Mario Kart Tour was released on September 25 by Nintendo as their second major mobile game release. The game was first announced in February of 2018 and was meant for an early 2019 release and here we are now in September of 2019 and the game just released. Well was the wait worth it . . . eh kinda, let me explain. The game is fun, I do have a good time playing it but there are just some major improvements that could be made. The game is overall pretty enjoyable and every time I open the app I seem to get trapped for a couple of races. You race against seven other people, in maps from previous Mario Kart games. For a mobile game, the graphics are good, it looks like you are playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on a Switch in portable mode. I think that if they flipped the screen to be horizontal instead of vertical then the game would feel more like a regular Mario title. The audio is straight from other Mario Kart games, the map music and sound effects are the exact same as on past titles. The interface is similar to the other Mario Kart titles, your placement in the race is in the top left of the screen with a small mini-map under it, your score from the race is in the top right of your screen. The game is highly accessible, it’s a free game and all you have to do when you get it is make a free Nintendo online account. For the technical side of the game you have to have a phone with either the IOS App Store or Google Play Store. Overall the game is really fun and if Nintendo adds in other features like a good multiplayer and different controls it could be golden!
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Dear Minecraft, I love you so much. I’ve put numerous hours into you and through all the ups and lows I still end up coming back. But in all seriousness I really do enjoy Minecraft and it’s a great game and let me tell you why. After you’ve completed the main storyline which is still great there’s so many other things to do in the endgame, you can download numerous mods that just make the game more enjoyable. Or you can play on different servers with your friends and do anything that any other creators have made for you. Over the summer my friends and I all pitched in to purchase our own personal server so we can do whatever we wanted. In between swim practices we would go home and play Minecraft all day until it was time for the next practice, and don’t even get me started on the storyline. With so many different things to get into it’s an endless amount of fun. I don’t think that I can explain in words my real love for Minecraft, it gives me so many memories back to my childhood when I would play Minecraft Pocket Edition with my sister on long car rides to Massachusetts or at swim meets with my best friends in between our events. So from deep down my heart, Minecraft I love you.
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So for the past week in class we’ve been working on the history of games and the history of rating systems like ESRB and PEGI. Rating systems were first brought into the realm video games when games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap. Both were considered explicit while Mortal Kombat featured things like excessive blood and gore while Night Trap had scenes that were considered to be sexually explicit. People like Senator Joe Lieberman believed that these games needed to be rated to keep these out of the hands of younger children, so they brought SEGA and Nintendo to court. Both had very specific views on the concept, SEGA’s Mortal Kombat was not dumbed down, there was all the blood and gore that the developers intended. While Nintendo had to dumb down the game and did things like turn the blood into sweat. This led to the creation of the ESRB which was a department outside of these companies and outside of the government to determine what age range the games should be for. Now today we have international rating systems like PEGI who rate games for the European audiences.
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For our first unit of the year Mr.B asked us to explore the history of games and some pre-modern games like The Royal Game of Ur which is the first noted board game from the Fertile Crescent in the Mesopotamian era. We also had to pick a modern game and trace it back to what we thought it came from, I did the origins of Tetris and how I think that puzzle games started out with games like dominoes where you had to connect similar pieces. With all that being said for the first official blog post of the year Mr.B has asked us to put ourselves in the shoes of a soldier in the Roman Empire and explain what pre-modern games we would be playing in our off time as well as what current game they would most likely be playing. According to lots of different websites, all say that soldier did play board game sin their free time whether it was Tesserae (a dice game) or games like Latrunculi which is the Roman version of chess. If I were a Roman Soldier and I had the choice to play a modern game, I wouldn't want to play an action or fighting game because Romans did plenty of that in real life, I would rather play something to get my mind off of my job like a game called Tiny Towers for PS4 which you build towers like Tetris but you can play against your friends with special power-ups and sabotaging other players. Or another game that I would play if I had the choice would be Minecraft, because you can just escape your reality and build anything you want in the game. This has been a little something on the history of games in the Roman empire and what game I would play if I had the choice of modern games in the Roman empire.
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