The ScooterBlog

It’s 2007, nearly 20 years since I first owned a Nintendo of my own, and a good 22 years into my gaming life, which began on the wonderful Commodore 64, a hand-me-down from my brother. It goes without saying that I’ve played a lot of games … and forgotten about quite a few of them too.

Every now and then, I would try and think up a certain game that I used to play on the Commodore. It was a jungle style game, racing to get to the end of a level with the most points. I never played it beyond the third or fourth level, but then again, I was six at the time!

Seeing a couple of other Commodore games led me to look for this game again, and for the first time in a few years, I found it this time. Floyd Of The Jungle … and heck, when I was asking my co-worker Jonathon about it when we were talking about, he said he’d played it too!

So, I ask everyone reading … what’s the best game you couldn’t remember the name of as you got older?

So I went a little nuts with LifeHacker! Here’s the favorites for today.

• Their How To section has some pretty good tips and tricks today, including how to setup your own computer-to-computer wireless network (and securely too, which is just as important when you’re sharing your own connection in a pinch and don’t want others prying in), optimizing videos in YouTube (important due to the loss of quality you can get with Flash Video Format), and reclaiming your name online, should you not want your MySpace page to be the first thing people see!
• Their iTunes category is loaded up all the time, especially with tips on how to stream your music anywhere you want, because even though Apple doesn’t like your iTunes streaming everywhere, it is awful handy to have.
• Did we mention their Mashup section is pretty good too? The top listing here is one which lets you track the approximate location of a phone number using both the area code and exchange. Grant you, this isn’t as useful now as it was, seeing that phone numbers go everywhere and are as much virtual as everything else is now, but for home lines, it has uses.
• My three other current categories of choice that will net you TONS of stuff to look at? Their Top 10 Lists, their Optimizations, and Featured Downloads. One could keep immersed for weeks with just a couple of days worth of these things.
  (I specifically found the Featured Downloads section through finding a MP3 to iPod Audiobook Converter app, which might just be something that spurs on another entry!)