Life’s just a game we all wanna win.
Keep your hand a secret, unleash the monsters within!
Sometimes it’s over before it’s even begun.
If someone else gets hurt then, what have you really won?
I’m always one card short, always one day late!
For once I’d like an ending I can celebrate.
Stacked the deck myself, so there’s no one […]
Those of you who have followed this blog for any length of time are aware that when I was in grad school, I spent my weekends at a friend’s game shop. What you don’t know is that my Poke-kids actually managed to badger me into a TCG game.
I remember the months leading up to Magi-Nation’s […]
When I was in high school, we had this game on the computers in the computer lab that was sort of like Tetris, except instead of building towers of blocks, you sorted recycling and trash. Something would float in from the left, and you had to sort it into the correct bin (trash, glass, plastic, […]
I am a WoW widow.
Sort of…
My roommates go through periods where they are all lost in the wilds of WoW, and I get the entire house to myself. It’s quiet, but at least I get to spend some quality time with the PS2.
The boys will come out for food, and to yell at each other […]
Amazingly, my Reader only has a couple of things in it. I sat down yesterday to find some blogging inspiration, and accidentally found myself with nearly nothing in the Reader.
I realize this is a good sign. It keeps me on top of things, minimizes the chances my cursor will slip over a devastating button (It […]
(I’m very game-oriented this week, aren’t I?)
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Nintendo had released a Picross game for the DS, and I’m afraid I couldn’t stop myself from buying it.
For those of you not familiar with Picross, it’s this very cool style of logic problem where there are numbers along two sides that […]
My students like to point out that I’m a very boring gamer when it comes to my video games. I play racing games and puzzle games. I’d play games like Guitar Hero (which I like, amazingly) and DDR if I had more access to them. I even love a good Mario-style game (I’ve always loved […]
Up until I moved to Seattle, I seriously always had a standard deck of cards on me. You never know when one will come in handy.
My favorite deck actually lives on my window sill next to my bed and desk, never far from reach, and even closer to the deck I actually want to talk […]
The other day I wrote about playing Hotel Dusk. At one point, you get to bowl with one of the characters. With the stylus and the programming, it’s actually hard to connect with a single pin…even if you think you have it figured out. You can’t duplicate a toss.
I’ve played nearly as many rounds of […]
I originally went looking for Hotel Dusk after learning it was considered more of an interactive novel than a game. As I’m trying to become more familiar with that genre, it seemed like the ideal game to add to my collection.
Since I define “interactive fiction” as a story where the reader controls the story development […]
