http://15minutesofwork.com In a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. The rest I spend playing games. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://15minutesofwork.com/2009/05/toobin/ http://15minutesofwork.com/2009/05/toobin/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 21:55:07 +0000 Craig Toobin’ is one of those classic games that didn’t get all of the attention it really deserved. A clever concept, you were on an inner tube floating down river trying not to pop your tube on various obstacles while racing an opponent to the finish. Collecting the letters to spell Toobin’ for a bonus was a great ongoing challenge. When something got in your way you chucked a soda can at it (which happened to be floating around randomly in the river). The graphics were the classic pixel look (like Donkey Kong, Pitfall, Burger Time, and all of those other games I used to love as a kid) but it was just so much fun to splash to the finish, even in the dead of winter!

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]]> http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/10/capcom-classics-collection-vol-2/feed/ 0 http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/10/galaga-destination-earth/ http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/10/galaga-destination-earth/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 This game was made for all the children of the 80′s that were experts at this classic game. Really the only difference for this game with a few features and upgraded graphics. You can tell that really writers were starting to become important to videogame design. You played this game for a while just to figure out the storyline of this game. Videogame designers are really starting to understand that story was becoming just as important as gameplay. I was surprised they could have such a storyline for such a simple game.

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]]> http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/09/spy-hunter/feed/ 0 http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/09/space-invaders/ http://15minutesofwork.com/2008/09/space-invaders/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 One of my favourite games ever is Space Invaders, for its sheer annoyance at getting faster and faster as the levels go on upto the point where you need to be DARYL to be able to play the game. If you have ever seen DARYL then you will remember the point where he was playing Pole Position. I am sure that he would need to go as fast for Space Invaders in the higher levels.

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