Oatmealbreakfast plays a video game episode 98

On today's episode I solve I mean try and solve a Sudoku puzzle. While I am working on the Sudoku puzzle i talk about my favorite cereals from millennia ago when I was a younger person. Goodnight.

OatmealBreakfast plays a video game episode 60

I continue working on the Sudoku puzzle I started on episode 60. Enjoy.

Review: Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World

Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World by Asi Burak
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Before read this book I had never heard about most of the video games in this book. I think. My favorite part of the book was part II. It talks about foldit, zooniverse. The idea that I could help science in some small way is exciting to me. I also enjoyed the the last chapter about virtual reality. I have never worn a VR headset but, the chapter made me want to try one.
I wish icivics were around when I was in school. It sounds fun. I remember some things from my civics class but, I am probably would have remembered more if I had been assigned to play this game.
I think I learned a lot of great information by reading this book. I enjoyed it. That's all I can think of to write about this book.

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Some atari games I enjoyed playing

Today I want to talk about some of the atari 2600 games I enjoyed playing. I am not sure of the exact names of some of the games, but I'll write the post anyway. My favorite game was volleyball. I could play that game for hours it's so fun. Why I like it I don't know.

My next favorite game was donkykong. The sound effects were great. And my next favorite game was battlezone. I can't remember much about battlezone either, but I do remember there was a yellow plane that would always destroy my tank.

Some other 2600 games I played were: baseball, E.T, pitfall, space invaders, pac man, frogger. I was not that good at any of the atari 2600 games although I did enjoy playing them.

Sega genesis again

The only other games that I had for my genesis were 2 or three basketball games that I can not remember the names of.

I also remember one time when I had rice krispes in a cup with milk and accidentally dumped some of the rice krispies in the genesis where you put in the game cartridges, but I think it was just the rice krispies that I dumped in and not any milk although I am not sure. The genesis still worked after that little incident although I could see rice krispies in my Sega.

Well I have exhausted my memories of my Sega genesis so I will have to post about something else tomorrow.

More sega video games I had

I want to write about two football video games I had for my Sega. I have already written about these games in another post, but I want to write some more about the games. The games are NFL 94 and NFL 95.

I liked to run the ball in NFL 94 a lot because it took so long for passes to get to the receivers. I remember when I wanted to pass the football in the game I would have to let the ball go right after I got it from the center. I also remember that the game had one sound effect when you were playing that said back to pass although I think I only heard that when joe montana was my quarterback.

I don't have anything more to add about NFL 95 so I won't. I was just thinking maybe the two football games had some sounds. I think after the play was over the game would say how many yards you gained. I also think the games looked pretty good for genesis games.

More sega genesis

I had one hockey game called Mario Lemieux hockey. I thought it was a good hockey game that was fun to play even thought I never beat the game. I liked to check other players into the boards so they would fall down. I also think the game had little mini games that you could play which were fun.

I also had sonic the hedge hog which came with the console. I thought sonic was a good looking game. I was not very good at playing Sonic and never got past the third level. Although once I did get to the last level, but I did that using a cheat.

Another game I had was Mike Ditka football although I think I played the game a lot I can't remember that much about it. I think it was hard to pass the football in the game so I probably ran the ball a lot. The game I think also had on or two sound effects that I heard playing the game. I never beat Mike Ditka football and I am not sure how good I at playing the game.

My sega continued

Today I want to write about some of the games I had for my sega genesis. I had tommy lasorda baseball. I wanted tommy lasorda baseball since I first saw the game and I got it for a Christmas present one year. I did not play the game that much though, but it probably was a decent game.

Today I remembered a few more basketball games that I had that I did not remember I had the other day when I wrote my first post on my sega. I am not sure who they were published by but I know one was called Celtics vs. Lakers and I think I had a few more basketball games called some team vs. some team although I can't remember the exact name of the games.

I do remember I did play those basketball games a lot and that they were fun. If they had a season mode I am sure I did not finish it. I probably could not decide which team I wanted to play and kept switching teams which is to bad because I would have liked to beat those games.

I thought that the lakers vs. celtics and the other games I had with the vs. in the name were the best basketball games I had for the sega genesis. I thought the graphics were good looking, but I don't remember anything about the sound in the games although I do remember they did not have announcers like the new sports games.

My sega genesis

I'm getting low on posting ideas so I will write about my sega genesis. I got my sega genesis in the early 1990's. The sega genesis came with sonic the hedge hog and one controller. I wanted a super NES, but got a sega genesis instead probably because the store was out of super NES game consoles and I wanted a new console right away so I got a sega.

I had about 10 plus games. Most of the games were sports games mainly basketball and football. Some of the games I can recall that I had were: mike ditka football, NFL 94, NFL 95, sonic the hedge hog. I also had two or three basketball games which I can' t remember the names of. I had I think one baseball game called tommy lasorda baseball.

I also got two more controllers. One was pretty much the standard controller. The other controller I got was fancy and you could program buttons. I am not sure what you could program the buttons to do. The controller had six buttons plus start and pause buttons.

More NES games, Plus my favorite game

I also had teenage mutant ninja turtles for my NES. The game looked great and was fun to play, but I was not very good at the game. I think I could not get past the first level. That is all I can remember.

The last game I want to talk about was my favorite NES game, Mike tyson's punch out. I enjoyed the game and played it a lot. I think it was a great boxing game because the graphics looked good and I liked the characters you boxed against. I also liked the sound effects.

I did beat mike tyson's punch out once, but I am sure that was just luck because mike tyson could take you down with one punch and he moved fast. I wish I had some cool memories to write about playing the game but I don't, how disappointing.

Mario on NES

Today I want to write about Super Mario. The first super Mario came with my console and I liked the game and I am sure I played it often. I never beat the first super Mario video game though.

I also had super Mario 2 for the NES. I also enjoyed playing this game and beat it many times. On cool thing about the game was after you beat the game you would see a picture of Mario sleeping, I thought that was pretty cool.

I also had super Mario 3 for the NES. I also enjoyed this video game very much, but never ended up beating the game. I wish I could write a better blog post, but I cant remember much about these games other then that they were pretty good.

Contra

I'd say Contra for the NES was my second favorite game for the console. I wouldn't say I was good at the game although I did beat contra, but I had to use the cheat that gave you 30 lives instead of the three you would get without the cheat. Even after I beat contra the first time I continued to have fun playing the game.

My favorite part was the heart you had to beat at the end of the game. It was so exciting to beat that heart. I am not sure what the ending of the game was like after beating the heart, but I am sure it was good.

More NES games

I had one basketball game on my NES, but it was not very good so I won't talk about it. I like the sports games on the new consoles better than the ones I had for the NES or sega genesis.

I liked excite bike, but I was not very good at the game. I would always crash my bike on the jumps and fall way behind the computer. One of the most enjoyable things for me about excite bike was building my own tracks. At least I think you could build your own tracks in the game. I spent a lot of time building tracks and losing to the computer. It was a fun game even thought I wan not good at playing it.

One of my favorite games for the NES was Rad Racer. What a great game rad racer was. It seems to me I spent a lot of time playing the game. It would feel great when I would hit the checkpoints and get more time or was it fuel I don't remember. I did beat the game once, but I used what I think is a cheat, A start, which would give you unlimited chances to beat a level.

My favorite NES games

Yesterday I read an article by Mike Dodd at dailygame.net that he wrote about his NES. I enjoyed reading the article. I thought after reading the article, well I had an NES so I can do a blog post or two about my NES. So here I go.

I got my Nintendo entertainment system for Christmas in 1988, wow 20 years ago already. This was not my first video game console because we had an ATARI 2600, more on the ATARI in another post. I don't remember, but I probably wanted a Nintendo for awhile.

The NES came with two controllers and two video games, duck hunt and Super Mario. It also game with the gun controller for duck hunt. I don't have that many memories of playing the NES, but I do remember a few games I liked. I probably had at least 15 games for my NES.

First I'll talk about duck hunt. I was terrible at duck hunt so I would put the gun controller almost right up to the T.V screen an shoot away at the ducks. I'm sure putting the controller so it is almost touching the T.V. is cheating, but it was fun anyway although it would have been nice to put the gun controller a few feet back and play the game.

Another NES game I enjoyed was a baseball game that I can't remember the name of but I do remember wanting to play that game all the time. I would play the game for hours and would never get tired of playing.

one of my favorite video games

Continuing the football themed posts today I will write about a favorite football video game. I like to play video games, but I have not played one in a while. I am to busy on my computer trying to learn how to make a video game and entering sweepstakes.

As I said I like playing video games although I am not good at playing them. At least I don't think I am good at playing them. Anyway my favorite type of games are sports video games. One of my favorite sports video games was NFL 95 or was it NFL 94 I can't member the exact name.

On kickoffs I liked to kick the ball to the sideline and off the computer opponent so the ball would go out of bounds on the 10 or 5 yard line. On offense I enjoyed playing Mel Gray because he could not be tackled easily if at all and rushing him every time I wold score 100 points in less than a half of football. On dense I liked to bring a linebacker to the line and blitz every down. The linebacker would get to the quarter back every time well almost every time. I always controlled the linebacker.

Another thing I liked to do was block field goals. I would get a fast linebacker and bring him up to the line and when the ball was snapped for the kick blitz and get to the holder. That worked a few times I think.

Of course sports video games were not as hard back then as they are now. I think they are better now thought. They have better graphics and more things to do. I hope to make a sports video game myself someday.