“Great job, teammate! We just won the big game! We are now the winners of the National Football League’s championship!”
Browsing: Video games
With “Act of Valor” being released today, I felt it was an opportunity to take a look at how the military is portrayed in the media. With an all-volunteer military in the United States that is willing to sacrifice so much for the rest of us, I think the least the media can do to make sure that the fictional portrayals of the American military are as fair and as accurate as possible.
Have you ever seen the episode of “Doug” where Doug is really afraid of eating liver and onions for the first time? That was a really good episode. It was a real cool “Doug” moment. There’s another episode, more relevant to the topic, where Doug spends an entire weekend playing a video game. He ignores his homework and everything.
“Do a barrel roll!” If this line doesn’t bring back memories of saving the Lylat System, then I’m afraid you missed out as a child.
Every gamer, from the casual to the hardcore, has played some sort of fighting game. Some are unbelievably bad — “Shaq-Fu” comes to mind — but once in a while a game comes around that stands as a testament to humanity’s technological achievements.
Although shortened this week, our weekly “Great Video Game” selection is “Hydro Thunder,” a boat-racing game that found a place in video game history as one of the all -time greatest racing games.
We’re going to rewind time a little bit and talk about one of the greatest games of all time. I’ll give you 151 guesses to figure it out.
What exactly is art? Is it something that asks a question about the nature of humanity? Is it something that provides intellectual stimulation? Or is it pure visual enjoyment?
It is hard to find a single-player game that can entertain an entire room full of people.
The “NFL Blitz” franchise was never intended to portray a realistic brand of football.
Probably one of the most eccentric video game icons, Sonic hasn’t stopped racing through our consoles for 20 years.
A legendary sword, a noble steed, deadly monsters, a princess in danger and one big bad tyrant controlling the land — these aspects can be found in multiple storylines and games. I doubt, however, that many stories also contain a magical musical instrument needed to save the world.
Gearbox Software creates some of the most popular video games on the market; the most recent success is the game known as “Borderlands,” an innovative role-playing first-person shooter that has sold more than 4.5 million copies worldwide. One the minds behind this important game took time to visit some classes here at Baylor.
So there’s this video game where you hop a frog across the street in an attempt to round up all the baby frogs. It’s a simple concept. It’s an addicting game. It’s “Frogger.”
1994 was a monumental year. For the first time in 40 years, Republicans would be the majority party in Congress. Baseball, America’s beloved past time, would see its season ended by a 232 day strike. Kurt Cobain would die but people knew they would never forget him. In 50 years, it will be an ape with a tie that will be the enduring image of 1994.
As a kid, I remember lying awake in bed and hearing the sounds of Mario Kart 64 in my head – I had played it so much during the day that I could still hear the noise of the races as I began to drift off to sleep. Eventually, I realized that the noise was not in my head and that, in fact, my dad was downstairs playing the game by himself.
Recently, I was watching television and a commercial came on the screen. Pictured were mothers watching a television screen of the video game being played. They expressed their disgust at the horrific nature of the game.
