Posts tagged with Games
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the box , with no room for…
Emergent Tetris
Here's a fun, 2-hour documentary on the 35+ year history of the NES version of Tetris and the community still surrounding it to this day: Tetris is hardly a complicated game, and an early version like this…
The Same Game, Prettier
A tried-and-true way to make more money from the same movie is to re-release it in a new format, for the diehard fans who want to own every single version of a piece of cinema. For a…
Year of the Linux Gaming Console
When Valve announced and then released their Steam Deck in 2022, it was a bit of a surprise; everyone outside of Nintendo has tried and mostly failed to make something of portable gaming[1]. Its design was bulky and heavy…
The Return of Epic Single-Player Gaming
Video games have been traditionally divided between single-player and multiplayer games. The first game—Tennis for Two, essentially a precursor to Pong—was indeed a 2-player affair. But some of the most famous games of the formative years…
The Reinventions of Final Fantasy
My in-game counter says it took me about 47 hours to finish my first play-through of Final Fantasy XVI. It's been 6 years since the last mainline Final Fantasy[1], and compared to the breakneck pace…
