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14 September 2006
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:04:00 GMT Wiivia Kjell Olsen2077 days agoHoly shit I want one of these. The controller looks amazing. I’ve never had a console, played PC games a bit, but the furthest I’ve ever gotten with a handheld controller is the one on my C64, with one stick and one button. Beyond that I just can’t do it, and don’t enjoy button mashing. I’m really tempted to blow all my money on this and a tv screen to play it on. (Here’s a good summary of new Wii info)
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08 May 2006
Mon, 08 May 2006 13:16:00 GMT A Game For All Agesvia Kjell Olsen2206 days agoI’ve never been much of a gamer, in the standard sense. 1st to 6th grade I figured out games such as Day of the tentacle and Sim * (SimTower!) and finally graduating to Madden (‘00, at which I seriously kicked ass on my 233mhz iMac). I spent 6th and 7th grade playing Medievia, a MUD, borderline obsessively.
But I’ve never owned a console, and have only managed to ever play them at friends houses. I never really could get beyond finger mashing. I was fine with a keyboard. But something about the controller just never worked for me. That’s why I’m so excited for the Nintendo Wii, with a totally sweet looking controller.
It’s a remarkable experience. Instead of passively playing the games, with the new controller you physically perform them. You act them out. It’s almost like theater: the fourth wall between game and player dissolves. The sense of immersion—the illusion that you, personally, are projected into the game world—is powerful. And there’s an instant party atmosphere in the room. One advantage of the new controller is that it not only is fun, it looks fun. When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler. But when you’re jumping around and shaking your hulamaker, everybody’s having a good time.
I played with a friends eyeToy once, which is a camera that translates your movement in front of a TV into actions within the video game, and it was limited (not to mention whatever game we were playing sucked), but pretty fun. I don’t know if I’ll be able to shell out the bucks for both it and a TV to use with it, but just reading through descriptions of how the games work makes gives me excited bouts of laughter – it just sounds so unbelievably cool.
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07 March 2006
Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:55:35 GMT Sporevia Kjell Olsen2268 days agoCompletely mind blowing. Imagine the sum of all games you’ve ever played – and here you go. There are some videos around, here’s one, demonstrating gameplay. I haven’t played videogames in any capacity since the Sim City 2000, Marathon, Madden ‘00 days, but all I can say is holy shit.
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04 January 2006
Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:35:00 GMT The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmursvia Kjell Olsen2330 days agoThis is no game.
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07 August 2005
Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:47:00 GMTEnder's Game
Orson Scott Card
Somehow I managed to pick great books to read on my vacation. Ender’s Game is a fun novel about the life of a child prodigy bred in a military program to find a commander to win a war against the buggers, aliens from a far away galaxy who threaten the entire human existence.
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25 May 2005
Wed, 25 May 2005 14:56:13 GMT WikiTriviaKjell Olsen2554 days agoA pretty cool trivia game based off wikipedia entries, but I;ve gotta fault the judges on this one:
Your answer “Iterative” is wrong.
The right answer was “Iterative and incremental development”.Give it a shot!
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29 January 2005
Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:04:03 GMT GPS::Tronvia Kjell Olsen2670 days agoTron, where you try and corner your opponent while not running into the line he makes, now playable in the (semi)real world, with cellphones and gps receivers(!). Now I want a cellphone and a gps receiver.
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