We Are Now Leaving Tomato World
ChainGangGuy During this time of the year, my thoughts, as I’m sure yours do, often turn to red, ripe tomatoes. So, I was more than pleased to take up Vitriola’s suggestion…
Diamond Mind Baseball Fun
Ice Cream Jonsey I play in a Diamond Mind baseball league with seven other fellas. Around the house, it has gained no small amount of notoriety as “text baseball.” The links on how…
Thomas M. Disch, R.I.P.
Thomas M. Disch, author of the 1986 text adventure Amnesia (published by Electronic Arts) passed away on July 4th. He took his own life. Every May my friend Greg returns…
There’s no sports games on the PC anymore
I’m on vacation this week, but I am trying to write stuff in advance and set it to publish in the future. Here is a post I wrote on Caltrops…
Music collaboration!!
A few years ago I did the vocal, bass and drum tracks to a few new songs, in what would have been the third Beaver compact disc. It never materialized…
Sprecher – Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer
As I arrived at the local watering hole this past Saturday night, I found my dear friend, my drinking colleague hunched grotesquely over the bar softly weeping into a half-empty…
Introducing my 48-in-1 cabinet
The 48-in-1 is a Chinese-made, copyright-violating circuit board that plays 48 games, an embarrasingly lot of which I already had in dedicated form. I’m adding pages for all my arcade…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #0
Pinback #0: Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor (2008) As I said before, this list is “genre based”, in that I tried to make sure that no basic gaming genre…
Beaver: A-K-Q
Sorry, sorry, lots of articles in the hopper, none are done right now. Allow me to link an MP3. I was in a band called Beaver when I was at…
Tomb of the Hardcore Casual Gamer
In this, a new ongoing feature, we introduce the Forgotten Tomb of the Hardcore Casual Gamer. Seeing how last night I installed a high score kit into my Asteroids (hardcore!)…