{"id":39,"date":"2006-09-29T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=39"},"modified":"2006-10-01T01:40:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T08:40:40","slug":"retro-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Retro day"},"content":{"rendered":"

When game nerds take a day off from work, they play games. (Well, and they play their Taylor<\/a>, which I cannot keep my hands offa.) Two oldies caught my attention today:<\/p>\n

1) Doom<\/a><\/em>, freshly released for Xbox Live Arcade. With no maps designed for deathmatch,it’s really only fun as a co-op or single-player experience, so I started single-player and…man, I remember where some of the stuff is, but not all. What I’m surprised at is how much fun I’m having. I thought it would be like Scramble<\/em>, where I tried it and went “Yeah, that’s old and busted.” But Doom <\/em>somehow seems a bit futureproof. Killing imps is still fun. Even if, um, I do have it already as a bonus game on Doom 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2) BloodStorm<\/a><\/em>. I have had a strange fascination with this one for a while but I haven’t played it much. It’s not quite the sequel to Time Killers<\/em><\/a>, but it’s from the same company mining the same gory territory. Fighters each have a gauntlet on their arm which does special stuff like stab you in the face or stab you in the neck. It’s a bad, unbalanced fighting game with cheesy AI–but even without a move list<\/a> or knowing all the secret stuff that’s hidden in there, I really enjoyed banging away at it and reveling in the cheese. Somewhere in my junk I have a little official booklet with all the rare game info in it that Strata sent out to the press. I’ve also, for some reason, found the marquees for both BloodStorm<\/em> and its alternate, friendlier name The Storm<\/em>. Kat is of course very proud to be co-owner of said artifacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When game nerds take a day off from work, they play games. (Well, and they play their Taylor, which I cannot keep my hands offa.) Two oldies caught my attention today: 1) Doom, freshly released for Xbox Live Arcade. With … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}