And just when I complained about Monster being a bit skippy on the iTunes player (this might just be a result of me attempting to play it without the use of an iPod), the more-than-slightly creepy anime series just showed up on the PlayStation Network last night. I’m guessing I should have held out for another day or two before downloading. Episodes cost the same no matter who you download from, anyway.
Dunno what’s happened to me lately. I haven’t done any real programming work since I left college, and that’s presumably the thing I went to college for in the first place. My professional career has led me toward data processing, which is still within my chosen field, but since I got rid of all of my programming books, I haven’t had much of an opportunity (or an excuse) to continue practicing for now.
I’m mostly familiar with building Win32 applications using the Borland C++ compiler and Microsoft’s Visual C++ (Express) suite, which makes me a comparative newbie to…just about every programmer on the planet. On the bright side, it allows me to make relatively simple programs that don’t take days/weeks/months of my time to create. Hey…everyone’s gotta start somewhere, right? All I had to do was find a handful of handy-dandy tutorials, and now I’m back in the driver’s seat again. Let’s play some “Code Monkeys” now! Oh, yeah!
Today being “Talk like a Pirate Day”, Telltale Games is giving away the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island (the first in a five-part series of its Monkey Island revival) for free. From the looks of it, this only applies to the PC version of the game, so WiiWare gamers will still have to pay $10 to buy it. Neither of my computers meet the minimum specs to run the game, so it looks like I’m doubly out of luck. It’s too bad…the game looks like a lot of fun. I may buy it one day, after I delete some things from my Wii’s SD card that I’m not using anymore.
I just got a hot tip from Twitter buddy mattleung that Amazon.com is briefly giving away Cake Mania for the low, low price of zero dollars and zero cents. At this point, you can get that game (and many others like it) for roughly $7.99 on several different platforms, but who am I to pass up a freebie?
Wow. ROM CHECK FAIL is one weird-ass game. It’s short, but still a weird-ass game where you have to defeat all of the enemies on-screen as Mario/Link/Pac-Man/the Interceptor from Spy Hunter/whatever the game decides to throw at you. The level layout stays the same, but the scenery and enemy sprites change every five seconds (take that, weird squiggly lines from Qix!) Basic knowledge of the mechanics of some of the games emulated will help you through the twenty levels. Of course, it won’t guarantee your survival…I once wound up with a Space Invaders cannon that got stuck toward the top of the screen, and since it can only fire upward and move from side to side, I was pretty much boned until the next quick change.
You can download this oddball game from Farbs.org.
Category: Anime/Manga, Downloads
Author: WillyFourEyes
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