Super Meat Boy is so good...

That I bought it twice. Anxiously awaiting for it to unlock on Steam. Supposedly within the hour!

Stop the Insanity!

This has to stop. I thought I was done buying games for the PC and then the next day's deals come. Today's purchase: The Orange Box...$7.50. I've never played Half Life 2 either, so the entire experience is new to me. I'm about 1 hour into the game right now.

Tomorrow, I'm not even looking at the deals! (yeah right)

Steam Rolled!

So I've hooked up my "gaming" PC and have put it to work. It's not really a good gaming PC. Definitely needs and upgrade in the mobo/cpu/video card areas. But it's not a total crapper either.

Anyway, Steam has been running some fantastic deals on some awesome games. I took advantage of 2 deals yesterday. I bought the Indie Clever pack which included Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, Eufloria, Iron Grip: Warlord, VVVVVV, and World of Goo. I also picked up Freedom Force for a steal at $5.

Today, I was probably one of the first in line clicking refresh when the new deals went up. Right away, I saw what I wanted. I picked up Left 4 Dead 2 and the Indie Pulse Pack which included Audiosurf, Beat Hazard, BIT.TRIP BEAT, The Polynomial, and Rhythm Zone.

So PC game overload!!! So far, World of Goo has owned my soul the most. It's a cool casual puzzle type game where you use gobs of goo to build various structures to escape the level. It's very fun with some freakin' HARD achievements! I have unlocked none so far in about 4 hours of play.

Today I spent a fair amount of time with BIT.TRIP Beat. However, my mouse blows balls. It's an old school PS/2 Compaq mouse from like 1994. I'll have to pick up a decent laser type mouse to play this game seriously....or play on a different machine.

Which brings up a question: Am I able to install Steam purchased games on multiple machines as long as I'm logged in? I'm sure a quick Google search will answer that because nobody actually reads this blog (yet!).

I also put in a good solid hour with VVVVVV today too. It's a fantastic platformer type puzzle type, crazy good game. I can see myself finishing this game and going for all the trinkets....SOON!

I tried Audiosurf a little, but I don't have any good music on this machine for it. My classic rock and hippie song collection just isn't the best for that game.

I'm currently waiting on Left 4 Dead 2 to install. It's HUGE. This will be the best test for this machine.

OK, back to some VVVVVV!

It's been a while!

It's been several days since I last posted. Nothing exciting has really happened. I've done a fair amount of gaming on the Xbox during my posting hiatus. Mostly alternating between Super Meat Boy, Home Run Challenge, Avatar Golf, and a couple other random Indie Games.

One thing I'm really missing out on right now is PC gaming. GamesforWindows.com has been offering a couple mad crazy deals in an effort to compete with Steam. My PC for my arcade cab is my fastest machine with a dual core 3 Ghz processor and a 512MB video card. Not the best, but hopefully capable of running a few decent games.

One direction I really want to take this blog is to give a little more exposure to some great Indie games. I'm just really getting into the Indie gaming scene and finding it fascinating. I'm going to do some reviews and such. One gem I came across yesterday was Gerbil Physics 2. I'm going to try to finish the game tomorrow and give a proper review right after.

A Gob of slippery red meat has owned my soul!

So I purchased some MS Points and downloaded a couple games. The main reason I purchased the points was for Super Meat Boy. I played the demo and fell in love. Let me just say this, the demo doesn't do the game justice. I hadn't read much about the game so I really didn't know what to expect other than I was going to die a zillion times.

SMB is a throwback to the old school platform games. Tough as nails, fun as fuck. SMB pays homage to the retro systems and games we grew up loving throughout the 80's and 90's. It also does it with a sort of "fuck you" attitude.

The game is hard...damn hard. However, that doesn't take away from the fun factor of the game. In my opinion it adds to it. There's nothing like dying over and over (and over) again and then finally finishing the level and getting rewarded with an awesome replay of every attempt run at the same time. It's like meat genocide.

SMB might not appeal to younger gamers who don't remember the classic consoles and how games used to be back then. But for everyone else, if you don't love this game, there's something wrong with you! Add in the fact that it's $10! Ten fucking dollars for a game I'd gladly pay $50 for!

I was forced to take a break from the game because my hands were cramping up so bad from extended play. Very few games have done that to me in the past! Every time I close my eyes, I see a little red cube of meet jumping through saw blades and hopping up walls leaving his red snail tracks behind.

Also I downloaded a couple indie games with my points: Avatar Golf & Home Run Challenge. More on those another time.

Have you seen my PSP?

I looked all over my house for my PSP today. No such luck. I did find my original Gameboy in great condition though. I thought I had hit an eBay homerun, but no such luck. Nobody wants to pay anything for them, so I'll keep it as a decorative item.

I've spent most of the day putting my Masters of the Universe collection on eBay. Times are tough. I need some income quick! Super Meat Boy isn't going to pay for itself!

New High Scores! and more!

I've been playing a lot of various games lately. I've also set some high scores the past couple days. Most notably, my Zoo Keeper score jumped from a dismal 69,000+ to 109,000+. I figured out some tricks to push some points and I didn't make too many stupid mistakes.

I've also been participating in the BYOAC High Score Challenge. We are playing the Pac Man Arrangement from the Namco Classics 2 machine. I've never played that version before, but on my 3rd attempt I had my best score of just over 88,000. Nobody has posted a better score yet, but I'm sure it will be beat.

Speaking of Pac-Man, I just can't pass up my Xbox without playing a game of Pac-Man C.E. Oh how I love the game. I did manage to attempt to clear the Challenge Mode 1 today and was successful, but I keep going back to the Championship Mode to up my score. I had almost given up for the day, coming about 4,000 points shy of my high score of 171,000ish. I turned off the Xbox and watched some TV, but I kept wanting to play one more game. I did and bam, 204,000+. Next step, 250K!

Lastly, I downloaded the demo to Super Meat Boy. Here's my review: Fuck Shit, Fuck Shit, Fuck...Dammit, I keep dying! BOOM! FINALLY! I love this game! Well, I have to see the next level...fuck shit, fuck shit, motherfucknaoisdu7089[e8hfw-02!!! and repeat. Fun game. Hard Game. But they made it so that it's a fun kind of hard. This will be my next purchase.

That's about it. The weather sucks here (SNOW :( ). So no work on the MAME cabinet. More snow tomorrow, so I'll probably work on some Pac-Man scores. I also installed FCEUX and have all the NES ROMs. I just need to get it all set up with my front end and I'll have a sexy NES Setup. I really want a NES USB Controller though. Does anyone know if they make a usb cable that has all the different controller dongle thingies on it? I heard there was such a beast, but I can't find them. I'm not even sure what they would be called.