Growing up only happens to other people
There’s a phase in your life, usually the years before you hit the teens, where you somehow feel that it is important to act grown-up and eschew anything childish and immature.
Screw that, I say. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s stupid not to do something just because someone else might think of it as childish.
Thus, I feel perfectly fine in buying a Gamecube and sitting with a large smile on my face and playing Super Smash Bros Melée. Next Friday, Zelda: Wind Waker is released. Yay!
People should have a chat with their inner child more often.
Speaking of games, Tycho of Penny Arcade did a nice rant about a whole bunch of various shareware games: “I found a number of great games this weekend through various sources, and should you ever require respite from X where X equals some stupid bullshit, allow me to help.”
First out is Pom Pom, a company with a logo featuring a psycho-looking robot waving two pom poms. They have two games available; Mutant Storm and Space Tripper.
I found Space Tripper to be the most interesting of the two. It’s essentially a Defender clone, where you steer a space ship across a horisontally scrolling level and blowing stuff up. Apart from the arrow keys, you only need three buttons to control your ship: shoot, switch weapons and turn the ship around.
It’s a very simple idea (based on the 20-something year old Defender), but it still works. No story, no plot, just action. And big bosses.
Starscape from Moonpod Games looks very promising and entertaining indeed. Unfortunately, you can only play for 20 minutes in the demo version before you get kicked out of the game. That sucks… You really can’t get a good feeling for the game in 20 minutes. But I liked what little I played — should I happen to get a credit card or equivalent in the near future I’ll probably shell out $25 for the full game.
Via Jason Kottke I found Enigmo, a puzzle game similar to The Incredible Machine, if you happen to remember that one. Unfortunately I don’t have a Mac with the juice to play it.