No one has voted yet, is that because you don’t know my email address?

Here are the nominees for my impending movie tie-in torture:

Robocop
Mad Max
Willow
The Hunt For Red October
Goonies 1
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ghostbusters 1

Don’t vote in the comments section!

Everyone should email me their votes so it’ll remain a mystery. Make sure to vote for two games so we don’t end up with everyone voting for their nominee. I will compile the votes and announce the winner and my first impressions in my post on Saturday.

Pardon my brevity today - but I am plum tuckered out after engaging in what may be the hottest “Reality Game” since ‘So you think you can dance dance revolution like Brittany Spears?”

Do you like tetris? Have you longed to play it in 3d? DO you like to gamble?

Well, doI have the game for you - its called “Let some Tech tear apart your phone system to fix a simple issue”.

If you’re confused, its okay (hell, the Tech was too!). A simple picture may suffice:

BEFORE

Everything looks fine here…..oh wait a minute….”

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Good morning!

Thank you, it’s good to be back.

Yes, yes, thank you.

No no, please, no more applause, you’re embarrassing me…

I’m happy to announce that the West Coast offices of EMB are up and running, if only barely so. The drive across country? Well, I won’t beleaguer you with details, so here’s a quick synopsis using word associations. Michigan: militia. Illinois: four dollar gas. Iowa: CORN. Nebraska: cornhuskers. Colorado: unoxygenated. Utah: Empty. Nevada: strippers. California: smoggy. So there’s the country in a nutshell. I highly recommend stand-up comedy to keep you entertained on a long drive. I listened to Dane Cook’s new two CD set “Retaliation” four or five times. I now have an overpowering urge to shit on the coats.

Although movers have most of my possesions, my PC, Mac, and consoles were safely ensconced in my car with me. Since I have no possessions and I don’t start work for another week, I’ve been spending a lot of time sitting on the floor playing games. Although Locomotion is still in the works, I was in the mood for some action. I slaked my thirst with Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.

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As you probably know, I like massively multiplayer online role-playing games. I also like zombies (perhaps a little bit too much).

So, with my fucking sick mind of course I would like Urban Dead, “A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse”. In this game you can choose to be a human player or a zombie to start out. Obviously if you’re a human player you want to kill zombies while avoiding being eaten by them; you can also heal yourself and other players as well, depending on what skills you have. Zombies want to kill as many human players as possible.

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We’ve replaced this man’s ordinary coffee with raw ground beef. Let’s see if he can tell the difference.

The newest demo to distract me from the ever-growing pile of unfinished games on my shelf is Indigo Prophecy. It can also be found under the name ‘Fahrenheit’ but as Americans we demand our two-worded ambiguous titles. Almost no explanation was necessary to start the demo as the director of the game walked onscreen to introduce himself and explain the open-ended nature of the gameplay. In short, Indigo Prophecy plays out like a movie and you control how it progresses. We’re not talking about another pseudo open-ended game with a huge glowing moral decision dropped in at the end. The circumstances and outcome of each scene can be changed at any time by even the smallest decisions.

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Stranger ate a second helping of bomb tonight. It felt nice to finally unpack the Xbox. Played some Kirby’s Adventure too, which kicks some ass.

Ahh… my favorite scene from Back to the Future…

Carrying on with the movie tie-in theme my next logical step would be the tie-ins made for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In doing research for this post, I opened up my trusty ROM folder to take stock of all the available tie-ins and was not surprised to see a plethora (yes Jefe, a plethora) of tie-in titles. NES could be the king of tie-ins at this point. Nearly 50 to be exact (well, almost exact) and if memory serves me most of them are pure garbage. I’ve only played Robin Hood: Prince of Theives and Top Gun both of which are good games, but I’m unable to choose which title to play for my next post so I’ve decided to put it to a vote. Everyone should nominate one game from the following list and then when we have a list of nominees, each person will vote for two games (that way you can’t just vote for your nominee). I will play to completion whichever game is chosen and will post my progress through the game and subsequent therapy (unless you kind EMBers vote for a certifiably good game…) So here is as complete a list as my “tired of scrolling through ROMs” eyes could muster:

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Hayabusa Clan ain’t nothin’ to fuck wit’

This is the most difficult game you want to play.

Let that sink in for a second, then I’ll say it again.

The most difficult game you want to play.

In honor of the impending release of Ninja Gaiden Black, as well as the temporary loss of my internet access from home, I have once again busted out Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. Given to me for Christmas last year, it’s a game that I pull out from time to time whenever I find myself in a mood to snack on some eye candy while getting my ass absolutely paddled. Right now, I’m sitting pretty on level 5 (there are 16 total) with a decent supply of potions and elixirs to get me through the cold and bloody night, and I feel accomplished. You may have heard that the game is hard, but you have no idea what you’re in for.
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