Games and Gaming
I’m actually surprised that neither of us have written much about gaming yet. Dan and I are both pretty avid gamers, we’re at the point where we probably play games considerably more than we should.
I think we each have our gaming “niche” that we follow, but we overlap a pretty good bit too. Dan is really big on the portable stuff, namely the Nintendo DS. For those of you that thought portable gaming systems were just for when you’re traveling, you’ve obviously never met Dan. If he could, Dan would have his DS surgically attached to his body. I wouldn’t be surprised if he told me he regularly played his DS during sex, that is, if he were able to trick some poor hapless lady of the night into his Grandmother’s home. I’m more into the strategy type games, that or anything that has a constant goal for me to chase. I’ve been a fan of the Civilization type games since they first started appearing, and games like World of Warcraft, where you’re always trying to get that better piece of armor, tend to hold me in a vice grip.
Unfortunately, our love for video games is often disrupted by our severe inability to find gainful employment. (I feel almost like I’m beating a dead horse here, “ok, we get it, you guys are unemployed, can you please write a post that doesn’t mention you two morons trying and failing miserably to get a job?!?”) This lack of cash has lead us down the slippery slope of free internet flash games. I play them daily, I’m not proud of it, but I do. (”Hello, my name is Pat, and I’m a game-a-holic.” “Hi Pat”)
We’ve seen quite a plethora of flash games, ranging from vomit inducingly poor (i.e 3/4 of the crap on newgrounds) to cripplingly addictive (Dolphin Olympics 2). So I’m taking this opportunity to introduce you, reader, to some of my favorite flash games. Feel free to mention any that I miss, my list isn’t all that long; I’ve got a very diserning palate.
(later)
I originally started naming my favorite flash games here and then giving a brief little summary of what they were. After writing the second summary I felt like I was writing for a really bad episode of ‘Reading Rainbow’ and I couldn’t get the image of Levar Burton out of my head. So instead, I’ll stop insulting your intelligence and just link a few of my favorites here. You’re all smart kids, you can figure them out for yourselves.
Ikariam - Think civilization but free.
Dolphin Olympics 2- You control a dolphin, that’s cool enough for me.
GemCraft - A base defender type game.
Thats all for now. Like I said, if you’ve got any that you really like please post them in the comments section.