The games that started it all

Halo, Gears or War, Call of Duty, you name it. All these games wouldn't be here today...without the one game, that started it all, Pong. Yep pong, it was the most addicting and popular games back in the mid 1900's. I think you know how tennis, or ping pong is played right? Well pong is like that, all you do is move this big line up and down, and try to score against your opponent. The game should be easy for you, after all, you're just moving it up and down. At the same time however, it gets a bit boring and no one wants to play it. So what do you do? You make more new and exciting games like, Galaga, Pac-man, Astroids, Space Invaders, etc. These so called "retro games"(aka: old-school games) made gaming a lot better, and a whole new meaning to it, let alone they were famous in the 1970's and 80's and still is famous today. Every year, there's always a game, or game console that keeps every gaming business alive (unless they make really bad crappy games). Even though you don't have a game conslole (ps2, ps3, Xbox, etc). There's always games for the computer as well. Roller Coaster Tycoon, or Halo 3, there's always something new and exciting for us to experience and enjoy. And it was all because of Nolan Bushnell,the founder of pong.


For more information about this head to these sites bellow

Pong
Galaga
Call of Duty

Back to Tennis

Yep i play tennis, it's not really that bad of a sport either. Well since the tennis court nets are back up, I'm going to work hard on my swings, and hope to get started on the serves (because all the serves i hit are blanks). I play tennis for 2 years now, and starting to get the hang on how its played. Hopefully i'm able to try out for the tennis team in Maryland (because that's where i'll move to after this year...i'll explain all about it in a different post). For now, i'm just practicing, and practicing again hoping I can improve. And i hope Mr. Fielder will be at the tennis court when I'm there, I wana see how good he is, and see if I can beat it. Only time will tell.

I thought we were done with winter...

It's the first day of spring and what do we get, another day of winter. I guess winter is making its last stand here. There's no snow that's falling down, but the temperature is dropping somewhere around 40 degrees. Come on winter, you can go away now and crawl into a cave, we won't see you in a few months or so. Sayonara winter, hello spring!!

Call of Duty Series: Relive World War 2 again, and again, and again

1942, I'm sure everyone knows what happened during the mid-1900's. Yep you guessed it, World War 2. I think you should know what happened during WW2, Allies vs. Axis. And your job is to, well try to win the war.

At the start of the game, your "fresh meat" of the army/marine corps and your just started training. The beginning of the game will show you how to play, move, shoot, throw grenades, mantle (go over obstacles), etc. Once you've "learned the ropes" of a soldier, you're now sent to fight the war. Depending on what Call of Duty game you play, you can either be sent in Germany, Japan, or Iraq (for call of duty 4), where you have to do certain missions for each level. Keep in mind though that every level has enemy troops that will come in and shoot your stomach full of lead (not really but you get the idea). During the game, there could be achievements, collections, etc. that you can complete to get extra stuff in the game, like better weapons, extra levels, mini-games (nazi-zombie mini-game where you try to survive a group of German zombies, it's like the last stand), etc.

This game is very fun, and addicting. Even though I have a ps2 and a DS, I won't be able to experience the full extent of the latest call of duties (4, world at war, and modern warfare 2). But at least I know that I've somewhat beaten the game. Not only that, it's also is in a tight competition with Halo in online multi-player matches. I don't know which is better, Halo's Slayer mode, or Call of duty's Deathmatch mode. Both sound like fun to me, so I don't know which to pick.

Overall I'd say Call of Duty is one of the best games ever created. Reliving the WWII, and see first-hand how the Allies fought against the Axis. It's a good game alright, one that we'll never forget.

These links below can give you more info about the game:

Call of duty series
Call of duty

Dead Rising (Zombie Invasion...at your local mall???)

You're a photojournalist at Willamette, Colorado (not a real city) and your job is to investigate a zombie outbreak at a closed down mall. The next thing you know is your inside the mall, not knowing how you got there with a million zombies roaming around. What do you do?

1. You scream and horrified in fear and try to escape

2. You investigate what's going on while at the same time slaughtering every zombie that's in your way.

If you pick 2, then this game is just for you.

Dead Rising, is a sandbox game (a game where you can roam around the map doing anything that's based on the game) and anything can happen depending on how you work on the tasks in the game. If your not really interested in the story, then you can at least fight every zombie roaming around in the mall and hope you don't die (which you will because there's no way you can kill every single one of them)

However, if you do want to find out what happens in the story, here's what you got to do. Find survivors that need you to help them in certain tasks, find a way to end the zombie outbreak, and survive. Oh and you have 72 hours to do so or you die.

There are three different types of modes in Dead Rising, some of which you need to unlock while you play

72 Hour Mode: Frank has three days to solve the mystery of the zombie outbreak. This is the main mode of play.

Overtime Mode: An extra day that wraps up the events of 72 Hour mode. Unlocked by fully completing the story and getting the 'A' ending in 72 hour mode.
∞ (Infinity) Mode: A sandbox mode where Frank must last as long as he can. The biggest difference is that Frank can now die of hunger, with the health bar depleting by one every 100 seconds to represent this. Food is now limited and the transceiver, some watch functions, and most importantly the save system are disabled. Everyone, including survivors, are now enemies (who drop character-related supplies upon their deaths) and they all fight each other for the food they hold in order to survive. The game continues until Frank's inevitable demise and is unlocked by finishing Overtime Mode.

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So with these three different modes in the game, it should keep you busy for a long...long time. Overall, I'd say this game is worth playing, i mean who doesn't want to use their electric guitar and smash zombies with it (or maybe a scythe and watch you behead a whole row of em'. But like i said, you have 72 hours to end this...or you die. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....enjoy!

The links below will give you more info about the game in case your intersted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising
http://www.dead-rising.com/

Oh yeah there is word that a second Dead rising is coming up soon. I don't know when it'll come out, but this time, you're in a casino.