What could be more awesome than fighting off alien invaders with your puny ship? Or fighting off robots with your one robot? You know the movie we’ve all been waiting for Star Wars: Salvation, where we finally get to see the Droid Wars. If that movie was going to be made, and it had a movie tie-in game then Droid Assault would be it! Wait a sec, cooler than fighting robots off with your one robot, isn’t that what this is? Well no, the only thing that could be cooler than that would be fighting off waves or robots with your own robot army! That’s right, instead of Robotron-style arena-based droid combat against impossible odds, you get Robotron-style arena-based multi-droid combat against incredible odds! That’s just what this is too! Unfortunately we don’t get to see C3P0 take on a Cyberdyne Systems model 101, but we can at least pretend.
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Droid Assault – All your droid belong to us!
Thursday, April 16th, 2009(xblig) Cubage – Like, totally Rubik’s!
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Remember The Empire Strikes Back? The boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, protesting Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? Airplane? Defender, Battlezone and Pac-Man? Zork? John Lennon’s murder? Iron Maiden’s debut? AC/DC’s “Back in Black” ? “Disco Sucks?” (granted that was on a sign in 79’s Disco Demolition Night but the sentiment still rings true) Mount St. Helens eruption? The US ice hockey team beating the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics? Who shot J.R.? Well all of these were in 1980, not just the 80’s but the turn of the decade. There was another thing that debuted in 1980 and that was the Rubik’s Cube. Invented in ‘74 by a Hungarian sculptor, it was sold to Ideal Toys in 1980. As Wikipedia describes it – In a classic Rubik’s Cube, each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colors (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colors. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid color.
Titan Attacks – Only Futurama’s Fry can save us now!
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
“Invaders! Possibly from space!”, exclaimed Leela.
“People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Nintendoo-64. Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships!”, said the alien leader as if it were a statement of fact.
“Alright. It’s Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix tape! Let’s Rock!!” Fry looked up at the alien horde and then got down to business. Listening to Rush’s Tom Sawyer Fry managed to start blasting aliens by moving his giant war vehicle left and right with arcade like precision.
Meanwhile in the lead alien ship, The second in command possibly Lrrr’s wife shouts, “We’re losing ships sir! What are your orders?!” “Increase speed, drop down, and reverse direction!” shouted Lrrr in reply!
Fry continued to blast the alien retinue.