Category: Video Games

Screen shots of toilets from various video games. [Link]

Today at 6PM, Fadibou and me played Halo 2 against Ripping Fabric and Ozy in the first game of this summers Halo 2 Frag Fest. We got our asses kicked, here are the results:

Blue Team (eXtinct: Fadibou and Mark

Red Team (Da Hui): Ozy and Ripping Fabric

Game 1 Results [Area: Lockout]
Red Team: 50 Kills
Blue Team: 6 Kills

Game 2 Results [Area: Headlong]
Red Team: 50 Kills
Blue Team: 17 Kills

Overall Winners: Red Team

I was meeting with this guy last week and we got into talking about the MSX computers (Sakhr). He asked me if I knew Microsoft was involved in the project. I told him no I didn’t know, I still have my MSX2 but I never knew that Microsoft had any involvement. He then told me if I knew how they came up with the name Sakhr. I told him no, he was like you would think it was an Arab but in fact it was the Japanese. He told me the Japanese had created a software that puts letters together and you can control how many letters you want and stuff and the software would combine letters that would be easy to pronounce. The software came up with 3 options, one of them was Sakhr.. although I have no clue how Sakhr is easy to pronounce.. So what does MSX stand for? Well there are many beliefs, some people believe it stands for Microsoft Extended, referring to the built-in MSX-BASIC programming language, specifically written by Microsoft for the MSX system. Other people say it stands for Machines with Software eXchangeability’. No matter what MSX actually means it played an important role in many peoples lives back in the 80’s here in Kuwait. Everyone I knew had one, either the white colored MSX1 (AX170) or the black colored MSX2 (AX370).

[MSX on Wiki]

Team eXtinct
Fadibou
Mark

Team Da Hui
Ozy
Ripping Fabric

Date: July 7th, 2005
Time: 6:00PM (+3GMT)
Prize: Winners will receive Halo tshirts
Setup: 2 TV’s, 2 Xboxs, 2 player split screen per team
Rules: 50 kills, two rounds, two levels, a third round if necessary, no time limit. Random starting weapons. One level chosen by Team eXtint, one level chosen by Team Da Hui. If there is a third round, Nat will randomly choose it.

This is one concert I would love to go to, maybe they will come out with a DVD for it. Starting July 6th at the Hollywood Bowl, the first major U.S. concert tour featuring music from a variety of the most popular video games will begin.

The announced game titles for the 2005 tour are:
Mario, Zelda, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft, Myst, Castlevania, Medal of Honor, God of War, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic, Tron, Tomb Raider, Advent Rising, Headhunter, Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, EverQuest II and a special retro arcade segment that goes from Pong to Donkey Kong!

For more information visit the official website. [Link]

A group of people in San Fransisco experimented in the idea of multiplayer gaming with strangers on the streets. They would for example take out their Sony PSP’s while waiting in line at the movies and start playing against each other hoping that someone else in line would see them and want to join in. Their experiment didn’t work out as planned since no one joined their games but the idea is cool though. I personally carry my PSP wherever I go and I usually have 2 games with me. It would be cool if while waiting in line at the bank I notice someone else with a PSP and we end up playing a multiplayer game together while we wait. Maybe once the PSP really starts becoming more popular here in Kuwait that would be possible, so far since the PSP came out I have only met like 2 other people who own PSP’s. [Link]

This site has some classic arcade games as flash, my favorite is Space Invaders followed closely by Moon Patrol. [Link]

6/26 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
8/31 Virtua Tennis: World Tour
9/01 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
9/27 Madden NFL 06
10/18 Burnout Legends
11/01 Mortal Kombat: Deception
11/15 NBA Live 06
11/15 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo
11/15 Street Fighter Alpha 3

Remember the Duck Hunt game that came with the original Nintendo Entertainment System? You can now play it online as a flash game. [Link]

EGM sent a spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for a videogame system for her boyfriend. She went to the 4 largest video game retailers and started asking them questions like which system is better and what are polygons. Some of the answers by the store clerks are a good laugh.[Link]

– when you’re driving down the street and wonder where the Suggested Lines went

– when you tell your girlfriend that a Weight Reduction will improve her performance

– when you’re having sex with your girlfriend and you cheer cause you came first

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From the Daily News: Salman Rushdie corroborates that new study that says video games can be good for you. Back when the the “Satanic Verses” author was hiding from the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 death warrant, “My main pastime was playing Nintendo games,” Rushdie told Webster Hall curator Baird Jones at the Francesco Clemente show at the Larry Gagosian gallery the other night. “I devoted so much time to mastering Super Mario that I must have been the world champion by the end of my seclusion”… [Source]

Its a 129MB file but its worth it. If you have ever played Grand Theft Auto then you have to download it. Some guys went and acted out GTA in real life, its really cool and very funny. [Link]

Wow this brings back memories… [Link]

You can now download all your favorite old games (from any system) from OldGames.nu. I just downloaded SimTower for the mac!! I love this game and its only 1.6MB! [Link]

Update: You have to create an account on the site to start downloading. When you start they give you 5MB worth of downloads.