I'm sitting here waiting for fireworks. Immediately, of course, I think of a video game. This one is Rocket Mania. It's a fixed screen puzzle game I played way back in 2003 on PopCap.com. Reconnect the fuses as fast as you can and watch the fireworks. I just noticed there is a Deluxe version on Steam for download for $1.25. Yippie! But that's not all my droogs, I've been playing lots of other things too. Details!
June was a crazy month manga wise but video games, not so much. There actually wasnt much I wanted that released in June. Now there were somethings that I just havent gotten around to getting which would be Hollow Knight and Crash Remaster. Crash I can wait on, I played and beat the first 2 games. I played the 3rd but I cannot for the life of me recall if I finished it. Hollow Knight I want (Literally was waiting on the Switch release) but its on hold for a tad. The one game purchase I made that month was Ys 8. Im enjoying it so far, Im just glad I dont have to start over. I was about to pull my hair out.
I spent the majority of my gaming time this past week with Racing games. You would think it would get boring playing the same genre over and over but I enjoy racing around playing different types of racing games. Whether it has a story, upgrading and buying new cars, or just a casual game, I like racing games and spent time with a number of different games.
Hey everybody! It’s time for a pretend summer beach party right here on my blog! And what better way to celebrate than by posting some game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com! What? People don’t normally do that at beach parties? Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me? Well, anyway, please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s begin!
I built my second gundam kit. It was extremely easily and only took 1 sitting. Id definitly say this one is beginner friendly. I wanted it because I thought it was so cute.
I‘m about to head out to one of my local retro game stores, Old School Player. They have or at least I hope they still have the Bentley Compuvision Pong style console. They want $30 for it . I’m going to see if they would do $25. If not then I’ll do the $30. Also GS has buy 2 get 1 on used games and accessorie. I may pick up some cheap games just to build my PS3 collection. Anyway, look for pictures either way.
Growing up we didn’t have a local Toys R Us. Being in a small town the nearest one was an hour and a half away and the only time I got close to going to it was when my folks would decide to hit the Price Club and spent the day out in the neighboring city. I would usually get a small toy and a balloon. As I got older I had some family who lived in Orange County and they were down the street from Toys R Us. My aunt would give us kids a limit of $5, which for me was a ton because I could either get two GI Joe’s (one dollar over wasn’t too bad) or one of the smaller GI Joe vehicles. This was our little fun time before we headed back home.
I got two categories: current and retro. Retro will be media between the years '95-99. Here's the list.
I never have anything decent to say in these intros, so have a blog. Also, sorry for no pictures, it's really tedious to do on an iPad.
So things here are getting back to normal. I’m back to a kind of regular sleep schedule, no longer couch surfing, and I may have finished a game I started awhile ago. I also said farewell to another game that I played for years and I felt it was time to stop and replaced it with a time waster that I stopped a couple of years ago just to pick it back up. Not a bad couple of days.
My ASUS ROG Strix came in yesterday and I'm excited. I'll post pictures later. Only used it for job applications thus far, but it's a gaming laptop, and the keys light up! It looks all futury.
"Hey Doublefine! Howabout you develop a Destiny clone?"
Yes, I'm feeling a little nostalgic today. Thinking back to the days of videogames and the snack we had by our sides while playing those games.
So here we are Friday, and I do miss you. Hello Pixlpeeps it is a freaking hot day here in sunny Southern California. We are looking at excessive heat warnings because hell is a lot cooler. Yeah so remember when I had a family member in the hospital? Well they are home now, and for the past couple of days I’ve been camped out on the couch and helping them when needed and this threw off my sleep pattern. You would think I would spend some of the down time on the laptop but it was more iPad and sleeping. Anyways things are looking up and it looks I could be back in my bed tonight (YAY!) Anyways let’s get started.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo, or E3 for short, is one of the biggest trade shows in the video game industry, and I’ve been going to it nearly every year since 1997. Sure I’ve skipped a few years here and there. Like when I didn’t have an outlet to write on for a short while between the newspaper and GamerDad. Or when I just started a new job and didn’t have enough money or vacation time. Or when E3 went through a bit of a downsizing phase and I didn’t feel like it was worth the trip then. But those absences were all my choice. I’ve been able to go nearly every year otherwise. But for the past five years, I was denied a press pass for whatever reason. Yet somehow, this year I was able to get a media pass even though nothing had changed. So last week I went to E3, and here’s some articles about it!
A bunch of stuff here. I finished with Disneyland Adventures, dug into some DKC games, popped in some GameBoy games into my SNES GameBoy Player, and roamed the post-apocalyptic landscape in Fallout 4 and Wasteland 2. DETAILS!
Sable and Sea of Solitude stood out to me as far as indie games I'd like to play. I'm not entirely sure what Sable is, but the art style looked really cool. SoS (oh ... OOOOHHHHH, how did I not catch that before?) has a unique art style as well, and while I skipped past whatever the woman was saying about it, since I was watching in the living room and trying to skip ahead to trailers so my dad could watch cable, I am interested in the seemingly introspective inspiration behind it to boot.
Well, I bring sad news. My TV I got for free is Das Kaput. For some reason it came on by itself last night. So being cautious I unplugged it. Now when I turn it on it only stays on for about a second. Now I am on the hunt once again for a CRT TV so I can play my light games and Atari 2600. That is it for now, at least until I find another TV.
I have never played EVE Online and seeing how time consuming it is, I'm sure I never will. All the same, I recently read through Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of the game. While there are fictional AI empires in the game, the book covers the struggles of the purely human factions. And it's surprisingly engaging! These might as well be real world events. And it was cool to see the scale of things escalate from skirmishes of a few dozen ships to epic battles that involved thousands of ships, every one piloted by an actual person in the real world. Backstabbings and betrayals, blockades and political machinations, life obligatons and deadly apathy—it was quite engrossing! If you fall in the middle of a Venn diagram of interest in history and video games, you really ought to read this book.
I've been busy doing HTML5/CSS/Javascript coding for class but I managed to find some time to play. I downloaded Disneyland Adventures from Game Pass because I liked what little I played on the Kinect version of the game. Now I'm hooked.
So, Sony is being the jerk on the playground. Serously? What does it hurt to share with Switch players? I think Sony is statring to forget who supplies the bread and the butter that is placed on said bread. That's cool though. The Sony conference was blah anyway. Am I being a little harsh? Or just about right?