I hate Second Life. I don’t understand it. I already have a job. I already have a house. I understood Sims because the part where your Sim went to work (at least in the versions I played, they put out so many expansions my view is probably distorted) was skipped and my Sim just showed …
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Eve Online: Second Life for Hardcore Gamers
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 by golden jewDestiny of a Fan
Monday, November 12th, 2007 by chrisEveryone has a couple of games they particularly like, regardless of how good they are, because of the memories they have of them. Unless, of course, they don’t like video games, in which case they must be card-carrying communists. For me, one of those games is Capcom’s greatest RPG: Destiny of an Emperor for NES….
PS1 games you may have missed: More RPGs edition
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by chrisIn my last entry I took a break from mentioning RPGs. Since, however, RPGs are my favorite genre, you’re just going to have to live with a few more of them now.
Before we begin, I would like to briefly mention the first two games of both the Suikoden and Wild ARMs series. I have discussed …
PS1 games you may have missed: Non-RPG edition
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 by chrisBelieve it or not, I like a few PSX games that aren’t RPGs! Of course, several of them are still hard-to-find (because I like to like things nobody knows about).
Unfortunately, I do not have copies nor solid recollections of all of them. But I can tell you about a couple more to look …
Gaming Meccas of Japan Pt. 2 – Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 by tysonEvery hobby and every religion has their sacred place. Baseball fans have Cooperstown. Gamblers go to Las Vegas. Catholics go to the Vatican. Maple syrup lovers go to Canada. For us, the nerds, the geeks, the otaku, we have Akihabara. It is here that we can fulfill our wildest, dorkiest dreams. If we feel like …
Fishing for Quarters - Remembering arcades
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 by tysonBeing a kid of the Eighties and Nineties, I spent a ton of time feeding quarters into arcade games. We at videolamer may rain praise upon our little console buddies but we rarely talk about their much larger, and these days dumber, brothers, the arcade machines. If it were not for these coin-gobbling behemoths, consoles …
A death in the family - Sega leaves the hardware business and I rediscover video games
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by jayTowards the end of highschool I stopped gaming. For the first time, I had a girlfriend, was preparing to go to college, and had a wicked meth habit. Beyond these time wasting activities, something about video games seemed to have changed. Though I had been a Sega faithful since the Master System, my highschool days …
Requiem for a Dreamcast
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by christianI used to think I was pretty clever when I told folks that “Nintendo made me a gamer. Ocarina of Time made me hardcore”. I kept thinking this for quite some time, but eventually realized that pre-OOT, I wasn’t really a “gamer”, just a kid whose game experience consisted of little more than …
Can’t Escape the Escapism Part 2
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by jarradThere are reasons why we can’t escape certain games. And there’s a reason why it matters. Sometimes a game comes to mind simply because something in our real world reminds us of it. Once, I was on a campsite standing at the edge of a cluster of trees and the light of the setting sun …
Gaming Meccas of Japan Pt. 1 – Den Den Town, Osaka, Japan
Friday, July 20th, 2007 by tysonBeing a geek and living in Japan is kind of like mixing Ecstasy with LSD - it’s one hell of a trip. There are four places in Japan that should be on the must-see list for anyone who calls himself a nerd. The big one is Akihabara in Tokyo and I will be covering that …
