16 Nov 09 Entry 0224
Dunny Turns 30
Friday the 6th was my 30th birthday, and it was grand.
Nadia got me an awesome cake, a nice new blue dress shirt shirt, a great watch, a pac-man t-shirt and a cool laptop bag. Lots of great loot from my great and wonderful girl.
Awesome Cake is Awesome
We had lunch together at [Insert Name of Restaurant Here], nice little Japanese place with great food, and later that night we had dinner with my folks at Tommy Bahamas, followed by watching The Vampires Apprentice – a surprisingly good movie.
The following morning we went to GameWorks with Rosenberg and Coldiron, and stayed there pretty much the whole day playing games, drinking beer, and harassing Sonic. We followed that up with a trip to The Yard House, for more beer, some shots, and good eats. Then we hit Borders, did some wandering and coffee drinking, and headed back home.
All told, it was a darn good birthday. 
18 Aug 09 Entry 0212
At what point does emulation make more sense than blowing on a cart and praying?
Recently I was bit by the Zelda bug – the urge to go back and once again attempt to tackle one of the great Zelda titles. Which one I would throw myself at was undecided – either the classic first one on the NES, the best game of all time on the SNES, or the not quite as epic, but still great one for the Gameboy color.
Eventually, I decided to give the second one in the series (Zelda II – The Adventure of Link) another go. It is one of two Zelda related titles that I have played, but not actually completed. I figured I should probably rectify this, and maybe get the Zelda bug out of my system at the same time.
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Tags: emulator, favorite games, Gameboy, games, mac, nes, pirate, retro, snes, Zelda, Zelda II
24 Feb 09 Entry 0175
But how?
As children – and sometimes as adults – we’ve all probably played the game “The Floor is X”, where X is some unsafe substance that will kill you. In my case, the substance was almost always lava, although occasionally it was quicksand or just the empty void of deep space.
The object of this “game” – such as it is – was to survive by not touching the floor. Maybe you had to get out of the room (volcano/jungle/spaceship), maybe you just had to stay put for rescue (a lonely prospect for only children), and the only way to move about the floor was via climbing furniture, jumping from thrown cushion to cushion, or even stepping on stuffed animals that might be cluttering up the room.
I probably didn’t have to go into so much detail – this game seems pretty universal, but I wanted to be sure terms were clear before I got to the meat of this post: How, and where, did this game start?
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03 Aug 08 Entry 0094
Dunny0.net Code Thing
Or maybe it just contains a secret message for those clever enough to snap a picture…
This one? It just has the URL for this blog in it… I thought it was kind of neat. There’s a site that makes these into patches, but the patches are kind of lame in that they redirect to the guys own site, not to your pre-chosen URL. So… I thought I’d make my own.
Now I just gotta figure out how to make a patch with it. Ideas?
Tags: nes
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