I reminisce about gaming with my dad while playing one of his favourite video games before getting destroyed in Gradius.
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Pokemon Go Plus Review
For a game designed to get players exploring the world around them, Pokemon Go is quite the attention hog. It forces you to travel the world while your face is buried in the screen, either catching Pokemon, fighting in gyms, or eyeing for upcoming PokeStops as you walk down the street. Futhermore, since you can’t run the game in the background of your phone, it’s an all-consuming experience that stops you from performing other tasks while destroying your battery.
Pokemon Go Plus was designed to alleviate these issues. Off the strength of its one-button interface, it aims to take your attention away from the screen and onto your surroundings, allowing you to live your life while playing the game in a more passive manner. Is this highly sought after peripheral worth tracking down?
Jett Plays Super Mario Bros. on the NES Classic
Unfortunately, my triumphant run where I beat the game for the first time in my life was lost in the ether. But here’s take 2!
Jett Plays Tecmo Bowl on the NES Classic
Starting on the wrong foot, do I have what it takes to make the valiant comeback?
In Third Person’s Top 10 Most Viewed Posts Written in 2016
In 2016, I released 181 posts. As much as I would like to see them all succeed equally, a handful of posts ultimately break away from the pack. If anything, that handful of posts end up accounting for a majority of this site’s traffic. This is in large part due to the Google spiders giving preferential positioning to certain things, though I ultimately can’t predict which posts will hit and which posts won’t.
No time for losers at the moment though, as this is the cream of the crop. The 10 most viewed posts released in 2016 on In Third Person along with one honourable mention that fell just short of the cut. Let’s get this show on the road!
Happy New Year From In Third Person
2016 was an eventful year for me. I won my first Street Fighter tournament (!), placed 17th at the Canadian Street Fighter V national championships (!!), and I got married(!!!). It’s been a slice 2016, but it’s time to move on.
What’s in store for 2017? The Nintendo Switch is set to appear in March. Pandemic Legacy should be out this summer. Street Fighter V will continue to roll out new characters and maybe I can get back into fighting shape. There’s also a whole world of nerdy things that will likely catch us all by surprise this year. I say let’s bring it on!
Happy 2017 to you and yours! Let’s make it awesome!
My 2016 Game of the Year Is…
Years ago, I stopped declaring a game of the year. After 2012, my gaming habits changed in a way where I didn’t really have a comprehensive enough view of the gaming landscape to make such a proclamation. Technically, the same could be said about my year of gaming in 2016, as I can count on my fingers the number of games I played seriously.
What makes this year different is that there is one game this year that really carved out a place in my heart that deserves a shout-out. Was it Street Fighter V? Fire Emblem: Fates? Or something from out of the blue that completely caught me by surprise?
My 2016 game of the year is…
What I Got for Christmas 2016 Edition
Took a few minutes to showcase some of the great gifts I got this Christmas. What cool things did you get?
In case you’re wondering, the Street Fighter art came from glitchartwork.com
Building My Perfect SNES Classic: Part 10
Shortly after my hype subsided from the announcement of the NES Classic, my immediate thought was, “What if Nintendo makes an SNES Classic?!” That system has a special spot in my heart for being a critical part of my gaming life as a 90s kid. It also doesn’t hurt that the games on this console are some of the greatest of all-time.
In this 10-part series, I’ll highlight three games that I would like to see in a hypothetical SNES Classic.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Let’s wrap this up with part 10!
Jett Plays Overwatch
Better late than never, right? Jett takes D. Va to the battlefield while discussing the particulars of Blizzard’s awesome shooter, game of the year and Twitch streaming.
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