Video Games
Friday, June 27, 2025
This past Saturday, I ran some errands with my wife, part of our typical weekend adulting. The unrelenting heat made everything uncomfortable and once we returned home, my wife went to take a nap. I found myself tired, but I was in one of those moods where nothing sounded good. I had too many choices of movies and television shows to watch, and way too many video games. So, I bounced around watching a few minutes of this or that, while mostly browsing on my phone.
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Recently, IOI revealed the first cinematic trailer for the new upcoming James Bond video game. Having been a die-hard James Bond fan since the release of the film Goldeneye, and a video game fan since the release of The World is Not Enough, I am very excited to see what they do with the property.
One question that looms is how will they handle the theme song. It’s not discussed nearly as often as it should be, but the James Bond video games have had some fantastic songs created specifically for the games.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
When I first began reading Conan the Barbarian, I could help but want to explore the world in a more interactive experience. This led me to looking into various Conan the Barbarian video games, which seem to be very hit and miss (mostly miss.) One of the more recent games was advertised as an RTS called Conan Unconquered. Having grown up playing Command and Conquer, I was intrigued at trying out a Conan RTS, as long as my off the shelf HP All-in-One PC could handle it.
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Sunday, June 8, 2025
When I think about truly amazing video game experiences, the first two games that come to mind are God of War and Red Dead Redemption II. These games feature wonderful complex characters, tight gameplay, amazing graphics, and it all creates for a very memorable experience. In my mind, these are two of the greatest games ever created and are Oscar worthy stories, and I look at the games as such. They are both masterful creations that can stir emotions while looking incredible while doing so.
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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Those of us of a certain age grew up feeding quarters into arcade machines featuring side-scrolling beat’em ups. Games like Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The X-Men, and even The Simpsons all were adapted into these button pounding games. They were easy to pick up and play, but difficult to beat, and that made for some great memories both in the arcade, and at home when the games were eventually adapted for consoles.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
When I was nine years old, I attended a rec center on the Navy base that we lived on. It was where I hung out after school and the summer while my dad was at work. We’d play games, make crafts, take field trips to water parks, and do all the fun things rec centers in the 90s did.
The center was attached to the base’s skating rink. Inside the center were pool tables, a TV with a Nintendo hooked up, some arts and crafts room, and a handful of arcade machines.
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