Quake II (N64) Quick Review

Just a quick review for Quake II on the Nintendo 64. I would normally go more in depth, and even planned to go more in depth with this game at one time, but upon finding an old 7-paragraph review I wrote years ago for a website, or something, I decided revise it a little, and use the short review.

Time permitting, I may come back and do a deeper review of this game someday.

Video Game Thrift Store Finds

Ran by one of my local thrift stores today, and saw that they had some new games in stock, and these are the 9 I picked up. They rarely have good gaming finds in all my local thrift stores, so this was a rare occurrence. I managed to throw this video together in a couple of hours today.

One Sentence Game Reviews

That's not to say that some of these aren't possibly run-on sentences.

Searching through my external hard drive where I have all my videos backed up, I decided to pull out random videos, and do a quick review of 20 games. Games I pulled at random as I searched through my footage.

NOTE: No offense meant to Barbie Race and Ride fans

Positive Sides of Playing Video Games

This is an old, reworked essay I had to write for an online class I once took. I've added to it, a whole other paragraph, but as a reworked essay, this is hardly exhaustive. Were I to fully cite all the positive sides to gaming, I could probably take hours upon hours, but as is, I just sort of touch on a few of them, and didn't get to go really in depth with it.

I was supposed to cite peer reviewed articles in the essay, but found it intellectually dishonest to pick a side in what were supposed to be "factual" researched journal articles. For as many supposedly found some small link between aggression and violent games, others found no link, and some even found reduced aggression. If there was absolute concrete evidence that video games cause violence, then there shouldn't be such a broad range of contrasting findings. I just found it to be dishonest to say my paper was unbiased, when I could clearly pick whichever "factual" journal articles I wanted to support my views. As if scholars ever agree on anything.

So, instead of citing "research" (some of the methods chosen in that research were faulty, like going to game rankings to find "popular" games and then based on gamerankings, taking Prince of Persia, Madden, and World of Warcraft to Junior High students. Really? I know some JR high kids may have a WoW account, but how many are really likely to play it? This is scholarship?), I decided to wing it, and write most of what you are hearing here. I totally failed the paper, but at least my conscience is clean. I know most people would just do it their way, but I couldn't condone what felt like lying.

So here is my failed essay, remixed, if you will, for you to listen to.

E.T. (Atari 2600) Review