Obsolete Gamer

J.A. Laraque

TMNT arcade screenshot
Arcade Games
J.A. Laraque

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game

As for controls it was pretty easy which was good because this was a button mashing boot-camp of a game. You had only two buttons jump and attack, but you could press jump and attack together to do a special move be it a jumping swing attack or like with Raphael a rolling attack. You could also throw the foot over head and if attacking a foot in front of you and another snuck up from behind you could pull of a quick back attack to send them flying.

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Editorials
J.A. Laraque

Left Behind: Alienware’s Legacy Problem

Any transition is difficult and it is expected that there will be growing or in this case merging pains. You must also understand that in the gaming world it is common to hear many more complaints that compliments. The rule is, if you are doing good you don’t hear about it, but if you are doing bad you will clearly know.

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Editorials
J.A. Laraque

State of the LAN Party I

The LAN party allowed me to meet great new people and make lifelong friends. In fact, if it was not for the LAN party I would not have become an Alienware employee. It was at that LAN that I learned how important a person’s computer is to them and where I saw my first Alienware. It was a jet black hydraulic case and had everyone there asking about it.

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Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom screenshot
Arcade Games
J.A. Laraque

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released to arcades in 1985 and was based on the movie. This was the second game released and seeing how it played I have to track down the first. It was the first Atari arcade game to use digitized speech, but it sounded worst that my old Texas Interments learning computer that would yell at me for taking too long to solve a math problem (Your Turn!).

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Battlefield Bad Company 2 logo
Blog
J.A. Laraque

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer

So did you like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Well if you did or did not Bad Company 2 from the makers of Battlefield have launched a pretty awesome game. The style is a little more arcade than realistic, but it is fun as hell with pretty much everything you see able to be destroyed, its an action freaks wet dream.

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Pile of money
Blog
J.A. Laraque

U.S. Gamers Spent $3.8 Billion on MMOs in 2009

With those numbers it is no surprise many companies are launching their own MMO’s, it is a booming business that does not look to be slowing. However, saturating the market with a flood of MMO’s isn’t good for the consumer in my opinion. It is one thing to purchase a number of gamers per year with some you end up not liking, but to have to purchase and pay a monthly fee is another thing all together. Then again you can always hit cancel if you don’t like the game.

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Editorials
J.A. Laraque

Atari Box Art

Art is definitely the correct term to use because that’s what they were art, not screenshots. I do not think this was done to mislead the customer, but let’s be honest the artwork and the game almost never matched up. True we should not expect to have seen a game that looked exactly like the box, but let’s face it we were children.

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HDMI cable
Hardware
J.A. Laraque

PS3 HDMI Cable Review

Have you ever heard the saying “there is no such thing as a better cable”? Well here is the skinny, HDMI cables are rated by their bitrate per second or bandwidth capacity so the higher the Gbps or Gigabits per second the more data can pass through at a faster rate.

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