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Recommend a game worth 7 nights...

Out of respect for the AA Community at large I did not start a thread in Classic Gaming, instead I am asking through my much less intrusive blog.   Starting tonight I am working 7 12 hour nights straight. I was hoping you guys could recommend a game or two to keep me interested for 7 nights.   Obviously I don't have consoles here at work but I do have my laptop set up with several emulators: NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx, WonderSwan, and Aquarius.   Hoping you guys see t

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To my 3 children: Gideon, Josiah, & Elizabeth ("Thunder", Boys Like Girls video)

These lyrics make me think of how precious my 3 babies are to me:   Your voice was the Soundtrack of my Summer Do you know you're unlike any other? You'll always be my thunder   I said, your eyes Are the brightest of all the colors I don't wanna ever love another You'll always be my thunder So bring on the rain And bring on the thunder   - "Thunder", Boys Like Girls     This song is dedicated to them.

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Ultima - Exodus, Being Ignored

Once again I am trying to Play Ultima - Exodus (NES), it's just so unclear on where to go or what to do. I wanted to try to play through it without a walkthrough or help. On top of that when I was forming my party I didn't get the characters I thought I was getting. I wound up with a thief, a cleric, a wizard, and a guy that looks liked a sheperd (no fighter!). The cleric and the "sheperd" are great if you encounter undead enemies, one spell from them and you can wipe out an entire party of

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Tax Avoiders (2600) Review

Okay, it's tax season so I pulled this game to play - Tax Avoiders (shouldn't it be Tax Evaders or at least wouldn't that sound cooler?).   Here's the bottom line - this game is not good. In the main screen you are supposed to collect $ while avoiding government red tape (Oh! that's what that red mis-shapen object is!). You can run and jump (not up but forward) and I don't know how this game "decides" what you touch or collide with but most of the $ goes right by you and does not add to your

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Santa Claus Saves the Earth (GBA) Review

Let me first say two things: I am only on Area 3 and I have not heard the sound effects or music (baby is sleeping).   Other than that this is a fun platformer and certainly more fun around the holidays. You are Santa and an evil witch, Nimla (who has a serious problem with Christmas and children getting their gifts), has transported you into another dimension to keep you from delivering the childrens presents on time. The Areas are all different, you start off inside a cave, then onto an ic

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Christmas Games - Elf - The Movie (GBA)

Let's start with some good points: It's in 5 languages! It has 3 mini-games all of which DO NOT have to be unlocked! Snowman Building is like Sokoban, then there's Santa Says... which is a memorization game, and finally there's Cobbler's Workshop in which you match up elves' shoes to drop them in boxes.   If that's not enough excitement for you already then you are in for a platforming treat! Enter Story Mode where you will be treated to still images of the movie and hopping for lollipops

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The Ides of October - Next Halloween Game is...

...Vampirako! It's in Spanish but not to worry, it's a simple platformer anyone can figure out. You can pick up running speed to jump higher, you can shoot fireballs (which can destroy bricks, etc.) with the space bar, and turn into a vampire bat when by pressing down when standing on a jar. Your progress is tracked on an overhead map. I couldn't check the music or sound (in the library - again). Recommended for Halloween-style fun!   Download Here 3.1 MBs   GideonsDad

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Next Halloween Game - Scare Pairs (Freeware)

I love memory games of the flip the card and make a match type. Scare Pairs is basically one of those with a Halloween theme: graves instead of cards, monsters, etc. for icons, a graveyard landscape where an ominous jack-o-lantern, eyes, and ghost watch you instead of a gameboard. There is also a timer in this game which puts the pressure on. I am the library and couldn't check the sound or music out (no headphones with me).   If you like memory games and are trying to get into the Hallowee

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Guess that game and system - Question 2

Either no one is reading my entries or these are too hard. This one is Lunar: Walking School for the Sega Game Gear (English patch). I HIGHLY recommend any game from the RPG series Lunar.   Maybe this one won't be so hard.   GideonsDad

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Guess that game and system - Question 1

This one was too hard I guess. giltygear got the system - Wonderswan. The game is Neon Genesis Evangelion Shito Ikusei (Am I the only Evangelion fan on AA?!). It's a strange game, you don't pilot Evas, you appear to raise an angel in LCL fluid. Like an Eva Tomagachi I guess.   I thought this would be a nifty addition to my blog - a game where you view a screen capture then guess the game and system it is from. So let's get started with question 1. Don't cheat and look at others comments

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Yesterday, My "Granny" would've been 103

Yesterday, 103 years ago my grandmother was born. She passed away on December 11, 2003. She made it too 97 - which in my book is a LONG time. She witnessed history, she dealt with change on a scale most of us probably can't fathom. She gave birth to 9 children and outlived one of them. My mom is the youngest (making me her youngest grandchild) and my "Granny" was such a blessing to my family and me as she took care of me while my family worked, she was my mother and my father. She would wa

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# 4 Halloween Entry - Halloween for the 2600

Out of the PC and into the consoles we go for our next Halloween entry - Halloween for the Atari 2600. As far as I can tell this is the story: I am a babysitter who is charged with protecting children from the murderous Michael Meyers who wants to kill me and them. I can lead the children to safety at the ends of the floors because Mikey has an aversion to single-door rooms apparently. I also randomly find a knife and stab Mikey but he doesn't die he runs away and comes back and chops my head

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3rd Haloween-themed Entry - Pac-Smiley (PC Shareware)...

...it's not really a Halloween-themed game BUT there are lots of pumpkins to eat where pellets would be in Pac-Man (or its many incarnations). Well by now you know it's a Pac-Man clone but it is worth the download and the hour you are given by the author before you are asked to drop $10 for the game (you could invest it in far worse ways). Let's cut to the description: You are a "smiley" basically an emoticon , a happy one at that and you are being chased but other "smileys" whose expression

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Next Halloween Game - Haltetris (Freeware / Nag screen)

2nd in my Halloween-themed games is - Halotetris. It is a freeware PC game that shows a nag-screen when closed (telling you to visit their site for Halloween Sceensavers, I suppose that's fair enough). The game screen is tiny (good for work I suppose) and the only thing Halloween about it is the Jack-o-Lantern, etc. backgrounds. You can play via the keyboard or mouse with in game buttons. Be careful, when you press down there is NO margin for error - the falling block appears at the bottom o

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9/11

...I know it's easy to get lost in gaming, chatting it the forums (I am probably the most guilty of it today) but please remember to take a moment and remember those people who lost their lives eight years ago today and their families.   God Bless all of you, GideonsDad

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Peaches passed away yesterday...

...my dad found her curled up on a towel on the bathroom floor when he got home from work. I've felt pretty sick since I got the call last night. I suppose I can say she lived a good, long life and at least is no longer in any pain.   GideonsDad

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My cat, Peaches, is very sick : (

Peaches came free with a bag of cat food from a little store called Bill's Pet Shop in New Bern, NC. She has the most beautiful markings I have ever seen on a calico cat (silky, black fur covers her nose and tabby orange is on each side with a white belly) and she has always been so sweet. Lately she has been sick and getting worse. I realize she is old, she is 18. I live in another state now but I did get to see her last month. I pray she overcomes it and at the same time I pray she doesn'

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