Flickr Group: Game Rooms

I finally got around to posting up pictures of my game room. But it's been like pulling teeth to get anyone else too.

It's weird to say that I'm so proud of this, but it's like my chronological life after my mom stopped keeping and collecting all those mementos from things I did in that big scrap book. And it took a lot of time and effort to track down all the games I stupidly sold as a kid when I needed money for other games.

*Note to self: never let offspring sell anything.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/530462@N21/

The other Flickr group I started, Video Game Photo Mode, was a little more popular, but it's leveled off now.

It Pays to Register

...and have your console break twice, a controller go bad, etc, etc.

But for all the trouble it was to register my console, Microsoft is giving out about $8 worth of free downloadable games in the form of Joust and Robotron on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Now honestly, this isn't a big deal to me since I have working copies of the Atari 2600 versions of the games, but it would be interesting to play 8-bit graphic (16-bit arcade graphics??) games redone in high definition.

Thanks Microsoft. Now what do I get for waiting on the phone with your outsourced tech support for hours and being without your product for literally months while my 360 sat in your Texas warehouse "misplaced"?

Hmmm??

But I guess this is an extension of their buyer program, where if you bought a console between certain dates (not the early adopters), you got to fill out a form for the codes. Now they're just throwing the games out to anyone?

While It's Raining, Free Game Images

Just about 80% done with re-sealing my deck and teh vicious thunder rolls out of the sky. So here are some game desktop backgrounds to show you what I found while it was raining. I wouldn't explore the site too much, especially the celebrities section (barely SFW).

And as some summer showers do, it's finished almost as fast as it started.

Free MMOs

I'm definetly checking this out more closely this holiday vacation. I'm bound to find one that is not only fun but gets through the filters at work :)

Cosmic Encounters will probably be the first one I check out.