Blast from the Past: Video Games From Back in the Day

It’s funny. How does one go from being a video game geek when they were a child, to hardly touching a console these days? Oh yeah, I remember how; my parents bought those game for me. I’d have to buy my own now if I wanted to play. Granted, the video games and consoles released today are SO much better than what I played when I was younger, but the old games have a kind of classic charm.

You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m talking about consoles like the NES (Nintendo) and SEGA where you had to blow in the cartridges if they weren’t working.

My absolute favorite game was the duck hunt game on the NES. You know, the one where you had the little gun and shot at the screen to hit the ducks? And whenever you missed, that little dog would pop up from the bottom of the screen and laugh at you? There were so many times when I tried to shoot the stupid dog just for laughing at me. I loved that and the original Mario where you had to eat the mushroom to grow and you were able to spit fireballs. My favorite level was what I called the “basement” level, where everything was blue and you had the cool dunna dunna dunna music.

Other than that, my favorite game on the SEGA Genesis was Sonic. That’s Sonic 1, 2, and 3. When my cousin showed me the code for the golden Super Sonic on Sonic 2, that opened up many more hours of game play for me, and many more hours of headaches for my parents.

What were some of your favorite video games growing up?

Skype On Cell Phones? How Cool Would That Be?

Verizon is still battling to be the best. Not only are they the largest wireless carrier in the US, now they are planning to add official support for Skype to their handsets. How unbelievable cool is that? For people who don’t have web cams on their personal computers, this is a major plus!

This is actually a pretty huge step. Verizon realizes that eventually they will lose many voice plans to data plans. Now that Skype is being added, they predict that many users will take to using this over your standard voice plan, which will ultimately cut down on their cell phone bills. That is, unless Verizon chooses to up the ante on data plans.

Personally, if the handset version of Skype has all of the same features that the computer version has, I’m sold…even though I’m not with Verizon. 9 They just have some of the coolest features!

If given the choice, would you drop your voice plan and just use Skype over 3G data for making and receiving calls?