The Gamer's Quarter

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What Mr. Mechanical said. "Just delete it," I told myself in darker hours. "Or move it into your 'Infrequent Updates' folder, at the very least." I wound up not doing either, and I'm glad, because I'd ...

I miss this magazine so much. Thanks for these articles!

What happened? Funding issues?

I know it was released a while back, but I recently picked up 1080 on the VC. Good stuff! It really benefits from the high resolution of the Wii. I can't believe I sold my N64 copy way back.

This episode, Jesus.

My god, that episode was amazing. I don't know what to say other than that I loved every second and can't wait for next week.

That was a wonderful episode--definitely one of my favorites. The agitation the passengers had towards the Doctor was very well-handled.

Speaking of spoiler-that's-not-really-a-spoiler, I just saw Genesis of the Daleks for the first time today--my first non-revival Doctor Who story! I really liked it. I can't wait for Davros to come ba ...

I think I might start playing through the first three MGS games tomorrow.

No demos.

I haven't played Smarty Pants, but it has a lot more questions than TV Show King (10,000 vs. 3,000) and is more money ($40-50 vs. $10). TV Show King also doesn't have much variety, eit ...

I just deleted Sin and Punishment to make TV Show King fit. It's really fun! Typical quiz game...but I'm a sucker for them, so yay.
This looks like a joke post at first glance. I guess if you really ...

I just deleted Sin and Punishment to make TV Show King fit. It's really fun! Typical quiz game...but I'm a sucker for them, so yay.

I say Yay. I plan on getting TV Show King later (lawl, I know) and having fun. Lost Winds sounds like it has some interesting play mechanics and Defend Your Castle looks like a good time.

I remember that article! I brought it up with a friend and we debated the New Deal.

I love Reason.

Right on, dhex. The fact that it was written when fascism was not exactly a four-letter word make it that much more interesting. Movements like the German American Bund, etc. were actually in existenc ...

I obliterated my high score in Tempest 2000 after playing it today, for the first time in months. It's like...846,000+.

I reached level 50 and suddenly it's like a brand-new game. Minter did some b ...

Yeah, I shelved it and picked up my copy of It Can't Happen Here, which is fucking excellent.

Ripped from my LJ because I am lazy:

This should be required reading in every high school across th ...

I got this yesterday. It's really a blast! I wasn't even expecting to like it much.

Snake makes the entire game for me. I love, love playing as him, and that's something I've never said about a Sma ...

I'm on page sixty of Neuromancer.

I don't know, guys. Like I want to like this book but something is stopping me. I like cyberpunk, but I think I have problems reading it. It's always been more of ...

PROTIP: My best friend lives down the street from where Clerks was filmed. Her mom used to buy cigs from Smith!

So, I finally figured out to how use DOSBox today.

Impressions:

Rebel Assault II is so bad, holy shit. I had the PSX version and sold it several years ago. I downloaded the PC version out of bor ...

JSRF is one of the biggest letdowns ever for me.

It's not that it's bad...it's just so goddamn mediocre. Like they took all the SPEED and INTENSITY of the original (COPS ARE COMING MOVE MOVE MOVE) ...

I refused to see Clerks 2.

Good enough?

Edit: I like Clerks, and to a lesser extent Chasing Amy, the same way I like Final Fantasy VII and Journey. Put that on your line and smoke it!

Me too, ...

Now that you mention it, this makes an awful lot of sense. You know, central planning.

It's not like SimCity is a libertarian game by any stretch of the imagination, after all.

I only know of web magazines.

The Escapist isn't too bad, as far as online gaming journalism goes.

I discovered a lovely British magazine called The Player yesterday. Good stuff!

The Gamer's ...

dhex, I have a friend in NJ who was going to that concert! Small world.

I hope Liz gets better.

Arghhhh I need to get a 360

This looks amazing, mainly just because it rips off Lynch.

A quick aside, since my curiosity is getting the better of me.

Dracko, what exactly are you referring to with the BBC and the EU? Living in the U.S., I miss all this stuff. Sad

I haven't really b ...

I'm considering buying the Bone one-volume edition. I read the first two books last year and sorta liked it.

Good idea?

Daph, Doctor Who is totally worth checking out. Just try the 2005 series.

So, today I played my first computer adventure game, TGQ!

Well, it was actually last night. I downloaded Maniac Mansion Deluxe...and got stuck. Two of my characters were caught and sent to the base ...

Why, thank you Daphny.

What's in a Tokyo Tea and a Singapore Sling?

I love water, coffee and the occasional cup of tea. And seltzer! I down one of those big bottles within thirty minutes.

As far as alcohol goes, the only thing I generally touch is red wine. One or ...

I watched Alien Nation this morning. Not bad!

I live in Stratford, Connecticut. It's a nice, mid-size town about 45 minutes from NYC (though I've never been there for some reason) and about twenty from New Haven (CT's best city, IMO, and where I ...

I thought Torchwood was pretty decent. Entertaining and manic, as usual. It had a tighter feel than most of last season. I'm going to keep watching it through the season, I think.

Excite Truck really opens up after a while. Once I "got it" and looked beyond the presentation, I was hooked. It's like San Francisco Rush, only better.

I can see how people wouldn't like it, thoug ...

What's Ghost Squad?

It's a Sega light-gun game from 2004 that was recently ported to the Wii. It's the ultimate light-gun game, if you ask me. It's short (three missions), but it has lots of replay ...

I kind of liked Umbrella Chronicles, but between it and Ghost Squad there's simply no choice.

Motherfuckin' Ghost Squad.

Hey Ryan!

Thanks for the kind words. I hope I can keep my GPA up--I just finished my first semester and have a 3.86.

I'm voting for Ron Paul.

I've been posting here for a long time, but:

I'm Andy, and I like videogames. My dream is to be a history professor. I just finished creating my LibraryThing profile and discovered I own way more c ...

Cycle, have you seen The Elephant Man? I just saw that recently and it's sad and uplifting at the same time.

lol, the video for "Happiness in Slavery" gave me nightmares when I was ten Sad

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S TGQ!

I have a feeling this year will be better than this last one.

Stop Making Sense?

Good choice.

I just saw Blade Runner for the first time last week. I thought the ending was vaguely uplifting. Hero running off with the girl, against all odds, etc. I'm talki ...

Anthem is Rand's best, probably, since it doesn't shove itself down your throat. I like Atlas Shrugged--well, what I remember of it--but then again, I'm pretty crazy sometimes.

I got way too many books, too. Five, all from the Library of America. American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s, American Noir of the 1950s, Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels, Raymond Chandler: La ...

1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Kororinpa
3. Ghost Squad
4. Planet Puzzle League

Okay, I'm driving this topic back to Rand, just because.

I read The Fountainhead in 9th grade. I then read every bit of Rand I could, over the course of a few months--all her other fiction, outside ...