I was cleaning my storage closet the other day, when I found a CD containing one of my all-time favorite computer game series: the Ultima Collection. As with the first time I played the series, I’m starting with Ultima IV: The Quest of the Avatar.  This was one of the games responsible for giving CRPGs [...]

We decided to trade in a bunch of games today at EB Games, and use the store credit to buy EA Sports Active for the Wii.  Tried that out today.  Holy crap! My “20-minute workout” took me about 45 minutes (including training videos).  I decided to try a high-intensity workout.  They aren’t kidding when they [...]

I bought Ultimate I-Spy for my wife’s birthday on Wednesday.  Now, it’s Friday night and it’s finished. It was a fun game while it lasted, but it has no replay value.  Once the game is finished, you can restart again but you’re looking for the same objects in the same locations. Somewhat better is Mystery [...]

My desktop computer is not working at the moment, so my daughter asked me to install Scholastic Brain Play grade 1-3 (no link available) on my laptop.  When I click on Autorun, I get the following message: The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.  Check your computer’s [...]