In which, after a recent Dead Kennedys concert and talking to Klaus Flouride about his bass sound on Viva Las Vegas, Klaus asks me about the arcade cabinet he saw me playing before the show.
Where I am questioned about arcade game King & Balloon by a Berg, bored with chasing me to get the Incal.
Hey guys I missed BaD yesterday because I had to finally say goodbye to my dog Taco Belle and put her to sleep. It's ok, I'm sad but also relieved because it was time. But tomorrow I will have my second "Gaming Under the Influence" blog. Thanks.
I got a Nintendo Switch for Christmas, so here, I am going to give you some of my thoughts on it.
So here we are, day 2 of BaD and after thinking about what I am going to do, I think I am ready for the rest of this fun time we’re going to have. I might be late on some days but other than that I think it’ll be fun and I can’t wait to read what everyone else is doing. Since today is Friday I am going to celebrate Quick Hits, oh apparently Phil saw his shadow so more winter. Of course here in my little piece of Southern California, the weather has been more Spring than Winter, and the local “zoo” (it’s more of a wild animal park) has a tortoise who says Spring will be here early. Which random animal to believe? I do find it funny that the folks that do the weather on TV love this stuff when it seems like we’re making fun their profession because we’re having animals predict the weather. Anyways let’s get started!
Today was an okay day. I got to sleep a little better for work and I feel a tad better then I did last night. Im not major sick, just some slight pain. Last night I beat Nights of Azure 2. The ending was alright, kinda sad and a little bit shocking but I learned that there is another ending that requires 2 particular secondary characters to be at high affinity with the main character. So Im playing it a second time on new game+ which has a nice benefit of no longer being timed like I previously talked about. You have unlimited days so you can finish all the quest. I think that's a excellent bonus for beating the game the first time. Now I can go through and do everything I missed and not feel time restricted.
Avengers is a 1987 arcade game and, unlike 1941 that we looked at yesterday, it does not hold up very well. Avengers is a vertically-scrolling beat-'em-up that sees your character punching, kicking, and spin kicking a load of gangsters out of Paradise City, saving some hot kidnapped ladies in the process. Except it's not very fun. Your character moves like molasses in the dead of winter and there is really no need to use any attacks other than the kick. The enemy variety is poor and the bosses tend to be kind of cheap. There are some secrets to be found by kicking in the right doors ('cause all you're doing is kicking) but what's the point? This game is a historical curiosity at best.
Work is consuming all my time. Not even time for gaming or even a quick Panda right now. :(
Where a mysterious voice asks me some questions about Pac-Man.
So with BaD underway, I decided to focus on a few oddities that came with my emulators. Today I proudly present the strangest handheld of all and a very obscure one at that. Today I'm going to blog about the Watara Supervision!
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is Nintendo’s newest mobile title, and I have been into it ever since it came out! The Animal Crossing game series is very special to me, so to celebrate just how much fun I’ve been having with Pocket Camp, I thought I’d go over all the games and spinoffs in the series, and rate each one and share my special memories of each. So let’s get started!
My plan for BaD is to extend my monthly Time Warped retro game blog to every day of the month. This month's focus is 1980, the 9am of arcade video gaming (the dawn was '78 with Space Invaders). That's not to say I'm sticking to just arcade games, no. I'm also going to play and write about console, PC and pinball games. I'll be playing them through the collections I have on the most recent systems possible.
So today starts our favorite month around here. Im gonna aim to blog Monday thru Friday but Im probably gonna keep weekends off. Id like to think I could do it everyday but I'd probably fail miserably. I gonna mostly blog what my day was, what I'm playing and post some reviews I do plan to finish. Im back on the weight loss wagon so maybe y'all can keep me accountable through February. Im gonna need it O_O
After a few years of BaD iOS games I knew I wanted a new theme for Blog-a-Day. Then I discovered that Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PSP has 20 games, exactly. PERFECT. So that's what we'll be doing, playing through the games alphabetically, just as they're listed in the collection's menu. Here we go!
As many of you who read my mindless, maddening, mumblings on here I got a modified Xbox with emulated games. All in all I have probably 110000 or so games. Now becasue I only a month I won't be able to go through an extensive look at every single game. Also my Xbox has various console emulators on it such as SNES, N64, Gameboy, Genesis, Playstation, etc. I'd like to get to those. But I'm still probably going to spend an unessecarily stupid amount of time on something regardless. The way I'll attempt to break it down is probably going to lead to insanity, but hey we gotta take the good with the bad!
Apparently it is February which means BaD and guess who completely forgot and is now going to try and plan out what they want to do for the month…this guy. Yeah originally I was thinking about theme weeks because well it’s something new every week. Last year I believe I went with the songs on my Desert Island Playlist which was a lot of fun and this year I figure let’s mix it up so consider the next two day of week 1, Chris Is Trying To Figure It Out Week. Sound fun? Excellent!
Put on your BaD-O-Vision goggles, ladies and gents, cause it's that yearly time of BaD again! Woohoo! This year I plan to various series of blogs based on some ideas I have, and my first series is "Gaming Under the Influence," where I regal you with tales of inebriation and hallucination!
Got my PS3 up and running today. Then set up my Xbox 360 for about 5 games and then got back to Xbox One, played 4 retro games and got hooked on Marlo Briggs and the Mask of Death while waiting for another game to install.