I played a lot more video games when I was a kid than I do now. Partly because I’m a grown-up Middlebury student with no time on my hands (because that’s what we do here) but also partly because little nine-year-old me had a penchant for playing shitty games and I don’t. I played a lot…Continue Reading The Importance of Sound
What do you get when you cross Farmville with The Simpsons? Well kind of like, I don’t know. The game is immediately a bit of a mystery to me because it sort of paints itself out to be EA’s hugely relevant and clever response to the advent of social clone-villes– you know, the games where you repetitively tap on…Continue Reading Tappity Tap Tap: The Video Game
Games and I go wayyyyy back– enough to necessitate italics and elongated y’s. I think a lot of gamers my age can trace their roots back to watching an older sibling play Donkey Kong Country for the SNES, or maybe Super Mario World 3– sitting there as a little 6 or 7 year old whelp and just feeling totally…Continue Reading Gamer Identity: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!