ScottVee Gaming

The Merge Watermelon game added a Level Mode that brings up puzzles where you have to drop and eliminate certain obstacles blocks.   That was totally unexpected and again, the developer did a solid job with more options than expected.  The drops may be spinning or on fire, each with its own effects.   I'm not sure why it doesn't automatically load the next level.  You go back to home and have to tap Level Mode again.  But it's yet another addition to the fruit drop realm.  And rather than being totally repetitive you get to wonder what the next puzzle will be or what new blocks might appear with what new behaviors.  # For some reason, my phone today had an icon for Fruit Merge Cafe.  I had already picked out my top two games of this sort, but this gets an honorable mention.   Clean friendly graphics, reasonable bounce.   Characters line up at the top to "order" a fruit but they don't get impatient and anno...

We were at an automotive museum today (Dear Park Winery, Escondido, CA) and in one corner were some very old arcade games.  Drive Coast to Coast had a map of the USA with a few numeric displays and details, while the game itself was just moving a metal car left and right on a dial with a road painted on it.  The road had some obstacles drawn, but I couldn't think of a mechanism for actually detecting the player's performance. Next was this Steam Shovel game .  On the back is a big scale saying "How many tons can you load in hopper?"  The little labels at top left say: "Raise Shovel to Red Mark on boom to clear hopper.  Empty Shovel by operating shovel lever to right."  The rules at the bottom are: "Move Levers to Operate Steam Shovel.  Empty each shovel of material into hopper. Material loaded into hopper registers on scale.  When two or more play, highest number of tons registered on scale determines winner."  For only 10 cents you can feel ...

A cousin of Anne's had a board game afternoon, so we went to visit and played two rounds of Horrified then a funny game of Bananya. Horrified is an odd game.  It's a cooperative game where your team tries to defeat some number of classic movie monsters.  It's SO collaborative that everyone pretty much plans out your move for you by the time your move comes around.  Each player gets a character card.  Each character has 3, 4 or 5 actions plus a special ability.  The actions are (from memory here): - move your hero one space - move a villager one space - make one attack on a monster - pick up all chips on your current space - trade some number of chips with another player on the same space Chips are placed on the board throughout the game.  The chips each have a color, some number of points, and the name of the space where they are placed. Each monster has its own quirks and different ways to defeat them.  For Dracula, you have to wipe out all four of hi...