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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on May 5, 2003. The length of the article is 1108 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Making a play. (Outtakes).(new magazine, Powerplay)(Brief Article)Author: Carl D. HolcombePublication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)Date: May 5, 2003Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.Volume: 20 Issue: 18 Page: 34(1)Article Type: Brief ArticleDistributed by Thomson Gale
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Bananagrams is one of the most popular games this year, and to be honest it astounds and confuses me. I mean, it's a word game, fair enough, but it's packed in a banana. No, seriously. A word game in a banana. I haven't gone mad (quite yet), and I assure you it's real. You read it right. A classic word game that is zipped up in a fake banana. I couldn't make this stuff up!
Seriously though, what more could anyone want this Christmas than a word game that comes in a banana? Bananagrams is the hot word game that comes packed in a Banana skin case, and it is proving to be popular with fans of games hidden in fruit everywhere!
There are several variations on this frankly mad game concept. For example, there's the Bananagrams Jumbo set, the regular Bananagrams game, the Bananagrams Double Set and even the Bananagrams game book!
It's probably the simplicity of the idea, plus the fact that it's packed in a bit of fake fruit, that is getting everyone talking about Bananagrams this year, and it is set to be one of the most popular Christmas gifts for games lovers everywhere. Thanks to the fruit based case, you can easily enjoy Bananagrams as a travel game, and it's easy to tidy away. The game comes with 144 letter tiles to create anagrams from, making it also rather versatile.
This isn't the only game like this though, as there are also titles, namely Pairs in Pears and Appletters. For those of you who want to get your daily five portions of fun (I'm quite proud of that pun), you can't go wrong with these games, and if you really want to go overboard with your playtime produce, check out the Bananagrams Fruit Bowl Collection, which contains all three games. With the best selling and most wanted Bananagrams games, you really can peel yourself some fun.
Andrew writes for countless pop culture and collectibles blogs as well as being a magazine journalist and SF author. For more great Christmas ideas, check out the awesome Bananagrams game for yourself online!
Rick Dangerous Lands On Your Nintendo DS with The R4 DS Card
Rick Dangerous crashes on to your Nintendo DS or DSi with the help of the R4 Card. Now help save Rick from the cluthces of the evil tribes in this amazing classic platformer.
One of my earliest recollections of a great platfrom game came in the form of a knock off of Indiana Jones type main character. Undoubltly based right on the hero himself made renowned by the movies. With giant balls made of stone rolling after you right in the first five minutes of that game. And what was the identity of this unexpected hero? A young Indian Jones? No... It was none other than Core Designs Rick Dangerous. It was one of the many reasons - and games - that I had such a love for my old Miggy 500. So much so that I ended up purchasing another Amiga 500 on Ebay years and years after selling my original.
very well, I am assuming a lot, and assuming that everyone reading this will have heard of or player Rick Dangerous. For those of you that haven't, here is VERY quick run down. Rick Dangerous is a platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, and 8-Bit computers, as well as for DOS based PCs. It was released in 1989 and published by Rainbird Software in Europe and the rest of the world, and on the MicroPlay label (part of MicroProse) in America. subsequently it was released with two other games - Stunt Car Racer and Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge. We won't dwell on the packed in games, and focus only on Rick Dangerous itself (or himself, for those of us with Fond memories!) and how you can play it using an R4 DS Card with your Nintendo DS.
So why talk about a game that was release back in 1989? It is completely relevant and quite conceivable a reason that you're playing what you're playing now. Well, if you know anything about challenging platform games, or are into platform games, you're reading about the grandfather of platform games Really. Many of the elements from this game have been incorporated into innumerous newer generation platform games. Mo than that though, if you think about it, it is because what is old is once again new. With the help and dedication of homebrew programmers that make or remake games for the pure love and joy of it. You can, with the help of an R4 DS Card, play Rick Dangerous on your current generation hand held Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi consoles. And it won't cost you a cent, because the game is released absolutely FREE. Non commercially, and available for download for your to enjoy on your NDS system (and assorted other systems as well) All you'll need is an R4 for Nintendo DS for Nintendo DS and the NDS itself of course.
The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes down and Rick Dangerous is in the jungle, only to realize he is not alone and must now escape from the clutches of the angy Goolu's. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from a rolling boulder, a famous scene from the Indiana Jones movie.
Armed with a pistol and dynamite, Rick must fight hostiles and evade countless traps in 3 more levels. The second level is set inside a pyramid in Egypt. In level three, Rick must venture to the Nazi stronghold of Schwarzendumpf castle to rescue captured Allied soldiers. The rescued soldiers tell him that the Nazis are planning a missile attack on London. consequently, in the last level Rick must infiltrate their secret missile base.
The original garnered fantastic reviews. Many magazines giving the game 92% or more in the reviews. And I am certain of the R4 DS card version / homebrew version for the Nintendo DS / DSi were ever released commercially, it would garner the same type of reviews, for both its retro look and feel and amazing gameplay. The really amazing thing about this is that it is not a commercial release, and that this free homebrew version has the blessing of the original developers as well.
So get out your Nintendo DS, buy an R4 Card and start exploring the amazing world of Rick Dangerous and other great homebrew games for the Nintendo DS system.
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Does anyone know of a good image for powerplay or text (novel, magazine, newspaper article, etc)?
How about a man holding a boomerang looking at a bullfrog in dismay?
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