I came across a Slashdot article today (diverted from this original piece of writing) about how being in an urban environment impairs our basic mental processes due to excessive stimulii and we need to be around nature to recover from this.

Being from the country originally, I always find a brief break in an area with a bit of nature does wonders for relaxing me, and I try to get up to the country whenever I can.  However if you want anecdotal discussion about whether or not this is accurate, Slashdot has plenty of that (as per usual).  What I’m more interested in is tying it back  to the chosen relaxation methods for the modern generation, which are based on electronic distractions.

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Seems like a strange choice.  Monochrome pinball game (note, not a pinball sim) released on the original grey brick that handheld gaming was built on.  Released in the early 90’s, where gaming progressed to a highpoint in purity with the late 8-bit early 16-bit generation.  Not a big seller, rarely seen on the shelves, and even I acquired it by chance.

Yes, it  is good.  Very good in fact and apart from various notorious time-suckers over the years it’s been by far my most constantly played game.  I’ve had it since the early 90’s and have played it on the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, Super Gameboy, GBA, PC emulator, emulated on PSP, on my eeepc while on holidays and now on an M3 cart on my DS.  What is it that makes it so good?  First, a bit of history.

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Welcome to angrypixel.net.  This place has been a static portal to other long-defunct sites of mine for years, and prior to that was a site for the games creation community.

Now it’s a place for general musings about anything and everything.  I intend it to be low on quantity and high on quality (ie longer indepth posts), but the content may only be amusing to me..