Have you ever wanted to drive a bus? With visions of a yellow school bus loaded with eighty screaming and yelling elementary school kids, my first thought was “NO!”, but as I asked my own kids they were very enthusiastic about giving it a try.
OK, nobody’s going to get the joke in the title, but that’s OK, it’s not a very funny joke anyway. Turns out that I have enough materal about Indiana Jones to write a blog about. Just like Star Wars and Transformers, Indiana Jones was a pretty big part of my childhood. In fact, there’s some aspects about Indiana Jones movies that I like even BETTER than Star Wars. So grab your fedora and come along on an adventure!
Got some really interesting questions this week. First, a simple one: Why do games based on movies suck? Then we wade into the deeper waters of “World of Warcraft Addiction” – and then you know what happens? Yep, another question from a smart teen about the Grand Theft Auto IV everybody is still (rightfully) talking about. All this and more at Ask GamerDad.
In 2005 GamerDad was profiled in Canada’s National Post newspaper. The National Post is a nationwide paper so, Welcome Canadian GamerDads! (GamerPeres, in Montreal!)Thank you to Adam McDowell for the phone call and for writing the story. Basically it covers, briefly, why I began GamerDad and some of my goals for the site. more…
Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) arrived late in 2006 on the PC, and the Mac version took about sixteen months longer to arrive on Mac OS X. In fact, the expansion for the PC game arrived before the Mac port, but unlike the expansions for the original Neverwinter Nights there is not a simple way to get ‘Mask of the Betrayer’ running on your Mac. I had thoroughly enjoyed the PC version of NWN2 when it was released, declaring it the best RPG of 2006 over Oblivion and Gothic 3 despite the fact that it had a number of bugs and camera issues that took some patching to fix. So I knew that the core of the Mac game would be very good, it was all about the port. For those who have not played the original game I will run through a review of the entire game and also comment on things I noticed specific to the Mac version.
New games coming to Steam are no big deal – nor is the ability to grab favorites for a reasonable price and not have to worry about play disks and whatnot. I wouldn’t report on any of that … but I just have to tell you what is now cooking on Steam!
Ah, Krull, does anyone even remember Krull? If you do, you can imagine how useful it’ll be. We can show our grandkids Lord of the Rings and then show them Krull (and Beastmaster, and even Willow) and they can pity us. We’d then stamp our feet and sputter “But we LIKED it!” – it was all we had.
There have been controversial video games ever since video games first were imagined. But a reader asks me if games from the long ago past (NES, Atari 2600) can possibly be rated M for Mature. And what about M-rated games from a decade, or more, ago? This and much more in this week’s Ask GamerDad.
With the summer months coming up, people are going outside and playing sports and being a little more fitness minded. Of course, if you’re down in the South like I am, you spend the hottest parts of the day INSIDE playing video games or else you’ll melt! So in honor of summer sports and outdoor fun, here’s a list of my favorite sports video games.
