There's an interesting Star Trek TNG episode called Parallels in which Worf gets shunted into progressively more foreign parallel universes. In one, he finds himself at his post while the ship is under attack, and he is unable to raise the shields in time because in that universe, the control cons...
I've played video games since I was a child, but the ones I played weren't usually the ones that others consider "classics".
My parents were early adopters of the home PC (an IBM, not a Mac) and never got us game consoles. I missed the Commodore 64 era. Most of what we had at home were Dad's Zork...
Dan at Extra Credits has been playing Sonic Generations for animation footage. In his third video, he asked commenters to describe what they liked about modern Sonic games. He himself is one of the many who finds them lacking.
In a meta sense, being a Sonic fan is rather like being a Star Wa...
Speedrunning Sonic games seems to uncover a great reversal: Sonic 06 is infamously terrible, but apparently makes a great game for speedrunning, because all its glitches are consistent and useful. Meanwhile, Sonic Colors is a very good game overall, but a speedrun doesn't look all that different...
I watched this video the other day, showing that even among Pokémon Go's "target demographic" there's a wide range of opinion about the game.
As a tool to get people out of their houses and socializing, Pokémon Go seems to be working very well. Most of the places it's causing problems are where...
Summer Games Done Quick showed off a wide variety of speedruns.