Lately I’ve been playing a lot of games over on Facebook. There’s an amazing amount of games available over there. Some of them are pretty good. Some of them are amazingly bad. I’ll start by reviewing one of the first games that I started playing on Facebook, Cafe World.
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I finally found some of the new Mountain Dew Game Fuel the other day, at Walmart. As it combines my 2 greatest loves in life, Mountain Dew and World of Warcraft, I obviously needed it. It comes in 2 flavors, one for each side, Horde Red and Alliance Blue.
I’ll start with Alliance Blue: Alliance Blue is, not too surprisingly, blue. Its official description is “Mountain Dew with a Punch of Wild Fruit Flavor”. Basically, its a slightly citrusy fruit punch. Its not bad, but its not that great, either. I thought it tasted a lot like one of the blue flavors from last summer’s Dewmocracy promotion. I’m sure its not quite the same flavor, but similar.
Horde Red is misnamed, IMO, as its really more of an orangish color. It really should be redder to match the color of the Horde insignia. Its flavor description is “Dew with a Blast of Citrus Cherry Flavor”. I though it was pretty good, better than Alliance Blue. Not good enough to be a permanent Mountain Dew flavor by any means, though. It kind of needed a bit more of a citrus kick to be really good, I think.
You know, this blog has turned into a bit more of a soda review site than I intended. I’ll have to start posting about, you know, other things…
I wrote previously about Mountain Dew Thowback. Since then I’ve been able to try Pepsi Throwback as well. My review of it: eh. I really just didn’t see a noticable taste difference between it and normal Pepsi. The sweetness was a bit ‘crisper’ perhaps, but other than that… I readily admit that I’m not that much of a Pepsi drinker, though, so perhaps someone who’s more of a Pepsi ‘expert’ would be able to see a bigger difference. I definitely don’t think its the massive difference that exist with the Mountain Dew product, though.
I’ve been using the Swagbucks search engine for a while now, and I’m pretty happy with it. Its not actually that great of a search engine – even through it pulls most of its results from Google, I really wouldn’t recommend using it for a complicated search for something obscure.
So why would I recommend it? Because you earn Swagbucks for searching with it, which you can then redeem for prizes and gift certificates. I’ve been using it for around 6 weeks now, and so far I’ve gotten 2 $5 gift cards for Amazon.com, for doing nothing more than doing web searches that I was doing anyway. Definitely not a bad deal.
If you want to sign up, please use my link – this one here – so that it’ll use me as a referrer and I’ll get some bonus Swagbucks for it. Hey, its my blog, and I’ll spam if I want to.
Has anyone else tried the ‘new’ Mountain Dew Throwback? Its Mountain Dew, except that its made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS.) Its REALLY good. It comes in retro-looking cans, and definitely has a flavor that I remember, different from modern Mountain Dew. It has a lot more of a burst of sweetness than regular Mountain Dew, and overall a stronger flavor.
Its a temporary promotional item, and will only be available for 8 weeks. I’m not too happy about that, because it is, without a doubt, a far better product. There’s also Pepsi Throwback (again made with sugar instead of HFCS), but I haven’t tried that yet.
I haven’t bought many games for my Wii yet – aside from a few WiiWare downloads, all I have are Guitar Hero: World Tour, Samba de Amigo and, of course, Wii Sports.
I really haven’t had the opportunity to play any Guitar Heroes up until this point, so I’m starting fairly inexperienced. Nevertheless, the game is, in my opinion, extremely fun. Most of the songs are pretty fun to play. There is, though, one complain that I have about the game, one that I think is an issue of poor game design:
Last week or so, I bought the WiiWare game Megaman 9. Its fun, but its HARD. The game has an amazingly realistic retro feel to it. You could absolutely believe this game out on the NES around 1990 or so. Its not just the 8-bit graphics: the music and sound are totally authentic (including limited channels, leading to missing music when too many sound effects play at one time.) The game also realistically emulates the NES’s flicker when too many sprites are on one scan line. Even old-school Megaman bugs are included, like enemies disappearing into the ether the instant they step off-screen.
I doubt the game will be of much interest to younger gamers, but for the people who grew up playing NES classics like Megaman 1-6, the game is a blast. I still haven’t beat it. As I said, its hard. No harder than Megaman 2&3, but my skills seem to have degraded significantly since then…
I got a Wii the other day. I actually won it, back in October or so, from Red Baron pizza. They were running a contest where you entered a code printed on the inside of the pizza box on their website with a chance to win prizes instantly, and I won a Wii. It took from around the middle of October or so until the end of January for it to arrive, but it finally did.
I don’t really have any games yet. The Wii comes with Wii Sports, of course, but bowling gets old rather quickly. The only thing I’ve bought for it was a $20 Wii Points card, with which I bought the Wii internet browser (500 points/$5) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (1500 points/$15.)
I was watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi channel today. One episode took place in the far distant future – the year 2000. This is now the show’s 50th anniversary. I don’t think they’d have imagined that people would still be watching their show this far down the line. I mean, if they had, they’d have picked a year further in the future… Yet here we are in the year 2008… Um, 2009, and its still shown regularly. I think its impossible to predict what things we do matter and which will be forgotten.
Happy new year!
A lot of gamers really dislike ‘casual’ games. I’m not one of them. In my own opinion, the so-called ‘casual’ games movement is often just a return to where video gaming started: small and fairly easy to understand. Accessible, in other words.
Return to Ravenhearst is a great example of how casual gaming is essentially gaming returning to its roots. It very much feels like an old-school adventure game from adventure gaming’s CD-ROM based heyday. Had it been released in the mid-90’s, during the era of 7th Guest, Gabriel Knight, and the like, it would be remembered as a classic.