Tag: video games

Flash Fun: This Is The Only Level Too – sequel to Achievement Unlocked

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 11, 2010

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.

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10 Things Music

The top reason to play guitar? “Enlightenment”. The top reason not to play guitar? ‘Cause you’re a girl

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 29, 2010

Guitar for Dummies

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:

Mating – because every chick loves themselves a guitar god
Piss off Your Parents – especially when the amp stays cranked up to 11
An Alternative to the Sporting Life – face it, for every football team, there has to be a marching band. And how many guitar players do you know in the marching band?
Improve Your Vocabulary – songwriting and musical arts. Finding words that rhyme. You know, English class stuff
Be the Life of the Party – because the party don’t start til you show up
Form a Band and Join the Circus – sometimes they’re one and the same
Head start on a Psychology or Management Degree – ditto
Versatility – “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball” applies to guitar players, too
Slay Your Idols – just prove you’re better than they are
Enlightenment – music is your life. Learn it, live it, love it.

Tags 10 Things, Music, video games

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How Many Classic Arcade Games Can You Name? (It’s the arcade version of Where’s Waldo?)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 22, 2010

Web Watch is a big fan of the classic video games that populated arcades back in the 80’s and early 90’s.

Not like today’s gaming arenas, filled with craptastic ticket-dispensing machines that teach kids different variations of gambling in order to “earn” enough tickets to buy a lousy stuffed animal that would have cost half as much if purchased directly from the local Toys R Us.

No, we’re talking the classic quarter-munching games like Galaga, Ms Pac Man, Defender, i-Robot, Dig Dug, Robotron, and others from the best game years.

Laugh all you want, Nintendo-boy. We liked our games simple, with a single joystick and maybe two buttons. Cheesy audio and bad graphics were state-of-the-art at the time… and you still felt as if you got your quarter’s worth every time you played.

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Betcha can’t name the Most Played Video Game of All Time

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 26, 2010

Can you name the MOST PLAYED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME?

It’s not MS PAC MAN.

It’s not TETRIS.

It’s not even Microsoft Windows’ SOLITAIRE card game (although that one should qualify as the most played video game in the office environment).

Tags gadget, Internet, video games, World Record

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Flash Fun: Minions on Ice (from the creators of the new Desktop Tower Defense)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 14, 2010

Sometimes, all you want to do is climb into a heavy-duty tank and blow up someone else up in a massive game of capture-the-flag.

That’s just what you do in MINIONS ON ICE, one of the many games from David Scott and the CREATIVE COLLECTIVE, the creators of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE.

Yeah, that’s right. David Scott is one of the masterminds behind Creative Collective, and he’s the guy who practically invented the Tower Defense genre that has killed so much of our free time with games such as Flash Element TD or variations from other developers like GEMCRAFT Chapter Zero.

What we’re trying to say here is that this is the gaming site behind one of the forces behind the casual gaming movement. Web Watch wouldn’t steer you wrong on this. Trust us – this stuff is good.

(Which reminds Web Watch – there’s a new version of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE available for Facebook users, with weekly updated maps. Thought you’d want to know.)

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Need a retro videogame fix? The Atari arcade is now online!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 30, 2009

Growing up in the 80’s, having a Atari home video game console was as much of a status symbol as having a PS3 with the full Rock Band setup was a year ago (now, not as much since everyone seems to have it by now).

But as we’ve gotten older, we’ve lost the power cords and couldn’t find the replacement Atari 2600 joysticks that we had set aside in case of emergencies such as this.

This is why Web Watch is thrilled that Atari has taken it upon themselves to open their free online ATARI ARCADE website, featuring the best of their original games just for you.

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Gadgets Games Movies

Want to star in a Hollywood Movie? Try YOOSTAR

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 11, 2009

Remember that Drew Carey show with Drew and all his funny friends from WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY doing all their improv stuff in front of a green screen?

Wouldn’t it be fun to do that at home, but instead of having to improvise comedy, all you have to do is insert yourself into a real movie and act out the scene yourself?

Now’s your chance to YOOSTAR!

Tags gadget, game, Movies, video games

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Parents’ Guide to the Movies, Video Games, and More

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 28, 2009

These days, parents have a hard time keeping track of what is good for their kids, or what their kids should avoid – if only due to the sheer amount of content that parents need to stay up with.

Did any of the parents who brought their young kids to a free concert in Central Park last week know what to expect when Green Day took the stage? The concert was sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Walgreen’s, so nothing offensive was going to happen, right?

Watching that clip, you can see the parents with their kids happily singing along to every curse word used in the song. But I’m sure there were some families in the crowd that did not expect a TV morning show concert to contain profanity.

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