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You know, I was watching an Angry Video Game Nerd review of the Intellivision, and there's one game that stuck out with me: Bomb Squad. The Intellivision had an add-on that enabled voice, and only had 5-6 games before it was discontinued (sounds like a number of Nintendo peripherals - am I right?)
Thing is, I was curious because the game sounded interesting, so I went looking it up, and read through the instruction manual. You know how some gamers complain that game controls are too complex nowadays, that Atari had it easy with 4 directions and one button? Look at the Intellivision to see the 80's version of today's "overly complex controls". No-one needs a phone-pad of controls with an overlay (and yes, I'm pointing at you, Atari Jaguar), but Bomb Squad? With the voices telling you what to do, and another voice taunting you? Holy crap, that game would've given me so much stress if I was playing that as a kid!
From a technical standpoint, that game sounds like the programmers should have given medals. It sounds like that game could've been one of the most complex designs.
Funny thing is, I still want to try it. It sounds fun. :D
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I know that in the States there is a "Do Not Call" list, and Canada's been a bit slow in making one of their own - it's a sad state of affairs if it takes someone else to make one on behalf of everyone in Canada, and that's what Michael Geist did - iOptOut is a website where you can provide your information (either ongoing or one-time-use, a feature I'm sure many will appreciate) and the website will send out e-mails on your behalf to banks, airlines, credit card companies, and any other telemarketing corporations, requesting that they do not contact you. I went on and pretty much turned off everything, with a few exceptions. I'm sure it'll take some time to propogate and all that, but still it feels good to know that I've done this. I'm tired of answering phonecalls for businesses that want more of my money.
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Did I link this already? Cookie Monster visited NPR recently. You gotta watch to the end. :D
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Everyone's hopping on the Caramelldansen train!
Thing is, I was curious because the game sounded interesting, so I went looking it up, and read through the instruction manual. You know how some gamers complain that game controls are too complex nowadays, that Atari had it easy with 4 directions and one button? Look at the Intellivision to see the 80's version of today's "overly complex controls". No-one needs a phone-pad of controls with an overlay (and yes, I'm pointing at you, Atari Jaguar), but Bomb Squad? With the voices telling you what to do, and another voice taunting you? Holy crap, that game would've given me so much stress if I was playing that as a kid!
From a technical standpoint, that game sounds like the programmers should have given medals. It sounds like that game could've been one of the most complex designs.
Funny thing is, I still want to try it. It sounds fun. :D
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I know that in the States there is a "Do Not Call" list, and Canada's been a bit slow in making one of their own - it's a sad state of affairs if it takes someone else to make one on behalf of everyone in Canada, and that's what Michael Geist did - iOptOut is a website where you can provide your information (either ongoing or one-time-use, a feature I'm sure many will appreciate) and the website will send out e-mails on your behalf to banks, airlines, credit card companies, and any other telemarketing corporations, requesting that they do not contact you. I went on and pretty much turned off everything, with a few exceptions. I'm sure it'll take some time to propogate and all that, but still it feels good to know that I've done this. I'm tired of answering phonecalls for businesses that want more of my money.
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Did I link this already? Cookie Monster visited NPR recently. You gotta watch to the end. :D
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Everyone's hopping on the Caramelldansen train!