Archive for 'Computer Stuff' Category

Day of Defeat

Feb 26th, 2010 by Froggy | 0

Day of Defeat (DoD) is a Mod (game modification) for the Half Life game engine. People have been writing their own maps for game engines to run on since Doom. A Mod actually changes the way the game plays. A better way of describing a Mod is that it is a new game written using [...]

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Half Life

Aug 4th, 2008 by Froggy | 0

Half Life. As far as I am concerned this must be one of the best computer games ever.
The original Half Life was the story of a lab coat wearing scientist “Dr Gordon Freeman” who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when a major experiment went wrong and creatures from [...]

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The Past is not always as you remember it.

Jun 8th, 2008 by Froggy | 0

A while back I decided to dig the old Atari VCS out of the attic to show the nieces and nephew what proper  video games were like when daddy and uncle were young.
The answer was fairly obvious, they were really, really bad.
Could it be that we spent hours on the likes of Pac Man, Pole [...]

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