Sunday, July 8, 2018

Old 64 random GameHouse games...

I'm sure you may familiar with all of those 64 old random GameHouse games, shown up here. This time, I will tell you what does those games do in each of the programs. Oh, in case you've wondering, these games are released around early 2000s until 2007, from what I've looked at most of them. Sorry if I can't remember most of them, because several of them won't work on Windows 7 or newer Windows operating system, or I never played it anymore for some obvious reasons. So, here are the games:
  • Airstrike: A 3-D shooting helicopter game with certain missions. Not bad actually, even though I keep stuck in Mission 6 due to how hard the boss on that mission is.
  • Alien Sky: This could be a Galaxian clone.
  • Ancient Tripeaks: Just a solitaire game, but the cards stacked in that manner.
  • Astrobatics: I'm not sure about this game, but um... This could be a vertical side shooting game.
  • Atomaders: I'm not sure about this game at all, but this could be another Galaxian clone.
  • Blackjack*: As the title said, just a blackjack game.
  • Bounce Out*: Original ball game where you swap the balls that has a same color until the time runs out.
  • Bounce Out Blitz: Sequel of the Bounce Out, with 3 modes available.
  • Candy Cruncher: Just like Bounce Out but with candies instead of balls.
  • Chainz: Connect 3 or more chains with the exact same color to break them up.
  • Collapse*: Original game of a real time puzzle-solving action by popping the blocks  3 or more with the same color until they reach the top of the screen.
  • Collapse II*: Sequel of Collapse, with 4 modes available.
  • Collapse Crunch: Another sequel of Collapse, with 4 their own new modes available.
  • Dominoes: Just a domino game. The plus thing about this game though, you can put your own picture as the background of this game.
  • Feeding Frenzy: As the title said, one of the most popular fish games in those days.
  • Flip Words: Just a crappy word game to guess a certain short available sentences.
  • Fruit Frolic: Launch a certain fruit to the exact same type of the fruits that got hit by it. Somehow similar to Collapse but with different manner.
  • Gem Drop*: Just a Columns game, but with gems. The pieces are just one pieces rather than two or more.
  • Glinx*: Just a connect two or more same objects type game.
  • Gutterball: Literally, a bowling game.
  • Hamsterball: You control a hamster inside the plastic ball to move it around the area, avoid obstacles, and the aim of this game is to reach the goal pad.
  • Hello: Like Glinx, but with telephones instead of basic shapes, and somehow the way this game works just almost like a Collapse too.
  • Inspector Parker: I... don't... understand about the aim of this game, sorry...
  • Jigsaw*: Literally, jigsaw puzzle game.
  • Jewel Quest: A slight Bejeweled clone.
  • Lemonade Tycoon: The aim of this game is just selling lemonades in a booth for a week for business of it, waiting for the buyers to consume it, and reacting how good the lemonades are.
  • Letter Linker: Another word game, not the same thing as the Flip Words. However, you can connect words diagonally.
  • Mad Caps: Like Chainz, but with bottle caps instead of chains.
  • Magic Ball: Breakout clone.
  • Magic Inlay: Just a puzzle game with these pieces.
  • Mah Jong*: As the title said, just Mahjong game.
  • Nickelodeon Jigsaw*: Just like Jigsaw but with Nickelodeon cartoon pictures.
  • Nisqually*: Swap two blocks to remove the blocks with same color. This somehow kinda reminds me to a Marathon mode in a Block'd game, one of the old Nokia games, but with swapping instead of popping, and game over instantly instead of losing lives per each blocks if is not cleared yet.
  • PileUp*: Tetris clone (I think), but with these shapes instead of Tetris shapes.
  • Pin High Country World Golf: Just a golf game but with nice graphics.
  • Platypus: A side-scrolling shoot-them-up's game.
  • Pool*: Just pool.
  • PopNDrop*: Bust-A-Move clone with 2 modes available.
  • Puzzle Express: A puzzle game where you put some pieces inside the train cars, 2 modes available. This is also another game where you put your own pictures on this game, inside the filled up train cars if you filled them completely with these pieces, instead of just their built-in pictures.
  • Puzzle Inlay: Similar to Magic Inlay, but with major differences.
  • QBz: Just like one of the modes in Collapse Crunch.
  • Ricochet: A Breakout clone, much better than Magic Ball.
  • Ricochet Lost Worlds: Sequel of the Ricochet.
  • Rumble Cube: Slight Tetris clone, except you can put the pieces instantly on anywhere else instead of automatically dropping from the top and drops to the bottom.
  • Scrabble*: Literally, it.
  • Shape Shifter: A "put the following shapes in their correct holes" kind of game.
  • Slingo*: I'm not sure about this game... Slots clone maybe?
  • Slots*: Literally, it.
  • Solitaire I, II, and III*: Exact same games but with various modes per each programs.
  • Spelvin: Another word game, but this time collect some words until the juice runs out.
  • Spongebob Collapse*: Just like original but with Spongebob graphics.
  • Tap a Jam*: A slight Dance Dance Revolution clone.
  • Ten Pin Championship Bowling Pro: Another bowling game, almost similar as Gutterball.
  • TextTwist*: Another crappy word game.
  • Turtle Bay: A vertical-and-horizontal-scrolling turtle game where you must avoid enemies like octopi and some others.
  • Varmintz: Frogger clone, but with these nice characters and graphics.
  • Walls of Jericho: Another block swapping game, only the differences is watch out for those followers to looking inside the blocks, if there is no more followers, game over.
  • WHATWord*: Again, another crappy word game.
  • Wild Wild Words*: Yet another crappy word game, but it has Wild West theme.
  • Word Jolt: Again, another crappy word game, but it has 2 modes.
  • Zuma: As the title said, it's a typical shooting ball game made by the same company who also made my favorite game of these plants and zombies that you may seen a lot on this blogspot here and my other social medias too... Well, this game is 6 years older than the original of my favorite tower defense game that previously known as Lawn of the Dead, though.
* means it stopped working on Windows 7 or newer.

Friday, July 6, 2018

My childhood electric fan nightmares...


Most of the people may read my other post called How I officially started liking fans, this time I will tell you about some short stories about my childhood electric fan nightmares. In case you don't know what does it means, for example, I scared by it, and many other negative reactions related to that. So, here are my short stories about my childhood electric fan nightmares, based on that post.
  • When I visited a fair once a year in my hometown, I was used to be scared by industrial wall fans. No matter how big they are, I scared by them by dodging them, such as close my eyes, bow against them, and sometimes I walked backwards. Everything about this was even worse, especially during they're oscillating too. During they happened, I sometimes ran away against them, and I would think those would "chase" myself with their excellent air delivery. This problem only happened about twice times per year, if I remembered correctly.
  • Every time I visited someone's house with a decorative ceiling fans with their ordinary light kits, I was used to be scared by them too. I would think the lights would catch myself with their bulbs, and I would think the whole fan would fall as well.
  • There was an industrial ceiling fan on a course, that wobbled badly beyond the lowest speed. I thought it would be fall, and from what I'd remember, I just cried under it as well. Not only that fan on that place, there were some other ceiling fans on different places that had exact same wobbling issues that caused me to scare by them.
  • I was once visited someone's house, and I was fiddling around with a vintage desk fan. Unfortunately, it burned out and the smoke puffed out straight into myself, which caused other people surprised there, including me, as I was the one who made the fan itself burned out by itself, even though I was simply touch the front guard of the fan with my finger, then it smoked out.
Enjoy!

Sunday, July 1, 2018

I'm sorry, our Plants vs. Zombies lovers... :(

You may know what does this picture of a Peashooter got X marked means here? Well, I have a pretty bad news on my Plants vs. Zombies collection. "Your collection of this game looks good, what's wrong with them?" I know, you may say that straight on My Plants vs. Zombies collection series, but I will tell you about this problem in terms of distributions that made me stop hunting these for a long time, probably more, if I'm not too busy. So, here is a short story about why this problem occurs on me about this game's toys and collectible stuffs.

Last time I bought my old K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 Peashooter from e-Bay's joint venture, everything was okay so far. In case you're wondering why I call the online shop where I bought it from as an e-Bay joint venture, because there was a local online that provided e-Bay, literally, so you can buy anything from e-Bay without any struggling action with PayPal like what an actual e-Bay does every time. But, during the time where K'NEX released their Garden Warfare variants, the online shop where I bought those official toys did something went wrong. So, here is my Instagram story about it when that occurred:
You get it? I would say yes, literally. It kept saying these items (or I would call them based on my hobby with this game, those Plants vs. Zombies official stuffs) can't be purchased due to issues with custom clearance. I don't get it about why this problem existed, probably according to anyone who got this, our government had too much import stuffs outside my country that made them wanted to limit the imports for certain reasons. I was once reported it to the customer service of this online shop, but they replied it with the same texts whatsoever (well, almost) and some apologizes from them. Here's my other Instagram story about this problem:
Oh look, it's me on this picture!
You get this one too? I would say yes. After that problem occurred for a few months, finally that problem has been solved. But, it turned out there was another problem that made me still can't get any of those things anymore. For instance, you can see some of those items on e-Bay, but this online shop doesn't, only a bit of them rather than bunch of them like the e-Bay. But wait, it gets even worse! Every time I clicked on certain items that still show on this online shop, they got deleted by seller despite in fact they still sold through actual e-Bay, which kinda frustrating. Again, it's still even worse! This time, only a couple of the items that I wanted so bad that are still on sale, rather than a quite lot of them like an actual e-Bay as well. I reported it again about this problem, and they replied it with some apologizes for not allowed to list on the online shop itself. I know if I wasn't aware with SNI logo (in case you don't know, SN means standard nationals of products in my country, no matter what kind of products are, and I of course means Indonesia), but I still wanted them so bad no matter what. However, everything gone to their errors, laziness and disappointments, that made me blame to them by shooting them up with my peas, and made me forced to buy some cheaper ones instead on other online shop instead of this cursed online shop.

Okay, back to my Plants vs. Zombies collection. I would apologize about all of you guys who have the same toys like me, especially who are living in USA. I would say it because that country of course where Plants vs. Zombies games and toys were officially released (well, I know if almost all of the toys are made in China, but they keeps ship them into USA to certain well-known companies). Also, I'm sorry for another delay for no Plants vs. Zombies toys yet, not only due to this problem nor my daily basis, it's caused to other reasons, such as my money is getting low, unless I did activate the Adsense, but still not associated yet, and some more important reasons from our family. And also, I'm really appreciated for all of the companies who made the Plants vs. Zombies stuffs to play in real life from their official apps, especially for K'NEX, although they're not good quality as the other brands but the performance is one of the bests in every Plants vs. Zombies stuffs that I ever seen (well, plants only for those achievements), but still not as best as the others as well.

Once again, I'm not dead on these things, I've just delayed. I hope I can find the better alternatives to make my Plants vs. Zombies collection even better than this time as most of internet citizens out there, if I have a long break time. Anyway, that's enough for this story, and thanks for reading this post.