I'm playing the Christmas version of the Shopping Clutter games. It's all very jolly with lots of Christmassy items. All you have to do is collect pairs of various items, or collect specific items. It's rather soothing.
On this particular level, the items have been cut in half and are on a conveyer belt. And there's a decapitated Santa head sliding past. He looks surprisingly happy. @@
I've just discovered there was a 3rd one released! I've got the first two (Orphans of the Ocean and Peril at Poseidon Park), and now I've got the third, Frauds, Forgeries, and Fishsticks.
I'm really pleased. It's nice to find hidden object games that don't involve horror or creepiness.
Playing Puzzle Express. It's a simple game: You fit shapes into an oblong grid in order to fill every space. The shapes appear on a conveyor belt and you have a limited amount of single squares. You can easily run out of room before you get the right shapes to finish off the grid.
The grids are all containers attached to the back of a train and you go to different US cities and are shown info about each city.
What I really like is that every completed line shows a bit of the background picture (the completed grid shows the whole picture) and you can add your own pictures to the game. I love completing a line and trying to figure out which pic it is. I get so disappointed when it's not one of my pics.
I've been trying to get an English version of the game for ages now as the CD Rom versions are in German! I finally found it as a download on WildTangent.
(For some reason DW won't let me add an image so let's pretend Corvidology's banner is here.)
Day 9: Video games
I love playing video games! My first -
Daisy interrupted this post to let me know there are - apparently - monsters down the side of the armchair cushion. I tried to help but that (again, apparently) caused the monsters to jump on my hand. Daisy chased them (and me) off and went back to routing them out from the side of the cushion. Now she's finished, Daisy's eaten some biscuits and gone outside to play in the wind.
Where was I? Oh yeah. My first experience of video games was the ubiquitous Space Invaders game followed by Pac-Man played on those huge machines. And I was absolutely terrible at them.
Then, some time later, I tried Sonic on a friend's Sega Master System, followed by Alex Kidd, and I was hooked. Then, I tried the Sega Mega Drive. It's still my favourite game system. I play video games on my pc and my Kindle but they don't compare to the sheer elation and thrill of the Mega Drive games. They were brilliant. Maybe it's nostalgia coupled with a time in my life when I was able-bodied and more in control of everything around me but I've never found anything that matches.
That's not to say I haven't played some excellent games on my pc. The Dark Parable series are excellent story based games while the Jewel Quest match 3 games are fun to puzzle my way through. I've got some puzzle games (like Elven Mists 2) I play over and over. I really do enjoy video games.