Tag: Retro Gaming

  • 26 Things That Will Happen Before Half-Life 3 Finally Gets Made

    26 Things That Will Happen Before Half-Life 3 Finally Gets Made

    Back in late 2004 I was into my senior year of college, and reviews of the newly released sequel to the critically acclaimed Half-Life were off the charts as expected.  After countless all-nighters studying tearing through HL2’s amazing scenery with easily one of the coolest video game weapons ever created – the gravity gun – […]

  • What to Buy My Gamer Boyfriend for Valentine’s Day 2016

    What to Buy My Gamer Boyfriend for Valentine’s Day 2016

    You know what sucks about holiday gift guides on the Internet?  They’re all stuffed with the same sponsored junk no matter which website or publication you click to.  Well, we do things differently here at LFGdating, because we think holiday gift guides are insanely important: not only for those who may enjoy last minute shopping, […]

  • If Twitch Was Big in My Day

    If Twitch Was Big in My Day

    This post makes me feel super old, but that feeling may also be a result of forgetting to take my Centrum Silver this morning.  Dag-nab-it, okay, so I’m not that old (Level 32), but I will say this: whenever I tune in to Twitch.tv, it makes me feel like a kid again.  Which made me think: what […]

  • iOS Games We Like: Goblin Sword

    iOS Games We Like: Goblin Sword

    If you grew up in the 80’s, and your mother had to pry your NES controller out of your Mountain Dew-powered hands like yours truly, then boy do I have a game for you.  Goblin Sword, for both iOS and Android, really brings me back to arguably the glory days of video gaming, when we had […]

  • Dude Wins Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Blindfolded

    As a thirty one year old gamer who grew up with the NES and the ridiculously difficult Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, this speed run video was absofriggenlutely captivating.  For those of you have never played this game, you don’t quite realize just how brutal the ring got once you got towards the end of the […]

  • What to Buy your Gamer Boyfriend for Christmas 2014

    What to Buy your Gamer Boyfriend for Christmas 2014

    Even though stores and towns are pushing the decorations and music earlier and earlier every year, Christmas still tends to surprise the heck out of most of us come I don’t know – December 23rd.  With just hours until Santa, Father Christmas, or the portly guy in red comes barreling down your chimney, you frantically […]

  • What to Buy your Gamer Boyfriend for Christmas 2012?

    What to Buy your Gamer Boyfriend for Christmas 2012?

    How is it nearly December?  Whatever – with Christmas a little more than three weeks off, its time to start planning who gets what on your shopping list, including that crazed gamer you call your boyfriend.  He already has everything, but you want to get him something he would really enjoy – something that he […]