Pac-Man Fever FINALLY on Rockband

and a few other Buckner & Garcia video game…  hits.

Buckner & Garcia’s "Froggy’s Lament" – 160 MSP ($2)

Buckner & Garcia’s "Hyperspace" – 160 MSP ($2)

Buckner & Garcia’s "Mousetrap" – 160 MSP ($2)

Buckner & Garcia’s "Pac-Man Fever" – 160 MSP ($2)

Aztec Challenge for the Atari 2600

Aztec Challenge for the Atari 2600

The Story of A-VCS-tec Challenge

After finishing Mental Kombat I decided to continue 2600 development and thought of a nice game with use of moving and animated sprites.

The Introduction Sequence
The cartridge starts up with playing the music and fading in the mask in the middle of the screen.

Afterwards the game title appears and a scrolltext at the bottom of the screen shows the credits for the development and the copyright.

The Game
You find yourself located on a plain field and can barely see a small pyramid on the horizon. The sun is burning and before long the first spear is thrown by one of the spear-throwers along the sides of your path.

As the game progresses, the pyramid is zooming and you’re getting closer to your goal: the safety of the pyramid’s inside.

You should try not to collide with the spears, because otherwise a screen like this will inform you that your quest is over. Your final score is shown until you use the fire-button to return to the game’s introduction sequence.

And if you manage to survive all the different levels, you will be presented with an endsequence to celebrate your victory. [More at Source]

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 20,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships. In 2010, there were 17 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,378 posts. There were 3 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 53kb. The busiest day of the year was September 7th with 131 views. The most popular post that day was Talisa Soto.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were en.wordpress.com, answers.yahoo.com, en.search.wordpress.com, lotro-turkey.com, and gamesource.groups.yahoo.com. Some visitors came searching, mostly for talisa soto, alizee hot, talisa soto pics, nes, and p3t extractor.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Talisa Soto May 20082 comments

2

Lord of the Rings Online DX9 VS DX10 February 20088 comments

3

PS3 Theme Extractor Tutorial November 20072 comments

4

Exteel: Free Giant Robot Deathmatch MMO April 2008

5

Earth and Beyond Stress Test Servers are ONLINE! July 2009 1 comment

“City of Heroes” going free to play.

Source:  http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35353/Interview_Taking_City_Of_Heroes_FreeToPlay.php

Paragon Studios announced that ‘City of Heroes’, their 7 year running Pay to Play MMO, will be adopting the Free to Play business model that seems to be so popular these days.

‘City of Heroes Freedom’ is to be more than a simple extension of the 14 free trial that new subscribers and pick up now.  New players will have 2 character slots, a level 50 cap using over 100 different power sets.

Granted, all of this sounds good and all.  But I’m not sure what they are going to be able to do about the whole boring and extremely repetitive gameplay.   

Xbox LIVE has not been LULz’d

Even I’ve seen some posts about people claiming that LIVE has been hacked.   and even though I asked for proof, nothing was provided.   So.  I can only believe that it’s Sony marketing people saying LIVE has been hacked in order to shift blame.  
anyway.. according to Major Nelson from Xbox.  He tweeted on 6/17: 

   I am seeing concern that Xbox LIVE is compromised. So far All we’ve seen is a random list of emails. Nothing indicating a breach.

 

So where has Sony, Nintendo, Sega, and many others have been hacked.  We’d not seen LIVE go down..      Yet.     Me thinks it’s only a matter of time.

Add Sega to the list of hacked companies.

According to Reuters, Sega reveled that 1.3 million user accounts, including birth dates and passwords, where hacked from the Sega Pass network on 06/17.
Sega says they are sorry, and will be doing something to strengthen their security. 

The weird thing?  LulzSec isn’t saying they did this one.  As a matter of fact they Tweeted:

@Sega – contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.

Sega’s Press Release:

As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.
Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.
We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers’ data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems.
We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.

Please note that no personal payment information was stored by SEGA as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.
If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately.
We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.

Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious emails that ask for personal or sensitive information.
Therefore please do not attempt to login to SEGA Pass at present, we will communicate when the service becomes available.
We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all our members with these recommendations.
If you have any further questions please contact SEGA customer support on csescalations@sega.com

© SEGA. SEGA and the SEGA logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of SEGA Corporation.
All rights reserved.

Halo Anniversary to include Kinect.

WHY?  I don’t know.  But according to the news feeds it will.

“Fallen Earth” going F2P

GamersFirst Reloaded Productions Studio has acquired Fallen Earth LLC (and it’s 12 employees), and plans to make the game Free to Play over the next few (~5) months.   After the change it’s planned to allow freebie accounts to access everything in the game with some items and services being held for the paying players by using an in game store.

Want a review?

OK.. so I’m looking for a game to review.

Any suggestions?

Free or at least a demo, unless someone wants to donate a copy of the game to be reviewed.

 

Fable: The Journey debut trailer and footage

Fable: The Journey debut trailer and footage.

I REALLY hope this isn’t all the game… it looks like a rail shooter that you can flap your arms too.    =/

Hey Lionhead?  i’ve got one for you..  try FIXING FABLE 3 BEFORE
worrying about Fable 4.      Can’t  BELIEVE I paid for DLC that BREAKS the main game.  WTF!?