Games, games gAmes, GaMeS, gAmEs, GAmeS, gameS, etc....

I like games of all sorts.

I love Computer Games. Some of my current favorites are Homeworld (I'm not so hot on the sequal, Homeworld:Cataclysm but they have taken down all but the sequal site), Shogun Total War(this is an amazing real time strategy AND turn based game), Star Craft(nuff said), Unreal Tournament(Best of the current crop of first person shoot-em-ups), Marathon (very old school, I even have my own Marathon Page), and Metal Fatigue. Of course I am finding new games all the time that interest me. The more inovtive the game the more I like it. I even tried building games once, but it did not work out so well. Lately (as of 1/1/01) I have started playing a game called Planetarion. Its an online web based game that is reminicent of the old tradewars game(which has been revived in web form as well) that I used to play in the BBS days of yore. (08/29/01) I must now add Diablo II:expansion (another BLIZZARD game, those guys are GOOD) and I now have a PS2 and am looking forward to ICO.

I happen to also like card games. Especially spades. I have not played much lately but once apon a time I used to play continuesly. My friends and I would play for hours and hours on end. I found a site with rules and tips for the game of spades.

I have also recently (08/29/01)gotten into a card game called Fluxx. Its a rather fun game in which the rules continuesly change. The game can last a few minutes or hours depending on what is dealt and what is played. It is not played with a standard deck, but rather with a special Fluxx deck that has 84 cards in it.

I must now (09/04/01) add one more non-standard card game to the list. Guillotine. This is a simple yet amazingly addictive and fun game. The basic concept is that your the headsman during the French Revolution and you get points based on the number and type of heads you collect. At each turn you play an action card that re-arrainges the line of nobles about to be beheaded, or it gives you bonus points, or affects other players score, etc. Then you collect the noble at the had of the line. Then you get another action card and its the next persons turn. Simple. It somehow still gets complicated and backstabbing is often seen and its FUN!

Since I was about 6, I have been involved in Role Playing Games. I have played many diffarent kinds of RPGs, but my two favorite are still AD&D(its a system with problems but it was the first I ever used and holds many good memories for me) and Vampire:The Masquerade. There are many many other role playing games, far too many for me to list. Some of them I have tried and some I have not. Should I play one that I find to be particularly good I will mention it here.

I was never on a team for sports until I got to college. In college I took up fencing. My weapon is the sabre, what some consider to be the least pretty, least urbane, least refined, least skill intensive weapon(some people also consider the earth to be flat so....). I fenced at Yeshiva University and despite my own best efforts the team was still champions in one league and second place in another, with three NCAA finals fencers (who could not go because that year it was on Shabbat). Actually that first statement is not quite true. I was on a little league team for one summer, and decided from that experience that baseball is a stupid game (amazingly, every girlfriend I have had disagrees with me on that point.... how odd). (08/29/01) I also got into raquet ball while in RCC. I love the game but its very hard to find inexpensive courts to play in, in the city. So as it stands I do not play often (last time was nearly three years ago, maybe more).

Of course, there are the miscellanius 'sports'. These include things like laser tag, paintball, rafting, archery, the SCA, orienteering and the like. I have a little experience in each of these, and am hoping to get more.

Games that excersize my mind are especially fun to me. There are several mazes and riddle games on the web and I will post links as soon as I can find what I did with the links.


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