It's All About Play in the New Year

[eggwards]

*Last night I spent a nice evening at a New Year's Eve party filled with lots of bears, some I knew, some I didn't. Really, it's the same place Chris and I have been for the last three years on New Year's Eve. Maybe it's four now, I can't remember. It's a nice, easy-going party and I felt just fine being there. Hooray!

The theme for the party was Blue (last year it was red) and I had the blue margaritas. It seemed that a lot of people were very ready to see 2006 off.

*I see that bearciti is finally up and running after advertising it for a year or more. The site is decent, but it will take a lot of work to get the traffic that 411 has. That's really the reason people go there. Bearciti seems well put together, but I still like the bearlix interface better, especially with the changes the owner made recently...but again, rarely is anyone online there.

*I mentioned to Vance in a reply about Super Monkey Ball, the Wii game that doesn't always work, that I enjoy Wii Sports and hope they will come out with a Wii Sports II soon. Wii sports has the right sense of "anyone can play" keeping the simplicity that went with things like Atari Tennis.

Chris and I were trying to come up with possible games for Wii Sports II. Wii sports already has tennis, bowling, boxing, golf and baseball. Here's some of the suggestions we had for the sequel:

Hockey, Curling (I like the thought of having to sweep in front of the stone), Volleyball, Basketball (perhaps just horse), Water polo, Ping pong, Bass fishing, Soccer, Skeet shooting and Motocross.

Perhaps they should have a Wii Olympics too, but I'm not sure that you'd want to have a hammer or javelin throw with the Wii Remote. Still, there were Decathlon games for the Atari 2600 and even Steeplechase. Swimming and Diving could be interesting, though. Skiing and Snowboarding might work as well.

Some of the ones we thought wouldn't work included Figure skating (though having to have a two-player figure skating couple sounded hilarious), Tetherball, Powerlifting and Jogging. I don't think that Trampoline or Gymnastics would be very good.

I wonder what I'm missing, sport wise? Perhaps I should send in a request to Nintendo now. It's interesting how this system and Chris' interest is renewing my interest in video games. of course everything on TV is in re-reuns, so that may be having an effect as well.

Now if I could just get the old Superman game for the 2600 again. It was incredibly cheesy, but fun!

Comments

[scotbear.livejournal.com]

Fencing!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's certainly one that would be easy for them to program. Two other games out for the Wii already have swordfighting.

[invisiblebear.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but the BearCiti link needs a fix, still managed to figure it out, though. Never heard of it until now, may be worth checking.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that...that's me trying to spell a sites name in real English, not in "copyright" English. You shouldn't try to make html tags when you're tired.

[bendawg.livejournal.com]

Although your URLs up there were giving me trouble, I checked out BearCiti. It looks COOL. I hope it catches on.

I like the Wii, but haven't had much time to play my friend's, unfortunately. :)

[dedos.livejournal.com]

That is so weird. I was going to mention BearCiti. My best friend Paul is the one who coded the site (for a client in Miami), and he's pretty happy with the way it came out.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes my poor typing gets me in trouble.

The coding looks good, and I see they have the "beta" tag up, so I'm sure they will be making lots of tweeks in the next few months!

I just remember hearing about Bearciti over a year ago when my friend Jerry told me about it.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

You know, I was WONDERING why BearCiti would offer Chinese as one of its language options, and then I realized you mistyped the URL there :: laugh ::

The Decathalon for the Atari 2600 -- how many joysticks I broke with that damned thing.

Now if I could just get the old Superman game for the 2600 again. It was incredibly cheesy, but fun!

There's always emulation, hun ^o^

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yeah, emulation, I really haven't tried that on my mac, but I know it can be done. I may have to look harder.

Yes, Decathalon was pretty had on those old plastic joysticks...but think how bad they's be on a Xbox or PS2 thumbstick!

As for Chinese, well, pandas need love too.

[winbear.livejournal.com]

When you link from LJ, you need to include the http:// otherwise, everyone that clicks your link gets it prepended with their or your livejournal URL, like so http://eggwards.livejournal.com/www.bearcity.com

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yes, that will get me for trying to type in the code for the site rather than just cutting and pasting! :-) It's fixed now (I think).

[winbear.livejournal.com]

Are you using Semagic, the Windows client for LiveJournal?

[winbear.livejournal.com]

Woops, sorry, forgot you were on a Mac...

http://www.livejournal.com/download/?platform=Macintosh

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I use XJournal for the Mac (I used to use iJournal, you know those crazy mac names). i just ended up typing it in myself and didn't take the tiem to do it right.

It's not Wii Sports II...

[neoookami.livejournal.com]

But something in the same spirit is coming out here next month. Wii Play uses the cute Mii characters as well and sports a series of mini-games, ping pong included. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Play

The real nice thing about it is that it's a regular price game, but comes with another remote.

Re: It's not Wii Sports II...

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Ahh, they are already ahead of me. Still I think curling on the Wii would be the new gaming sensation!

[cubziz.livejournal.com]

Well, signed up for a BearCiti account. My "reservation" I did a year ago apparently was worthless as my account was no longer reserved. Figures. *shrug*

And yeah, it does have some nice features. We will see if it builds on them. My biggest fear is the over-cluttering of the interface. While it is nice to fill every square inch, white space is a nice thing too. ;)

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yeah...too many things on the sides and top. just trying to cram a lot of stuff on one page...then there's your dossier. i guess your "card" is supposed to look like a file on you.

Yeah, what did I sign up for months ago? There didn't seem to be a reason for that.

[cubziz.livejournal.com]

Well, in most web design there are two schools of thought.

There's the Google side. Lots of white space. Focus on one thing.

There's the Yahoo side. FILL EVERYTHING! Use up every ounce of space possible!

Personally, I prefer the Google method as you know what you are focusing on. No getting lost in the billions of options.