Yo Nerds
I have nothing important today and this is hilarious, so here ya go.
Cardy…CD?
BRO so a few weeks ago – for whatever reason – I was reminded of an old game that I used to have on CD way back when I was like in third grade or something. I don’t remember the name of the CD, but it was basically just a bunch of different card games (war, crazy 8’s, hearts, etc.) that you could play against animated characters.
And today I was going through one of my old home movie tapes and there was a few seconds of me holding up a bunch of CD cases. One of them was the game I was thinking of!
It was called Wild Cards!
I REMEMBER THIS OH MY GOD
Edit: A walk-through!
The voices of those characters are etched in my head. Especially Jack saying “hit me!”
Playgame
Dudes, I used to play this ALL THE TIME.
This reminds me so much of all the Flash-driven games and animations I used to spend a lot of time playing/watching back in high school.
Anyway.
Q: Who’s the most boring Steam member?
A: I am! I am!
I’m actually surprised Half Life isn’t one of my top three.
THEY’RE CLASSICS FOR A REASON, LEAVE ME ALONE
Fight me.
Modern games just don’t compare, man. Quake is amazing.
Okay, this is addictive
Big Ben AND word fun? I’m all about it.
It’s Mahjongg, not Yourjongg, get your own!
Back when I was a kid/teen, I had this computer game called Moraff’s Maximum Mahjongg. It was just a bunch of different versions of solitary mahjongg. My mom and I used to play it all the time. I’m sure I still have the CD somewhere, but the odds of it working are like zero.
Anyway, I’ve been really wanting to play it lately, and after a bunch of searching online, I was able to find a version that actually worked and got it installed!
Even the main menu brings back the memories.
SO MANY MEMORIES
The music, also, is something I’ve still got deep in my brain.
Yay!
Spent
An interesting game that, unfortunately, is a reality for a lot of people.
I made it through the month with $243 at the end, but I’d lost my job due to too many job strikes and have some unresolved dental issues leftover.
SPATIAL ROTATION!
This is super fun!
The most I’ve gotten is 12, and it would have been more but the second to last one was really hard and took me a long time, haha.
Safari
So was this anyone else’s elementary school “treat” that the teacher let you play with if you were good?
We had a yellow GeoSafari in elementary school and we all LOVED it, haha.
MATCH
One of my favorite little exercises/challenges on Duolingo is Match Madness, where you’re presented with a column of words from the language you know, a column of words from the language you’re learning, and you’ve got a time limit to match the words from each column. Like this:
There are nine levels of this where the number of matches you must make within the time limit.
At least, I thought there were only nine levels. That was until I beat the ninth level this afternoon to reveal this:
MATCH MADNESS EXTREME!
Three more levels. I can get to level 12 but I can’t get through it yet, so who knows if there is anything beyond that.
Quake?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Yo, look at how CRISP Quake looks on this new monitor:
That’s wild. I love it.
And yes, I’m playing an early 90s game on my new fancy compy. That’s how I roll.
Twisted Christmas
This is the time of year where I want to hunker down in my room, turn the overhead lights off and the Christmas lights on, and play through this wonderfully ridiculous Quake map:
I remember playing this when we lived on Tamarack, which was…4th grade? I distinctly recall switching between this and the “Santa Tracker” website on Christmas eve, haha.
Man, I miss those days.
The Manhole
Cyan, Inc., the company that gave us the wonderfully whimsical Cosmic Osmo (which I played constantly as a child), Myst (which I owned but never played) and Riven (which I also never played), also gave us this odd little game in 1988:
This is actually not the original game; this is the CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition, which is the one I had as a kid. I remember enjoying this game quite a bit, but watching this playthrough, some of it actually looks kind of terrifying.
“Brocicle, I’M your family, now!”
[random-ass American Dad quote]
Anyway.
This game must have originated on Newgrounds or something, because I distinctly remember playing it more than a decade ago.
It’s like Sims Lite.
Ozzie’s World
OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THIS GAME
I played this a LOT, hahaha. I remember playing it when we lived out in Troy.
Terrific Traffic
This is fun to play with. I like the four-way stop; you can create bedlam.
Allo? Salut?
Bro, this is so fun.
But I also really love flags, so…
World Reference 3D Atlas ‘98
Bro, I was JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS the other day and suddenly a playthrough of it showed up in my YouTube suggestions. Google, you’re scary.
Did anyone else have this CD?
GeoJuggernauts
So I think Nate and I managed to get the worst Geoguessr score without actually trying to do so. Check it:
Like, it’s really hard to do this badly on purpose. But to be fair, we do not allow ourselves to move when playing (just to look around and zoom from whatever location we’re dropped at), the locations we were dropped at were vague as hell, and the Geoguessr website was glitching out on us.
Still, though. Ouch.
Gameage
Want some fun text-based, multiple-choice games? Check these out.
I found this via “Choice of the Dragon,” but I’m enjoying “Choice of Broadsides” a lot.
This is super fun!
How good are you? Some colors I can match almost immediately, but there’s this green color that’s like one tick away from the given green color in “easy” mode and I can’t freaking get it, haha.
WOO!
HEY LOOK IT’S QUAKE
Everyone knows I love Quake.
(watch with the captions on, they’re pretty great)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has an original Quake CD.
5:13: “Episode 1: the one everybody played because it was a shareware.” Hahaha, I actually got a hold of Quake because the guy who was working on our house at the time had a pirated version of the whole game. Same thing with Half Life, if I’m remembering correctly.
5:46: I’ve been playing this game for like TWENTY FIVE YEARS and I never noticed that it was the Nine Inch Nails logo on the nail boxes. Though to be fair, I play original Quake, which is so freaking pixelated it’s a wonder I can recognize the nail boxes themselves.
The NAILGUNS. I love the nailguns. My “Nailpit” name was oh so cleverly derived from them when I was seven.
But no, really. It’s an extremely linear game that’s exactly the same every time you play it, but like I said, I’ve been playing this for 25+ years and haven’t gotten tired of it. It’s exactly my type of game and is very satisfying to play.
Perfect
Heyyyyyy, I got another perfect card in Out of the Park!
Freaking Sandy Koufax, nice. Maybe this additional perfect card will help me do better in the Perfect League.
Edit: Nope.
Edit 2: Oh god, Koufax is getting destroyed
Edit 3: Hahaha, back to the Diamond League I go
Burf
Hello, BUTTBAGS! It’s my birthday today, blah blah blah, who cares.
Have some horrific Pictionary drawings instead.
I have no idea what word we were originally drawing here, but yeah. Also, I’m pretty sure “oh lawd, Satan loves worm demons” is in the Bible somewhere.
Nate’s word was “VIP.” I had to spice it up a little.
I think the word was “diversity.”
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