Web Watch has owned a fair number of home video game systems over the years.
Among others, we’ve had your basic PONG machine, the classic Atari 2600, a Nintendo Game Boy, Turbografx 16, Xbox, various Playstations, and a Wii. An entire industry could be devoted to the number of random game cartridges we have lying around for defunct (or soon to be defunct) systems.
Continue reading WHAT WAS THE BEST VIDEO GAME SYSTEM EVER MADE?
If you’re like Web Watch, you’ve likely spent hundreds – if not thousands – of quarters at the local mall arcade playing Pac-Man, Defender, Smash TV, Zaxxon, Spy Hunter, any number of pinball games like the Addams Family machine, iRobot, and many others.
And while you may have your own personal favorite to play because you were good at the game or you liked the storyline, there’s that one machine that everybody seems to love (or at least, think nostalic about) but everyone hated to play.
Except for That One Guy who knew all the right moves at all the right times.
Continue reading DRAGON’S LAIR CHOSEN THE MOST OVERRATED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME
We’ve all played our fair share of board games and video games over the years, and have watched any number of movies and TV shows.
The one thing all of these have in common is that they take place at some location, somewhere around the world.
And we’ve all pretty much wondered the same thing:
Continue reading HOW MUCH DO FICTIONAL HOUSES COST IN THE REAL WORLD?
Hopefully by now, you’ve heard the story about Caine Monroy and the arcade he made in his dad’s shop, where all the games were made entirely out of cardboard.
No? It’s a phenomenal story. Here – watch this, then continue…
So Web Watch is in the process of packing up some of our video game systems and putting them away. The PS2 and Xbox Classic are no longer needed, and don’t even get us started on the TurboGrafx or Sega Genesis that were also taking up precious shelf space.
We’ll leave the Wii and PS3 where they are as we still use those regularly, as we anxiously await the long-rumored Xbox 720 to come out to replace the Xbox 360.
So what does all this mean? We’re not the only ones with older gaming systems still hanging around and being used.
But what are they being used for? It’s not always what you think. Continue reading WHAT PS3, XBOX360, AND WII OWNERS REALLY DO WITH THEIR SYSTEMS
If you’re a video game addict — and let’s face it, if you have at least two “sequel” games in your game library you probably qualify — then you may have sometimes used video games as a way to escape your mundane, humdrum life.
Because who wouldn’t want to be that guy in Grand Theft Auto who can just run around and carjack whatever he feels like sometimes? Drive around and run bad drivers off the road?
Yeah, feels kinda good, doesn’t it? Continue reading THE 25 WORST CITIES TO LIVE IN
When non-destructive, office pranks can be fun.
Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with inflated balloons? Fun. Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with Silly String? A little bit of a mess to clean-up, and usually left to the victim to do so on their own.
Web Watch has even covered an entire office’s items in tin foil and wrapping paper. Definitely time-consuming and an absolute waste of money, but entertaining. The best one we did was sheetrocking over the boss’s office door and painting the wall so it looked like the office was never there in the first place. Oh, we’re still laughing about that one.
But sometimes it’s nice to include others in your office shenanigans. Continue reading DECORATING THE OFFICE WITH POST-IT NOTES
Have you caught the ANGRY BIRD craze for your iPhone, Android, or other mobile device?
Would it help to know that ANGRY BIRDS is coming to WII and XBOX LIVE, and PS3 soon?
How about that some math geeks have determined that the RED ANGRY BIRD is 70cm TALL? Continue reading ANGRY BIRDS WALKTHROUGH, THE SCIENCE OF ANGRY BIRDS, AND ANGRY BIRD TOYS
If you, like Web Watch, love playing boardgames and videogames, then you need to pop over to your local libary on NOVEMBER 13th to celebrate NATIONAL GAMING DAY.
As part of the celebration, over 1800 participating libraries are going to try to set a world record for the LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENT.
See? Who says that libraries need to be all quiet and stuffy? Continue reading LOVE TO PLAY BOARDGAMES AND VIDEOGAMES? NATIONAL GAMING DAY IS NOVEMBER 13TH
The AMAZON KINDLE is great: whenever a new book release comes out, you can pretty much instantly download that book to your Kindle and begin reading immediately.
The hard part is knowing what books — or movies, or DVD’s, or video games — are being released each week so that you can be prepared ahead of time. Sometimes things get released and you just haven’t been paying attention. Continue reading WHEN IT DROPS TELLS YOU WHEN NEW RELEASES ARE COMING OUT EACH WEEK
When it comes to sports – and more importantly, how athletes present themselves both on and off the field – times have changed a lot over the past few years.
With Soccer Parents getting into fights with coaches over why their kids aren’t getting enough field time, fighting-enducing trash-talking during a game, athletes climbing into the stands to punch out hecklers, or even some sports where the scoreboard is being taken away entirely “because kids don’t want the pressure to have to win” — the reason for sports to exist in the first place are slowly falling down by the wayside as the “spirit of competition” gives way to “winning at all costs”. Continue reading WHY AN ATHLETES’ CREED? BECAUSE 81% OF ATHLETES SURVEYED SAID IT’S BETTER TO WIN THAN PLAY FAIR
If you’re looking for a quick Flash game to play to kill time during your lunch hour, you can’t go wrong with a quick game of CASTLEWARS (or, spelled with a space as CASTLE WARS). Continue reading FLASH FUN: CASTLEWARS AND CASTLEWARS 2
If there’s one type of video game that Web Watch can’t get enough of, it’s games in the TOWER DEFENSE genre. We’ve already talked about the GUY WHO INVENTED THE ORIGINAL TOWER DEFENSE GAME, along with a REALLY DEEP AND VARIED VERSION in GEMCRAFT CHAPTER 0.
Here is another variation on the Tower Defense theme entitled CURSED TREASURE – DON’T TOUCH MY GEMS. Continue reading FLASH FUN: “CURSED TREASURE — DON’T TOUCH MY GEMS” TOWER DEFENSE
Remember a few months ago when WEB WATCH told you about ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED, the game where you had to manuever an elephant around a screen full of deadly spikes in order to complete a series of tasks, ultimately fulfilling all of your achievement goals outlined by the game’s creator?
Well, the game author is back with a new creation to drive you batty: THIS IS THE ONLY LEVEL TOO, a platform game where the premise is basically the same: you have to move your elephant character around the deadly screen in order to complete the game. Continue reading FLASH FUN: THIS IS THE ONLY LEVEL TOO — SEQUEL TO ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
A few years ago, Web Watch learned how to play the guitar. It was just a beat-up six-string that we picked up from a second-hand store. We weren’t very good, but we struggled through. Never really started rockin’, but at least we were trying.
What kept us going was the TEN REASONS TO PLAY GUITAR:
