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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fans Hope I just watched this movie

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

I just watched this movie on onDemand today. I have to say that the Geek/Nerd in me was brought out in full force the entire time I watched it. Morgan Spurlock the creator of great documentaries such as "Supersize Me" completly encapsulated the essence of the con and what it means to a lot of people. I have been to several other conventions but this is somthing I would like to attend once in my life.

I highly sugest a view to anyone who is a "Geek" or "Nerd" of anything

Movie website http://comicconmovie.com/

Ten minutes of videogame nostalgia performed by a rock band.

AutoCat1000 wrote on 04/20/2012 at 10:36pm

I like that video!Have you ever heard of nyan cat?Look it up on youtube!

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/21/2012 at 12:36am

Thats really cool. The Bubble Bobble, Contra, Donkey Kong Country, Halo, Secret of Monkey Island, Duck Tales, Ocarina, The Legend of Zelda... All fun. Pretty long too but not bad long, well done

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/21/2012 at 06:23am

That is so epic. I want the MP3! If you guys like video game music by a rock band, I suggest checking out Minibosses. :)

http://www.minibosses.com/

Dubb Post Author wrote on 04/21/2012 at 04:07pm

Awesome!

Tungsten wrote on 04/22/2012 at 12:54am

Makes me happy.

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for all the super mario lovers out there. i hope this lights

for all the super mario lovers out there. i hope this lights up your life!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/90066890/interactive-8-bit-question-block-lamp

The source code for Prince of Persia was released today from

http://ewpopwatch.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/princeofpersia_l.jpg

The source code for Prince of Persia was released today from the original Apple 2 port:

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

Awesome to see this sort of thing happen regularly. A few companies I respect have released source for some awesome games like Sim City, Doom 3, Quake 3 & Duke Nukem 3D.

Seeing this kind of thing is awesome because it allows these classic games to live on well beyond they are fiscally viable to keep running on modern systems. I believe culture should be preserved and source released of old games helps that.

Heres hoping that old games like Warcraft Orcs and Humans, Unreal Tournament and Mario Brothers see a source release at... Read All

A little update on the Steam Box front.

http://store.valvesoftware.com/product_images/main_images/mainP0927.png

A little update on the "Steam Box" front.

http://www.destructoid.com/valve-recruitment-ad-points-to-hardware-plans-225786.phtml

For all you math nerds out there.

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/225617-hotness32header.jpg

For all you math nerds out there.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/11/2012 at 02:42pm

Awesome.

Do you Pokemon?

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/11/2012 at 07:46pm

Ha! I'm taking calculus this semester, so we recently just talked about differentiation. I have no idea why they're teaching me this stuff, but if they had told me it was to make math/pokemon jokes I might have paid more attention. :P

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 04/12/2012 at 02:32am

I played through the first one on an emulator. Collected a total of about 20 pokemon. Enjoyed it, but never really "got into" it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/12/2012 at 03:43am

Sure. I got the first blue game on the original Game Boy. It was pretty fun, I tried returning it after a few days of not really digging it. The store had just implemented a no return policy because they thought I copied the Game Boy Kart or something? Anyways, I actually got my money back though. Never after that though.

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A few people have mentioned to me that its not straight

A few people have mentioned to me that its not straight forward how to get your imagery from your games to upload to the web and share on Cheerful Ghost.

Recently I created a blog post about it, check it out:

http://blog.cheerfulghost.com/post/20503613172/getting-your-own-images-on-cheerful-ghost

Long and short of it, nab your screen-shots, pics, etc and upload them to http://imgur.com/ Its the easiest way to upload your images on the web. Imgur is popular on Reddit and other social sites.

Hope you find this helpful, I used imgur to upload my own personal imagery for quite a few of my posts.

Good Old Games is offering the original Fallout for free for

http://static.gog.com/upload/images/2008/11/174652fc1e425eb0aefc66dca2cb7cc553b3d5bf.jpg

Good Old Games is offering the original Fallout for free for the next 48 hours:

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

While you are adding that to your account, grab all the other free GoG games:

http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue/?price=free

I picked up Empire Earth free a few months back and this is just as cool. Enjoy!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:10am

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. Just snagged it for myself. :) Another great game I may or may not have time to play sometime in the future! lol

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:15am

Yeah, having access to cheap or free games is awesome but it doesn't mean you play them all :)

Tungsten wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:00pm

I got this a few years back while waiting for Fallout 3. I had the same problem I have with RPG's now: I constantly start over, convinced there was a better way to do things. I think in the 10 hours I played it I never got more than one hour in with a character. TOO MANY CHOICES!!!

Fun though. Makes me miss turn based games. We have this obsession with real time action now. The VATS system was a decent compromise in Fallout3, but I do miss the good old tile based movement.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:11pm

Miss the old days: I do too. Seems like the only people that are doing these older styled games are mobile or indie devs.

That said we can always play the old games, well I guess until they no longer run. Been impressed how old games still are playable on windows though. It's cool.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/08/2012 at 04:13am

I need to give Fallout 1 and 2 their fair shake. I barely played them, and not until after playing 3 and New Vegas. Now that I have some distance from those, I can probably appreciate the old ones the way they deserve.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/08/2012 at 03:23pm

Makes sense. Kind of wonder how I would react to the ol Baldurs games considering I never played them. Excited about the new remake though.

Old games I played back in the day seem to hold up just fine though.

Tungsten wrote on 04/10/2012 at 12:18am

I love old games, but I've been too coddled by the new mechanics. I can't imagine playing doom without regenerating shields and health or mellee attacks. At least it had co-op.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/10/2012 at 01:37am

And deathmatch.

I hear you though, but some old games still hold up for me. Not all but quite a few.

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Farside from the early 90s.

Farside from the early 90's.

Tungsten wrote on 04/05/2012 at 09:26pm

My parents still dream

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/05/2012 at 10:46pm

LOL! Such a rad cartoon.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/06/2012 at 01:13am

I wanted to be a video game tester pretty bad. That or call center rep like the people in the movie The Wizard. After working as a call center rep I can say I don't dream about that anymore.

Tungsten wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:06pm

Ya, I've heard testing sucks too. I can imagine playing a buggy game for hours on end would start to really suck. (Though it never hurt Bethesda... ba-zing!)

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:11pm

Hahahaha, zing but fair.... So many bugs...

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 03:07am

Sweet!

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Check out this cool article on The New York Times called

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/04/08/magazine/08cover/08cover-sfSpan-v2.jpg

Check out this cool article on The New York Times called "Just One More Game ...
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games'."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=1

Yeah ok the name isn't great, but its an interesting article. Also interesting is the HTML5 game on the page. Play it. Its a very fun idea.

PS I love silly and addictive games, they are awesome.