Exposing my socks to the world

3D WorldRunner is a strange NES game. It was the first and only game that I know of that used Red/Blue Separation for 3D (although it really didn’t work). This site has a review of this odd game.



Just try to look past the typos:



Quote:Occasionally you can catch a balloon and sour to an extra level, in which case the speed of the ground is increased tremendously.

Hmm. Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire came out today.

In other news, millions kids from the ages of 7 to 18 are beginning to feel a mysterious illness. Determined to “Catch ’em all,” the public school system will be virtually deserted tomorrow.

Apparently some people are overflowing with creative juicyness, virtually dripping with it. Well they think they are anyway. I personally could not imagine writing about video games in fiction style but many people think it is a good idea apparently…and I couldnt possibly fathom writing about this even though it is currently one of my fav’s…oh well.

Here’s the next installment in the Crummysocks.com How2Make series: How to make a 2D fighter

Got an old 486 laying around? Don’t throw it out, turn it into a gaming machine.



I just recently came into possesion of a 486… time to dust off those copies of Hocus Pocus and Mystic Towers that I’ve been hanging on to.

WTF+OMG=WTFOMG.



Beware. May cause siezures.

MAME is an emulator for a lot of arcade games. A version of the emulator is available for almost every platform imaginable, even the Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera.



So now our cameras can run games that could only exist in arcades a few years ago… What’s next? NES games on playing cards, I suppose.

If you’ve never hunted a wumpus, you should really give it a try.



Clone of the original text-based game that runs in DOS,



A Flash-based adaptation

It’s not something that crosses my mind often, but there are actually females that play games. Three of my cousins and my sister, all of whom are females, are gamers, so I know there has to be more of them out there. But women who design and even program games are rarer still. It’s still amazing to me that after all this time female programmers are virtually unheard of.



The only other prominent female video game figure I could find was Dona Bailey who was the designer for the arcade game Centipede.



There have to be more out there.



Other River Raid links:

• River Raid
• The Many Faces of River Raid

Mr. Crane was the programmer behind Pitfall! (as well as several other games for the Atari 2600) , and A boy and his Blob(maybe not remembered as fondly as the others).



Here is another interview with him.



Mr Crane is apparently now working at Skyworks Technologies, making games on a contractual basis.