FIFA 11 Pays For Your Parties!

I live in a student house with 4 other guys, so there are few evenings where a game of FIFA is not played. This being the case we all started to tire of the lack of incentive to do well. This led to us running an in-house league in our first term (which I won!). However this required a lot of effort coordinating games, recording results etc. and we are all pretty lazy, so a new idea was required for our second and third term.

Inspired by the FIFA drinking game, we decided to introduce forfeits depending on how many goals someone loses by. These forfeits are as followed (and accumulate):

• Lose by 3+ goals: Congratulate your opponent and shake their hand.
• Lose by 5+ goals: A lap of the house applauding and cheering for your opponent
• Lose by 7+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponent for wasting their time, that is then displayed in a public place (i.e. the fridge)
• Lose by 10+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponents parents, apologising to them for wasting their child's time.

However we wanted to spice things up a little more, so to each one of these forfeits a cash penalty was attached; 50p, £1, £1.50 and £2 respectively. This suddenly made every game more tense and competitive, with money being collected, ready to pay towards end of exam celebrations. We have collected roughly £40 in our house pot so far, with that amount growing by the week, by doing nothing different to what we would normally do. So if you are looking for a way to save some money, play FIFA!

Pokemon, What Happened To You...

So after yesterday's post I found myself reminiscing about Pokemon and how great the original games were. This reminded me of an amusing Pokemon themed song I watched on Youtube, which anyone who played the original games will agree with almost immediately!

Hope you enjoy another little trip down memory lane, or if you never played it find out what you missed.

The Perfect Mix

First of all let me apologise for the lack of posting over the last few days but I was away for the weekend. However you will all be happy to hear I am back now... right?!

Anyway moving on, lately I have been talking a lot about TV shows so thought today I would look at something different and dip my toe into the casual gaming world. So while revising I took a quick break and popped over to One More Level to see what today's game was and what did I spot on the list of recent games, a new tower defence game, which are nearly always good fun. I know what you are thinking, "so what, just another tower defence game...", but this is a tower defence game with an old school twist! The twist.... it is Pokemon themed!

Now playing this brought back many fond memories of the hours I spent playing Pokemon Red back in the day! The game follows the rules of a regular tower defence game i.e. bad guys come from one end trying to get to the other to steal your prize possessions, which in this case are rare candies! The only difference being that the towers are Pokemon that you catch along your way, and the levels are the sections of the Pokemon story i.e. Level One is Prof. Oak's Lab.

This game is average as a tower defence game, but is certainly an enjoyable trip done memory lane if like me you played Pokemon when you were young and can be found here if you fancy giving it a go. Enjoy!