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		<title>Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Play Pacman in Microsoft Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.dmortell.com/20061009/pacman-for-excel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacman for MS-Excel is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode.
Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent conversion [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dmortell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/pacell2.gif"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="183" alt="Pacell" src="http://www.dmortell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/pacell2_thumb.gif" width="234" align="left" border="0"></a><a title="Pacman for Excel" href="http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/" target="_blank">Pacman for MS-Excel</a> is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode.</p>
<p>Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent conversion from the arcade box to Excel. These are perfect for killing time in work environments where all you have is Microsoft Office to play with <img src='http://www.dmortell.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Trials of Atlantis</title>
		<link>http://www.dmortell.com/20031211/trials-of-atlantis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips and spoilers for Dark Age of Camelots ToA Master Levels are available at http://www.visionofsages.net/toa/
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		<title>World of Warcraft</title>
		<link>http://www.dmortell.com/20030519/world-of-warcraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2003 08:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmortell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The World of Warcraft screenshots look excellent. You&#8217;ll have to wait a while though, the beta isn&#8217;t due to start until August at the earliest.
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		<title>My New Bad Habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started playing Camelot. This is another MMPORG (Massively Multi-Player Online Roleplaying Game) like Everquest. I play Claomh Nutcracker, a Hibernian Hero in an Australian based guild called Nocturnal. We defend the Hibernian realm againt the Albions and Midgards.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Started playing <a href="http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/">Camelot</a>. This is another MMPORG (Massively Multi-Player Online Roleplaying Game) like Everquest. I play <a href="http://mortell.blogdns.com/photos/Games/Camelot/">Claomh Nutcracker</a>, a Hibernian Hero in an Australian based guild called <a href="http://www.nocturnalguild.org/">Nocturnal</a>. We defend the Hibernian realm againt the Albions and Midgards.</p>
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		<title>Quadruple Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POP!
Hail and well met! Quadruple planned a raid on Shinjuku, a very dangerous dungeon. I zoned in from Toei Shinjuku and used Jboots to run to the meeting point in front of Starbucks Inn. I did a /who but didn’t recognize anyone so I gave Tierra a /tell and he popped right in front of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hail and well met! Quadruple planned a raid on Shinjuku, a very dangerous dungeon. I zoned in from Toei Shinjuku and used Jboots to run to the meeting point in front of Starbucks Inn. I did a /who but didn’t recognize anyone so I gave Tierra a /tell and he popped right in front of me. The other raid members gated in soon afterwards.</p>
<p>We got 2 groups (12 people) together and moved to our camp point. I cant remember the name of the area, but we were downing easy yellow Chunamas as fast as Altezza could pull them. Obatea wanted to make a pet but due to pathing bugs they arent allowed.</p>
<p>After a while, Hael Bucho said he wanted to pull. He immediately pulled 10 red Atsukans! Selves, our Chanter, was too low level to AoE mez. Me and Melkdo hit them with full nukes and they jumped on me. Makd tried taunting them off but hes only a ranger. My resists are pretty low and I would have died if Iana hadn’t CH’d me.</p>
<p>Tierra wanted to pull a named mob called Aika but we were worried about the faction hit, so he just said “Hail”. The Aika looked at him threateningly and said “Dark Elves like you have ruined your own lands. You’ll not ruin mine!”. Obviously KOS.</p>
<p><a title="Selves Magic" href="http://mortell.blogdns.com/photos/Games/quadruple/magic2.gif" /> While we were waiting for mobs to spawn, Selves amused us with her illusion spells and did her Wizard and Mage impressions. When we were getting tired, Obatea used CoH to get Kojiro into the raid.While we were waiting for mobs to spawn, Selves amused us with her illusion spells and did her Wizard and Mage impressions. When we were getting tired, Obatea used CoH to get Kojiro into the raid.Around 11pm we decided to call it a night. It was great fun and excellent xp too. See the screenshots here. We gotta go again sometime!</p>
<p><em><font color="#ff80c0" size="1">ps. if you didn’t understand this, you have to check out Everquest</font></em></p>
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		<title>Warcraft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2000 09:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Play as either the noble Humans or the brutish Orcs as you experience the epic saga of Azeroth, from the Orcs&#8217; initial invasion to the Human&#8217;s quest to forever seal the Dark Portal between the two worlds. Along the way you&#8217;ll need to carefully manage your limited resources as you train fantastic troops, research powerful [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Play as either the noble Humans or the brutish Orcs as you experience the epic saga of Azeroth, from the Orcs&#8217; initial invasion to the Human&#8217;s quest to forever seal the Dark Portal between the two worlds. Along the way you&#8217;ll need to carefully manage your limited resources as you train fantastic troops, research powerful magicks, and construct buildings and ships to carry the battle over land, sea, and air.</p>
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		<title>Starcraft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2000 09:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Terrans, the Zerg, and the Protoss clash on the edge of the galaxy as they fight for survival. Featuring both an epic single-player campaign and intense multiplayer action, Starcraft takes real-time strategy beyond the next level. If you liked Warcraft, then you&#8217;ll love this. An excellent game.



Starcraft from Blizzard


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Terrans, the Zerg, and the Protoss clash on the edge of the galaxy as they fight for survival. Featuring both an epic single-player campaign and intense multiplayer action, Starcraft takes real-time strategy beyond the next level. If you liked Warcraft, then you&#8217;ll love this. An excellent game.</p>
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<div><a href="http://www.blizzard.com/starcraft/">Starcraft</a> from Blizzard</div>
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		<title>Everquest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started playing Everquest. Hiro came over and showed me the basics. It looks cool because it&#8217;s in 3D&#8230; like a mixture of UO and Quake. I&#8217;m not sure if I like it yet, but it&#8217;s taken over from all the other games I used to play.

Dahi Genjutsu
Human Wizard of the 52nd Burnt Hand
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Started playing <a href="http://everquest.station.sony.com/">Everquest</a>. Hiro came over and showed me the basics. It looks cool because it&#8217;s in 3D&#8230; like a mixture of UO and Quake. I&#8217;m not sure if I like it yet, but it&#8217;s taken over from all the other games I used to play.</p>
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<p>Dahi Genjutsu</p>
<p><a href="/images/games/dahi.gif"><img height="74" alt="dahi.gif (30914 bytes)" src="/images/games/dahi_small.gif" width="100" align="right" border="2" /></a>Human Wizard of the 52nd Burnt Hand<br />
Guild: <a href="http://www16.big.or.jp/~hex/quadruple/">Quadruple</a><br />
Server: Mithanniel Marr</p>
<p>Dahi is my main character. Since hes a human, hes *really* dumb, but hes strong. I&#8217;m still trying to collect enough items to get his INT to 200 <img src='/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt='(' />  Still, its a good excuse for all the mistakes he makes <img src='/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=')' />  His stats are <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010419064402/http://www.mortell.com/Games/dahi.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Dahi is trying the new <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010419064402/http://www.mortell.com/Games/fa.htm">Wizard Fiery Avenger Quest</a> but looking at the difficulty of the damn thing, hes not exactly hopeful. Told ya he was dumb.</p>
<p>In his travels, he picks up interesting items every now and then. Check what Dahi has <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010419064402/http://www.mortell.com/Games/ForSale.htm">for sale</a>.</p>
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<h3>Dathek</h3>
<p><a href="/images/games/dathek.gif"><img height="75" alt="Dathek" src="/images/games/dathek_small.gif" width="100" align="right" border="2" /></a>Troll Warrior of the 22nd Sword<br />
Mithanniel Marr</p>
<p>Like Dahi the Wizard, Dathek the Troll is dumb, but damn strong! Dahi recently gave him the last piece of crafted armor so hes looking good.</p>
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<h3>The Hole</h3>
<p>By Farghen Oom, June 28 2000</p>
<p>Scene: Two groups exploring &#8220;The Hole&#8221;, a zone none of us have ever been in before, and no spoiler info could be found. We get to a &#8220;point of no return&#8221; of sorts, a hole in the ground that we can jump into, but could see no way to climb back out. After clearing all the critters from on the cliff, Dahi summons an eye of zomm and sends it down in the hole to explore.</p>
<p>Very soon after Solomani said, &#8220;Not a good idea, you&#8217;re going to agro everything down there.&#8221; was when I heard the best line of the weekend.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dahi&#8217;s corspe yells for help from ahead and to the left.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Ultima Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blame Hiro for hooking me on this game. He&#8217;d been playing for about a year and kept on talking about how good it was. At first I just thought &#8220;oh yeah? Not another silly role-playing game like Diablo?&#8221;. In the end I gave in and bought the game. Big mistake! Average sleeping hours dropped [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img height="105" alt="Ultima Online" src="/images/games/mon2.gif" width="95" align="right" />I blame <a href="http://www.husui.com">Hiro</a> for hooking me on this game. He&#8217;d been playing for about a year and kept on talking about how good it was. At first I just thought &#8220;oh yeah? Not another silly role-playing game like Diablo?&#8221;. In the end I gave in and bought the game. Big mistake! Average sleeping hours dropped to about 4 per day, and number of fights with Yuki increased three-fold.<br />
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<h3>Ultima Online</h3>
<p>After installing UO and connecting to the internet, you select a server to play on. It&#8217;s not possible to move your characters from one server to another, so pick a server with good response times, or one which your friends are playing on. Each server can have hundreds or even thousands of people playing at the same time in a world called Britiannia.</p>
<p>Practise skills such as swordsmanship, magic, and crafts to make gold and survive. If you die, find a healer to ressurect you, then run back to your dead body to salvage your goods before they are looted by another character or a monster.</p>
<p><img height="171" alt="Sun, Soarer, me and Belgarath hanging out at SGP." src="/images/games/uo9.jpg" width="219" align="right" />The problem with this game is that it never ends. You set your own goals, like make enough money to buy a castle, or become strong enough to kill a dragon, and once you achieve what you set out to do, you just set another target.</p>
<p>You can be a good character or bad. The bad guys are known as Player Killers (PK&#8217;s) and go around killing other players.</p>
<h3>Ultima Online Links</h3>
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<li><a href="http://uoss.stratics.com/">Stratics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ultimaonline.com/">Ultima Online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cob.xrgn.com/">Crossroads of Britannia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.owo.net/">owo &#8211; Beginners Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/9064/">Bugs and Exploits</a></li>
<li><a href="http://uoss.stratics.com/">Ultima Online Stratics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.uovault.com/">UO Vault</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xsploitz.com/">XsploitZ</a></li>
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<p><img height="410" alt="uo1.jpg (55387 bytes)" src="/images/games/uo1.jpg" width="304" /></p>
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