When I first heard about EA Games bringing females hockey players to NHL 12, I immediately thought of Jimmy Dugan from ‘A League of Their Own’, “I don’t have ball players, I’ve got girls!” This will be a start of something new to all future sporting games.

The decision to put the female gender in the game comes after a girl wrote a letter to EA, telling them she felt it was unfair. Lexi Peters wrote, “It is unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world, many of them who play and enjoy your game.I have created a character of myself, except I have to be represented by a male and that’s not fun.” When the letter reached the desk of David Littman, NHL12 lead producer, he was fascinated with the idea. “Lexi’s letter was a wake-up call, here’s a growing audience playing our NHL game and we hadn’t done anything to capture them.”

So, after getting NHL’s permision, the choice to use a male OR a female was official. And because she brought this to light, EA even used Lexi Peters likeness as the default character for female. This will definitley be the start of sports games adding females to games such as Madden, MLB, maybe even NBA.

There are now girls in this man’s game

 

 

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Before the days of Nintendo DS, but after Gameboy, handheld electronic games such as those by Tiger, were the weapon of choice for kids wanting their Paperboy, Baseball, Zelda and everything else fix. Albeit with limited graphics. Multiple cell animations would allow for simplistic gameplay. For kids without the coin to throw down on a Gameboy these little gems made long car rides entertaining. Reminiscing is one thing.. But in order to relive those glory days of beeps and blips, we need something.

Enter the fine folks at HipopotamStudio and their creation  Pica-Pic. This website is chock full of an ever-expanding library OF Playable titles! We used to get one of these games every year for Christmas. I can’t wait for Baseball and paperboy, my two favorites to show up. But until then check out the other playable versions!

Each game has the creation date, publisher and country of origin listed. Awesome way to spend a few moments reliving the glory days of the 80′s and early 90′s. While versions of these games are still around, mostly living as knock offs of tetris, card games, soduku and the like. But they will always have a fond place in my heart

Tags: Baseball, nostolgia, paperboy, pica-pic, tiger electronic games, tiger games

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Today was supposed to be a live show with some new concepts being put forth. I’m still toying with the idea of doing video, I’m just not sure how to incorporate it into the stream around here. Its never good when the IT Guy, the Computer Guru has to spend hours trying to fix his own machines. So this podcast was the fallback position after the live show didn’t pan out.

There are a ton of great stories and blurbs that made it into tonight’s show, and I’m thinking that we are going to reschedule the other special events after I have had some dry runs with the technology involved.

That being said the Adopt a NewB day still needs some tweaking. I have Ideas and it might extend beyond a holiday, but I’m asking all of you. What do you think of the concept?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Philadelphia Lost its Voice This past week. RIP Harry Kalas

Quick Hits

• The problems of Digital Archiving. Format matters
• Fungus Amungus, and its warm
• Touch Panel Dashboard, seems like a bad idea
• Jack Thompson is in the news again, as a spammer

Geek Cruft:

• Spellbinder, Awesome Guitar Hack
• Grass beneath your feet is more mobile now
• Possible relief for Broadband cap causalities
• Amazon says its a glitch, I have ideas
• Pacman Bandaids? why not
• Reboot your couch
• Tetris and Furniture
• Truth in Bedclothes
• Lego Boombox

Caffeinated Bits

• Lego Fruit Snacks
• Colgate Wisps
• Beauty in Coffee
• Three flavors no waiting
• Bacon gun, disturbing
• Senseo recall
• Indoor herb garden with thought put into it

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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I Don’t even know where to begin! I was 13 the last time the Phillies Made It! I’d like to let a huge apology ut to my followers on Twitter, If you’re not a sports fa this might have been a bad week for you. I think i’ve been averaging about 40 – 50 tweets per game. Twitter is an unbelievable tool to let fans interact and share something as special as this has been. Listen up for more.

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