Loot-Ninja writes "Learning in games extends from the blatant learning software out there to puzzle games and to shooters, all seeping knowledge into your brain whether you like it or not. There is the obvious Brain Training and Professor Layton to the more obvious History Channel games. For me, gaming is not limited to lounging and minimal brain activity, it's an activity to be mentally engaged and to get excited about. I like learning; I watch the History Channel and National Geographic (not just for the naked native boobies) so deal with it. If you play a game and you manage to walk away without taking anything of value from it, then you have wasted your time. I just ask everyone to remember the most important lesson of all, one brought to us by Left 4 Dead. In case of a zombie apocalypse, AIM FOR THE HEAD. You know one day you will need that little gem of knowledge."
Who doesn't love a good challenge? If everything was easy, there would be no joy in getting it done. In the realm of video games, the late 1980s and 1990s were the perfect era of "get good" gaming with multiple big-named titles that put a player's skills to the test. The Super Nintendo, one of
Sure did I can only assume the article is talking about old-school games in general
Also the thumbnail used in the article for super Mario bros the lost levels is a screenshots of the Famicom game
In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.
Fallout content creator The Storyteller has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer, reveals daughter.
Thinking about, completely missed Oregon Trail, but then again all I learned is dysentery will kill. Plenty of other learning from games, star control taught me inertia... damn you physics.