Christmas 1987 - my brother and I freaking out about getting the long-awaited PHANTASY STAR for the Sega Master System. This was the first RPG I ever got into and it exploded both of our brains!
We were playing a game where you try to focus your attention single-pointedly, and it makes a disco ball float up into the air. The goal is to keep the ball floating for as long and as "high" into the air as you can. Our mom does yoga quite a bit and has been interested in mindfulness for years, but we were both surprised at how good she was at this game!
The meter at the bottom shows you how "focused" your attention is. The more focused you can make it, the more quickly you can explode each barrel. The goal of the game is to explode barrels in as few seconds as possible. Fun!
After a few drinks, we headed upstairs to my apartment so we could try out my Neurosky headset and the games that you play by trying to focus your brainwaves! Here's Quinn focusing her attention to try to explode video-game barrels full of TNT.
Wednesday was my first day back in NYC after my awesome trip to Red Rocks with Gurj & Quinn. Had an empty apartment and played a bunch of Borderlands 2.
Speaking of music I can hear in my mind, it was fantastic to watch little kids play Super Mario Bros for the first time and see that it still totally holds up to fresh eyes.
On Thursday evening I walked to the video game store and bought Skyrim. Ruh-oh. I blinked and somehow four hours had elapsed and Meredith was prying the controller out of my hands so we could...
Back at the apartment, we dragged out all the gear so that we could play the new game (Rock Band 3) that Brett had just given me! It turns my drum set was broken...
The Dreamcast controller was so rad. It had a little LCD screen in the middle that was part of a removable storage card that also was a teeny tiny game player itself!
Later that afternoon I geeked out and played a whole bunch of Mass Effect 2. It has really beautiful immersive environments that look right out of Blade Runner.
Friday night I geeked out and played a marathon session of Dragon Age: Origins I played with a character that I tried to make look like Meredith because it's awesome to watch your wife wear armor and fight dragons. Haha.
...so I got to rearrange the furniture and put my green chair up real close in front of the TV. Haha. Check out my COMMAND CENTER setup: remote, spring rolls, two kinds of M&Ms, cell phone, game controller. THUMBS UP!
