Saw The MEG and Games as Museums

On 01/25/2019 at 10:47 PM by KnightDriver

A couple days ago, Mark had The MEG and we watched it. Fun movie. Totally rediculous but not as wacky as Sharknado. Effects were pretty great. Jason Statham was good. I spotted a woman who was in one of the John Wick movies as a badass martial arts villain. The love interest of Statham's character was in Pacific Rim. I don't know what else to say about it. Popcorn movie. Get it while it's hot.

Also, I'm starting to play games that fit my year long theme: twelve decades. I'm playing games like they were museums for the time period I'm reading about. It's becoming really cool. I've got to play a gramaphone, develop photographic glass plates, tried on 1900s clothes, and rode in horse drawn carriages. Soon I'll be driving steam locomotives and who knows what else. I'll write about the games when I finish them.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/26/2019 at 03:01 PM

I’m into turn of the century stuff. I’ve been thinking of writing a novel about 1890s Chicago.

KnightDriver

01/26/2019 at 10:56 PM

It's an interesting time with all our current major technologies of today appearing for the first time.

goaztecs

01/30/2019 at 01:06 PM

You sir have sold me on the MEG because it has Ruby Rose.

I was a little worried that you weren't going to find games that fit the time periods that you are shooting for, but it looks like you found some interesting stuff.

02/02/2019 at 10:49 PM

I was playing Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on Xbox and it was surprisingly good. It was a little more than just a point-and-click adventure. I was thrilled to clean a photographic plate for one clue and put in a cylinder in a gramaphone to hear another one. The whole game is in the period and you ride in a carriage to get to different areas and to provide time for loading. I thought it was neat that while riding in the carriage you could look at your clues and form deductions. It's a great way to break things up and make loading sequences more bearable.

PixlBit