I used to love Food Fight. I would dump quarters into it like there was no tomorrow. When it was released on the 7800, I was overcome with joy, for not only was Food Fight available on a home system, it was actually not a bad port at all. One of the cool features of Food Fight was "instant replay". Every few levels -- especially if you had a narrow escape -- the game would replay the whole leve...
My experience with Gran Turismo 5 tonight illustrates how inapproachable-and-yes-still-somehow-fun I'm finding it. Having reached A-spec level 9, and having sort of hit a wall in terms of what races I could field a competitive car for in the Amateur Series, I decide to double back and see if there are any interesting-looking races in the Beginners Series that I'd skipped. Okay, there's one... J...
I'm trying not to read too much into the way I play Civilization V. There are days where just try to make the world a happy joyous place filled with art and song and music and lots and lots of money. Then there are the days where I refuse to finish off a civilization's last city, just so I can gradually culture-bomb it down to a pathetic resourceless scrap of land, from which its wretched citiz...