WINTER: Superior Driving Skills
For a while now I've credited playing kart racers when I was younger (Super Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing in particular) with making me have good winter driving skills. Sliding around on ice b... more
For a while now I've credited playing kart racers when I was younger (Super Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing in particular) with making me have good winter driving skills. Sliding around on ice b... more
So it's not from a video game, but rather based on a cartoon based on a video game. You all remember how much Sonic and Tails loved eating chili dogs in the goofier of their '90s cartoons, yea... more
So it's been three years since when we last did the "10 Things" bit all over the cblogs. It's come back and this makes me happy, though I honestly had trouble coming up with ten new things to... more
Posted this in the Forums over the weekend, but since Randy is posting his here as well I figured I could be a whore too. ;) more
Think of the days before idle animation, where our platforming heroes did absolutely nothing unless we told them to via button presses. Set your controller down and Mario would just stand there n... more
I was digging through old notes and sketches this past week and came across a short list of games I was at one point looking forward to, excluding handhelds. Comparing it to release dates on Wiki... more
As any true bro knows, there's trouble in brorum paradise. I'm sure you've seen the comics and micro-games. If you haven't, go check out the other Forum Adventures blogs. I'm not here to rehash t... more
So here goes my entry for Aborto’s Comic-Con swag contest, because I could really use a Deadpool magnet, among other things. Top spot goes to . Not only is he my favorite comic character, bu... more
Thinking back on the various game bosses that have troubled me a handful immediately sprung to mind, but only one really stood out, Blaino. He may not be the best choice for this particular... more
I wasn't at my house for the majority of yesterday, and as such my internet time was greatly limited. Anyways, I figured that I didn't want to be the only one on Dtoid without one of these, so he... more
So with the official announcement of the Fable 2 Pub Games and the limited edition set and all that I started perusing the Lionhead site again. There in the forums I found a link to a fan news si... more
Yep, I'm getting in on it... So, what say you? more
I really can’t say with 100% certainty what my first game was, though like the good Reverend and many others I had much fun early on stomping goombas and zapping ducks with the combo cartri... more
I downloaded the Virtual Console port of Splatterhouse the day it was available, played it for a bit and didn’t get too far before starting up something else and more or less forgetting abou... more
Crackdown tried to ruin GTA for me. It hasn’t worked, but as I played Rockstar’s latest epic last night I couldn’t help but think of Crackdown. The first thing that got me was the blocking of t... more
So I was going to do this as a Gaming’s Guilty Pleasures C-blog, I’d actually been planning it for a week and a half or so. Then as I was typing this up I realized this wouldn’t fit the theme. Th... more
Original ad, circa 1986. It’s threat remains unfortunately accurate to this day. I never played Kid Icarus back in the day. None of my friends or myself owned it, and I don’t recall ever seein... more
Here goes my non Turning Point rig, a Gateway something-or-other laptop I bought a couple years back when I got my first paying job. Just so's ya know, this is my sole computer, nothing else ... more
So after spending Friday night and most of Saturday at my youngest brother's adapted hockey tournament, and Sunday afternoon/early evening at my grandfather's 80th brithday party, I got home yest... more
So I'm playing Subspace Emissary and at the end of a stage see that I've unlocked a Zoda trophy. I get all kinds of happy, thinking this is Nintendo finally giving a little respect to StarTropics... more
So I don't play too much Halo 3 anymore. Once or twice a month, and then only when one of my brothers is over or is online and really wants to. Anyways, I understand that it's a known fact that a... more
Just kidding, I don't speak French. Yeah... Howdy, I’m ZombiePlatypus, real name = Levi. I’m a 23 year old from Virginia Beach, VA living in Minnesota. I first heard of this place last year thro... more