Friday OT - There’s Nerds Over There!
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Nostalgia purposes: Super Mario World on SNES
Actual: Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One/PS5
Actual: Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One/PS5
Not much of a gamer anymore; however ....
Pitfall. Atari 2600
EDIT: Did I just date myself?!
('Cause no one else will!)
Pitfall. Atari 2600
EDIT: Did I just date myself?!
('Cause no one else will!)
Good question.
Nostalgia wise, CoD I sucked but with online play it was a fun way to stay in touch with friends. Also played in our apartment and would yell at each other down the hall.
Can't beat NCAA football though.
Nostalgia wise, CoD I sucked but with online play it was a fun way to stay in touch with friends. Also played in our apartment and would yell at each other down the hall.
Can't beat NCAA football though.
As a kid, I played an absurd number of hours of this.
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Haven't been a 'gamer' since probably the SNES days.
I went through quite the gauntlet of NES games though.
Mario 2 comes to mind for some reason but I don't know if it was officially a favorite.
Underrated and one of those games that I lost in the trade shuffle was Afterburner. Imo WAY better than Top Gun.
I went through quite the gauntlet of NES games though.
Mario 2 comes to mind for some reason but I don't know if it was officially a favorite.
Underrated and one of those games that I lost in the trade shuffle was Afterburner. Imo WAY better than Top Gun.
Divinity Original Sin 2. It's a challenging RPG with turn based combat, but the way they have the various magic and environmental conditions factor in, there are so many different ways you can approach a fight. I've had fights where I absolutely got my butt handed to me a few times until I figured out just the right combination of prefight positioning and how to initiate it, and then it becomes a cake walk. Just so, so satisfying when you figure out a way to win. Plus, the graphics were simple but gorgeous and the story was good too.
I've wasted years of my life playing the Diablo series of video games. I haven't played the console version for a while, but I've got the mobile version, which I play a couple of times a week.
I wasted a lot of time on Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, and Sim City 2000 as well as every iteration of College Football and NHL from ‘95-‘07 or so.
I don't game much anymore but I usually game on PC when I do. I'm still playing a franchise I started long ago on my Madden 2008 PC version. I used to play CounterStrike and Quake 2 back in college, we'd setup an online room just for guys on our dorm floor and play against each other. MarioKart on N64 when it first game out was a big one on the floor. We'd have nights we'd have a dozen guys crammed into a room and the winner of a race kept his spot and the other 3 spots then opened up for the next race.
The game I got into a few years ago that I really like is Red Dead Redemption 2. Borrowed a co-workers XBox in order to play it and have beat the storyline and just free roaming that map these days when I have time. That game has such a massive map and such a complex storylines that can have different results depending on how you play them out that I may reset and play it over again from the start sometime.
The game I got into a few years ago that I really like is Red Dead Redemption 2. Borrowed a co-workers XBox in order to play it and have beat the storyline and just free roaming that map these days when I have time. That game has such a massive map and such a complex storylines that can have different results depending on how you play them out that I may reset and play it over again from the start sometime.
Also, the game that I have the most hours in is Slay the Spire. It's a roguelike card game where you start with a simple deck and through encounters, shops and battles, build a better one through the cards that you select and the artifacts you gain (those have a universal effect).
It's very simple to play, but deceptively deep, as you can come up with some pretty neat combinations that make you unstoppable, or you can have the perfect deck and have your run stopped cold by an enemy that the deck doesn't work well for or just a bad luck on your draws.
It's very simple to play, but deceptively deep, as you can come up with some pretty neat combinations that make you unstoppable, or you can have the perfect deck and have your run stopped cold by an enemy that the deck doesn't work well for or just a bad luck on your draws.
Runescape. I've literally been playing it 24 years. Not every day and I take long breaks (months+ sometimes). But it's a trusty sidekick with an insane amount of content that I'll never "finish" in my lifetime.
But in a weird way it changed my life? I know it's weird to say but hear me out. Runescape membership cost $5 a month or something back in the day and my dad wouldn't pay for it. I was 10/11 at the time and needed to make money so I could buy the dang membership. I started doing anything, the entrepreneurial spirit came out of me. I was mowing lawns, shoveling snow, but I was a chubby little kid who wanted to be in the air conditioning more lol.
So I started doing those websites that gave you like 50¢ a survey or $1 if you signed up for a trial. (Yes you had to be 18 to do that, I lied. Sorry!) Eventually I said why don't I make a blog to help people with this stuff? I've gone back and read it (thanks to archive.org) and my God it was terrible and clearly written by an 11-12 yr old. But I got an offer one time to buy it for $150. That was multiple years of membership! That whole process made me learn about buying and selling domain names and websites. I started doing more of them...
I started buying and selling domain names. Creating websites that sold ringtones. Creating proxy websites to go to MySpace and Facebook at school (and the traffic from all my friends was easy stats to sell the website). Just expanding my capabilities on the internet. I remember selling a domain name to a gym for more than $1000 and that was when I was like "this is real". I was 13.
I decided to build my own computer. I didn't want to share the family computer anymore because I needed the time to build websites and play runescape without my brother or dad cutting into my time. That changed everything. I loved the crap out of building that computer. It fostered my love of technology to the max.
I expanded my empire if you will to doing more complicated things like building mobile websites for restaurants and small businesses. If you went on a mobile website for a small business in Northeast Ohio circa 2007-2010, I probably built it. $500 a pop. Probably did 100 of them.
But that love of computing and website building made me join the trade school program attached to my high school. Network Computer Technology. I got real world IT certificates, got an internship in the IT department at the county health department. I went to college for it, the whole 9 yards. Now I work in big tech and do wild crazy things all over the world. 800+ flights and 30+ countries in 10 years.
All thanks to Runescape. All thanks to those two teenagers playing it at the public library and me mustering up the courage to ask what the game was. It still fills me with joy whenever I spin up the game. The nostalgia still hits me every time even though they've been updating the game all these years. It's just a perfect game to me
But in a weird way it changed my life? I know it's weird to say but hear me out. Runescape membership cost $5 a month or something back in the day and my dad wouldn't pay for it. I was 10/11 at the time and needed to make money so I could buy the dang membership. I started doing anything, the entrepreneurial spirit came out of me. I was mowing lawns, shoveling snow, but I was a chubby little kid who wanted to be in the air conditioning more lol.
So I started doing those websites that gave you like 50¢ a survey or $1 if you signed up for a trial. (Yes you had to be 18 to do that, I lied. Sorry!) Eventually I said why don't I make a blog to help people with this stuff? I've gone back and read it (thanks to archive.org) and my God it was terrible and clearly written by an 11-12 yr old. But I got an offer one time to buy it for $150. That was multiple years of membership! That whole process made me learn about buying and selling domain names and websites. I started doing more of them...
I started buying and selling domain names. Creating websites that sold ringtones. Creating proxy websites to go to MySpace and Facebook at school (and the traffic from all my friends was easy stats to sell the website). Just expanding my capabilities on the internet. I remember selling a domain name to a gym for more than $1000 and that was when I was like "this is real". I was 13.
I decided to build my own computer. I didn't want to share the family computer anymore because I needed the time to build websites and play runescape without my brother or dad cutting into my time. That changed everything. I loved the crap out of building that computer. It fostered my love of technology to the max.
I expanded my empire if you will to doing more complicated things like building mobile websites for restaurants and small businesses. If you went on a mobile website for a small business in Northeast Ohio circa 2007-2010, I probably built it. $500 a pop. Probably did 100 of them.
But that love of computing and website building made me join the trade school program attached to my high school. Network Computer Technology. I got real world IT certificates, got an internship in the IT department at the county health department. I went to college for it, the whole 9 yards. Now I work in big tech and do wild crazy things all over the world. 800+ flights and 30+ countries in 10 years.
All thanks to Runescape. All thanks to those two teenagers playing it at the public library and me mustering up the courage to ask what the game was. It still fills me with joy whenever I spin up the game. The nostalgia still hits me every time even though they've been updating the game all these years. It's just a perfect game to me
I played a lot of Sim City back in the days. Sim Farm was a good one too although it is nothing compared to the latest Farming Simulator game they have out now. As a kid growing up in the 90's where most of us probably got introduced to PC gaming on a 486 PC I remember playing Oregon Trail, Leisure Suit Larry, and Space Quest 3 a lot. Also have some NCAA Basketball Road to the Final 4 game: NCAA Basketball: Road to the Final Four - Wikipedia you could edit the team rosters so my brother and I had some magazine with NBA stats in them and started recreating 1990's NBA teams and the program would assign ratings based off the stats and weight/height values you plugged in. Was king of like the basketball version of Tecmo Bowl
