Nostalgia Blog

Day in the Life: Did Anyone Else Play This??? The Show: I can't say I ever watched How to be Indie. I only know it exists because I watched Degrassi and looked up some of the actors' other work at some point, in this case Melinda Shankar. According to the Wikipedia article  "The program follows Indie's journey as she tries to get the most out of life despite the travails of junior high school and the expectations of her Indian parents. She is joined by her two best friends Marlon Parks and Abigail "Abi" Flores." Cool! I guess? Look I never watched this show so I really can't say anything about it. Here's the board with the playable characters. You can see the stats on the bottom. The Game... Sorta: It's true I didn't actually watch the show, but one thing I did do was play the online game How to be Indie: Day in the Life! Day in the Life plays just like a board game. You can pick one of four characters, Indie, Abi, Marlon, and... sorry!...

  Catscratch was a cartoon featured on Nickelodeon that aired from July 9, 2005 to February 10, 2007. It lasted only one season, with 20 episodes in total. The show featured a trio of anthropomorphic cats, Mr. Blik, Gordon, and Waffle. Together, the three kitties lived in their owner's mansion inheriting her wealth after her passing. Despite watching this show, I really couldn't tell you anything about it aside from the premise (oh and also the strange relationship between Gordon and Kimberly. Seriously, what was that). That being said there is one thing I do remember from the show. And that is the flash game based on the show, AKA "This Means War!" They gave you a crazy amount of donuts...     This Means War is a turn-based tactical game, extremely similar to the Worms franchise. You can play as one of the three cats, although there are no differences between the cats aside from appearance. Your goal is to reduce the health of each of the other cats to zero. Each cat...

With the death of flash, many great games have been lost. Today I'll be writing about an adorable game featured on Armor Games called Bouncy Quest . Bouncy Quest is a puzzle-platformer game featuring a cute little nameless bouncy slime (to me they resemble Ball Kirby).   There are 20 levels and in each level, your mission is to rescue your friends, other slimes. As you progress through the game, the levels gradually increase in difficulty as well as length. Obstacles, such as enemy slimes, are introduced with a small in-game tutorial explaining how to deal with them.  The in-game text tells you how to handle the enemy slimes. They look like eyeballs... Once you reach level 7, you'll have to collect coins scattered around the level to reach your friends. This doesn't affect the length of the levels for the most part although, in later levels, it does stretch out the length, especially if you run into spikes or an enemy slime.  Ever get that feeling you're being watche...