To game or not to game... that is this the question.

So what is this blog going to be all about? Well mainly reviews of games that I am currently playing or beta testing. It will also house some ideas I have about the video game industry, and my views on where gaming is headed.

Author: kackilos

The other day my friends and I got into a conversation about our favorite arcade games. With little or no hesitation my mind drifted to the times my family went with friends to our favorite pizza joint. This was our favorite place as the pizza was cheap and the beer was plentiful for our parents. Also this place had an amazing childcare facility called the down stairs arcade.

 

The arcade had many classics ranging from mortal combat to the candy crane game, but there was one game that I always wanted to play. Turtles in Time was the best game on the floor. It had everything I wanted. For starters it had my favorite childhood action heroes, it offered coop play with my friends, and I was pretty good at it. My friends and I would play for what seemed like hours or seconds until our pizzas arrived and my sister was sent to gather us up…until we kicked her out and someone’s father game down to get us. At which point we would relinquish the joysticks and let some undeserving noobs behind us take over which was the same as signing a death certificate for our favorite mutated adolescent reptiles.  

 

Thinking back about the game really got the childhood memories flowing. I remember the suspense and drama that occurred during a boss fight when a friend ran out of lives and had to sprint back and forth between the change machine and the game just to activate a continue. I remember fighting splinter for the first time and being the sole survivor and basking in the roar of the crowd as I threw that last bad guy at him.  I still use that victory to taunt my cousin when we inevitably get into a heated, but friendly, conversation.

 

So take a second out of your day and chat with your friends about the games of the past and the memories you have of them. To those players looking for a game to relive some of those side-scroller memories I suggest you look at castle crashers on xbox live.

 

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