The Gamer's Quarter

i mean.

some of the writing in play was pretty good.

while it lasted.

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What the fuck is your problem? Are you making fun of my not having gone through the British school system? What point are you trying to make here?

Yeah, not too fond of Grant Morrison's Who work. I ...

CGA will always be the Apple ][gs display, to me. I never saw it in contemporaneous use on the PC. I've played things since, mind. Alley Cat, f'instance. First impressions and all, though.

There was lots of hunting around in freakishly garish landscapes.
Good ol' CGA colour palette.
EGA, wasn't it, for the first one? With graphics stolen wholecloth from Turrican and other PC/Amiga gam ...

Oh my, the GBA version is lovely. All the games are remade twice (once to wing for accuracy; once with remixed elements), and handled with a lot of verve and care.

That's the GBA one? Yeah, only problem with that is lack of score save -- like GB Tetris.

How's the DS one? It's got a similar collection of games on it...

I'd never played any of the Duke Nukem games (even the sidescrollers) before the XBLA demo. I'm surprised how it's more of an adventure game than a rollicking first-person run-n-gun.

Lumines really does come down to automatic, subconscious mathematical processing. Fitting blocks together, to music -- and music, likewise, affects the subconscious pretty directly. Lumines is meditat ...

You can win Meteos?

actually i probably would have a lot moreo fun playing a game about matching socks and fitting them in a drawer
I know. As I was typing that, I was thinking an actual puzzle game about straightening ...

Is there anything more to the mechanics than... putting together squares, to make bigger squares?

It's like it's a game about organizing my shelves. If I had nothing on my shelves but identical cub ...

Maybe that's a cover story for the mythical next issue of TGQ:

What's the Fucking Deal with Lumines? (p. 14)
Also inside: Mario's Realistic Pants (p. 4) and The Secrets of Strider Sliding (p. E12 ...

This is something that I've never had adequately explained, yes. Whatever it is that grabs people seems to clutch with ceramic talons. Yet all I get out of it is... squares.

It seems like a big pr ...

You must really like squares.

Lumines was kind of super-boring, but that certainly holds potential.

The bizarre fickleness of thieves. Someone should write an article on this.

boomerang of death v. fist of fury

winner: fist
You can PUNCH BULLETS.

Yeah, this feels more Sunsoft than most Sunsoft games, only isn't a complete asshole, unlike most Sunsoft games. Actually, ...

Hey, Shatterhand is actually... pretty good.

Certainly better than the Power Blade games. Though the running animation in the first game needs to be immortalized somewhere.

If you've the patience for Dragon Quest progression, Phantasy Stars 1 and 2 are amazing. Particularly the second. If you've the patience for Dragon Quest and the tolerance for interesting yet unfinis ...

Hey, it worked in one game. Clearly it will work in every other game regardless of context!

This is the way videogames are made. And yes, it's bullshit.

Are there no checkpoints in the Cement Man level? Jeez...

Oh, I didn't reply about the Phantasy Star.

Yeah... it'll take a bit of energy. Briefly, the fourth game is... okay. In isolation it strikes me as fairly generic. As the last game in the series, it ...

The actress had to pay attention to school. GSCEs, or whatever those things are.

Now seen the second part. They handled it really well. It's weird that she's going, since she's effectively the mai ...

Well, the first of the two SJA episodes today is pretty great. Just now began to download the second.

It manages to wrap several things together quite well. Maria's getting written out, reuse of co ...

You know what my other favorite RPG is besides Phantasy Star II? Skies of Arcadia.

I somehow ignored this Etrian Odyssey thing until now. Looks like it may be sort of okay? There's a sequel alread ...

Holy shit! Rieko Kodama! DS! Yes! To get!

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170125

EDIT:

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Okay, correction. Rieko Kodama + Yuzo Koshiro.

Yeah, I'm not sure what this might mean. I doubt it's got to do with the companion, as after I posted that, one of the above parties said the idea was for the companion to stay for series six, dependi ...

Better than planting a victory garden full of eggplants, anyway!

Yeah, there's this guy who David and I know, Josh, who would have flipped out (ho ho) about the place. I like him a lot.

Man, that place needs to move in around the block.

Okay. On OG,

I'm reliably told that the series is tied up 'til series 9. No possible hiatus 'til then... That ties in very well with what I heard of Moff's 5-year contract.
Patrick Stewart has be ...

Gosh, what could this be that has just appeared at the BBFC?

01:34:55:22 DOCTOR WHO - BATTLEFIELD
00:01:31:08 DOCTOR WHO (SEASON 26 TRAILER)
So. Season sets aweigh. Starting at the end.

Ironic ...

I think so.

I've got a headache. Thinking hurts.

Stop hurting me.

Haven't played a lot of Wii games. Of those I've played, Elebits actually worked the way I felt a Wii game should work. And I liked it, lots! I hear it gets annoying later on, but the bits I played we ...

Whohey. Let me in on that, if it happens.

If nothing else, I must imagine they have a good budget!

I tried to. I don't think he was paying attention at the time.

He just asked if I wanted to go to a "lingerie game party" that same day. Which sounds like a fascinating train wreck, yet I imagine w ...

Concerts are all about recontextualizing in the moment, yeah. It's basically theater; no two performances will be the same, and half the point is in seeing how things differ in a real, relatively mess ...

Not the dessgeega??

That's a really good interview.

Also, I'm not sure why it's meant to be such a revelation that Biohazard was planned as a FPS. That's... fairly common knowledge, yes?

So we'll be getting The War Machines and Four to Doomsday in January, which nearly catches us up with the R2 releases. We'll just be behind Battlefield and the R2 January release. We're even getting T ...

I'm playing this great game called cheese. The way it works, is I tear a piece off this crackly baguette accessory, then I take a sharpened implement and slice a hunk off this block of orange plasticy ...

The Colecovision in general is plenty of fantastic; easily my favorite pre-NES system. I just like the feel of it; there's a certain tangibility that's lacking in the Intellivision or 2600. The contro ...

You should rename this "a pound of raw flash".

Cycle, did someone unplug you overnight? Would you like me to reset your clock?

These are altogether interesting:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4759150.ece
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainmen ...

Actually, tape was way more expensive than film. It was a comparably new technology. This is part of why the BBC was in the practice of wiping its tapes after broadcast, for reuse. They were considere ...

Not quite live, though they did shoot each episode in something like an hour and a half. Not including any film inserts, which were done beforehand. Then they were generally broadcast the next week.* ...

So anyway, the special features on The War Machines (mentioned a few pages back) are pretty neat. Actually, the story itself -- well, let's back up a bit.

It's not my favorite Hartnell by a long sh ...

Yes, my mistake, Dracko. You are a lovely person and flowers blossom out of your buttocks.

I concede victory to your reasoned argument.

Not the dessgeega??