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Tons of Free Nintendo Desktop Icons

Sep/01 in Desktop

There is no doubt that I am a big Nintendo fan boy. Well, I might not have a life-sized sculpture of Mario made out of mashed potatoes sitting in the corner of my office (or do I?) but I do like creating desktop icons from my favorite Nintendo characters.

Here are some of my favorite Nintendo-based desktop icons I’ve created:

Mario	Luigi	Toon Link
Little Mac	Ganondorf	Princess Zelda
Zero Suit Samus	Samus Aran	Link
Glass Joe	King Hippo	Disco Kid

Want more? I have created tons of them. Check out my free icon archive for even more downloadable desktop icons from your favorite video games. Now that you have checked out these, who or what should I turn into an icon next?

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Do Not Attempt to Adjust the Picture

Aug/04 in Hot Web Topics, Resources

Recently, I’ve spent more than my fair share of time turning away from the TV and looking towards the Web for entertainment. Now, I know how horribly the sounds like a Web 2.0 cliche, but before you search for your proverbial mallet to whack my with first let me show you what it is I’ve been watching.

Cinemassacre Productions

Cinemassacre.com Web Videos

I got my first taste of the awesome content that Cinemassacre delivers by finding (and then later watching) a few episodes of the Angry Video Game Nerd. By far, it is probably my favorite series from the web site – but some of the miscellaneous content like Board James and You Know Whats Bull Sh*t is just as funny and entertaining to watch.

Be sure to watch…

ScrewAttack

ScrewAttack.com Web Videos

How could a web site named after the famous Metroid attack go wrong? It can’t. Looking at both new and old school games, ScrewAttack has your classic reviews, top ten lists and even submissions from their fans that make it onto the site. If you’ve grown up as an 80’s child, and still have a love for both new and old games – this site is definitely one worth checking out.

Be sure to watch…

That Guy with Glasses

ThatGuyWithGlasses.com Web Videos

This is the most recent one I have stumbled upon and started watching. Once again, we kind of go to all of our loves of watching something old, with the most popular series from the site being the Nostalgia Critic. The entire web sit though is filled with videos that are well thought out, well produced and will leave you wanting to watch more.

Be sure to watch…

Might also be a good idea for me to point out that not all of these are family friendly “G” rated entertainment, so please keep that in mind.

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3 Easy Ways to Make Your Own Game

Jul/01 in Online Apps, Video Games

Actually inspired by one of my nephews, who really wants to learn how to make his own video games, I started searching the Web to see if I could find some easy to use web sites that would allow anybody to create their own game. I found more than a few, however these are the three best ones thus far.

PlayCrafter

This web site is pretty complicated when it comes to the number of things going on, on the screen – however it does have a lot of tools to use to create your own games (or play the games others have created). You can either start from scratch or go with one of the templates they provide, such as action game, golf game, ninja game, jumping game and more.

Make Your Own Flash Game in Playcrafter

Sploder

With Sploder, you are given the option of creating either a platformer game or a shooter game. Also giving you the options of sharing your creation, I liked Sploder because it was a little more on the simple side. So, if you want to show this off to a kid – it might be a lot easier for them to wrap their minds around.

Make Your Own Flash Game in Sploder

Mockingbird

Mockingbird is the last pick on my list. They too give you a lot to work with, but instead of simply building one kind of game – they offer several kits (or the ability to build your own kit) with programmable sounds, actions and more. If you wanted to get somebody into the mindset of programming a game – this would be the one I would have them play with. Why? Well, with having to set, for example, a bomb to be able to jump and assign the farting noise when he does so – gives a much better cause and effect result I think anybody from any age group could understand.

Make Your Own Flash Game using Mockingbird

Although none of these games will have you programming your own games, each site delivers a unique way of getting a younger child, nephew, or sibling interested in the idea of game development.

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Link is Here to Save my Desktop

Dec/24 in Custom Icons

The Legend of Zelda and Christmas always seem to go together for me. Think it has to do with the fact that the most memorable Christmas I have is when I got The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past for Christmas as a kid. So what better way to celebrate that special tingly feeling the game series gives me than to do another custom icon creation.

+ Download the Link Desktop Icon! (.zip)

Hope you enjoy both of these very special icons. The icons are compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format.

Also, hope you all have a very Merry Christmas Eve – and don’t forget to check out some of my other custom icon creations I have done in the past too.

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Mega Man: The Movie?

Nov/23 in Hot Web Topics

When you think of fan-made movies, you often think of bad acting and shotty camera work. However, there are a few jewels that make even the most hardcore gamers gitty like a school girl. I just saw this trailer for Eddie Lebron’s Mega Man: The Movie (via ScrewAttack.com). This is pretty damn cool…

In my opinion, this ranks right up there with the fake Zelda movie trailer that came out around April Fools day. I’d pay money to see this, now I just hope Capcom has a sense of humor and doesn’t shut it down.

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Best of the Wii Zapper Ready Games

Jun/25 in Popular Posts, Video Games

Over the past few days I have been playing a lot of the Wii’s Zapper games. The light gun attachment for the Wii is a lot of fun to use, and I wanted to make sure I got my money’s worth on the deal. Here are some of the best Wii Zapper compatible games I have bought thus far:

Wii Zapper with Link’s Crossbow Training

254px-Link's_Crossbow_Training Yes! Finally Link gets his name in one of the Zelda games! Ok, this one I didn’t have much choice about due to the fact it came with the Zapper itself but I do have to say it is much more fun than I thought it would be. Having the anticipation that it would just be a demo title showing me “how to use” the Zapper it ended up being an entertaining “pick it up when you have nothing else to do” game.

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

51kHlaUfzoL._SL110_ I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series, even though this is my first actual game in the series to own. This game’s controls kind of makes you feel like the Zapper was a second thought (due to the fact you have to move your hand up on top to hit the “A” button a lot. Other than that it is another cool “on rails” shoot’em up that ends up being very entertaining.

Go through some of the historic places from past Resident Evil games and shoot a lot. That is this game in a nutshell.

Ghost Squad

Now I am not usually a big fan of the Army/Police first person shooter type games but for some reason this one looked as if it might be a lot of fun. I have not gotten to spend much time with it yet but from what I have played it looks great. There are also a lot of side routes you can take so one level never has to be the same twice. Another great thing about it is you change your weapon type up as you go to suit the situation. Tons of fun.

House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return

51h-OnCxK-L._SL110_ This title, as the name tells you right off the bat, gives you both House of the Dead 2 and 3 to play with your Zapper.

The voice acting in this game is so bad, it’s good. I’m a big fan of your campy horror movies though. I missed out both of these days the first time around but now I get to finally see what all the buzz was about. You would be amazed how gratifying blowing the head off a zombie really is.

Any More Games for the Wii Zapper?

From what I have seen, only other one I’m missing is some army/war game (Metal of Honor?) but that really isn’t my cup of tea. Know anymore Zapper ready games I should pick up for Wii?

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Mitch’s WiiWare and Virtual Console Collection (thus far)

May/27 in Personal, Video Games

I still have a little more room on my Wii for games, but I am coming close to having to ditch some previously downloaded titles for some new ones. Give me a couple more months, then I’ll join the chorus of people asking more disk space on the Wii (either via the SD card or by adding an external hard drive).

Here is my WiiWare and Virtual Console Collection so far…

Super Mario 64 – Childhood memory, spend many an hour on this game.
Sonic the Hedgehog – Never had a Sega, so thought I’d give it a shot.
Sim City – Seems to be slower than I remembered.
Contra III: The Alien Wars – Awesome fun, but really hard without a friend.
Super Castlevania IV – One of the best Castlevania games to this day.
Super Mario Bros. – Who doesn’t have this one downloaded?
Internet Browser – Handy to check Gmail and Google Reader on.
Mario Kart 64 – Fun, might might not make the cut if I need the room.
Kid Icarus – Another (never played it the first time) game but happy I have it now.
Everybody Votes Channel – Removed it since I only checked it out once or twice.
Splatterhouse – Gory fun, but still lacks something…
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream – Fun boxing fun, where did Mike Tyson go?
Castlevania – Maybe it’s just me, but this is really hard!
Super Metroid – Could play this one forever, over and over again.
Super Mario Bros. 3 – Best multi-player Mario game to date.
Check Mii Out Channel – Removed it too, due to never using it for anything.
River City Ransom – Reminds me of a bad 80′s movie in a good way.
Defend your Castle – Well worth the $5 spent on it, and highly addictive.
Dr. Mario Online Rx – I needed a puzzle game, and Dr. Mario delivers flawlessly.

Anything else I should check out?

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Need a Better Game Review?

Mar/25 in Online Apps

Video Game Reviews From time to time, I’ll go to the video game review sites like Gamespot and others to see what is new in the world of video games. Unlike the other areas of tech I seem to be involved in, video games are purely for pleasure and nothing else.

The problem comes in when you want to just get some reviews. You have to battle through popup ads, pretty graphics and ten page articles. If you don’t have much time, and you just want to know how good a game it try No Fuss Reviews.

This site will deliver you what you want, need and love most about video game review sites the easy to read thumbs up or thumbs down. Type in any game title and then the console that it is on and you can get a simple one through ten review of the game.

Another neat feature is, let’s say you don’t know what the title is exactly but you know it is for the Wii and it has "Mario" in the title. just type in Mario, select Wii on the side and it will give you all the Wii games with Mario in the title.

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Video Game Desktop Wallpaper

Nov/01 in Desktop, Free Wallpaper

I love video games images, I think the old NES and SNES days deliver a lost art that you just don’t see with today’s video games. Plus I guess there is some nostalgia wrapped up in my feelings about it too.

If you want to cover you computer’s desktop with some video game levels – time to visit desktopgaming.com.

They have content from just about every old video game system you can think of and honestly I could spend hours just browsing through the images. Right now I am using the World of Ruin map from Final Fantasy 6 but later I know I must at least try to have the 1st level from Super Mario Bros.

I just wish somebody had a better world map (I want the whole thing) from the Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past. Want to make your own? They have a tutorial that will teach you the ways.

Many props go out to Todd for finding this jewel.

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Video Game Classics in the Closet

Aug/06 in Personal

It is amazing the things you find when you start re-organizing where everything is. I was going to move a few things out of my office space here and into the closet and I found a treasure of classic video game systems.