video games
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I’ve done professionally after that. I still feel
nostalgia
I think I spent most of my childhood -- and a large part of my life as a young adult -- desperately wishing I was in a video game arcade. When I finally obtained my driver's license, my first thought wasn't about the girls I would
arcade gaming
The first video game to introduce a high score table was Asteroids [http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play2sta2.htm], and after that they were a key fixture in virtually every arcade game from the 80's and 90's. One of my favorite high score tables was in
video games
My latest gaming obsession is the new real-time strategy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy] game, Company of Heroes [http://www.companyofheroesgame.com/]. It's easily one of the best games of the year for the PC. And it's quite possibly one of the best real-time
gaming
Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself: What Would Blanka Do? “Eventually, my nickname at school became Blanka. When I got into real fights, I even tried using some of his moves. They never worked,” said Gutierrez. “I often ask myself, what would Blanka do? I even met my wife because