Epimetheus

Day Two: Let’s Play!

Some stuff happened, but overall the highlight of Day Two was gaming with Mr. Goat and Karen of Esoteric Love. The games were retro:

• iConquer a Risk clone.
  

  The goal of the game is to take over every country on the map by eliminating all your opponents.

• Armagetron Advanced the light cycle game from the movie Tron (1982):
  

  The original game consisted of 4 sub-games, the only one of concern is the ‘Light Cycles’ one, in which the player uses a left/right joystick to control a ‘Light Cycle’ which leaves a wall behind it wherever the cycle it goes, turning only at 90 degree angles. The player must then get the AI to crash into their wall while avoiding hitting the AI’s own wall themselves. Those were the humble beginnings of Armagetron Advanced’s game play, which has now blossomed into 16 player mayhem, with highly advanced AI, network game play, and of course all in a 3D environment.

Do you run Windows? OS X? Linux? No sweat! Armagetron Advanced runs on all three platforms. Get your Light Cycle on!

The rest of the day was uneventful.

Day Three: A Non-day.

Typhoons 10 and 11 threatened to turn Tuesday into a “wet” day. Fortunately, 10 veered off towards China and 11 is wandering around down south and will probably smash into Shikoku and the surrounding area.

What I didn’t do today:

• Go shopping.
• Take the train.
• Leave the house before 3 PM.
• Catch a movie.
• Play Ridge Racers.

I returned a DVD, picked up my pay stub, went to starbucks, played Armagtron while H.A. played/read her first ever Choose Your Own Adventure book - her character got bumped off, and went drinking. That’s it.