Game of the Week PAC-XON !

Take two classic games. Mix them together and what do you get? You get Pac-Xon.

Pac-Xon is a clever mash up of Pac Man and Xonix (or Qix). Consider this a less repetitive version of Pac Man with a few more bells and whistles.

The idea of this game, and the original Qix, is to claim sections of the board until you have possession of 80%. You do this by building boxes, all the while avoiding the evil ghosts.

The game starts off easy enough but at each level more and more ghosts are thrown at you. Don’t forget to grab the fruit and power ups for some surprises.

This is a throw back game so don’t look for state-of-the-art graphics. It is basic and based on these two archetypal 80s games.The game board is controlled by your arrow keys.

World Cup Aftermath - The Letdown of Terrible Sports Programming

Talk about a letdown after the World Cup... I was eating my lunch in the kitchen at work yesterday watching Television. (I brought a tuna sandwich in case you were wondering. Tuna with onion, mustard, mayo, and lettuce in a pita). I forgot my newspaper at home so I was stuck in front of the tube. One of the national sports networks (RDS) was trying to fill their empty programming schedule with a show that consisted of killing things with guns. They took a commercial break and then came back with ten more minutes of birds falling from the sky.

Granted, it was a hunting show but oddly enough, there was very little commentary, only animals dying. It reminded me of America's Funniest Home Videos, without the bad jokes.

Amazingly enough I sat there and watched.

I work in a office of about 100 people and there were about twenty others in the kitchen at the time. None of the other office drones changed the channel. I suppose I was too spellbound, or in too much shock to get up and change the channel.

I cannot say that today's show was much better. The featured programming was Table Tennis. Fancy name Table Tennis. Ping Pong for the uncouth.

It's a sports channel. I should call and tell them that anything played on a table is not a sport. Poker, Chess, Billiards - not sports. Games, all of them. I love shooting pool and I enjoy the occasional game of poker. I know pool is often referred to as a table sport. Doesn't matter. 

Pool = Game. 

Ping Pong= Game.

Ping Pong or Table Tennis?

I'm still stuck on the table thing though. If you call table tennis a sport, than synchronized swimming would be considered a sport (OK that's a bit of a leap).

How can something be called a sport just because two people are doing it at the same time? Reminds me of simultaneous orgasms. Which of course are more challenging and harder to complete. Now that is a sport. And, funny enough, you can do it on a table.

I can do that

Sunday Game of the Week - Soccer Balls

Just in time for the World Cup Finals. The goal of of the game Soccer Balls is to get a red card. 

Did your team lose? Was your country unfairly eliminated? Should the World Cup have instant replay? Do you want to take it out on the referees?

Make the referee angry by hitting him in the head with a soccer ball. Choose your team jersey, be it the Dutch or Spain, England, USA or Germany, etc. (hmm. why isn't there a Canadian jersey?)