Recent content by ZedAvatar

I'm interested to see where the story goes; gameplay-wise, I don't imagine there's all that much a new Aliens game can bring to the table. That said, I am a wh*re for the franchise, and will definitely be grabbing it.

Congratulations on the well-deserved win!!!

I find myself so daunted by the sheer volume of games in my "bought but have not yet played" pile, that I give up and start playing World of Warcraft again.

Mortimer McMire from the Commander Keen series. Good god, I'm old.

I probably have the most fond memories of Ultima 7 (hence, one-half of my moniker).

I had seen that, but remain wary of purchasing food on the interwebs. I'm not really sure why, though, as I've bought wine from woot.com without incident.

You can get Branston Pickle in the US! On a whim, I checked out the local World Market, and lo and behold, there it was, complete with a glowing Jesus-esque halo! Naturally, I snatched it up, and the next time I make a grilled cheese sandwich, I will slather it in Branston Pickle. In...

Oooh! Even better than my previous post: I just found the copy of Silpheed that came bundled with the original Game Blaster sound card (the predecessor to Sound Blaster!). That game is probably in my top 10 most fun games of all time.

It's buried somewhere in my closet, but I've got the shareware release of Wolfenstein 3D that Apogee Software (remember them?) packaged in for free when I bought the original Commander Keen trilogy. For more fun, they all came on 5 1/4" floppies, so I couldn't install them if I wanted to do...