Category Archives: Arcade Games

Video games, pinball, bowling and other things.

Our Wii is off to California for repairs, what a bummer

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Steve

Maybe I should take that as a kick in the seat to finally write a review of the Wii Fit while I start to get all doughy again. I feel most of the initial stories were rushed because they were … Continue reading →

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WarioWare Smooth Moves

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Steve

This collection of 200-plus mini games wrapped around a dozen short stories is an awesome demonstration of how innovative the Wii system has proven to be. At its launch, Wii Sports showed the console’s intuitive nature/play through its controllers. Smooth … Continue reading →

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My brain “weighs” 1121 grams!

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Steve

The other day when I scored a few movies from Blockbuster, I added a Wii game to the list. Tonight, we rewarded ourselves for finally mowing and edging the lawn by playing Big Brain Academy. I would’ve done better on … Continue reading →

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We now pwn a Wii

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Steve

I’m not trying to ridicule or fit in with today’s youth culture like GB Trudeau does, but I can’t stand people thinking they’re witty, funny or “in” by misspelling words. Yet this fit. Somara and I had discussed getting Nintendo’s … Continue reading →

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Guitar Hero III takes the franchise in the wrong direction

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Steve

You know I was all over this the day it was released a month ago and since I have a life outside of video games, it took me about three weeks to beat it at Medium difficulty. Currently I’m playing … Continue reading →

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Three to review for Holiday consideration, or avoidance

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Steve

In the interest of catching up on my backlog of video games, I whipped together three to make one article because I recently rented one and completed two others a while back. Again, I didn’t have as much time and … Continue reading →

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GH III will be on practically all platforms it seems

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Steve

Under the writing deadline for today with this entry! For a day off, I was rather busy and then plagued with fatigue, too much to actually finish the first drafts of two other stories. However, I stumbled on this news … Continue reading →

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Bowling for Legos

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Steve

Out of nostalgia, I went to my saved link of the “Washington” rap cartoon, not remembering it was taken down from YouTube, but stumbled on this demonstration. There are other videos of people pulling off a 300 in Wii bowling yet … Continue reading →

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The “treadmill song” will be on Rockband

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Steve

Woo hoo! The list of songs for the upcoming game Rock Band gets better and better every time I go searching for updates. With OK Go now being there, I don’t think I’ll have too hard of a time convincing Somara … Continue reading →

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Guitar Hero 80s isn’t a home run but it’s still a hit

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Steve

It’s finally here, the video game I dedicated my Web site’s color scheme to for July. Then again, I only received one complaint on how “painful” it looks. First, GH 80s is an expansion for GH II not an independent game as Vice … Continue reading →

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Sly Cooper 2 isn’t as exciting as its predecessor

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Steve

Right now the PS3 just doesn’t have any compelling games to justify its price tag and I keep reading/hearing rumors over compatibility issues with PS2 games, namely my Guitar Hero not working. I’m confident there will be a GTA equivalent … Continue reading →

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Now if I could harness DDR to the Grid

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Steve

I caught this on Marketplace’s little 10-minute newsbreak. Nice to hear about these Dutch guys combining their love of music with sustainability. Now if they could do something about most Europeans’ poor tastes in music and odd love of David Hasselhoff.

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Help actually Rock the Vote on the upcoming Rock Band game

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Steve

In less than a month, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s will be coming out and this will be Harmonix’s last version of their franchise since they’ve handed over GH3 to Neversoft. What’s coming out in July probably didn’t take much work … Continue reading →

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Bowling “skill” at Wii still means no PBA future for me

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Steve

Last night, I hit Pro status in Wii Bowling and I’m still undefeated in boxing even though my last opponent (my first pro foe) gave me a hell of a time, he knocked me down twice. I think it was … Continue reading →

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Cats & Wii, but not the smelly kind

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Steve

It’s going to be a long, semi-rough week catsitting for two households again but the upsides are more than doubled. Summer is here so the Lowrys’ hot tub and pool can be used when I’m not being entertained by Angel, … Continue reading →

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