple’s “magical” tablet. If I had to sum the iPad up in one word? Slick. I’m not going to bother with the specs, or a general overview of the iPad here. It’s [...]
Pac Man turns 30
Wow, Pac Man is 30 years old. To celebrate, Google put up a logo Doodle that was an actual playable Pac Man game, sound effects and all! What a blast from the past … I sank quite a few quarters (or tokens) into Pac Man machines back in the day. I also had the Pac [...]
More Wii homebrew: running games from a USB hard drive
I dabbled in Wii homebrew last year but didn’t do much beyond getting the Homebrew Channel working and messing around with a few apps. Then last week I saw this post on Lifehacker and thought, I have got to try this. The Lifehacker tutorial is pretty straightforward … the Wii hacking community has done some [...]
Ah, spring … baseball is back!
It was a beautiful day today at Brighthouse Field in Clearwater where we saw the Tampa Bay Rays beat the 2009 NL Champion Philadelphia Phillies in 10 innings in front of a sell-out crowd. We had pretty good seats, right down the third base line. We were in full sun the entire game, so it [...]
Apple iPhone 3GS
After over 13 years of using (mostly) PalmOS and (some) Windows Mobile devices as my PDA and/or cell phone, I now own my first device that runs … OS X. Yep, I got an iPhone. We’re in the early stages of testing the iPhone with our corporate e-mail infrastructure: Microsoft Exchange and GoodLink. Since my AT&T account has been upgrade-eligible for some time (the [...]
Wii Fit “is a very, very mild workout”
This is really no surprise to me, but an American Council of Exercise study on the effectiveness of Wii Fit determined it to be “underwhelming” (found via Joystiq). I’ve always said it was a combination of Wii Fit and changing my eating habits that made it possible for me to drop 40lbs. Just playing Wii [...]
If you already own Wii Fit, get Wii Fit Plus
While I continue to wait for the delivery of my FitBit I picked up Wii Fit Plus last weekend. Wii Fit Plus is basically an upgrade to the original Wii Fit that came with the balance board: it contains all of the original games and activities, then adds a bunch of new games (Training Plus) [...]
