Scott Yang's Playground

Didn’t go to FOCUS church camp and had a borning stay-at-home Easter this weekend? Try this very addictive Desktop Tower Defence flash game. I’ve played for two days and here is my latest “maze” that finished the Medium/Normal mode. Going for the Hard mode now…

vNES, a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator implemented in Java, where you can play all these old NES games online right inside your browser, in all its 8-bit glory. Mario Brothers, Bubble Bubble, etc. Doesn’t work with Java 1.4.2 for me but Java 1.5 is fine. There are heaps of old-school games that brought back [...]

Goggles: the GoogleMaps flight sim — “This flight sim uses images loaded in from Google mapping service…” A nice bird eye view flight simulator that flies over real sceneries in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo. Quite fun — would be even better if I can flight over streets in Sydney.

Via Slashdot, 1up.com took a look at Elderscrolls Oblivion and compared the difference between the “Eastern” and “Western” role-playing games. Here’s the quote (emphasis is mine): Western RPGs focus on the characters, and the world around them is a tool to let the player-as-character do and see more. Eastern RPGs focus on the events unfolding [...]

Flash tennis game — play as top woman pro players. Gotta be one of the most addictive online flash game I have ever played. Just use arrow key to move your player (be that Seles, Venus or Hingis), and spacebar to hit the ball, but beating the game requires some skill (I haven’t even got [...]

Yeah. Which one? It is so hard to decide… Xbox 360 Or Playstation 3 Both of them running cell processor that is in the same architecture as PowerPC G5. Oh so yummy. I just feel that I can put all those teraflops into good use. But the likeliness of having any one of them sitting [...]