Computers, explained in their most simplest form, perform tasks they are told to do – namely, calculations. Put enough calculations together, and you can do some interesting things. Telling the machine to do these various tasks one element at a time, though, would be an intense process. Instead, we use various programming languages to write […]
Welcome to the first “odd” episode of the series, and technically the first Angry Video Game Nerd Episode. In this case, the Nerd takes a look at bad game and film sequel titles.
Getting to another episode of The Computer Chronicles today, we have Storage Devices – the way we save our data. Today, we use hard drives with sizes easily in the terrabyte ranges, or solid state drives that while at a somewhat lower capacity provide incredibly fast read and write speeds. Hell, my phone, a budget […]
Another video today, this time from Bungie, covering some new elements to the social aspect of gameplay in Destiny 2: Clans, and Guided Games. Clans are now more deeply integrated into active gameplay, funcitioning much like guilds have traditionally in MMO RPG’s for, geeze, probably over two decades now! The basic situation of having a […]
The Xbox Game Pass feature, which I wrote about a little while ago (see the article here)launches on June 1st, and in preparation for this, Microsoft just (as in, a few minutes before I began writing this article) published a quick video going over how to use the service, in very simple terms. As with […]
This is the first trailer I’ve watched for Destiny 2 since it’s announcement earlier this year, and all I have to say is, I like what I see. I genuinely enjoyed Destiny, for what it was worth to me, and while I do feel the game had some major flaws in both it’s own design, […]
In what is, incidentally, the final “Angry Nintendo Nerd” episode the Nerd takes a look at the most infamous NES accessory of all time: The Power Glove.
While browsing YouTube, I stumbled across another interesting little film worth sharing: In this case, a documentary on a music recording studio “Sugar Ray’s Vintage Recording Studio” which is designed to perfectly re-create the essence of recording in the 1950’s, using vintage equipment and ethos from that bygone decade. This film talks about the troubles […]
Following immediately from the Friday the 13th episode, the Nerd looks into the 4 player capable horror classic that is A Nightmare on Elm Street on NES.
I would imagine when most people think of “computer music” these days they still think of the beeps, boops, and blips of the Atari and early computer systems of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Even by 1983, however, music from computers had come quite a long way, and we were just on the verge […]
A decade ago, while browsing the then relatively new website called YouTube, I found a video that discussed something I never thought I would see: A theory that Michael Jackson was involved in the music for the 1994 video game “Sonic The Hedgehog 3.” “What? How? Why? Huh? How did I not learn about this?” […]
It’s Halloween 2006; what better of a time for the Nerd to look at Friday the 13th on the NES!
Getting back to the Game Players magazine Gametapes, we now hit volume 3, which is actually the 4th tape we’re covering here (5th if you count the “Power Glove” tape we covered many months ago). In this tape, we get hints for the NES games Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest, P.O.W., Strider, Thundercade, and WWF Wrestlemania, […]
Alright, finally we’re getting to something that will feel familiar to everyone: networking! More correctly, the pre-internet computer networking methodology known as BBS’s, via literally dialing a number and putting a phone on the modulator-demodulator – a modem, if you are old enough to remember those kinds of things! This episode shows our friend Billy […]
Double Dragon may be a good NES game, but Double Dragon 3: The Sacred Stones is not so much, and that’s what the Nerd is taking a look at in this episode.