How about that for a game. I wonder what that would look like? A lego yarny’s turn-based battle against a corporate time-lord. Seems like a good idea actually.
The first time, I was meant to be on to guest a regular episode, but the Skype update hated everyone, so Julian had to post a Digital Mystery Tour instead.
Today I played some retro titles on Wii, watched some more Clone Wars episodes, played the Lego Star Wars take on them, and finally dug into Batman Arkham Origins.
Last Remnant, one of my favorite JRPG's is being remastered bySquare Enix for PS4 - to be released in Japan. A Western release hasn't been announced yet. It will be a download only game. I'm hoping it will be released here.
Hey guess what? You know what Saturday, September 15 is? It’s my birthday! Yay! So you know what that means. You’re invited to my pretend birthday party! Please give me a pretend present in the comments section. It won’t cost you anything, and it’s the thought that counts…literally! Plus I always have fun seeing what you folks come up with. Anyway, even though it’s my birthday, I’ve got some presents for YOU! Links to game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com! I know, just what you’ve always wanted. Please read as many as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s begin.
Since Kiwami means Extreme, not really. It's a pretty mild problem; also one I only have the luxury of being entwined in because I'm still looking for gainful employment.
It dawned on my the other day that my retrofest plan was based on my life, and that I should tie it in to a kind of autobiography. I have resisted this up until now because I always cringe thinking about it. I'm not particularly happy with my life as it is so far. But, it's a good writing exercise and I'm beginning to think of myself as a writer, so here goes. My autobio for these years.
At a time when I really shouldn't be spending money on things I don't need, what do I do? I buy two new games. I should feel remorse and guilt, but I don't.
Back to back blogs. This might be a first for 2018, and we’re in September. Good morning Pixlpeeps! Since we are at the end of the week I should be doing a number of things: laundry, grinding in various iOS games, cleaning, etc. Instead I just finished breakfast while watching some YouTube videos about people who convert vans into living spaces, and thinking about how I should approach today’s Quick Hits. Usually I kind of have a loose plan in my head about what I want to write about, and after I put everything onto digital paper, I think of other things to talk about…two hours later, after I upload it. Today I figured why not just ramble on about randoms and see how it goes. Let’s get started!
I ripped through three Wii games today and watched and played Star Wars Clone Wars. Oh yea, and there was a football game I watched one half of.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! Over the past week I’ve actually played some games, as crazy as it sounds. The best part of this is that most of the gaming was done not the freemium iPad games (I did play my fair share of those as well) but I also played some games on Steam, and some portable goodness. Let’s get started.
I broke out the Wii and played a few games over the last few days. Then I attempted to get to the End Dragon again in Minecraft, and failed. Here's a picture of my Wii.
I set up my Wii and was going to play Fortune Street, but I snuck into my friend’s Minecraft world instead. Sometimes he kicks me out, but we’d been working on this world since last time, and I wanted to see if I could get a few more achievements. At the end of it, when I looked back on what I’d done, it seemed like I had gone on a fishing vacation
And the busiest weekend for our state park system is at hand. And this year, it's even busier than usual because our governor decided to make them free for Maine residents. While this seems like a great idea, it's wreaking havoc with us foot soldiers (aka park rangers), because most of our parks have already put half or more of our crews on seasonal layoff, leaving too few rangers to deal with too many park visitors. My little park filled at 10:45 this morning, and it didn't let up until a little after 4:00 this afternoon. There were two of us to deal with it from the time we opened the gates at 9:00 until the closing person came in at 1:00, and one of us had to be in the booth. Michael has blisters and my arches are killing me from walking from one parking lot to the other for hours on end. What does that have to do with gaming you ask? It means I have zero energy left at the end of the day after I have walked the dog, made and eaten dinner, and cleaned up whatever messes the cat has left me, and I hate when my work life interferes with my gaming.
It’s September and that means it’s time for another retro fest, this time covering the years 2005-2009. I’ve done most of the research so far and already seen a film, rented some books, and organized my video game collection in preparation for my “weekend”, which is in the middle of the week right now. I’ll break it down by media type, since that’s how I organize my spreadsheet.
Pixlpeeps, so it is Friday and earlier this morning I had another trip to the dentist. No gory details but I do have one more appointment and then I am golden…but I have to back in 4 months. I’m happy, the good people there are nice, and out of all this I have a swanky new toothbrush, and learned how to properly brush and floss. I just woke up from a nap, the fun stuff that numbs your face has worn off and now I am writing to you good people so let’s get updated with what has been happening.
I ran through half a dozen games on Original Xbox today to see which ones I wanted to keep. Then I joined my friend playing Minecraft on Xbox One and got seriously lost in the world. I managed to knock off a few more achievements though.
Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote a new blog post! I've been busy with work, Beau, gaming, and the movie watching project I started a couple of years ago.
I hooked up my original Xbox today and it wouldn’t play anything. It just kept spitting the discs back out. No cleaning would solve it. In my depression, I turned to Minecraft for a while until I realized KOTOR II was on the backwards compatibility list for Xbox One. So that’s what I played once it installed.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is Monday and I haven’t been around last week. I was going to write up a Quick Hits but on Friday I had a dentist surprise dentist appointment. I was on a wait list and someone canceled so I got their spot. I have one more appointment like that, and a regular appointment later this week. Hopefully both happen this week. I really like my dentist and his staff but it feels like I’m becoming a regular and that’s a little odd especially there. Anyways more on that later, let’s get started with today’s combo Quick Hits/What I’m Playing blog.
As the summer season comes to a close, it’s time for me to talk about the movies I saw in the past few months. There really wasn’t a whole lot of movies this summer that I wanted to see, so this blog may be a bit on the short side. I’ll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, but there might be a few here and there, so you’ve been warned. OK, let’s get started!
So, we went over to some friends house warming party. As we were on the house tour we went into my friends man cave. He has some really sweet Vinyl, some SST and the like. Lots of Punk. Anyway. I look up and I see a pong machine. I say hey is that a Telegames Pong? He said I’m not sure. I asked if I can look at it. He says sure and gets it down. This below is what he pulled down.
My friend and I decided a few months ago to sell our copies of Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut.