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Minter always was rather proud of his games. Tempest looks cool at least, never was hugely into it to begin with though. One of my favorite of Minter's games was an 8-bit game called Hover Bovver, where the object was to mow your lawn - using a lawnmower stolen from your angry neighbor.

I kind of want the Midway Arcade 1UP cabinet. I actually bought one of the Dig-Dug mini arcades after I read about it in your blog. It seems like they've actually cut the price on these machines down to $300 from the original price of $400 I was seeing. I'll bet you know what kind of cabinet I would really like to see them release, though.

Stage Select:

1. The Double Clawshots: Doubles as a weapon and as a means of getting around.

2. Knights of the Round Materia. 129,987 damage in one attack is a must for long enemy battles.

3. Either the Edelweiss or the Hafen as the transportation. Can't go wrong with a good tank. Squad 7, move out!

4. The Space Jump for getting through areas with no platforms and hand holds

5. Orthopedic underwear.... for... uh... support... on those long quests....Weeeeellp, 'bout time for me to be hittin' the ol' dusty trail... there's the fire door...

VC4 is badass. Can't wait for the full game. It's been my most wanted game this year.

That's probably an extreme reaction, sure, but things being what they are today, people getting in trouble for being idiots or monsters on Twitter, Gamergate (whichever side you were on), and with Twitter being the soapbox of choice for the White House, Twitter drama tends to cause havoc in real life the way no other social media platform does.

I use FB to keep up with family and friends. I try to stay out of FB drama.

Twitter? I've always had two observations about Twitter:

1. You can't spell "Twitter" without "twit", and

2. "Twitter" rhymes with "shitter."

The Internet would be a lot better of a place if Twitter went under. It seemed to be headed towards bankruptcy a few years ago, and I was prepared to dance on its ashes. But now that it's the platform of choice for a certain individual in the District of Columbia who likes to shoot his mouth off, that is sadly not going to happen.

Stage Select:

1. Tutorial levels, especially unskippable ones. I know how to walk and how to press A to jump. I should not have to demonstrate it to the satisfaction of the game to proceed. This isn't school. If you must have tutorial levels, make them a selectable option on the main menu. Keep them out of the game itself.

2. Stealth missions, especially in games that aren't really made to handle stealth, and most especially when discovery results in an instant Game Over or mission failure.

3. Bad voice acting, whether it's the hyperactive voice-acting you see in a lot of Japanese games, or the flat, doped-out-on-Haldol delivery you hear in Western games. And as a related topic, repetitive voice clips.

Welcome back! And even Angelo showed up? Cool.

I think Fallout Games, which is local to Phoenix, might have plastic covers big enough to hold game boxes. Not too sure.

I haven't gotten it yet. I got Shining Resonance Refrain for Switch instead, because I've wanted it for a long time since the Japan-only PS3 version came out, it came with a steel case, and it was only $49. With a couple of trade-ins I only paid $16.

And yeah, it is humid here. My GF and I both sweat constantly in this humidity. I haven't seen anything like this since I lived in Oklahoma.

My family had a TRS-80 when I was a kid. I have a TRS-80 emulator on my computer now. It had some pretty great games, including good knockoffs of Scramble (Penetrator) and Galaxian (Galaxy Invasion), and a few unique gems like Bee Wary.

I went to an antiques store in Camp Verde, AZ that's been there since I was a kid. It used to be a carpet warehouse. That's the town my grandparents lived in before they passed away. I found a hand-pump that I think belonged to them at one time, so I bought it. I also saw some faucets that you screw a liquor bottle into and use it to pour the liquor.