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There are some really cool maths education games. I wish these had been around when I was younger. But I can still play them and learn from them now. My favorites are: - Prodigy Game — an impressive adventure game, that uses maths challenges as a way to defeat monsters. Pluses:…
There are several games you can play on your AMSTRAD CPC (emulator) that have the title "Barbarian." But only one of these games is the brilliant game to end all games, the correct and wonderful " **BARBARIAN** " from my childhood. The "correct" version looks like this: The "c…
"Universal" ran a competition, hosted by Unity, to see who could come up with an original idea for a computer game based on one of these iconic stories: - Battlestar Galactica (2004 tv series) - Voltron The Legendary Defender (2016 tv series) - Back to the Future film trilogy - J…
It is good to be prepared for any eventually. I'm not particularly enamored by wrongdoing, but you never know when the gendarmes will turn on you and clap you in irons. So when I read about the way inmates manage to play role playing games while on the inside I thought, "Here's …
Role Playing Games are a lot of fun. What are some good introductory role-playing games for kids? (And particularly for girls) - HeroKids — sounds great, review here, buy it here — I did! - No Thank You, Evil! — review, playtest review, audio review; Less combat focus than HeroKi…
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Some AMSTRAD CPC computer games I remember from the 1980s. Better titles marked with a 🔥 - 1942 - Arkanoid 🔥 - Barbarian 🔥 - Barry McGuigan boxing - Batty - Beachhead - Biggles ? - Bomb Jack 🔥 - Bomber - Boulder Dash 🔥 - Bruce Lee 🔥 - Budokan - Breakout - California games? …
I am a little reluctant to share this concept too widely. Once people have considered the ramifications of the following suggestion, they may be willing to undertake the possibility of finding a comfortable bed and some nice meals for me in a quiet facility with a lot of locks o…
I read some terrible fan fiction once, in the style of Steven King's Misery, but about a man who takes Roger Waters hostage to force him to add his own lyrics to Momentary Lapse of Reason; and once he's been there for months the captor plays him a casette... it is one of Roger's …
This is a game you can’t win. Here is how to play “Bring me a rock” Player 1: “Bring me a rock!” Player 2 finds a rock and brings it to player 1. Player 1: “No! Not *that* rock!” External Sources I don’t know the origin of this parable. I’ve found mentions quite a way back,…
You know what they say. When you're tired of procedurally generated dungeons, you're tired of life. Beginning with the game 'Rogue' in 1980, there is a long tradition of games which automatically generate their levels, in real-time, as the player enters each level. *Rogue* set t…
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