Ever had a really boring job? You know, one of those menial paper-pushing ones, where you fill in spreadsheets, take calls, and go to really boring meetings about performance and how to be better at it?
Did you really just answer no? How old are you? Have you ever actually held a job? Thought so...you [insert lazy or age reference here], you!
Oh wait, there are a few in the back that have...sorry to hear that. I know first hand how much it sucks, doing something you hate, just waiting for the day to get over so you can go home and relax, but knowing that the day still has hours to go, and you've completed your work for the month on the 2nd. Yeah, it's kind of horrid...
Fortunately for me, I got to know my office mate, Ryan, a little better.
Ryan's a pretty interesting guy for all intents and purposes. Loves his Metal, old comedy, and growing full and manly beards.
Not Ryan...but he wishes he had Ryan's Beard
Most importantly...Ryan's a geek...a gaming geek to be more exact. One night, the boss took us out to the local bar to get drinks after work, and he and I got to talking about what else but the Dreamcast, Sega's ill fated console of wonder and excitement.
If you've never played a Dreamcast, it can be hard to understand exactly what it's like to turn on the console, playing Power Stone, or Crazy Taxi...Sonic Adventure, or even, Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Let's just say as the poor guy got a little drunk...and by little, I mean insanely, I found out that the MvC2 theme song actually is pretty interesting in metal, and I'm not talking about the remixed version in MvC3.
Anyway, in his drunken stupor and my conniving sobriety, we came up with a plan. We had a television in our office...but sadly, it was so old that it didn't have A/V jacks in it (in other words...probably from the mid-90's). Fortunately for the two of us, I had a Dreamcast RFU adapter.
Did you really just answer no? How old are you? Have you ever actually held a job? Thought so...you [insert lazy or age reference here], you!
Oh wait, there are a few in the back that have...sorry to hear that. I know first hand how much it sucks, doing something you hate, just waiting for the day to get over so you can go home and relax, but knowing that the day still has hours to go, and you've completed your work for the month on the 2nd. Yeah, it's kind of horrid...
Fortunately for me, I got to know my office mate, Ryan, a little better.
Ryan's a pretty interesting guy for all intents and purposes. Loves his Metal, old comedy, and growing full and manly beards.
Not Ryan...but he wishes he had Ryan's Beard
Most importantly...Ryan's a geek...a gaming geek to be more exact. One night, the boss took us out to the local bar to get drinks after work, and he and I got to talking about what else but the Dreamcast, Sega's ill fated console of wonder and excitement.
If you've never played a Dreamcast, it can be hard to understand exactly what it's like to turn on the console, playing Power Stone, or Crazy Taxi...Sonic Adventure, or even, Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Let's just say as the poor guy got a little drunk...and by little, I mean insanely, I found out that the MvC2 theme song actually is pretty interesting in metal, and I'm not talking about the remixed version in MvC3.
Anyway, in his drunken stupor and my conniving sobriety, we came up with a plan. We had a television in our office...but sadly, it was so old that it didn't have A/V jacks in it (in other words...probably from the mid-90's). Fortunately for the two of us, I had a Dreamcast RFU adapter.
Booting up MvC2 in the office that first time was insane...we were both frantic to get the sound down...then finding out that most of my favorite characters were locked, I got my ass schooled by Morrigan, Cable, and Ruby Heart. As we kept playing, it became a race to who could unlock their choice teams the fastest.
Great review of the game, by the way.
When Mega Man, Venom, and War Machine were all unlocked though, I was unbeatable...even once Dr. Doom, Akuma, and Omega Red were all playable. Ryan had never actually beaten arcade mode though, and had no idea how to beat Abyss, so showing him took up a good afternoon of just straight up gaming.
When Mega Man, Venom, and War Machine were all unlocked though, I was unbeatable...even once Dr. Doom, Akuma, and Omega Red were all playable. Ryan had never actually beaten arcade mode though, and had no idea how to beat Abyss, so showing him took up a good afternoon of just straight up gaming.
Eventually, our boss caught us. Initially, we really thought we were screwed...then we turned on Puzzle Fighter. I'm not the biggest fan of puzzle games...but, for some reason, I do get to zone out when playing them...letting my boss play that when she wanted to hide from hers though...well, let's just say Brentalfloss isn't entirely wrong.
Now, I'm not saying this works for everyone (that would be really cool though), but that it made those months at that horrible job go by pretty quickly. Eventually, I left it as mentioned in my previous post, but damn was it fun in that office.
Note: And this is why programmers and writers/client relations/schedulers shouldn't be put in the same office...are productivity went from only having to work two days a month outside of meetings to having to work three...
-Sara
p.s. I know I focused on MvC 2 for the bulk of this article...may revisit this later and talk about Shenmue, Puzzle Fighter, Power Stone, Sonic Adventure, or Crazy Taxi.
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