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Video Games Search Marketers Rock At
After watching some search marketers in arcades, I thought it would be fun to ask what you're all particularly good at.
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I'll kick it off. I thought I was good at Galaga, but then I watched Michael Gray blow me away at SMX Advanced. At Pubcon, a group of us did some time at Gameworks. Todd Friesen sat down at Moon Patrol and kept going, and going, and going.
Me, well, the classics: Robotron, Missile Command and if you want to stay on beginner level, let's do some Guitar Hero. But I hear Matt Cutts can tear it up with that.
Ah. Two of my favourite ways to spend time :)
I shouldn't shy from a Monkey Bowling contest on the Wii any day! Slightly more obscure but I'm proud of my successes in Blue Dragon one of the rare xbox 360 RPGs.
Want to kick my backside? Make me playing a racing game. I'm truely dire - after a while, Xbox Live couldn't find anyone of the same ability as me on Project Gotham 2 - all the system could find were people much better than me!
This x-mas I've learned to dress Cinderella and mastered a few bob the builder educational games. Does that count?
Anyone miss the original streetfighter?
I used to kickass. These days there are just too many moves...
I miss the early streetfighter and mortal kombat too!
We still have a SNES and (one of the early) streetfighters hooked up in one of our meeting rooms in the office. Between some busy search marketing there's always time for a dragon punch or some yoga fire!
lucky! I managed to salvage an old sega mega drive from a jumble sale...
Haryukken!
yea I've logged a few hours on Galaga :-)
Zaxxon was another fav, as was dragons lair, Punch Out, Pole Position, Donkey Kong, and Tetris
Tetris never gets boring (unless ofcourse you sit on one session fro hours... )
Donkey Kong was classic.
I really got into computers in high school with the terribly addictive counter-strike. That was something I looooooved, but with 56K connection, never got very good at.
Street fighter was a solid game, as were the Tekken series and Mortal Kombat.
These days, I rented a wii and some friends and I had a blast with the wii sports, especially the boxing game. Wii is THE platform for boxing games. Talk about cardio being fun... That was a blast!
lol ever tried playing Mortal combat with wii? got so fed up trying. Tekken was fun! big point for that one!
Tron ... anyone remember that game? Galaga was another huge one for me.
Nowadays ... its whatever my kids have. Wii games are pretty cool ... especially boxing, golf, bowling, etc.
Early days though mainly on a BBC Micro rather than in an Arcade, I was into Defender, Pacman, DigDug and Frogger, though eventually one game took over, Elite, and Revs was an instant homework distraction.
I must admit since my early teens I have been much more into strategy, sims and RPGs on both Amiga and PC.
At times when I was in the games industry I could walk into an arcade and drop $50-$100 as a business expense, but it really was business, and most of the games I would not willingly open my own wallet for.
It was great being able to play games during work time as part of my official tasks, deciding on which products to buy. It was quite a gamble deciding whether to buy 1000 or 2000 units of a game for distribution in a country with 95% piracy.
I have never been a casual gamer, thus these days only play games if I have enough time to do them "justice", but for a number of years I was quite well known in Everquest on 5 different servers.
hah! Just reminded me - QUAKE! We almost crashed one of our residential Uni servers by playing multiplayer...
Oldie but Goodie - Space Invaders
and Super Mario Brothers 3!
Super Smash Brothers [original or melee]...that might just be me though.
It's just so addictive!
Interesting commentary.. might be fun to see which marketers are good at pattern repetition games (e.g. Tron, Missile Command) compared to those who are good at the estimation skill games (e.g. Orbit, shooters). Two kinds of players, two kinds of games, all good for SEO.
I always bored too easily to get good at repetition games, but I broke one once in college (got into an endless loop of earn-more-points-than-you-can-lose... rolled over the score counter more than once). Most funnest games ever? Modern day sniper games. So cold.... but I admit the precision makes it fun!
Someone should do up Quake and put Matt's face on all the creatures. Then we could run a network at SMX West and see which search marketers can make it past him.
lol... just him? that sounds like a lynch mob strategy...
hehe danny, I think that's both a marvelous idea, and completely asking for trouble
I approve!
Hitman 1 through to Blood Money. I think I missed my vocation ;-)
But then on the last level of Blood Money I did proceed to bugger up and ended up killing absolutely everybody in the Whitehouse. Difficult to disappear into the shadows after that one.
I'm currently tearing through God of War 2 on the PS2.
I used to play in a few clans for Unreal Tournament, then RTCW. These days I still give my programmers a hard time in Counter Strike (Russians still love that one, we have free 'city' servers set up). I prefer online FPS, real players are unpredictable. Level or progressive games take up too much of my time - it's like opening a good book, I'm there until I've finished!
Space Invaders - back in the early arcade game days when you could flip pennies up the coin return and trigger credits. Also missle command, but it's been some time.
Huge fan of the fifa football series for playstation, probably the game I'm best at. Love Grand Theft Auto as well
Not really into arcade type games like some mentioned above
Danny, you're going for one of the Sphinn awards for threads with most comments on this one!
Also, the Matt=bad guys of Quake idea is pure evil! No one will go to the sessions! lol jk
@ Viper: I'd love to have some one-on-one soccer gaming if we meet at smx or something.
Ironically, I completely dropped off the social media grid for a week and a half to recharge my batteries... playing Mass Effect on the 360.
Heck yeah, I beat it (before my hubby). Unlocked 21 out of 45 achievements, kicked Saren's Turian hiney, and made the galaxy safe for humanity. And alienity.
I'm good at RPGs and platforms, (KOToR I and II, Jade Empire, Tomb Raider, 9 Dragons) but I stink at most other games (can't play an FPS or a racing game to save. my. life.) If we're talking old school, I used to rock at Asteroids and Donkey Kong.
Despite my love of RPGs, I've intentionally stayed away from WoW and Everquest because I like having a life.
@AndyBeard - ah, good old life-sapping Elite.
I'd have to say the gem that was TIE Fighter on the PC. X-Wing was OK, but doing the Emperor's bidding was where the real action was.
I'm having to start accepting that I haven't been very good at games for years - don't have the time these days. I played old favourite Yie Ar Kung-Fu again the other week and put in a laughably bad performance.
I reckon I could still hold my own at Transport Tycoon or Populous though...