Bubble Bobble

Ok so if I look back at one of the most rememerable games of my childhood it would have to be Bubble Bobble. So simple a game idea yet so powerfull. capture enemies in bubbles and jump on them to kill them. Wash, rinse, repeat. Only 2 buttons, shoot and jump. it's all you need.

Video games today seem to have gotten lazy. In the last oh i would say 5 years there have been only a few truly unique games produced. Games used to be simple, they had to be dew to hardware limitations. So to make them interesting there had to be something strange or unique about them. A simple game like space taxi or the origional ghost busters where greate because ther was nothing like them. Now companies seem to just recycle the same FPS over and over again. Put it in a new time period, change the weapons and improve the graphics seem to be the motto of all the big companies right now. Games are becomeing big budget motion pictues. Lots of glitter and flash/special effects are used to cover up a rather uninteresting, ununique game.

There are a few bastions of truly innovative games out there and they come, like movies, from the independant sceen. Small start up companins or groups of friends that make a game truly unique. I think we all remember worms. A game that is getting a lot of attention, and winning a lot of awards, is Darwinia. I have not had a chance to play this game but from what I have read it is impressing a lot of people. You can get the demo on Steam and soon buy the full version on Steam aswell. There are countless small independant games like Darwinia out there you just need to look for them. These are the people that give me faith that the next gen of games wount suck as much as the current gen.

Oh and if you want your Bubble Bobble fix Here you go.

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Ah Slashdot the only news source you need.

Ok so most of the people who would read this blood would also read slashdot already. If you don't read slash dot then go HERE. It has all the realy important information like who was responsible for the sony rootkit and when will the next major processor com out and how will it work.

Specifically there is a great article today about how gamers make better dirivers cause we can multi task better. After all when you have to race and target enemy cars will massive ordinance you get good as splitting your focus.

The net is full of interesting news sources. I check The CBC every morning for good old Canadian news and The Onion has been my comedy staple for years. I think the Internet is a great source of news for several reasons. Number one being that it does not bow down to government pressure or cooperate sponsorship. The news on TV or even in papers is trying to make a profit so I never really rust it's end goals. You just have to look at Conrad Black to see the state of some of our media sources today. Now im not saying you can trust all of the Internet news sources. The good and bad thing about the net is that it has no checks and balances. People can say anything they want truthfull or not. But if you read many different sources i think you can get a better idea of what the truth might be than just flipping channels on the 6:00 news.

Now you may notice an inconsistency in my last statement. I denounce the TV news but read CBC on line. It truth i find CBC one of the better news sources and if i do tune in that is generally where i go. but this leads to the second point of why i perver net news. I can read what i want and what interest me. Slash dot is a perfect example. The types of articles it releases are almost never seen in standard news sources. Where is the techie news, or treky news or gamers news. You have to get monthly subscriptions to speciality mags to see any of it easily. On the net i can go to the information i want whenever i want. unrestricted my schedules or popularity.

Please post a comment if you have any good net news sources. I am interested in what people others read every day, and always trying to find good sources.