Epinions Recent Reviews for hurkle

Everyone had to buy a copy!

Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:37:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - What's this, baby?

Harvest moon is one of those games that needs no time at all to grow on you. We rented it for our son one night from the local Family Video. He wasn't really interested, but my wife was. Of course we like...

Badness Beyond Belief

Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:36:09 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Why, Oh Why Did I Rent This?

A Family Video just opened near our house, so we have been renting lots of videos lately. Some are good, some are bad, and some are - well - hmmm. I don't think I really have words to describe them, but I'll...

The Best Medicine

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:41:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - The first time was great

My father was raised strict Christian Science; for those of you who don't know, this means that his mother believed that all sicknesses were a product of the mind, and therefore did not use medicine to treat...

The Secret World of ACCU

Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:16:55 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - We Join With Anticipation

When my wife and I brought our family to St. Louis, we looked around for a good bank. Aerospace Community Credit Union (ACCU) seemed to offer what we needed. It was right next door to the McDonnell-Douglas...

A Modern Classic

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:03:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - In the beginning

There are a few female fantasy authors who really caught my fancy: notably Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Wendy Pini. Bradley, Cherryh, MacAvoy, McKillip, Kurtz, Hambly, Kerr, Rawn, Tepper.....

Smashing Fun, Old Chap!

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:15:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - How We Got One

My son received a Super Rebound for Christmas. Santa brought it and left it unwrapped in the middle of the floor. [Side note: when I was a kid, Santa never brought me unwrapped, ready-to-play presents. Yet he always did...

Non-Violent Fun For All

Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:29:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Thanksgiving 1999

My family headed down to Texas to visit my wife's best friend. Now, this little lady lives in a small town where the state highways cross and nobody visits since they built the interstates, so there wasn't exactly a...

Pokemon Yahtzee: Fast, Fun, and Friendly

Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:55:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Once Upon A Time

There was a father and mother who were dragged willy-nilly into the world of Pokemon by their children, who became aware of and desirous of these diverse and collectible creatures. And lo, it did happen that they...

Eversoft 1st Page 2000: Great Value for the Money

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:30:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Although I've been spending the last month-and-a-half coding C++ with no end in site, I swear that my real job is developing web sites. Such is the life of a consultant. And what else do consultants have to contend with when they're at a client site?...

It Only Gets Better

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:21:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Well, I recently wrote up a nice long review detailing our family history with the original game. Suffice it to say that we were hideously addicted. Yet after a while, the thrill wore off. Oh sure, it was fun to play and try to win a scenario again by...

Roller Coaster Tycoon For Windows: Our Family's Favorite

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:48:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Oh man! I might as well start out by saying that I love this game. My wife loves this game. My son loves this game. Go buy it. Now.

Hmmmm.

Well, that accurately sums up my feelings about the game, but I can sense that you might want...

Beats Red Lobster Claws Down

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:50:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - The other night my wife got a new job. To celebrate, I wanted to take the family out to eat. So, after my son's T-ball practice, we met our friends and followed them across the river to Joe's Crab Shack in St. Charles, Missouri.

The first...

Darn Fine, Ma'am

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:51:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - All right, I'll own up to the fact that we eat out a heck of a lot. It's one of my wife and I's great weaknesses. Given a choice between cooking at home and eating out, eighty percent of the time we'll eat out.

Now, this isn't because we are...

Go And Go Again

Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:03:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Okay, I'll admit it. We broke down this year and bought season passes for our family: me, my wife, and our two children. And we've gone practically every weekend since they opened.

Six Flags St. Louis was a good park, but recently, with the...

Great Value

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:14:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - The Pontiac Montana was exactly what our family needed. We'd been driving my '89 Buick LeSabre way, way too long. With my son in school and both of us on the PTA and activities for both children ramping up and.. and...

We needed a new car...

Roborally: Can you marry a board game?

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:32:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Okay, straight from the manufacturer's horselips:

"ORIGINS award winner for 1994 - Best Fantasy/Science Fiction Board Game - Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game. And one of GAMES magazine's Top 100 games for 1995."
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Grey Tie Dear, Butt...

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:55:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - We got this game as a gift from our friends a few Christmases ago. The idea of the game is quite a good one: teams compete to correctly identify phrases read aloud by their teammates - the catch being that the phrases consist entirely of non-related...

Not a real good game.

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:45:49 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - The Introduction

Yawn.

Yaaaaaaawwwnnn.

[stretches]

Yawn.

I play lots of games, and so does my wife, and thus we manage to force a number of other couples into playing games with us quite...

Yea, baby! Yea!

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:32:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - I received this toy as a gift from my wife last year. She had obviously noticed that every time we went to Target, my son and I would stop in front of the AirHogs display unit, pump up the engine, and spin the prop.

Now, this is not the...

BrainForest from Aportis Software: It's a necessary app

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:58:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - The PalmPilot/Visor PDAs and their ilk come with a host, nay, a slew of tiny applications that - while functional - seem to lack that nee plus ultra - that certain je ne sais quoi.

Okay - enough already - pardon my French [wink, wink]. The...

Handspring Visor Deluxe Handheld: Almost Perfect

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:40:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - I received a Handspring Visor Deluxe as a Father's Day present from my wife. She ran around town for hours and hours looking for a PalmPilot, but couldn't find any reasonable-priced specimens anywhere. So she tearfully (well, okay, not really...

Not quite up to par

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:12:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - We went to see this movie because - well - for the last 6 months, my son and daughter had been asking to go. "Really, Dad? There's really a Pokemon movie? How many days, Dad? Can we go?" We got our popcorn and our promotional cards (worth more...

Awesome Game!!!

Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:41:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - Pokemon Snap is a non-violent game suitable for the entire family with an extremely high repeat play value. Basically because of this game, we bought a Nintendo 64 game system for this Christmas.

We rented the game twice, and each time our...

Good Rewards

Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:28:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - We buy booster packs regularly. As you may know from my other Pokemon card game reviews, not only does my son play, but I and my wife play as well. The booster packs are a decent value at a price of $3.29. Try to avoid paying more if you can, as after...

My favorite editor

Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:48:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hurkle - I've used a bunch. From notepad up to DreamWeaver. And I have to be frank - Homesite is the best editor I have ever used for HTML and JavaScript. I purchased my own copy so that I could use it wherever I worked, instead of whatever clunky software they...