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Monday, February 25, 2013

Back in Action!


Another week, a whole new contest.  First, however:  Video Games!

There is something very satisfying about doing well in a video game against somebody that usually beats the pants off you. Dai Senryaku VII is a great game and not for the faint of heart.  It usually takes a few days to even get close to deciding a winner and then it's usually decided by someone surrendering rather than being properly beaten.  After a few months of playing various scenarios, I finally had the moment where the tide was turning in my favor.  I haven't won yet, that's a ways off of course, but I am in a solid position.

Granted, I was set up in an amazing position to start with, randomly drawing America as my army.  Although my opponent got Russia, the only other well matched enemy, he did start at a resource disadvantage.  I didn't know the extent this would hurt him until the second day of playing where it became clear he couldn't afford to keep repairing his long range bomber fleet.  While he was scraping together every cent to get his fleet back in the air, I was producing waves of armor and support units with my superior cash reserves.  

I was still incredibly scared of what he had up his sleeve until I sent a recon force across the bridge to asses his full strength.  I was surprised to find the majority of his territory devoid of sentries and his out cities ripe for the picking.  His main force that I was slowly picking apart in the south was everything he had left.  It felt good.  Real good.

CLUE:

Alright.  Why don't we have a video game based week!  That will really get you guys excited I think

- 1979

11 comments:

Recalcitrant Haberdasher said...

Global Thermonuclear War?
Wait, never mind. I think that game was in the 80s.

Pong?
Pac-Man?
Tic-Tac-Toe?

Ventola said...

The clues will be incredibly vague this week due to wealth of video game knowledge you, my dear readers, posses.

First person to copy/paste a list off Wikipedia of video games released in 1979 gets a black eye.

Froyd said...

LOL. Nice. I am going to avoid posting until I have more clues. Just listing the games off the top of my head is a jerkish thing to do.

Also you should update your sidebar hits.

Ventola said...

Done and done. Yeah...this will be a tricky one I think. I should really start planning these better.

Recalcitrant Haberdasher said...

All right, fine. I won't look on Wikipedia (tempting as it is). So, please do not give me a black eye. I've made it this far in life without one. I'd like to keep it that way.

Ventola said...

You can look at Wikipedia all you want. Its just not going to be the right answer. :D

Recalcitrant Haberdasher said...

I learned that last time.

Froyd said...

I learn that every time a student does research there....I just wish they did.

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