PixlBit

I broke out the Retron '77 for some 70s Atari action and then got sucked back into Farm Together 2. 

I have two Atari 2600 games released in the 70s, Breakout and Bowling. The only other one I'm interested in from those years is Sky Diver, which I will pick up soon. Of course, there are lots of other places you can play these games and I reinstalled Atari 50 to do it. I played all three mentioned there plus Neo Breakout which is a 2022 version.

I love it because it controls a tiny bit better and it's arranged like a rogue-like. You go from simple to more complex screens as far as you can on the number of lives. Then, you can just restart at the last screen you've cleared. I like it better than any Breakout game out there. 

I purchased Space Invaders Forever on Playstation 4 on a sale via their app (love buying games that way). I really wanted the full SI Invincible Collection which includes Lunar Rescue and all the original SI games, but I don't see it on the Playstation store, only on Switch. Forever includes SI Extreme, Arkanoid vs. SI and SI Gigamax 4. Not bad since I wanted Extreme and to check out the others anyway. I'll get to that next week, I think. 

I'm 126 hours in Farm Together 2. I'm about to hit level 100 on my farm which unlocks the last store front where you can buy further plots of land. I have 25 of those so far and those are not all of the ones shown on my map. I think there are 50 total plots to buy because there's an achievement for that, but maybe there are more. 

At certain times in the progression of the game I have to change my strategy and a whole farm wide redesign starts. I feel like I'm about to do that. When quests ask for hundreds of a certain item, you need bigger fields, animal pens, fish ponds, flower gardens and arboretums. I'd like to get more oganized with my designs too. So far it's been sort of working around the lay of the landscape but since I learned how to reform it, anything is possible. 

My friend, who I play with, has his own farm but it's much different from mine. He leveled his entire farm flat and made gigantic fields in all directions. My fields are much smaller and spread out. We venture to each other's farms to harvest for rewards, and randos show up to do the same from time to time. I like to set aside fields with unharvested crops for these visitors to clear. 

And that's a week.

If interested, my history related blog, Tomes in Time, goes up on Sunday nights. It's easier to post my pics and vids there, and I can do it all on my phone.