Archive for March, 2009

Game nostalgia: Strategy games

During the last few weeks I’ve digged around in my hard drives and resurfaced the old strategy games I used to spend so much time playing when I was younger. Strategy games and in some cases adventure games were the only games I was allowed to play by my parents at home, even on my own computer. So, of course, after having spent hours after hours playing certain games during my early teens, I still get a tingle of a smile and nostalgia looking at screenshots from the games I loved then. They had such a special charm.

I’m talking about computer games from 1998, 1999 and 2000, so they don’t have all that super-duper-fantastic 3D graphics in a super-omfg-high resolution. Instead they feature fixed isometric perspective. But it was, and still is, amazing how they managed to cramp up such details on such a small surface – on maps, buildings, and people – so that everyone could easily figure out what it is and appreciate the details.

I have yet not experienced such appreciation of details and addiction of a cleverly designed game since that time. They don’t make games like this anymore.

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March 31st, 2009 in Gaming | tags: , | Print This Post Print This Post | 4 Comments

Photography 2

Photo of Oslo’s Royal Castle

Photo taken at Frognerseteren

It didn’t take long for Sindre to get more interested in his new hobby, photography. In January he bought a digital SLR camera, Nikon D90. Even though I’m a little bummed that “Widey” (my Christmas present for him, a Panasonic compact camera) isn’t getting all the attention anymore, he makes it up by taking excellent photos!

Edit: I am now publishing photos inside this blog, instead of “externally” on lillarosin.com. All photo galleries can be found at the Photo gallery link at the top navigation bar. The albums are sorted after year taken. Click on a year in the dropdown-menu to see all photo galleries within that year, then click on a gallery link to see all the photos taken at your chosen event. Clicking on thumbnail photos will display the photo in a large version.

I will not publish Sindre’s photos taken with his D90 (some with Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3) here unless it is a special event – they can be found at Sindre’s blog.

March 16th, 2009 in Personal happenings | tags: , , | Print This Post Print This Post | No Comments