Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mel the Office Gamer Girl Contest - Trivia Questions for this week

Here is where I'll be posting the trivia questions for this week. Check back everyday for updates!

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UPDATE:CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS! Prizes will be sent out soon.
Question #1: In the game Out to Lunch on the SNES, how many countries do you visit?
Question #2: How many penguins are in the end credits for the KuruKuru Kururin episode?
Question #3: Captain Novolin is burdened with what disease?
Question #4: In the game Majyuuou, what is the name of Abel's buddy who kills him in the beginning?
Question #5: What are the names of the 4 playable ships in Biohazard Battle?
Question #6: DoReMi Fantasy is the better sequel to what shitty NES game?
Question #7: What are the 3 colors of liquid in Sutte Hakkun?
Question #8: What currency is used in Hamtaro HamHam Heartbreak?
Question #9:this is the last one! How many playable characters are there in Tetris Battle Gaiden(not including the dragon)?

Mel the Office Gamer Girl - This Week's Contests

Win Fabulous Prizes!

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HEY EVERYONE! New Contest Details! We're doing 2 this time and one of them guarantees you at least a small prize. The deadline for both will be Friday, Feb 2nd. Here we go!

#1: Art Contest. Create a piece of art, any medium, that's related to the my series or any of the games that I've covered so far and receive a small prize. The best piece will receive the coveted Mr Fribbles figure (mini penguin mascot) along with some fantastic foreign snacks. (entries should be submitted via my facebook page

#2: Trivia: Each day up until the deadline, I will post a new trivia here, so check back for updates. Each question will be related to one of the games that I've covered. To submit an answer, send me a message via facebook with the answer. The person who answers first will get 5 points, everyone after will receive 1 point less. The person with the most points in the end will get an awesome prize pack of goodies.

Good luck everyone! :D

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Mel the Office Gamer Girl Episode 24: Majyuuou

Mel the Office Gamer Girl episode 24:Majyuuou

An awesomely unique action platformer for the Super Famicom.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Vistas of Game episode 5

Vistas of Game episode 5

More Games, more vistas.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Gaming: Winning and losing don't matter at all

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Don't be a pissy Mcfuckface just because you lost a game. If winning a game is all that you care about, especially in the competitive sense, then you're probably playing games for all the wrong reasons. Video games are an awesome way to escape the mundane every day routine for sure, but sometimes it becomes more than that. Not for myself, but I've seen others become so wrapped up in the competitive side of gaming that it makes me wonder why they play games at all. While it is fun to see an awesome game tournament, a good match, a nice move, it amazes me that small-time online folk have a sense of pride when it comes to winning online and/or in competitive gaming. No, seriously, what the hell? What happened to playing games for fun? How about playing games for a story? An adventure? I think that these people need to get over whatever stick they have up their ass and realize that it's just a game. One shouldn't place their sense of self on a video game. Don't get me wrong, I love video games, but not to the point that I'm going to question myself if I lose a match. That's just plain stupid. Now, I love multiplayer games and I love playing games with friends when I have the time. Fortunately for me, my friends and I are at about the same level of awesomeness at the games that we play, so there's a nice balance of winning and losing involved, but in the end that doesn't matter at all. Even if someone was better than the next, we don't play competitive games for those reasons. We play games for fun, for a laugh, and for enjoyment. Never once do we give a crap about who wins and who loses. It's all about the overall experience.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Mel the gamer girl Q&A #1

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Here are some questions that were submitted by some awesome people that follow me around on facebook.


What got you into gaming?

Friends, time, boredom, I couldn't really say what for certain. I've been playing video games for as far back as I can remember. I was born around a time when there was a revolution in gaming I think. I got to see the transition of 8-bit to 16-bit and so on. In gaming a lot happened in such a seemingly short amount of time. To see so much change, and how awesome games can be, not to mention the variety (there's something for everyone), really kept things fresh and interesting for me. I think that gaming has really come a long way and it's still moving forward, even if a bit slow. I can't wait to see where it goes from here. So long as there's games, I'll play 'em.

worst games you ever played?

Too good of a question to pass up even though it's been asked time and time again. It seems that for every 10 shitty games, there is 1 good game, sometimes it's a great game. But there are indeed, quite a few really shitty games. I don't even know where to start. So I'll just go over the ones that come to me first. #1 has to be Penguin wars for the original gameboy. I discussed this game in the very first episode of Mel the Office Gamer Girl. You choose a character and toss a ball around. That's it. The graphics are terrible and music loops over and over and over again with loud screeching noises after every round. It's really bad, I wouldn't recommend it, nor would I recommend any of the other games in this article. The next couple of games that suck are on the NES. When someone mentions terrible NES games the first 2 that come to mind are chubby cherub and Athena. Both of these games suck, like really really suck. They suck so much that I'm not even going to bother putting it into words. If you've played these games before, I'm sorry. If you haven't, don't. Let's see, there's Where's Mario, but that one's been beaten to death. I'm so flustered at the very thought of these games that the rest of this article is going to have to wait for another time after I regain composure from this undesired fit of rage.

What do you think about the Zelda timeline?

It gives me a headache. There's too much going on there. What I want to know is how did all the minor characters become so popular? Also, why doesn't Zelda have her own game? I mean, where you can play as Zelda? (smash bros. Doesn't count) Princess peach has her own game...

Cell shading vs. Polygons?

Oh my how I love cell shading. I think that they could make a shitty new game that was cell shaded and I would still play it just for the visual bliss I experience when seeing those solid lines and smooth colors. But it's not something that should be over used. If every game looked like that then it would no longer be special. Not to me anyways. Entirely cell shaded games are few and far between and I hope that it stays that way because it's a very special style and should be reserved for special games.

Thanks everyone!

Thanks to everyone who sent in questions last week, or the week before, or whatever. Keep sending them in! I will try to answer your question in my next Q&A.
Thanks for reading, thanks for watching!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

1 Mel, 3 shows

Mel the Office Gamer Girl's 3 shows

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I wanted to take the time to explain the 3 video series that I do for those who haven't seen any of my videos yet or for those that have but would like to know a little bit more.
Mel the Office Gamer Girl is the main series. It's kind of part educational, part review. I discuss obscure video games, how to play them, and whether I think they're worth taking a look at or not. I don't take a lot of time to write the scripts, but it's a tedious and long process playing all the games and editing all of the gameplay and audio. In the end what I end up with is a video that can be anywhere between 2 minutes, to 10 minutes depending on how many games are covered in a single episode.
I don't stick to a particular console or genre of game, I try to go over a variety of games. I feel that these games are under-appreciated and encourage people to check them out for themselves.
The second series is Vistas of Game. It came about when I didn't have the time to do a full episode of Mel the office gamer girl every week anymore but I still wanted to release content. Its a simple series with a simple format. Straight up gameplay. It's like if you were to combine a “let's play” video with Cinematech but the clips are from retro games and it's got adhd. Something like that. Short clips from various games across all systems just mashed all together for your enjoyment. It's also something cool to play in the background at a party.
Mel After Work is the new series I've been working on. Along with my regular office job, I'm a certified bartender. I didn't want my skills to rust so this is a show about mixing delicious drinks. It has absolutely nothing to do with video games, that is, until I start mixing video game themed drinks. Well, nothing goes better with gaming than a fine beverage. So mix yourself a drink watching this show, then enjoy your drink while watching my other videos. The first episode of Mel After Work will be released sometime later and will be exclusive to Space Monkey Mafia Studios.