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Alternate Land Destruction Idea
This deck uses the Icy Manipulators to tap my howling mines on my opponents turn so she can’t take advantage of their card drawing ability.
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Top 5 Video Game Soundtracks
When a video game has great music, it usually points to the care in creation that’s needed to be make one of the better games of all time. As you’ll notice, the games on this list are also some of the greatest games ever made. You won’t be finding “Paperboy” or “Ghouls n’ Goblins” on this list. Only the best games have the best music. They go hand in hand. When you travel the world of a great RPG, great music is a necessity for identifying the different lands. When climbing up a dark, shadowy castle, appropriate music is needed to instill a feeling of unease in the gamer, and this all must be done in a unique way to give the game its claim for greatness, an ambition that’s not necessarily sought after in modern gaming. After close inspection in our listening sessions, we have chosen these 5 video games. The music in these games reminded us of playing them at younger ages, and sometimes overcame us with a sense of forlornness, in knowing that these games can’t hit us again like they hit us the first time we played them. Nonetheless, the music in our top 5 video game soundtracks are the best examples of great music in great games, music so great that they are often instinctively listened to even when not playing the game, maybe even in your car when you’re around the right crowd of nerds who could appreciate such a thing.
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Super Off Road
Super Off Road. First introduced to me in the dimly lit corner of a Burger King Castle in Meriden, CT. The machine stared me down, flaunting the three primary colors, each assigned to a black steering wheel. I don’t remember if there was a gas pedal for each of the three players, but I do know for sure each of us had our own NITRO button. The three players were able to, of course, toss quarters into this machine and drive their tiny little truck around a beaten dirt course on the 20 inch color screen. Taking on the yellow truck, I began my adventure into Off Road nitro-filled racing, battling with three other vehicles on the muddy and worn pixilated track. At times these vehicles were driven by humans, at others, the computer inside this amazing stand up interactive video game would control the relentless trucks. I played course after course, winning money for finishing each race. With this money, I was allowed to upgrade my truck over and over, in many different ways. Sometimes it was the tires, others it was the engine, turbo or shocks; and so on. At first I experienced some initial shock spending $70,000 for a set of tires, but they proved to be well worth every penny. After some time, there would be random green money bags that would just show up on the dirt track. If you aimed for them, and ran them over, you collected the cash. However, the amount of money in each money bag was just as random as its location and timing on the track. It’s as if the system would taunt me, sometimes when I got the moneybag it would be $1,000. When I saw the other computer controlled trucks get the money bags, they would get $100,000. I’m sure it was rigged, but nonetheless, I carried on. This was the type of game I could play for a very long time off of just one quarter. I played until the birthday party at that Burger King Castle was over, and I had to be dragged away. -
Mario Pary 4 : Domination Mini-Game
Mini games. Mini games were the name of the game in Super Mario Party 4 for the Nintendo Gamecube. Wandering through the digital world of psychedelic Japanese programmers, we were sent off onto little detours. Forced to play games that had nothing to do with our main goal: beating the full game. Most of the time these so called mini games were just a pain in the ass, but we came across one that was just completely pointless. It goes by the name of Domination. It was the one where you faced a never ending line of stone figures, shaped and stacked like domino’s. The only point of this mini game was to smash the A button on your controller as fast as you possibly could in a certain time period, and then it would knock down the corresponding amount of stone domino’s. Highest count of downed stone domino’s wins. -
Online Gaming
Online gaming is so fucking gay. You’re playing against a bunch of 12 year olds that haven’t managed to grow a decent bit of peach fuzz on their nuts and run around screaming shooting at rocks. Tactical shit is sweet when you get to do it, but you can’t be playing with dumb ass morons. In an every man for themselves game, kill kill kill works fine, but after stroking myself while looking at my kill count, I find I would rather play a few intelligent people and do something cinematic and tricky.
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Classic Video Game Review: Pac-Man
Over the course of my quasi-centurion life I have dabbled with various substances to no true good effect. My brain being semi-addled as it is, it still doesn’t help me answer the question: “What the hell is Pac-man?” Off the bat you are playing as a 2-D profile of the Wal-Mart smiley, traveling through a darkened labyrinth consuming balls while being chased by four coloured specters. As if that wasn’t trippy enough the specters each have different names. Despite the flashback-inducing imagery, the game is highly addictive. There is a certain thrill in evading ghosts and a merciless retribution found when it comes to eating them. Hours can be spent challenging yourself to attain high scores and greater level achievements. Can you pass though the ghosts around this corner? Can you evade the Blinky and Pinky trap? -
Death of a Gaming Store
Doth thoughest knowest of thine Dragons Lair in yonder West Hartford? For many a fine yeareth, the writers of Old-Wizard hath gone to thine Dragon’s Lair for gaming supplies and found both supplies and stinkiness. Now those days are over as the Dragon’s Lair is empty with no Dragons or treasures. However the stink remains. All the halls are filled with its foul reek. Farewell to you gaming store we’ve been thrown out of, loved and hated for so long. Why you closed, we are uncertain, although our hearts will be forever open to your return. Plus it will save us gas by not having to drive so far for commons. Adieu.
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Monster Neverwinter Nights Update
There’s a new update with a plethora of new monsters, placable scenery, two new tilesets and scripts! Now you can take your adventures into a tropical paradise or a sultry underwater cave. The content is from the latest module “Pirates of the Sword Coast” which allows you to become a feared and fabled pirate, like Johnny Dep. Pirates are all the rage nowadays. No one cares about ninjas anymore. You can download the updates here: http://nwn.bioware.com/players/167/ or you can return to that flea-nest you call home here: www.yahoo.com.
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Old School
I wore my power glove all the time when I had one. I used to wear it hiking, driving, and I even wore it on a date once. Scared the crap out of the girl. -
Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings
During the Middle Ages, there wasn’t a whole lot of fun and excitement to be had in the daily musings of life. The simple minded peasant farmed the land, raised the sheep, and helped where ever they were needed by their feudal master. The feudal master controlled and instructed his people on what their tasks would be from day to day, which could have been any number of things. You, my dear Old Wizard patron, shall be that Master. You shall be the master of the Middle Ages, and of the many different civilizations that claimed the times of castles, catapults, swords, and pikes all to their own. But it’s not just instructing the peasant to build and till the farm for the good of the colony. It is much more survivalist than that. This game can only be mastered through thinking like a King that must house, feed, and protect his people.
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