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I Sold My Video Games To Pay For My Wedding And Said Goodbye To Part Of Myself
Stacks of games sit around my living room, as I organise photographs from my phone. I log onto ebay and check prices. I list a few games. I sell one almost immediately. That one doesn’t surprise me. Tales of Symphonia. It’s one of the rarer in my collection, and I had expected to make quite a bit, quite quickly. Ebay User #1 meets my expectations.
She’d Never Played Video Games, But Wound Up Judging A Game Contest
Most video game-players have someone in their life — an uncle, a parent, a cousin, a co-worker — who just doesn’t play video games. Time and again, we try to poke and prod at those people, to better understand where they’re coming from and more importantly, how they view our favourite pastime/livelihood/obsession/etc.
Sometimes You Just Have To Lie To Your Kid
Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent seven-year-old who trusts me with his life, his happiness and his dignity, let me first explain how much I hate Plants vs. Zombies. I cringe just typing the name. A clip of the music or a piece of the art is enough to make my gut shrink. I don’t blame the game, which is a perfectly great, smartphone-friendly tower defence title. I hate it because of my son.
Which Video Game Controller Is Best?
For this week’s Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk talk about video game controllers. Which controller is better, Xbox or PlayStation? What do touchscreens like the Wii U and the Vita hold for the future? Is the Kinect good for anything? What is the difference between “Effect” and “Affect”?
Why Aren’t Games More Compatible With My Social Life?
For this week’s Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk look at how gaming impacts their everyday life. Why is it so hard to maintain a social life and play games? Is there something about some games that is simply incompatible with being social? What games do we like to share with people, and what games do we play alone? Will Kirk ever get a date?
Playing God: On Death, Motherhood, ‘Creatures’
The quotes on the box are marvelous: “I first saw this program in the same week that evidence was discovered of life on Mars. This is more exciting.” That was Douglas Adams. “Call it a game if you like, but this is the most impressive example of artificial life I have seen.” That was Richard Dawkins. It was the summer of 1997; the software was Creatures, for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh. I was nearly 15 years old, but not quite.
On Death And Gaming
One of my earliest memories of video games is also one of the last clear memories I have of my aunt, my father’s sister, Donna. It was cold out, but not quite the holidays. We were sitting on the shag carpet in my grandparents’ house, where she lived, playing Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle. The ColecoVision was plugged into one of those horrible console televisions that looked like it belonged in a cathedral rather than a living room.
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