Ten Years Ago, The Dreamcast

Posted by Nelson Williams | September 9, 2009

It was a different time, a lost time, when console gaming was just stretching its wings. High off the success of the NES, the Genesis, the Super Nintendo, the gaming industry was ready to try new things. It a storied time, fabled, hallowed in legend and mystery. It was a time when Sega did something right.

The Dreamcast was unveiled this day ten year ago, a small thing, a white box with a controller designed under alien influence, as if a Martian would return at any moment to reclaim his high score. The Dreamcast played discs, it had a web browser, it ran online multiplayer.

Ten years ago, Sega held the future in its hand.

Then the Playstation 2 ate Sega alive and the Dreamcast was cast down from Sony’s bloodstained teeth as little more than the picked bones of a failed promise. …

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House of the Dead: Overkill, Skullhumps Profanity Record

Posted by Nelson Williams | March 17, 2009

Swearing? In a zombie game? Oh my. In a record confirmed by the Guinness people who don’t make beer, House of the Dead: Overkill takes the top place for most profanity in a single game. According the Guinness World Record folks, the f-bomb flies more than 189 times. That comes out to about 3% of the entire dialog in the script.

House of the Dead: Overkill is available on the (heh, heh heh) family-friendly Nintendo Wii console. This makes me smile on the inside.

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