Posts Categorized: games

Friday Five: Favorite NFLRZ Games

Posted and filed under games.

Here are my five favorite games on the NFLRZ: Frankfurter Fling I’ve played this game hundreds of times and never get tired of it. Safety Dance Yes, actually, that is yours truly voicing the penalties. Blitz Bot Chuck I just really like all the explosions in this one. NFLRZ Bank Heist This game reminds me… Read more »

Just One More Game …

Posted and filed under asides, games, Software.

There’s a really good article in this week’s New York Times Magazine on the hyperaddictive, time-sucking, relationship-busting, mind-crushing power and allure of silly digital games. (hat tip to @sprokolopolis)

Friday Five: Toys

Posted and filed under games, My Life.

These are the games and toys I loved the most for about the first twelve years of my life. Tie: Atari 2600, Intellivision LEGOs G.I. Joe Matchbox cars 2-XL

Nobody Really Likes Farmville

Posted and filed under games, Software.

I think I will stab myself in the stomach with a fork if one more person sends me a stray chicken or cat or whatever it is that people keep sending me; but it’s worth reading this seriously fascinating psychological analysis of why people play that annoying game.

Adventures with Microsoft Support

Posted and filed under games, Hardware, rants, technology.

My XBox 360 broke near the end of December. I was playing EA Sports NCAA Football 10 at around 3 o’clock in the morning — with the Gators leading 45 – 10 against an unbeaten #2 TCU late in the 3rd quarter of the 2014 BCS Championship Game — when the screen suddenly went black…. Read more »

NCAA Football 10: Review

Posted and filed under College Football, games.

I have had EA Sports NCAA Football 10 for about three weeks. (My friend Kelly won it for me in a silent auction at our friend’s charity golf tournament last month.) Since I have had every copy of this title since 1994, I think I am able to provide a decent review of the current… Read more »