Category archives: Video Games
Today is just another practice session for the cup final on Friday
So yesterday. It was one of those days of Fine Gael high drama and high-larity. Firstly, I got to “enjoy” George “Let the word go forth from this time and place…” Hook breathlessly eulogising Enda Kenny as a crusading warrior-cum-entrepreneur-cum-rugby-jock… continue reading »
8-Bit Agonies: Vigilantes and Ms. Ciccone
I’ve written here before about context (or lack thereof) and back-story (or lack thereof) in vintage arcade games. The relative complexity of contemporary gaming may necessitate lengthy in-game tutorials, 100 page instruction manuals, online walkthroughs/FAQs etc., but back in the… continue reading »
8-Bit Agonies: Death Wish 3
Gangs. Horrible, nasty gangs. They won’t be happy till they’ve raped and burned and killed us all (while covering our nicer buildings in graffiti). They are evil (just for the sake of it). They are also (as 70s cinema has… continue reading »
8-Bit Agonies: World Games
Oh, Track & Field (a.k.a Hyper Olympic), how I loved thee (and love thee still). Devourer of 20ps. Shatterer of fingers and thumbs. Constant companion during long, lonesome, rainy summers in 1980s Kerry. Pity all home versions of thee were… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Space Invaders
As part of an ongoing project to make my 14-month-old daughter as gargantuan a nerd as her daddy, I recently decorated half her room with a charming Space Invaders motif. It rocks. And she loves it (or appears to). In… continue reading »
Degradation and Deviancy: Signs, Pt. 3
Yesterday afternoon I spent several minutes wandering around a very large shopping centre car park. Though this was not, I’m happy to say, the highlight of my weekend thus far, I did chance upon the below (groovy) images. Proof (as… continue reading »
A lit bomb left unattended does not explode…
Back when I was a passionate twiddler of joysticks (and joypads), a well-known “rule” stated that video games based on movies were invariably crap. The truth of this assertion was established early in the medium’s history with Atari’s wretched E.T… continue reading »
