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Tag Archives: nintendo DS
The Daring Game For Girls
When I wasn’t teaching or running around Manhattan with packs of teenagers, I checked out The Daring Game For Girls on the DS. I know this is the girl-player stereotype, but I just can’t overstate how important a customizable avatar … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged cooking, daring game for girls, e3, family, games, glasses, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, nintendo DS, teaching
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Game Review: My Boyfriend
I was way too excited for the new My Boyfriend game. I anticipated all the fun of Sim dating, plus my favorite guilty pleasure (changing my avatar’s clothes every five minutes), without all that tedious eating and sleeping and meter-watching … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews
Tagged dating, flops, Game Reviews, games, my boyfriend, nancy drew dossier, nintendo DS, resorting to danger, Sims, ThumbGods, why's it gotta be pink?
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Cake Mania 3
I have a new review of Cake Mania 3 up over at Casual Gamer Chick. Cake Mania 3 is an adorable time-management game for the Nintendo DS. Jill, our heroine from Sandlot Games’ PC versions of the Cake Mania imprint, … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged cake mania 3, Casual Gamer Chick, casual games, China, family, games, majesco, nintendo DS
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Extreme Shopping
Cooking Mama 3′s shopping game is uncannily like shopping in a Chinese supermarket. Mama sends you out to find 4 pieces of unwrapped, unrefridgerated meat, but as you search the store to fill your reusable carrier bag, you’ve got to avoid oddly familiar store characters — shouting shop assistants in pastel uniform aprons or a girl with a basket of squid, shellfish and other distinctly Yantai seafood — who’ll slow your shopping progress by trapping you into minigames. Higher levels add loose eggs, heads-on fish and mushrooms to your shopping list, and more people to the store. I keep trying for the elusive perfect score, since I imagine it’ll unlock a “Sunday In The Auchan” extreme challenge level. Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, chinese, cooking, Cooking Mama 3, games, nintendo DS, ThumbGods, Yantai
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Still Lost In Blue
The other day I was googling for “I’m stuck on an island with a total moron,” er, I mean, reading a bit about Lost in Blue 2, and I stumbled upon this Guide 2 Games review of Jack and Amy’s … Continue reading
Posted in game culture
Tagged awesome, coffee, cooking, family, game culture, games, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, Merscom, nintendo DS, reading, Shutter Island
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What I’ve Been Up To
So, I’ve been working on some other projects, and now I’m going to recycle snips of those articles into a blog post, I mean, share what I’ve been working on! First, I recently reviewed the new Nintendo DS game Women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged chinese, Facebook, Game Reviews, games, huh?, my other writing, new game, nintendo DS, random, reading, tech, TechCoquette, THQ, ThumbGods
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Lost in Blue 2
I’ve been playing Lost in Blue 2 on the DS for a while now, and while I always love games about island survival, like MyTribe, Sims 2: Castaway, etc., there’s a lot of room for improvement in Lost in Blue. … Continue reading
Posted in game culture, Game Reviews
Tagged cooking, frustrations, Game Reviews, games, girls play that too?, Google, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, mail, MyTribe, nintendo DS, Sims, Sims 2, ThumbGods
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Play! A Videogame Symphony
Stick and I went to Play! A Videogame Symphony at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre a few weekends ago. We joined the crazy quilt of blankets, over a carpet of drying pine needles, and unpacked our cheese, olives, Nintendo DS, and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina, Raleigh
Tagged Books, cary, China, driving, Facebook, games, gaming, General, jeans, nerd, New England, nintendo DS, Play! A Videogame Symphony, Raleigh, Stick, travel, Twilight, WarCraft, wine, World of WarCraft
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Playing Quidditch
“Stick? Can you play Quidditch for me?” I recently rented Harry Potter for the DS, and the Quidditch parts are just as annoying as they are in the books and movies. Unlike the books and movies, I can’t flip a … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged Books, education, Harry Potter, movies, nintendo DS, reading, Sims, Stick, ThumbGods, why I love Stick
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Visiting Strangetown: Sims 2 on the DS
You’re on your way from someplace much cooler to someplace much cooler when your car breaks down in Strangetown, and the Sims 2 game begins. A local yokel says he can fix that, but while you’re waiting (it goes without … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged games, General, Google, nintendo DS, random, Sims, Sims 2, Stick, Strangetown
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