As many of you guys know, Elioncho diverged into a tangent roughly two years ago when Elioncho and Tiogus made the tough decision to leave video games for a while and instead focus on web applications. Since then, Elioncho has been the one who has had the most shares of success to date, even though he have also had his share of sunken ships under his belt.

Many of you guys don’t know the whole story from my part, but let me give you a rough synopsis:

Back in March 2008, during the height of my video game development interest, I was given the opportunity to work on a small company that made 3d simulations for military training in the US. I recall that I began development of Dong vs Dong one week before starting my new job, and during my first 2 months at the job I tested and wrapped up the version of Dong vs Dong that is now available.

Without going into many details, that job lasted a mere 6 months, but 6 horrid months. During the last 3 months I had very bad experiences at the job and I was forced to look for other opportunities elsewhere. It was a sad situation – I felt that I no longer wanted to be involved in game development of any sort ever again in my life. It was as if my experience in that company had killed all the interest I had in developing video games. The day I walked out on that company I made a secret vow to forget video game development once and for all. And so I did.

Shortly after I found a job developing web apps, and I became interested in the discipline. With video game development long forgotten (or at least in the back burner) I focused my attention on web application development. It was during that time that I worked on buttonsmashers with Elioncho, until that ship hit an iceberg and sunk into the depths of oblivion.

I was also exposed to the blogging world by November 2008 and I got the idea of creating a blog about boxing, a sport I really love. So during Thanksgiving 2008 I began extensive work on Boxing Highlights, and I’m happy to say that, almost 1 and a half years since its inception, it has been a success. But even thought I’ve been quite happy with the moderate success of Boxing Highlights, I’ve also been quite sad for the last two years. Every now and then I recall my past interest in video games and its abrupt end, and it deeply saddens me how something can change so quickly like the turning of a switch. It’s not like my interest in video games faded, but rather I forced that interest to remain in the deep cavities of my heart in order for it never to be awakened.

It has been two rough years, and I feel like every couple of months my interest in games rekindles to some degree, and this past month the flame was finally set ablaze. I am not sure what triggered it, but it suddenly happened. Now I find myself going through videos of classic games, browsing through articles of old engine technologies, finding out what new Doom ports have been released in the past couple of years, and sending emails to people like Samuel “Kaiser” Villarreal, the creator of the DOOM Absolution Total Conversion. I think the time has come for me to make a comeback, but at this point, as I write these lines, I am a bit hesitant. There are too many things going on in my life right now, and I think that it would be unfair to all of my current projects if I decide to undertake a fresh gaming development initiative at this time.

But the fire has rekindled, and it will be hard to put it down, but I just know that I’ll be back!

I guess this means that Virtual Boy games such as Wario Land can make a comeback on Virtual Handheld or a remake, but without the limitations of the Virtual boy and most importantly, no headaches.

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1) sports4breakfast.com – Died after Elioncho thought he enjoyed more writing about sports in Spanish than in English. Sadly, it died when it was gathering momentum.

2) sehablafutbol.net – Died when Elioncho realized he didn’t find the right words in Spanish. The name sucked and the .net extension was overkill.

After two consecutive fails Elioncho opted to help others create their blogs. He assisted Pablo Bassil on Tech n’ Crap and Andrés Crump on Golfing Highlights.

Talks have been going on between Tiogus and Elioncho to fully return to work on an app together, but chances are they’ll not do it until late next year. Tiogus is currently working on another web app code-named ‘huzzla’ and Elioncho is struggling to open a new family restaurant while working extra hours on a web app code-named ‘dumodo’. We’ll have to wait and hope this two creative forces join once and for all and deliver, that’s right, DELIVER.

Thanks and stay in touch.

So-ho, many of you might’ve heard of this old-school gem. Ninja golf has got be one of the most half-baked premises to a game ever conceived. Nevertheless, it’s still bad-ass.

This was before the invention of crack-cocaine, by the way.

A lot has changed, however, since we last posted. Changes, and not mere updates or refresh button clicks, both communal and personal; political and spiritual; philosophical and financial have bombarded our passive perceptions from all imaginable corners of the media ring this last annual quarter. Changes that have spiralled us into the infinities of re-thinkingness, a seemingly bottomless pit from which only the most daringly brave, after having sucked from the teet of the very essence of life, can spring out from with garnered wisdom, passion-laden hearts and a nearly canine olfactory sense for what’s hands-down fucking awesome.

In short, we’ve learned along this exodus of a trail that there is more to life than just gaming, video games, games played in video game consoles (also referred to as v.g.), the consoles themselves, people who develop these so called v.g. and the people who would sacrifice herds of lambs to do so.

So, in short, expect more.

From the shitty “When the Army came to the Office” to the legendary “They Hunger” by Black Widow Games, I managed to play almost every single Half Life map pack, mod and total conversion out there but I could stay here for hours mentioning every single one of them.

If you haven’t played any Half-Life mods to date, you better check this playlist out – which shows you some of the best mods from the Half-Life era. Not all mods are mentioned, but I’ll come back and go over some of my favorites later on: