mmos – Obsolete Gamer

Liz Poisonkiss 1 Comment Gamer gal, Girl Gamers, kinect, liz, mmos, obsolete gamer, xx chromosome

Games and the XX Chromosome

So why is it still such a shock to see a woman enjoying some good old fashioned interactive virtual fun? Why does the stereotype still exist? Is it because the games themselves sustain female stereotypes? Is it the social awkwardness of the typical male who chooses the video game as their media of choice? Or, is it the gaming industry that tries to paint this idyllic view of their manly models playing their games in ads?

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Honorabili 0 Comments burning out, Buy Psychonauts, buying a lemon, call of duty, ebgames, economy, game reviews, game sales, good old games, Halo, honorabili, mmos, Nation Red, Nation Red review, new content, new genre, obsolete gamer, Odium, pirated games, PlanetSide, Plants vs Zombies, psychonauts, Steam, trine, trine review, used games, vote with your wallet, warez, World of Warcraft, writing game reviews

Are game reviews valid?

You might read a game review and be enticed to go buy or play a game but is a review really valid? How long did the reviewer play the game? Does it take into account replayability and updates over the life of the game?

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J.A. Laraque 2 Comments alienware, amiga, breed, c64, civilzation, district creative studio, EQ, everquest, facebook, Fallout, Gamer Profile, Global Agenda, honorabili, Ignacio, interviews, J.A. Laraque, lindsay lohen, M.A.M.E., Miami, mmos, mortal kombat, obsolete gamer, podcast, Pokemon, Reviews, tempest, The Obsolete Gamer show, TMZ, Viva Amiga, World of Warcraft, Youtube, Yusney (Jay) Garay

The Obsolete Gamer Show 3

You ever watch a tv pilot and the set, the lighting and everything else just doesn’t seem network ready? Then next week comes and the show looks completely finished as if polished and shined to look better. Well that is what we are doing with The Obsolete Gamer Show.

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J.A. Laraque 2 Comments Cheaters, CNET, COPS, Discovery Science, Food Network, G4, Gamer Television, HGTV, IGN, J.A. Laraque, mmos, obsolete gamer, Slashdot, Tech TV

What happened to Gamer Television?

How about a tech show for advance people, sure it may go over the head of some, but it is one half hour out of the day where other tech people would actually want to tune in and not hear calls from Betty in Idaho talking about how her Packard Bell makes noise while trying to send pictures to her grandson.

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J.A. Laraque 0 Comments alienware, computers, DSL, editorial, everquest, Florida, gaming, J.A. Laraque, LAN, mmos, obsolete gamer, Red-EyE, State of the lan party

State of the LAN Party IV

By the time consoles invaded my LAN party we had reduced in size to just a few friends, but the new presence was noticed. Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero replaced the twitch action games we played before. It saddened me at first. I believed some of us were getting too old for fast paced FPS games. Honestly I thought it was a fad, but numbers don’t lie.

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State of the LAN Party III

In our LAN group there was actually a divide between those who played EQ and those who did not. The pure gamers, as they called themselves, hated the fact that we talked so much about EQ and one said our LAN party officially died the day we connected a DSL line and played EQ at the LAN.

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Honorabili 1 Comment 1 ghz, 3DFX, 686, AMD, AMD 486 DX-4 100 Mhz, amd K6-2, AMD K6-2 266 Mhz, AMD K6-3, AMD vs Intel, arcade emulation, athlon, athlon xp, ATI vs nVidia, bitch computers, Brian Fargo, carmageddon, carmageddon 2, casualties of computer wars, celerons, centaur, cheap video games, console gaming, CPU wars, crappy LAN, Creative 3dfx Voodoo 2 with 4 MB of RAM, Cyrix, Dadeland, Diamond Stealth 2000 video card, Dolphin Mall, ebgames, emulation, failed video games, fallout 1, fallout 2, far cry, Future Video, gaming companies fail, gaming editorial, Glide games, grand theft auto 1, graphics accelerator wars, Herve Caen, Hollywood Video, honorabili, Intel, Interplay, lost games, mame, master of orion 2, matrox, Memories of Bargain Bin Game Shopping, Miami International Mall, microprose, MMO explosion, mmos, Modern PC Gaming, obscure games, obsolete gamer, obsolete gamer editorial, obsolete gamer old skool, old school gaming, Pentium 2, Pentium 3, pentium i, PowerVR, Radeons vs GeForce cards, S3, The Falls, tnt 2, VIA, video card wars, Voodoo 2, voodoo 3

Memories of Gaming 1997-2003

I remember very well when I tried to run Carmageddon 1 on my AMD 486 DX-4 100 Mhz and the game was a slide-show. Quickly after that I jumped to my AMD K6-2 266 Mhz with 128 MB of RAM and a Diamond Stealth 2000 video card tied to a Creative 3dfx Voodoo 2 with 4 MB of RAM. I got addicted to Glide games quickly… Thanks to my gaming I got a lot of orders for gaming computers which paid for my college and taught me more about the real business world than many classes I took and books I read ever were able to show me.

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Old Games Versus New Games

What kind of games do you prefer? My argument for what’s old and what’s new.