Speaking of Mechs…

Posted in Photos with tags , on January 16, 2008 by Novi

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Gaming Nostalgia: Mech Warrior 2

Posted in Games, Nostalgia with tags , , on January 15, 2008 by Novi

It might look a tad crude by today’s standards, but Mech Warrior 2 is still heralded by many as the best Mech game to this day. All the game mechanics are there. And this is back in 1995.

Train wreck!

Posted in Silly with tags , , on January 14, 2008 by Novi

A WB Special Report

Posted in Silly with tags , , on January 11, 2008 by Novi

Elite II intro remake

Posted in 3D, Games, Nostalgia with tags , , on January 10, 2008 by Novi

Brings a tear to ones eye. :) Check out my previous Gaming Nostalgia post to see the original.

Gaming Nostalgia: Elite II Frontier

Posted in Games, Nostalgia with tags , , on January 9, 2008 by Novi

This game had a gigantic universe to travers with millions of individual planets to explore, mine, attack or simply land on and take a quick look. It had space stations, it had huge battle cruisers, it had vast industrial complexes. And it fit on a single floppy disc…

Come one! Come all!

Posted in Games with tags , on January 9, 2008 by Novi

Visit the Flinktastique! colony at MyMiniCity. :)

A Quake movie history lesson

Posted in Games, Movies, Nostalgia with tags , , on January 9, 2008 by Novi

10 years the original Quake was the height of gaming technology. A few months after the game’s release a strange phenomenon previously not seen started appearing around what was then the internet. They where called ‘Quake movies’.

They started as simple promotions for multiplayer clans, but some eventually developed in to their very own little art form.

This is one of the first Quake movies that started to plow this new ground, The Artifact. The narrative is shakey at best, but I still find it fun to watch with a scoop of nostalgia.

If nothing else I really recommend watching at 06:20 when a lovely little poem; “The Rocket Room” is being recited.

It’s a little piece of gaming history. Long before games like The Movies where ever conceived …

Blahbalicious and Operation Bayshield are two other, slightly more refined examples of this phenomenon.

Ponder it…

Posted in Silly with tags , , on January 9, 2008 by Novi

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Zeitgeist

Posted in Movies with tags on January 8, 2008 by Novi

This thing is one of those “Can’t stop watching” pseudo documentaries. It should probably be taken with a few truck loads of pinches of salt, but it’s quite entertaining and thought provoking.

This thing sure proposes some super wonky conspiracy theories…