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Fairway Solitaire, the bane of my sleep

After being recently featured on www.penny-arcade.com, I decided to try Fairway Solitaire. It's another one of those fusion solitaire games where the basic game of solitaire is mutated into another form of addiction. Similar to how there are different versions of irresistable brownies, however this falls in league with the special kind of brownies. The gameplay is basically golf themed, where you go through a golf course as a session. With different golf terminology used in the game like having birdies, eagles, double bogies, etc... It also has the 2 traps that golfers love to hate, sand traps and water traps.But how does it actually play? Well if you are familiar with solitaire, like the millions of other bored office workers, it's fairly the same rules but rather than collecting the cards on the table , your goal is to knock off cards out of play. It's a fairly easy concept to understand that is better off trying than explaining.

However be warned of it's addicting properties! You will lose sleep over this as you try to hit objectives, and getting more money for that golfing apparel you want. You can try the full game for 1 hour through BigFish Games.

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Posted by Elbert on Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:23 AM
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Playing Against Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear

 *Warning some spoilers from the past Metal Gear Games

I've always been a fan of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series and there is a good reason why. Because Hideo Kojima likes to warp the game world and the real world together. For example, battling Psycho Mantis was a very surreal experience. He would demonstrate his latent psychic abilities by reading your game statistics for you, so depending on how you played he will tell you that you were either sneaky, item collector, etc... He would also tell you to put the controller down and he would demonstrate that he can move it using his will. Of course this was done by vibrating the controller. To add to the final pseudo gaming experience, the only way you can beat him would be to switch the controller to port 2, because he can read your mind if you have your controller set to port 1. 

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Posted by Elbert on Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:52 AM
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