Old School:
Where It's At:
Boo-ya!
Intellectual!
Dessert.
Think Pink!
Chatty!
Nerds!
Somebody Talk Me OUT of Sim City 4 or
I Only Wish I Had Enough Hands to Play the Games I Play
For those of you into old school games (ya know who ya are), I’ve got a mixture of good and bad news—and news only relevant to me
Irrelevant: I want to make an OG computer to play my dos games, and I want it tricked out. I just can’t decide on what COLOR neon to use. Purple? Green? Blue?
Bad: Full Throttle 2 looks like a standard fighting game instead of an adventure game with cool bike war elements. Pity.
Good to Jammin’: Two cool products are in the free/shareware zone.
Abandon Loader: If you want to play a much cherished but horribly Windows-challenged (hey, they WORKED back then) game, then this is for you. You’ll need the other file supplied on site if you’re running NT/XP/2000, but otherwise, you’re in there, Money.
SCUMMVM: I wanted to play Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle, but these sound drivers didn’t work well with my Win ME (hey, I’m afraid that if I upgrade—ha!—to Win XP, then Sims: SupaStar! won't work). So, this runs all your favorite…okay, it’s MOSTLY compatible with your favorite old Lucas Arts games, and those are CLASSIC, baby. They’re still working on it, but I must admit that I’m playing with the canine shamus and his rabbity buddy without major flaw. The ONE flaw I found was that the mini games have a bit of a problem with display. Big F’in deal, man. I can HEAR his penchant for wanton violence, and that’s what makes it worthwhile.
I wonder if I can run “Night Shift” on this.
Sim City 4. I’ve played this since Sim City the first. I don’t know why I do it. I don’t really LIKE this much. It bores me after a while. It’s sometimes UNfun, the OPPOSITE of Fun, but I saw a picture of a trainwreck. (No, not a human condition, but an honest-to-God TRAINWRECK) and I want it.
Yeah, and Sim City 3000 is still in the wrapper, I think. You know what ELSE is in the wrapper?
CREATURE ISLE.
Black and White was a good game. I enjoyed my scrawny (never COULD get her to eat) loving dancing cow. My lovey had a plump little sheep. We ENJOYED raising our critters. Mine was a lover, not a fighter, so we didn’t do battle often. I didn’t like the scars.
Ma Cow loved to make breeders. (Tip: make a breeder of a MAN, not a woman. You’ll have a playa in NO TIME.) She’d pick up people, and pat them on the head, and you’d hear “breeder” or something like that. No farmers for this cow. She loved miracles, but she only used the most recent one she learned. She got frustrated when she tried to do them, but they failed. She summoned water all over the place. She didn’t even eat the guy in the beginning world who says she’s not a beast…remember him? I had her rip up all the trees so he’d be impressed with her stature.
Still, I guess I wasn’t suited to this game. I didn’t have the ruthlessness required to play it. I wanted to explore, and I was always worried about my cow, and she never ate unless I told her to, no matter HOW many times I trained her to fish.
I also missed the little “death” voices. I couldn’t ever get the email to work. So, I never bothered to install Creature Isle, although now I might.
I really want to play: Arcanum, Sam n Max, Sim City 3k, ToonTown, City of Heroes (could you just DIE), Day of the Tentacle, Supastar, Post-Mortem (down to the scary-dull ending), and I just don’t have enough time/fingers.
I’ll have to fill you in on SupaStar, but I don’t want to fill up space HERE talking about it.
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's....
Soon to me ME. Check the link, babe. We will get to be SuperHeroes (or archnemeses whenever they work it out). I'm totally there, providing there is a free download, OR the game doesn't cost over $30 to start, and the usual $9.95 to play. I can tell you that I'll be signing up for betatesting, so that means ANOTHER JOURNAL, ya crybabies.
I can't WAIT to be a mutant!