Category: Video Games

This comes up from time to time on my Youtube feed and cracks me up every time.

Mercy, this game is crazy good. Should really be doing more important things, but can’t stop playing. A steal for $5.

Man, this is a fun little time waster. Source: Does not Commute on the App Store on iTunes

Cool video of before/during/after pinball machine restoration. Cool plug in the middle for the Eraser company’s fybRglass eraser.

Oh, man. Its been a long time coming but the amazing Addams Family pinball machine is now available in digital form. See it in action here: I poured countless dollars into this machine in the …

The ‘Super Mario World’ theme song played on floppy drives is just bananas.

Fascinating to watch a real artist at work.

When I can play NES games in my browser. Works surprisingly well, and even includes ROMs for some NES classics. Good stuff!

The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry | Ars Technica. Oh, the good old days. Fond memories of many a Friday night spent staying up way too late playing games with my brother. …

Turns out there’s a lot more Mario Paint Composer covers. Here’s some Skrillex.

That’s some incredible dedication. Also, enjoyed watching the rituals of trying to get an old NES cartridge to play.

Puzzlejuice | iOS Game of Champions. Totally agree with its tag line, “Puzzlejuice is a game that will punch your brain in the face.” Stupid Starbucks free app of the week.

Play Wonderputt, a free online game on Kongregate. Fantastic original mini-golf game. You have to keep playing to just see what happens next.

Man, that’s a lot of work. I need to find me some of this ‘free time’ stuff that all these folks are always talking about.

I’ve been a little bit of video games recently. Not on a console, or computer, but the Mrs’ iPad. I sneak in bits of Carmageddon (with the sound off, naughty language) when I need to blow off stress. …

Discovery Bay Duo Pinball for iPad - Apple Store U.S.. Nice!

Oh yeah, MacHeist came with some Steam games in the bundle. Unfortunately, Bejeweled 3 was one of them. Home productivity surrenders. Its an incredibly simple matching game, but very addictive. Ok, …

Carmageddon for iOS out now, free for a day | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Oh, hell, yeah.

Nothing beats a 3d racing game where you have three ways to win: Beat all the opponent cars. Nothing special here. Destroy all the opponent cars. Crash ’em, smash ’em, push ’em off cliffs, push them …

Geez, how much fun can you have with flash game that uses only 1 button? Check out Leo Steel to find out. Great way to kill a few minutes or hours. Good thing I didn’t find that at work.

Ah, harkening back to the days of my youth, I remember the Nintendo Entertainment System had a ton of cool alternative controllers like the PowerPad (kinda the grand daddy of the Dance Dance …

I got wind of TrackMania Sunrise via a recent CNet update. Its basically a 2005 version of the game Stunts (that’s the only Stunts related page I could dig up in a quick Google search) we though was …

NYT has a good article telling us how Sony will rule the world again with its forthcoming Playstation Portable, hitting the shelves on March 24. Its got a pretty good mix of features. If I had an …

Interesting article on NYT, Remember When You Wanted Your Own Ms. Pac-man? on the growing popularity of owning your own arcade games. I’d still love to have a decent condition 80’s style game, but …

This crafty fellow put together his own Sony Playstation 2 portable using the guts of a one of the new low profile PS2 consoles, a PSONE LCD screen, and portable DVD player battery. It also has one …

For all you Super Mario Brothers fans out there, here’s a step by step guide for carving your own 1up mushroom on a pumpkin: http://infinitesnake.com/1upkin.php[ Where do these people find the …

Of course, I finally get a ps2, and they come out with a new version… A LOT smaller, and built in ethernet. sweet. Funny, but I found out about this from today’s Foxtrot cartoon. Oh well, back to some …

After trying Doom 3 on my new Dell, with an almost twice as fast CPU (2.8Ghz), 25% more memory (1Gb), and a fresh Windows XP install, I was pretty disappointed with the performance. It was playable, …

My new Dell Dimension 4600 (2.8Ghz P4) desktop showed up yesterday. Picking up the shipping box, I was pleasantly surprised that the case is much lighter (a bonus when I need to shlep it from my …

Ok. Its not just me. Everybody is rediscovering the magic of vintage video gaming. Pong, Pac-Man, Dig Dug. Atari 2600, Sega Master System, NES! Ah, the fond memories of youth! NYT Article - Revenge of …