I’m currently watching a video on the history of video games by YouTube user applemctom, and my wife, Joyce, keeps asking me why I know majority of the games featured in the video. I guess my video games addiction is finally showing, eh? To test my mettle, I tried to list down in order all the games shown in the two-minute footage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all. Before I show my list (rather, before you take a look at it), watch the video and try listing down in order all the games that you see. Let’s compare notes later.

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Like I mentioned in my earlier post, the coolest thing about this writing gig is I get to write about games I’ve played before. So what’s way cooler than that? Why, telling you kids out there that your daddy used to play games that had blocky, two-dimensional characters, that’s what.
In this first installment of Your Daddy played this game, I present to you Hard Hat Mack, a 1983 Apple II game developed by Michael Abbot and Matthew Alexander.
Here’s an interesting trivia: Hard Hat Mack was the first game published by Electronic Arts. Yes, the same company that’s giving a lot …read more

In which Tom Baker, broadcasting through the power of the imagination, reads the next chapter in the hideous saga of Mr. F, who turned his home into a charnel house in pursuit of wealth and power.
But first, here’s something from ‘AngelLover89′ – another instructional video on how the Sims is, and always has been played, this time starring David Boreanaz, who is evidently depressed for some reason.

Now that that’s over with, we continue with the Strange Case Of Mr. F.

Or: This wierd quirk (for simulated murder) I’ve tried to suppress and hide is a talent that could help me meet The Wizard…
Today’s YouTube comes from ‘audreanaisawesome’, who kindly demonstrates how to play the original Sims game, way back at the turn of the Millennium.

Some might turn around and say that this is needlessly cruel – that the object of The Sims was not to fill the virtual world you presided over like unto a God with death, despair, misery and bitter tears of grief. But those people would be quite wrong, as I will now demonstrate by recounting the …read more