Memorable Computer & Video Games
Some memorable games from my past. These videos evoke such nostalgia and happy memories, it’s great that you can find all this stuff on the Internet.
Manic Miner - ZX Spectrum
Super Mario Bros. - NES
Police Quest - PC
Space Quest III - PC
Sonic The Hedgehog - Sega Megadrive
Mario Kart - SNES
The Secret of Monkey Island 2 - PC
Sega Rally - Sega Saturn
Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64
Wipeout 3 - Playstation
Quake 3 Arena - PC
Hexic - XBox 360
Oblivion - PC
World of Warcraft - PC
Xbox 360 Blu-ray Player
I always thought that HD-DVD would win out over Blu-ray. My logic was that if people had to make a choice, it wouldn’t come down to technical ability, but more a familiarity with the DVD brand.
What I naively hadn’t taken into account was the weight that the film studios carry when it comes to media formats. While the HD battle was interesting to watch for the past year, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the speed at which HD-DVD finally crashed and burned.
Particularly Microsoft, it would seem.
They announced that they are ceasing production of their HD-DVD player for Xbox 360 and almost grudgingly stated that a Blu-ray player for the 360 was possible. But, frankly, each week that passes where people can choose between buying the PS3 with it’s built-in Blu-ray drive or the 360 with its standard DVD drive is another nail in the Xbox 360 coffin.
Don’t get me wrong, despite its flaws, I love the Xbox, but Microsoft have made a lot of mistakes with this generation of their console and I just hope they don’t add another one to the list by missing the Blu-ray boat.
Nintendo DS WPA
Nintendo Why!? We love you Nintendo, but you drive us crazy sometimes.
Need I remind you about the N64 controller or the Virtual Boy. What about the missing backlight on the GBA? The GBA SP finally got a backlight, but you removed the headphone socket!
We made a leap of faith to understand your logic when you decided to use cartridges in the N64 when everyone else had switched to CD-ROM. We loved the Gamecube, despite restricting developers with its graphics capabilities and mini-DVD discs. We know that sometimes you like to you fly in the face of convention and other times, you rarely stray from it. We can forgive the endless recycling and dilution of existing IPs because although sometimes you get it wrong, most of the time you get it very very right. But your inability to foresee the changing market during the SNES era meant that you were directly responsible for giving us the Playstation.
That’s a toughie to forgive.
We all mocked you mercilessly when you announced the DS. Okay, we admit it, you proved us wrong on that one. 65 million machines sold worldwide is a tough figure to argue against.
One question constantly niggles me though, Nintendo. Why, in the name of all things sane and sacred, did you limit the wi-fi connectivity of the Nintendo DS to just WEP encryption? If your answer in any way involves the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, please make sure it also includes something about Mac drivers. With WEP easily cracked these days, encouraging its use is irresponsible and lazy. If Sony can regularly update the firmware on the PSP to include things like Skype, why can’t you fix something as simple as this?