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Monday was a day of e-sport, a day of whimsy. Lots of time spent in front of a TV with a controller in hand. It's what we do, we gamers. Halo, Peggle, Skylanders. It's genres all over the place, but that's how I like it. On to the details. 

On Friday and Saturday I finished up with The Order 1886 and Crystal Defenders. Next on my backlog list was Halo: C.E. so Mark and I played it within The Master Chief Collection on XBO part of Saturday and all day Sunday. Here's a breakdown. 

At last I am done hunting down Skylanders, for now. I got the last Superchargers figure I wanted and got a second copy of the game to give to my friend Mark. Along the way, I picked up a few figures from the other games that I didn't have. I'm really down to the very last few figures on my list I made last December. Here's a pic:

I have just about all I can find on sale out here in the wild for Superchargers stuff now. There's only one figure left and I'd like to pick up a second copy of the game for my friend Mark so we can do the co-op/multiplayer races. I already have extra portals from my other starter packs and the loose game is only $5. So I may make one more run tomorrow. Anyway, here's the last big haul shown below:

 Another day, another set of Superchargers and amiibos. Basically I'm only buying amiibos if I can't find five Superchargers to fit the buy 2-get-3-free sale at Gamestop and only ones that I like. Shovel Knight is fantastic. I need one of me called Driver Knight. That'd be cool. I also got one Trap Team character for the same reason. I didn't have him. He's the one with the gigantic scissors. 

Monday I had to truck Mark over to the doctor and so I had some time to kill in the waiting room. I brought my DS and played some Contra 4. This game looks great. Makes me think of Contra III Alien Wars on SNES that I played years ago. You have a grappling hook that can move you up to the upper screen on the DS. That mechanic was pretty cool. The game plays great too, but it's darn hard, as most of the Contra games are. I could stand it only a little while, so I took a gander at what else I had on my old DS. I hadn't used it in quite a while. I found Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition there. I think it was given away free at the 30th anniversary of Zelda and I must've grabbed it. Well I dug in again and got really into it. You can play it solo and just switch back and forth between two characters. You solve puzzles and fight Zelda style. It was fun and it took up the time I had to wait, which wasn't all that long it turned out. I wanted to keep playing it. I put it on my backlog list just now. I think I forgot I had it. So I'll dig into it for real sometime in the future. 

Half day today (Sunday) playing games after I got culture at the art museum during the daytime, but it was enough to finish the campaign in Gears of War Ultimate co-op with my friend Mark. After finishing that we went back to pick up the few Cogs we hadn't found yet. I used the XBO menu system to look up a walkthrough to figure out what ones we'd missed. It was really easy to do. Much easier than going to Mark's computer and looking them up. I had saved some screenshots and video clips during gameplay and then watched them before I left - so fun to watch replays of some wacky moments in the game. I'm really loving the XBO experience right now.  

I got up early enough today, so I went to see Suicide Squad in IMAX 3D. It's a much bigger action flick than I expected, so it looked great in 3D. I thought it was fine but I wondered why they had to focus so much on the one note of humanity in each of the squad members. These guys and gals are fun for their craziness. I want to see that unleashed. And maybe that's the word for this movie, the squad members seemed leashed up most of the time, either litterally, or psychologically. But it was fun; just could've been funner if it took a note from the Crank movies. That's what I was hoping for.

Oh boy, here we go again. I'm gearing up to play Skylanders Superchargers in a week or two. The buy-2-get-3-free sale is still going on at Gamestop, so I stopped by one today and picked up what's shown below:

I went to Gamestop today to chew the fat and check out Lego Dimensions and Skylanders Superchargers. Both of those are high on my short-play games list. I might get to one of them as soon as two weeks from now. The Lego Dimensions starter pack for XBO was $60 on sale, regularly $90. Too much for me to spend at the moment. I have Skylanders Superchargers starter pack and a handfull of vehicles and figures, but I'd like more. They had nothing used though, so I dug into the clearance bin. I bought what's shown below for $20: