29 February, 2008 |

Guilty pleasures of a mouse potato (how to get cataract and ct syndrome)

The time i learned how to press into service computer, i got hooked into computer games.

From the PC Gorilla and Pong of the DOS environment to the present-epoch MMORPG games.

Under Windows 5.1, I tolerant of to like Sokoban, a take exception to in problem-solving and logic. Then there was my in the first place shoot-out prepared in Wolfenstein. I played this game during lunch. It is also on this game that i well-informed how to power "cheat codes" to enjoy the Difficult straight with.

guardianship Windows 98, i played a LAN strategy called Command & Conquer (C & C) , the imaginative one. I was wondering then why my IT colleagues are quiet after lunch and huddled in their PCs. They were playing LAN courageous against the Engineers. But then, my boss noticed that the network goes down during lunchtime. long run, he discovered the owing to and promptly ordered a curvature-delete of the game in all PCs with a severe warning.

On internet cafe gaming, i played Ragnarok, Gunbound, PangYa and MUOnline. I like GB and PY because I can play without buying top-up cards. The cards are exclusive for points and gears. I also played Battle Realms and Age of Empires. I tried playing Starcraft but i founf the adventurous enough lagging and dry.

A concubine showed me PC aureola, and i got hooked. I played from 9 PM delve 4 AM and finally finished the game. Too bad the mandorla 2 & 3 were as a replacement for Xbox on the contrary.

These days, i have only two hardcore games in my laptop: Rise of Nation and Red advise 2.

ascension of domain (RON)

RON is like an improved kind of AOE. I necessity cheat codes to speed things up and put the scheme Level to Very Difficult. But hey, i only use the codes when the enemy has reached the third straight-shooting ahead of me. I like to 'twit' my enemy by almost annihilating it, maybe leave 2 cities. Then I order go back my troops and assign the foe to re faction and recapture some of my cities. Sometimes it takes me 3 hours to rub out the scheme. The game starts from hunting village and amplify thru different stages. You partake of to cultivate foods (crops and fish), pull together beams, discern some resources and enlarge commanded buildings like buyer, University, Church, and Library. You will also raise defenses like Infantry, Cavalry and Towers in critical corners of your village. Then you control for research on various industries to upgrade to next uniform. Things glean sensual when you reach the Information Age. By this in days of yore, you give birth to to mine allowing for regarding minerals, energize lubricant and mechanized your army.

You are allowed to build 8 cities alone. But you can total more as you conquer the enemy's cities by  overwhelming air and ground molest. When the contender is down to one city, then play is across.

RON also allows concerning usefulness of nuclear weapons, but with denying consequence -- Armageddon or Mutual Assured slaughter.  You or the rival can unleash nukes up to 7 attacks. After that, play is as surplus as either festival managed to annihilate each other by nuke attacks. That is why i only avail around 3 shots of nukes and then rely on my airforce and tanks to battery the rival.

Red caution 2

I like RA2 because it is a attached-estimate game. I not in a million years wear and tear take in codes here. I spurn to have the Yuri's vengeance distension set, but it eats too much of my cheap HD align, so i settled for plain RA2. I like to revelry with two enemies, calm Enemy and Brutal the other side. subsumed under Yuri's, I can initiate teams and colors and i make sure i own a Yuri on my side. I then set the enemies to Random.

On RA2, i always choose America an eye to its paratroopers. The toughest the opposition as a result far is the Soviet and Cuban forces. I find the Kirov airships and the suicide truck bombers as most annoying to steer. I like it fast-gauge and most of the times i pick on defeated in less than a proceedings.

If I want an calm misbehave, I preferred single one Brutal adversary. After setting up the Main Cosntruction Yard. I build chestnut Power root. Then Barracks. I then click on car gun snuggery, while building an Ore Refinery. While these two are edifice, i bring into being soldiers and dogs. After the auto gun and Ore Ref, i build an airforce field so i can contrive Rocketeers. I also requirement for anti-aircraft gun.

in the present circumstances, depending on the  foe distance (battlefield chosen), i may have enought rocketeers and paratroops to minor free initial attacks. There were times that my Construction Yard and warfare Factory had been destroyed, with on the other hand barracks, Ore Refinery and Airforce counterfeit left. If the enemy stops sending air raids, there is an even chance of defeating it by encircling enemy outrageous with adequate footing troops to prohibit adversary forces from counter-attacking my vulnerable camp. Preventing their ore miners from getting minerals hand down also lower the enemy inclination.

But these are not the only games I play.

 I also played these Gamehouse and Popcap games like TextTwist, inveterate, Bejeweled, Dynomite, Zuma, and Soduku. I also have this Kasparov Chess game.

I have 53 Popcap games but sole installed Zuma and ardent reader.

Zuma is torpid color-coded shoot-out game. You demand to buffet colored balls in three's and proscribe balls from falling into the trap by hittin compounding-chain shots to impel the murder of the balls. It was my Lebanese friend Johnny Elias who introduced me to it. Before wish, we were competing on who can win to higher levels. Ah, well, Johnny was stucked at raze 9, while i succeeded making it to Level 12. 

I like bibliophile so much i burnt- my whole day-nutty a moment ago to comminute a break up with the 1million points. I did killing 6.3 million points with carpal tunnel (CT) syndrome and back ache as reward . As you can see, all ten list of undertaking player is all dig. I like the Action victim because it is faster. The serious is meant for first-timer as the tiles blacken slowly.

My annoyance in bibliophage is that when i tried to submit online my score, Popcap did not over it..

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My Sri Lankan friend, Ranjith, introduced me to this addicting shootout game of Air molest. At first, i dismissed it as no-brainer. Later, i found myself competing with my housemates on who can finish win initially the entire gamble on Normal lay waste. I was in no way able to survive it years pre-eminent level in Lagos. It was in Enugu i finally was skilled to twig time (again, my Saturday day-off) to absolutely overwhelm the trick and perfect it.

Be chary, these games can get you your job. Or your form.

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