"I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?" - Ferris Bueller
Play Pac-Man on Google’s Homepage
May 21st, 2010 by Sean
Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories or meet PAC-MAN for the first time through Google’s first-ever playable Google doodle:
To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it’s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button or just wait for a few seconds.
Google doodler Ryan Germick and Marcin Wichary made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980′s masterpiece.
They also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).
Update: Google Pac-Man lives on forever.
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The Dark Side Of The NES
March 30th, 2010 by Sean
Have you ever wondered what Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for the Nintendo NES?
Thanks to the hard work of Canadian Brad Smith, he’s remixed the entire album in 8-bit Nintendo glory:
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is an all-time rock classic, but that’s provided you’re listening to it on a record or CD, until now.
For those wondering, it’s available for download from the MOON8 project site.
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Guitar Hero Van Halen Arrived
October 5th, 2009 by Sean
Well my early release copy of Guitar Hero Van Halen showed up today. As we know it won’t be released to the masses until December 22, 2009.
I was sad to see it only comes in a sleeve and not a hard shell case like normal 360 games, but for free I really can’t complain.
It did come with a letter from Kai Huang, the founder of Guitar Hero and a couple promotional posters.
If you want the manual, you can download it from the website. It even says “For Promotional Purposes Only – Not For Resale” on the disc and sleeve which is sort cool.
Anyway, after receiving the game, I pretty much played straight through and finished it for Guitar on medium.
Now I’m in search of other people who have 360′s who also received or will be receiving an early release thanks to the Guitar Hero 5 purchase so we can get some online play going since it will be close to 3 months before the general public gets to play.
If you want to exchange gamertags, comment below and lets get to rocking some Guitar Hero Van Halen.
Overall I think the game is pretty solid. I am bummed that Michael and Sammy are not in the game or songs from the Hagar era, but again, for what the game is, it’s pretty good.
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Street Fighter IV for Xbox 360
May 3rd, 2009 by Sean
Just finished unlocking all the characters for Street Fighter IV – Xbox 360 edition. It only took a little over 4 hours.
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Free Online Gaming Sites
March 6th, 2009 by Sean
Who doesn’t like playing arcade games? Especially online for free. Check out these two game portals full of classic win: Golden Age Of Gaming and Almighty Arcade. Enjoy!
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Do you like classic retro gaming?
February 25th, 2008 by Sean
As most of my friends know, I’m into classic retro gaming. If you are too, come join the fun over at Gaming RockStar.
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Now That’s Playing With Power
February 3rd, 2008 by Sean
We just finished connecting everything in our new entertainment center.
Basically the TV, DVD and VCR combo unit, stereo receiver, 6-disc CD changer, dual cassette deck and two of our gaming systems (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis).
We can easily switch out our gaming systems if we want to play the 8-bit Nintendo or the Nintendo 64. Today was a productive day.
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I ordered a N64 controller and Zelda
February 2nd, 2008 by Sean
I forgot to mention that I ordered a Nintendo N64 controller and Zelda this morning too. I should have both within a couple days. Let the gaming begin!
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