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- Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts
- I Want Candy – And Other Treats
- In My Write Mind: News About My Writings
- Johnny You ARE Queer – Gay Thoughts
- Living in the 80s – forever
- Movie Times & Television Schedules – Staying Entertained
- Sound Check – The Songs Stuck in My Head
- Tell You What's On My Mind (Pure Energy)
- The Dan Zone Files – Just the Facts
- The Evil of the Thriller – Everything Horror
- Wagging My Dog Tales
- What I'm Doing With My Joystick
Category Archives: What I’m Doing With My Joystick
A Silent Hill movie you watch just to say “That’s from the video games!”
While the original Silent Hill movie crammed together the premises of the 1st and 2nd video games, Silent Hill Revelation is predominantly based on the Silent Hill 3 video game. It does an awesome job of bringing the protagonist Heather … Continue reading
Resident Evil Six or Resident Evil Sux?
So we all know that beginning with Resident Evil 4, Capcom gave up on the classic survival horror genre and turned it into an action series to gain not a BIGGER audience, but a DIFFERENT audience. And they succeeded. No … Continue reading
My kind of video game: zombies, cheerleaders, headless hunks, and 80s love
Forget the story, suspense, or scares of survival horror. Lollipop Chainsaw is a straight up hack n’ slash arcade style video game that is loads of zombie slaughtering fun. It’s just you, a chainsaw, a hot dumb cheerleader sucking on … Continue reading
Cursed Mountain: Emphasis on the Curse…LOTS of them
Cursed Mountain on the Wii had the potential to be the best survival horror game of this generation to capture the feel of the classics from a decade ago. Only one thing held it back. It’s on the Wii. With … Continue reading
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: this zip code will never be the same…
Let’s face it. The Survival Horror genre hasn’t, well, survived the horror of game companies obsessed with satisfying action fans. Recent outings of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark have mostly disappointed long time fans of these … Continue reading
Dance Dance Revolutionized on the Wii
After over a decade and 3 generations of gaming systems, it seems Konami has NEARLY gotten it right with the two latest DDR titles that have hit the Wii—simply going back to basics by titling then Dance Dance Revolution Wii … Continue reading
For Adults Only: X-Arcade…the ultimate place to spend all your quarters…
I’ve spent the last decade trying to re-experience classic 80s arcade games the way I remember them. Plenty of ‘compilation’ discs have been released for everything from the first Playstation to the Wii, but with these consoles, you’re stuck using … Continue reading
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The zombies come home for dinner—but all they want to eat is quarters…
Every time I dust off my Dreamcast, I find it such a shame that the system bit the very dust I’m wiping off. If only Sega had looked ahead and included DVD support, the Dreamcast could have been a great … Continue reading
Day of the Dead Rising 2: brain dead thoughts and some boss battle help
Having finally defeated the original Dead Rising on the 360 a couple of months ago, I was so hyped for the sequel to come out. When I heard there was a download only ‘prequel’ to the second game on the … Continue reading
How to cheat (um…beat?) Dead Rising Xbox 360…
When Dead Rising was released for the Xbox 360 last decade, it was the game that almost pushed me to buy the console sooner rather than later. But it wasn’t long before the user reviews began to hit the net…and … Continue reading