Back (in 2004/2005) when I was rediscovering the joy of gaming on the Mac, one of the of the games that I bought at my local Apple Store was Spyhunter. This game is a reworking of the original top-down arcade game to bring it up to date with modern 3D graphics, sounds, animation and overall excitement. I don’t remember how much I paid for the game, but I remember not feeling extremely entertained.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked the game, but I vaguely remember that the price-to-entertainment value being low. I enjoyed the driving aspect of the game, but the shoot-em-up aspect was diminished by the difficult nature of driving while shooting, and the difficult nature of subsequent stages.

I recall getting near the end, but I never really finished the game. After my Mac hard drive died in and it had to be replaced, I didn’t have the save files backed up, and I did not want to start from scratch. The video bellow, taken from the PS2 version of the game, illustrates the game play.

While I have the disc, and I can most certainly play it on my Mac Mini, I don’t think I will be playing this game again any time soon as a ‘serious gamer’ (except maybe as a mini-game).

Tags: video, games, video games, macintosh, action

I am a big Terminator fan, that is why I am happy this series is coming back for another season!

I initially approached this series with skepticism, but it ended up being quite good! My reasons for being a skeptic were that I really could not see anyone other than Linda Hamilton taking over the role of Sarah Connor, and the idea of a high-school-aged terminator T800 was laughable (at the time).

Well the show has made me a believer! The action is great, the story line is good, and it essentially keeps you in suspense throughout the season. One of the things that was not answered in the movies was the origin of skynet. I know that in the third movie we wee the military makes skynet, but did this mean that it was fate? That skynet would be built no matter what? Or could the future be changed? As the season went on we saw a number of various possibilities as to the origin of skynet, and as one by one they got eliminated, you kept wondering just who and under what circumstances, made skynet.

I look forward to the new season, and to the recap of the first season starting August 10. I really hope that the Reese family is explored more, and we see more futuristic shots. I also hope that they tie in the third terminator movie. I am all for time paradoxes and alternate timelines, but I really do want some sort of tie in.

Tags: television, terminator, action, scifi

Thanks to Hulu, I have been exposed to yet another great television show (no I don’t spend all my time at home watching television).

Burn notice is a series about a CIA agent who’s been, well to put it bluntly, screwed. He’s off on a mission at the beginning of the series, tries to make a deal with some shady people on behalf of the US government and BAM! He’s cut lose! “We never knew you, we never heard of you” type of situation.

When he gets back to the US, he is essentially stranded in Miami, with an FBI tail, people trying to kill him, and all this time he is trying to work a few odd jobs here and there (utilizing his CIA skillset) so that he has food and a roof over his head. The series is pretty nice because the main character is not a Rambo ‘blow everything to bits’ type. He is a cool headed (most of the time) character that prefers non violence if possible.

If you do have some free time, check it out on hulu. You won’t be disappointed.

Tags: television, action, calmness, hulu