Chief Oddball – Page 33 – Oddball Update

Come In, Corneria!

July 4, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Back in 1993 I remember buying a Super Nintendo game and excitedly reading the manual in the car on the way home. That game was Star Fox. One of the forgotten classics produced for the SNES, Star Fox has, in my opinion, the absolute best soundtrack of any game released on that platform, period.

Nostalgic Reminisence

June 30, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

I’m a nostalgic old fool. Okay, “old” doesn’t exactly apply. But I do like old things, particularly things to which I can relate. Which would explain my choice of entertainment lately. During my recent rediscovery of the fine art of Wolfenstein level design, I went above and beyond the simple recollections that digging up such an old and cherished hobby naturally stirs.

Where’s My Cake?!

June 28, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

I unwrapped some saltine crackers at lunch today, and this fell out: So, where’s my cake? I must find it! Oh…and if, upon reading the title of this post, you were reminded of Harvie hiding in a ventilation shaft and chowing down on a chocolate cake while the captain of the Genia 17 verbally accosted the cake’s infuriated owner, then congratulations—you’re the only other person on earth who could possibly have made that connection!

UPN 8 Sucks

May 17, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

The local UPN affiliate in my area sucks donkey gonads. This isn’t anything particularly new, since they’ve always really blown (I mean, when your call letters are “WEVU” and you make jokes in your bumpers like “We View TV!”, you have to be pretty far down on the totem pole of TV station professionalism).

DOS Adventures

May 7, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Last night I began my latest “gee, that sounds like fun” project: Slap together a DOS gaming box and get it loaded up with every classic game from my past, from Wolfenstein to Doom, Duke3D to System Shock, Quarantine to Heretic.

Sacred: A Mainstream Gamer’s Medieval RPG

April 5, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

My friends will tell you that I’m not much for medieval PC RPGs like Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind. I’m more of a mainstream FPS gamer who likes your run-of-the-mill Dooms, Half-Lives, and all that other crap. But even I can get into a good medieval RPG if it’s accessible enough, and that’s where Sacred comes in.

Retro Gaming Installment #2: Blood 2: The Chosen

March 16, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

The second installment in my impromptu Retro Gaming Month commentary features Blood II: The Chosen, one of the premiere games running on Monolith Productions’ brand-new LithTech Technology in 1998. The first game I remember playing from this development team was Blood, the original, in approximately 1996 sometime.

March is Retro Gaming Month!

March 16, 2004October 21, 2012 Chief Oddball

By my own spur-of-the-moment declaration, March is Retro Gaming Month! Since every lame, pointless organization needs their own “official wipe your mouth month” or “official kick the refrigerator” month or whatever else, I figure, why not? The calendar’s plenty cluttered up as it is, and yet I don’t care!

Revisiting Deus Ex: Invisible War

January 14, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Given that it was the first 100% worry-free weekend I’ve had in quite a while, I spent most of my time goofing off. I mean, what else would one do, having been suddenly freed from responsibility? Oh yes. Game time. So I spent most of Friday through Sunday playing Deus Ex: Invisible War, which I initially reviewed here some weeks ago.

Prepping The Game Store

December 18, 2003October 21, 2012 Chief Oddball

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I’m forgoing the Xbox/laptop drag-along this Christmas, and relying only on the computers at my parents’ house for gaming entertainment. Since one of these computers is a three-year-old notebook and the other is an eight-year-old Pentium Pro, I decided that the only games I’m going to be playing were games at least as old as these systems.

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