Blog entries from wastelander75

So there's a story today I need to share. Not knowing where else to place this, I'll simply put it as a Blog post. So I go to Gamestop to pick up my copy of Tomb Raider and, while I'm there (as I tend to do all the time when I go), I'm looking over the used games rack when an employee comes wandering over asking if I needed any help. One thing leads to another and we're talking about all...

[IMG] Deep within Shadowed Halls, A Restless Evil Might Bound By Blood A Champion Rises, Bathed in Pale Moonlight. Through Decrepit Spire, Lament The Undying Hosts, Come Forth! Ye Wretched Ghouls, Ye Pale and Baleful Ghosts! Face Thine Justice, For Evil Wicked Thought, And Know Full Well, In Dying Light, The Hell a Man May Wrought.

The Passing Not a man among us wanted to stay. And so, setting about the day to bury our own and make venture elsewhere, we set the outpost to fire, sending our dead to a viking's funeral, turning then to the trail that led us three days venture to Fort Ticonderoga. We vowed among our host never to speak truth of what had befallen us, Danny Coultry instead telling the watch that we had been beset...

The Battle at the Outpost They set upon the walls in a great wailing horde, having no mind of form or structure. They simply encroached upon us like leaves scattered by a great wind. Boney fingers clawed and climbed brittle oak, clamoring and hissing at us in their mindless fury to claim our skins. Men let loose a volley of leaded death, Jeb himself at the head as he unloaded his lead ball pistol...

Divided Alliances I settled in my small home, taking time to wash away the grit of the world from my body, putting on fresh buckskin and moccasins, tending to small cuts and scrapes I had acquired on my mad march home. I stared forlornly in the mirror, into a face that looked so foreign to my person as to be a stranger staring back at me. My bearded face was pale, eyes dark from lack of sleep,...

Reaching the Outpost The air braced warm and soothing upon my face. The day would bring about a moist summer heat, but fortunately not an uncomfortable one. There was a light, sweet scent of straw and alfalfa, with that always musky scent of pine. A half hour of travel brought with it the thinning brush and a new scent that was both stomach turning and blessedly familiar; that pungent score of...

My Journey Home I drifted through the Adirondacks for hours, buffeted and torn by the current on my mad tear towards home. I was tired, bruised, my blood felt as sluggish and as cold as the waters. But after witnessing the rise of that phantom brigade the night prior, I was willing, more than willing, to risk discomfort to speed my way towards civilization. As twilight gave way to the morning...

Halloween's coming HTL. Enjoy. I vowed never to speak of these events in my lifetime. But now, in these final hours of my life, I consider this vow fulfilled. For what I speak of would seem almost a tale of the fantastic, something told after imbibing too much of the spirits and the imaginations were left relaxed to think of such wild stories. And although my mind would wish it simply to be...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] No matter where you go..... The 21st century had started off with a bang. It had seen some of the most progressive moments in gaming history. And as one looks back at where it all started, it was almost impossible to see it evolve the way it did. In fact, at one time, it was almost completely written out of life's equation and modern day...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] Thanks to a botched launch attack and the resulting fallout that came with it, by 1997 Sega was trailing the pack for the first time since entering the console market. Sony's PlayStation was the hot new thing, and Nintendo's refusal to give up cartridge based games began to mire it in the past. Vowing not to repeat their past mistakes, Sega...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] In 1986, Nintendo had been toying with the idea of introducing disc-based technologies into their consoles for some time. But with the current hardware available to them, their rewritable magnetic discs could be easily wiped out and erased, coupled with the fact that these discs lacked any sort of copy protection, and were easy prey to...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] By 1990, on the advent of the 16-bit generation of consoles, Nintendo's near-dominance of the market had begun to deteriorate, due in no small part to Sega and a list of shorter-lived competitors that had emerged in the marketplace; most notable NEC's TurboGrafx 16, which was the first console to ever use an optional CD module, which allowed...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] The Dark Ages Begin..... 1983 was a bad year for video games. Not only had a plethora of would-be (and even public knock-off versions of) Atari competitors entered the marketplace, but a number of seriously mismanaged decisions had all but effectively shut down the industry. By 1982, the market was inundated by console contenders; The Atari...

A history of the last 50 years in video gaming [IMG] In the Beginning.... It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when the video game phenomenon began; go to any site on the internet and they'll claim any number of instances where this led to this, which led to that, and that eventually led to what we, as gamers, are playing to this day.So I've decided to do a little research, blow the dust off on...

[IMG] A Good Blaster By Your Side Despite the surprisingly lukewarm reception fans have had for this year's E3, it has slipped in a few surprises here and there. One of them being LucasArts' upcoming third person shooter (er, third person blaster?) oddly titled Star Wars: 1313. What's been revealed so far of the story is that players will be taking control of a still-as-of-yet unnamed Bounty...