Showing posts with label xbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xbox. Show all posts

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Gaming Then & Now


My wife and I were at our daughters house recently. While my wife talked to her, I sat down with her husband to try my hand at some Xbox 360, Black Ops II. Now let me say that I'm not a noob to gaming, I AM however, a noob to Xbox 360. You see I'm a PC gamer. I use a keyboard and mouse to initiate my mayhem. So when he handed me the controller and gave me a quick run down you can understand my confusion. You see I was not used to using my thumbs to do one thing, my pointer finger to do another, my other pointer finger to do something else, and so on. 

I'm use to W,S,A,D, Space bar, C, Left mouse... and that's all ya need. Needless to say, it was no surprise that when we went on line, within a very short time I had racked up an amazing ZERO kills and 22 deaths. So before I threw his wireless controller through his flat screen TV, I asked if we could move on to something requiring a little less dexterity.

While we were looking for a game that would befit my NOOB status, we talked about all the earlier systems we had both owned. Of course he had never played an Atari. His first system was a super NES. It was a cool walk down memory lane and discussion on the evolution of games. Here are a few pictures of the ones that I remember best (systems and games)...










What was your favorite?

-Red
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Halo

If you are even remotely familiar with video games, I'm sure you've heard of the game HALO. It's one of the best selling franchises in the video game arena. Some may not agree, but I also think it's the game that single handily saved Xbox from going out of business.

Even though it's a very popular game, it's not one that I have in my collection. (I'm a Call of Duty kind of guy) HOWEVER, a friend of mine recommended the HALO books to me.  As luck would have it, I found the first three at a used book store. WOW, I'm hooked on book one right now. Even if you're not a gamer, but your a sic-fi nerd like myself, I think you'll like these books.

HALO, The Fall of Reach is the first book in the series and they have been out for quite a while. (Published in 2001) If you haven't picked up a copy and you like space marines OR you like HALO, I think you might like this book.

Here is a link that I found where you can check it out.


-Red

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