Ryan's World

I have played many video games over the years in different genres and skill sets. As a connoisseur of video games there is no game that hits different than RollerCoaster Tycoon (RTC). Nostalgia plays a huge factor into this for me. I grew playing RTC for years and was the game that honestly made me fall in love with playing video games. RTC made me fall in love with roller coasters and amusement parks. RTC has provided me with some of my best memories from growing up. I can remember in the wintertime going outside to sled with my older sisters and we would come back inside and drink hot coco and play RTC together for hours. I think it is the perfect game because there is so much freedom in choosing what to do and how to do it. There is no right or wrong way to play the game. This is the main reason why I think RTC is the best game I have ever played. You do not even need to know what you are doing to have a great time playing the game. And since I have played RTC for so long it is

Last Sunday was an exciting moment for me. I was finally able to play in my first ever hockey game on ice. This moment is so big for me it was years in the making. With covid happening and everything I did not know if I would be able to play hockey in college. Fortunately, there is a three verse three league going on in Bowling Green. We play two games every Sunday until the end of the semester. My games this past weekend was back-to-back. I’m going to be honest that was the first time in a long time where I felt really anxious and I had the butterflies in my stomach. Saying that I think playing those two games is some of the most fun I have ever had. The feeling I got from playing it was euphoric. I do not even know why but it was. I am the goalie so I get to slide around and gets pucks shot at me. I have played roller hockey before but ice hockey is a different beast. Since it was my first games ever on ice I sucked badly. We only lost like 7-12 both games so I was still close relati

No, I’m not talking about the Olympic sport of speed running. I’m talking about videogame speed running. I have played videogame for a long time ands have played many games. In my travels as a gamer, I came across speed running years ago. Speed running has always intrigued me. It is a completely different way of playing the game. Some games being played normal is hard enough and some people are crazy enough to spend thousands of hours practicing and optimizing speed runs. What is a speed run? A speed run is when someone completes a game under a time limit trying to beat the game as fast as possible. Seems pretty straight forward right. I thought so to until I started learning how speed runs work. The speed run community has been around since the 1990s. For every game there are multiple speed run categories like any % completion, glitch less any %, 100% completion, 100% completion glitch less and so on. There are tons of categories depending on and how a person completes the game. If

I am a huge gamer and one of the games that I have always played and known about is chess. Now saying this am I not very good at it but I have gone through phases when I play it consistently for a few months. Especially since I have been in college. Now how does a person born in the 21st century enjoy playing a game that is around 1500 years old. I was first introduced to chess in middle school. My school started a chess club and I joined it and began playing during school and after school. I think I was intrigued by chess because it is a puzzle in some way. I do not really remember if I was any good since the only people, we played was people from my class which we had 13 kids in my class. My passion for playing chess followed me as I entered high school. My freshmen year I had lunch with 2 other students that I knew and mostly everyday we would go play chess during lunch. Then I kind of forgot about chess the next 4 years. I began putting my time into videogames and tennis. Once