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Payback

Do you remember when Grand Theft Auto first came out for the PC and it was a top-down 2D multi-scroller?  In fact, both the original Grand Theft Auto and its sequel were basically rough cut smash-and-grab games, in which character headshots with accompanying speech bubble pop-ups would appear telling you what you needed to do next.  That’s right, Dorothy, that [...]

Tickle Me Pink

Whether it was in the 80′s with Ms. Pac-Man or in the early 90′s with Chun-Li, we often wondered with much curiosity about those sexy female characters in video games.  Like our fathers before us with Betty Rubble and Betty Boop, we had our own struggles with the “Bettys” of our time.  But it all changed in [...]

Skateropolis

Altough my knowledge of skateboarding has been limited to the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (at least it’s not Gleaming the Cube),  Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 on the SEGA Dreamcast and Sony PlayStation 2 respectively, and the lingering effects of a deep bone bruise from a banana board accident in the summer of 1983, I am aware of the significance of the [...]

Sweep:BOS

Driving around your neighborhood in The Hub searching for a parking space, you find one, but there’s street cleaning the following day.  You pull into the space anyway and set a mental reminder to move it first thing in the morning.  Unfortunately, you forget and Lovely Rita gets you. With Sweep:BOS, easily set up an email [...]