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I dub thee–Retro Week!

May 5th, 2008 · 1286 Comments

Some time two weeks ago or so, I ended up looking up Spyro the Dragon music on Youtube and enjoying it and I played Sonic games with my friend Bob. Just about everyone recognizes that the Sega Genesis owns soooo…
I have brought my Sega Genesis on campus and left my 360 home while replacing it […]

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The Big Kahuna

April 27th, 2008 · 1747 Comments

So. It’s been a long ass time since I posted anything about gaming (I’ve been kinda lazy and doing absolutely nothing productive for a week and a half–a pity, I know). Thus, to get you up-to-date, I have been playing some games just not as many as I’d like but here’s what’s been shaking as […]

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Good-bye Tomb Raider

April 10th, 2008 · 613 Comments

So I decided to give Tomb Raider a whirl for the first time and I after the first hour of playing it, I just stopped. Not to say that I don’t mind thinking from time-to-time, but I wasn’t aware that Tomb Raider had so many damn puzzles! There was this one section where the walls […]

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GameFly hasn’t been 100% fail

April 5th, 2008 · 597 Comments

Just a quick update–GameFly sent my game to Cambridge. The people who are failures this time are those workers at the front desk at Centreville. I blame them.
The first time I received a GameFly delivery, I was emailed that I had a package to pick up. This time, they decided that they wanted to put […]

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Gaming Purchase of the Weekend: Saints Row

April 5th, 2008 · 669 Comments

So it would seem that GameFly sent the game to my home address so I have to get my parents to send the game back. How troublesome. Thus, I will be another week or two without a game. With the advice I was given, I’ve lessened my GameQ down to six games and hopefully I’ll […]

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Hit the Start Button

March 31st, 2008 · 752 Comments

All right, now that I got the GameFly fiasco out of my system, I figure that I’ll give an introduction.
My name is Alaina M. Dorsey and I am a freshman here. My major is Japanese and I plan to minor in Chinese. My career goal is to land a job in Video Game Development in […]

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GameFly has failed me.

March 31st, 2008 · 4720 Comments

So in case some of you weren’t already aware of this seemingly ingenious company, GameFly is a video game rental firm that ships out any game that you want for the simple fee of about $16 a month (this includes tax) or $22 a month if you decide to take out two games. There are […]

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