Category: Games

Soccer memories

Soccer memories

| May 23, 2008 | Reply

James Lileks on changes in American childhood: I don’t think they had soccer balls in North Dakota until 1981; it was brought in on a special train and placed behind glass and people got to walk around it and get close, if they felt comfortable, and become accustomed to its strange surface. It is faceted, […]

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New game for the Wii!

New game for the Wii!

| April 1, 2008 | Reply

My son Wes sent me this link from ThinkGeek: As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii […]

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December 8, 2007: “Pretend to be a Time-Traveller Day”

December 8, 2007: “Pretend to be a Time-Traveller Day”

| September 12, 2007 | Reply

UPDATED: Here’s a comic to check out. OK, this is the funniest idea I’ve run across since “Talk like a Pirate” day (which comes up just next week, by the way): You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a […]

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The ReDistricting Game (no, really, it’s a game)

The ReDistricting Game (no, really, it’s a game)

| September 6, 2007 | Reply

As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m a bit of a political junkie, and one of the great political spectacles is the national redistricting that occurs every 10 years — after the Federal Census — and sometimes more often than that. So it has been fascinating to run across The ReDistricting Game, a browser-based Flash game that […]

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Why FastCrawl matters

Why FastCrawl matters

| January 22, 2007 | 1 Reply

OK, so I praised a simple dungeon-crawl game that can be completed in 30 minutes. You may ask, why? Well, here’s this report (in the New York Times, no less) by Seth Schiesel about The Burning Crusade, the new expansion to the massively-multiplayer on-line role playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft: The big draw in […]

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FastCrawl: short, fast, and fun

FastCrawl: short, fast, and fun

| January 20, 2007 | Reply

As some of you know, I was a computer game designer some 20+ years ago, and I maintain an interest in computer games. Lately, I’ve been buying most of my games from Manifesto Games, a computer game distributor with a business model geared towards inexpensive (and downloadable) games from independent game companies. Well, my latest […]

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