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

Five PS1 Games Worth Playing: Version 4

Where Are They Now? (The True-Life Story of Five Forgotten Mascots)

Lost in Shadow (Wii) Gameplay

This is gameplay for Lost in Shadow on the Wii.



I you loved the unique art style of ICO on the PS2, then Lost in Shadow should be right up your alley. Lost in Shadow is a unique platformer in which players control a boy's shadow which has been detached from the boy, while traversing through a giant tower to get back up to the top where the boy's physical body is.



I have yet to play super far into this one, but I decided to buy this one on a whim a couple of years back, and have found it to be a unique game. Beyond the unique art style, is a solid platformer, that even makes good use of the wimote for puzzle solving elements. Pointing the Wiimote at physical objects in the foreground changes their shadows in the background, opening up new paths and platforms for your character to use.



If you are looking for something unique on the Wii to play, and like side scrolling platformers, then give this one a try. I have yet to get very far into it, but I already really like.