Categories

GeoGeo Wars

Would you believe that I play games based on current weather conditions?  Seriously, it’s no joke.  During the late Spring and Summer months, I’m primarily playing Adventure and RPG games, such as Lost Odyssey and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.  In those types of games, I’m going at my own pace rather than just plain reacting like [...]

Aera

It’s been six years since the release of one of my favorite games on the original Microsoft Xbox.  Developed by Microsoft’s FASA Studio, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge had everything that  you would want in a game at the time: highly stylized graphics, an epic setting, a sandbox gameplay environment, easy pick-up and play controls, and online gameplay through [...]

Crystal Quest

In a past life, I had the pleasure of talking with the original creator of Crystal Quest, Patrick Buckland, who described to me the essence of it’s gameplay experience in one word: therapeutic.  When he conceived of his memorable classic, the majority of other arcade games in the mid to late 80’s, whether in arcades or on personal [...]