Month: December 2009
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My First Click-Fest: Torchlight
I have never really been a big PC gamer. Other than some SimCity 2000 and Castles II: Siege and Conquest back in the Mac OS 7 days and a little bit of the first Sims, I have been almost exclusively a console-based gamer (including portable systems) my whole life. I suppose the only “reason” was…
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A Very Zelda Christmas Memory
It was Christmas 1998. I was a junior in high school. While I had a semi-part-time job, I was not raking in much of my own cash and could not purchase every single game I wanted. That’s OK, though. Ocarina of Time would have only been out for a month, so I could wait until…
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Why the “Frieza” Spelling Drives Me Nuts
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This 2009 blog post seems to still drive a decent amount of traffic. It’s… not the most well-written thing ever, and certainly could use a little more modern of an attitude-adjustment, but I assure you there’s good intentions behind the frustration here! I should really just re-write it from scratch. Anyway, it’s not…