Race car... what a passion and what a crash!

We like car games, all of us, especially guys. From the very first we played on Sega, Outrun till Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder , not forgetting F1 ones as Formula 1 Grand Prix 2 or motorbikes ones like Moto Racer 3.

In many games, especially the elder, you have the opportunity to create a track, like Stunts, or customize your own car as in Nascar Racing.

The Simpsons..... who doesn't like them?

Who hasnever seen a Simpsons episode in his life? I think nobody. I do every day, I wait till 14:00 o'clock to watch in totally relax the episode of the day.

I will never forget some memorable episodes and scenes like this:

Soccer, smile and good teasing

The soccer games like "Fifa World Cup", "Pro Evolution Soccer", just to say the most famous and many others of their kind that have done so much to challenge children of all ages. But not only, also have given more people more great moments of fun with friends, even challenging each other with well-organized tournaments. I have also personally challenged hundreds of times with various versions year after year were promptly sold. Pure carelessness is often characterized by teasing with their friends. For sure I will think of memorable matches, won or lost, with spectacular
goals, stupid mistakes or bugs really fun.

Holly & Benji (Captain Tsubasa) videogame

This weekend has been very long for me. I am home because of a little injury I had during the week playing soccer. Nothing serious, but my friends are mocking me about it, and I was mailing with one of them a video of an old cartoon I used to watch when young (well, all my generation did): in Europe it is known as Holly and Benji, the original manga title is Captain Tsubasa.

There are a lot of funny video in internet, because the cartoon broke the rule of physics and a whole generation has been affected. Time and space were two concepts that the cartoon designers did not take in consideration! Infinite flashbacks were typical in that cartoon and some of theme used to last for two or three episodes!!

Adventure games, rise and fall

I want to take opportunity of a very interesting article I read few days ago about the history of adventure games genre. We know, beetween 80s and 90s it was a great age for this genre.

Software houses like Sierra and Lucas Arts had great success thanks to epic masterpieces we loved so much. Reading the article I understood how this genre had to adapt to technology and usability, since, from the first attempts of text adventures, it was clear the necessity to make easy for the player interacting with carachter and environment.

But the success was not only due to the machine-human interaction mechanism. The great storyline behind titles such as Monkey Island or Gabriel Knight (just some example) with its comedy or its drama was really important too. However, the genre changed along the years, pushed off the main scen by FPS (First Person Shooter) before, and by casual games later.