Keepers: Escape From Butcher Bay
October 29th, 2009 at 3:00pm

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

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Ode to The Shalebridge Cradle
September 8th, 2009 at 2:00pm

When I think of the best levels in the best video games I’ve ever played, one of the first that comes to mind is the Shalebridge Cradle level from Thief: Deadly Shadows. You’ve got to play through 80% of the game before you’ll see the game’s penultimate level, but it’s worth it. I’ve seen some […]

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My Favorite Stealth Sequence in Beyond Good and Evil
March 16th, 2009 at 8:00am

…well, it’s certainly one of my two or three favorites in the game. And it’s probably the hardest non-optional stealth room in the game. Because I couldn’t screenshot from within the game, I took this shot with a digital camera. You’ve got to climb down that ladder, hide behind the crates at the base of […]

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Five Poorly Rated Games that I Enjoyed
March 5th, 2009 at 9:00am

Video game reviews are big business now. And while I really didn’t want to get into the games review business when I started Lungfishopolis, I feel a need to bring peoples’ attention to a few games which got a lot of terrible reviews, but which I found to be very good games. I’ve played all […]

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Using Mouse Buttons 4 & 5 in Thief: Deadly Shadows
February 24th, 2009 at 1:26am

Just a quick note about how I (finally) got my mouse 4 and mouse 5 buttons to work the way I wanted in Thief: Deadly Shadows. I also managed to get the left/right rocker action of the scroll wheel to page back and forth through my items while the scroll wheel itself scrolls through weapons. […]

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Getting Thief: Deadly Shadows to run in Vista
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:00am

A couple nights ago, I decided to reinstall Thief 3: Deadly Shadows and give it another spin. The only catch: I’m running Windows Vista, and old games can be very iffy on this OS. My problem was that after installing, any time I tried to run the game, I got the following error: (Microsoft Visual […]

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