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So Ive liked what Ive read here. Just decided to click the

So I've liked what I've read here. Just decided to click the Buy from amazon.com button and bought it! Now I have to wait 4-14 days... ugh! I hate waiting!

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/04/2012 at 10:27pm

Awesome, excited for you to talk to people that took way too many arrows to the knee.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee

Travis Admin wrote on 02/05/2012 at 06:47am

Yeah, the arrow-in-the-knee meme has already overstayed its welcome. Maybe by the time you come around to finding it hilarious it will be back in favor again :)

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 01/09/2017 at 09:48pm

I used to be a commenter, like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/09/2017 at 09:49pm

Hahahaha. Was this your first post?

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 01/09/2017 at 09:55pm

I don't believe so, just randomly looking through the old-school posts :)

Travis Admin wrote on 01/09/2017 at 10:26pm

So Adam apparently chose to be a necromancer when playing Skyrim because he brought this post back from the dead.

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Beat My Distance in JetPack Joyride

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Just started playing this game the other day after hearing about it on Weekend Confirmed. Its free, so if you have an iPhone you should check it out.

The premise is you have a jetpack and you are running and need to avoid getting hit by rockets and traps. Its basically another runner game similar to Robot Unicorn Attack. You collect coins in the game and can spend them on you player customization and upgraded jetpacks and the like. Like many freemium games on the iPhone you can pay money to get coins so you can outright buy the items instead of collecting coins by playing it.

So far ive collected about 4.5k coins and my best distance is 2,678m.

Like @Adym, I too remember this game. I pretty much always

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Like @Adym, I too remember this game.

I pretty much always played as the Banker from Boston so I could buy a ton of bullets and shoot squirrels. One time a classmate and I shot a squirrel hunderds of times to see if the amount of squirrel meat in pounds would increase.

Sadly it did not. It was still only 2 pounds.

Portal 2: One of the Top Games of 2011

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Been listening to a lot of podcasts and reading articles and Portal 2 seems to be on most peoples game of the year lists. Im not sure I had a game of the year for 2011, but Portal 2 was on of the most unique experiences ive had behind the ps3.

For starters my wife enjoyed watching me play the game. She had the same feelings about Halflife 2, she wouldn't let me play it if she wasn't present to miss out on the story. Portal 2 starts out with a bang and throws you right back into Aperture Science as you wake up from a long hibernation period to a funny robot named Wheatley.

I never felt like the puzzles were impossible but occasionally I was stumped for a few minutes. More... Read All

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/05/2012 at 12:43am

This seems like a pretty rad game. I've never seen it before, but I like what I've heard

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/05/2012 at 12:48am

Yeah, the first Portal is very good and the second is even better!

Travis Admin wrote on 02/05/2012 at 06:50am

It's my #2 of the year, hands down. With regard to the puzzles stumping you, don't you hate finally realizing how to do the puzzle and you get that sinking "I'm an idiot" feeling for a sec, but then it fades when you appreciate the design?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/05/2012 at 04:24pm

For some, yeah I did. For others I thought I had solved something hard so I had a sense of accomplishment. Like when I found a few rat dens on my own and the Borealis dock. The HL2 tie in was fun.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 04:29am

The cliffhanger they left us with at the end of HL2:Episode 2 makes me think we'll see more tie-in later. I can't imagine that would be a throwaway line. The idea of killing headcrab zombies with portals is squee-worthy.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:10am

I hope so. I think they are making HL3 now. And I hope they tie in HL3 and Portal in some way like you mention.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/20/2012 at 05:24am

So you think they're abandoning Episode 3? Probably a good idea now that so much time has passed.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/20/2012 at 06:42am

Yes. People want more Half-Life. I think people would rather another full experience than 6 hours anyway. I would and if Portal 2 is an indicator, it will be way better.

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Who didnt play this game at school? Remember to buy as many

Who didn't play this game at school? Remember to buy as many bullets as you can!

The game still holds up. There's a Facebook version that's decent, but the original is pretty awesome.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/03/2012 at 01:43am

You have Cholera!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/03/2012 at 04:14am

You have died of Dysentery.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/03/2012 at 04:14am

I literally just posted something about that. lol

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/03/2012 at 04:15am

lol I noticed that, I posted my comment, refreshed the page, and there was your message.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/03/2012 at 04:16am

Amazing.

RobertoMontobon wrote on 03/11/2018 at 05:04am

A Facebook friend of mine just shared a post with a picture of a car On the freeway and basically said that this guy is the creator of the Oregon Trail video game and he’s a total jerk when he drives and actually quite dangerous and has been reported to the police. As I read that post I thought of another recent post where someone shared a picture of a girl texting as she was driving. It made me think of the movie the circle with Tom Hanks, A movie which had some very real red flags about the way were using Social media. (I think Apple somehow got a hold of the movie and made the ending stupid So we wouldn’t think of that company as evil). Anyways, it just feels a little scary to me that someone could not like the way I drive and then share it with hundreds and hundreds of people.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/11/2018 at 11:14pm

Hahahaha. Yeah.

I guess that's the fear for people that have a certain kind of fame that any kind of perceived slight could mean someone says something bad about you. I remember a few times online people on forums say this or that celeb is a total jerk when what they describe it just seemed like the person didn't want to be bothered in the moment. Which I can totally understand, sometimes people just want to go to the store and buy a candy bar and just have it be that.

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This is one of my all time favorite games. So many fun

This is one of my all time favorite games. So many fun memories of playing this multiplayer with my friends and cousins! The music was great, the graphics and animations were cool, the weapon selection was awesome, and best of all up to 3 people could play all at the same time!

This site is making me reminisce about old SNES and NES games a lot, lol.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/02/2012 at 04:03pm

Agreed. Mana is one of those games I'll come back and Play every few years because it's so engrossing. It's on the iPhone so I'm thinking of picking it up on it.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 02/02/2012 at 08:21pm

I saw it was on iPhone, but I kind of hate the touch screen controls on most games. Plus how do you do the multiplayer on an iPhone?

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/03/2012 at 01:42am

You could use wifi or bluetooth, but from what I know you can't do multiplayer on Mana for iPhone. Your right about the touch screen for games like Mana, it isn't great.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/25/2014 at 12:25am

I finally played Secret of Mana months ago in an emulator. I ended up using cheat codes, but then it all glitched near the end, so I didn't finish it. I spent a lot of time on that game, even though I was cheating.

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There is definatly a reason why this game is famous, at

There is definatly a reason why this game is famous, at least in the retro gamers circuit. Nope, it's not for it's awesome gameplay or even colorful anime type intro, but rather for the worst translation ever known in video game history. The game itself is actually kinda fun, not the best shoot'em'up I ever played but definatly not the worst either. You have 4 different types of ammo to use throughout the stages each of which can be powered up, sadly none of the power ups really look all that cool when your shootin, but its still fun none the less and a little challenging, but because there isn't much else to this shooter to set it apart from others of it's era gameplay... Read All

Often times one can wonder, how come we never got that game

Often times one can wonder, how come we never got that game here in the states. It is no secret that the ratio of games (at least back in the 90's) that get translated and than ported to the states from Japan is like 1:20. I even read somewhere once that for every one japanese RPG that gets translated and imported for release in the US there were at least 10 that didnt. Anyhow, so whats the reason that so many games never see the light of day outside of Japan. Usually its because of content, such as religious content, or culture(or pop culture even) but othertimes it's just cause of just plain weird wackiness that is deemed way to out there for the US market. Cho Aniki... Read All

Jason_Diaz Post Author wrote on 02/02/2012 at 04:34am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_HFygZ70Q I could never make it this far in the game, this is stage 8 and the final stage, I could never make it past the stage 3 boss as this is actually extremely difficult, but check this video out, full of wacky goodness that could only come from the land of the rising sun.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/02/2012 at 05:30am

You have so many games I've never even heard of lol. And as for games that never got translated... Where is my Mother 3 and Secret of Mana 2!!! ; ; I had to pirate those games because I don't have a legal means to play them. >:O

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/02/2012 at 04:06pm

I agree, there is a market for those games because entire. Immunities translate them independently just so people can play them.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/02/2012 at 08:23pm

And even after pirating them I would gladly buy a copy for my DS or PSP because I would rather play on those devices anyways.

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Owns me. So I never play it anymore :)

This game wasnt launched on the iPhone but its perfect on a

This game wasn't launched on the iPhone but its perfect on a handheld touchscreen. Often before bed I play a level of this and its perfect in that pick-up and play setting. Ive noticed that since I played it PopCap has added quite a bit to it to spice it up.

They added the Zen Garden from the PC version and added new play types like puzzle where I have so far unlocked "i, zombie" and another mini game called "ZomBotany."

"i, zombie" is rad as you take you turn as the zombies attacking cardboard cut outs of the plants. "ZomBotany" is a mode where the zombies are fused with plants as they attack you.

There seem to be many other unlockables I can get by collecting tons of... Read All