Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a nice cool and a little damp Southern California, but that isn’t a bad thing for a place that is hurting for more water. I made the most of the weekend by staying under the back porch while it rained for a bit. I took my laptops (the mini one day and the full size the other day) and enjoyed the cool weather, and maybe took a nap. Anyways on Sunday I decided to do this but instead of watching Netflix on the mini laptop, I decided to try and play some games. My plan worked for about an hour before the sun peeked through some clouds and it was tough to see what I was playing. It was fun while it lasted. Anyways here are some games I’ve been playing.
I had some trouble with my N64 at the beginning of the day, but I just fixed the problem this evening, so I'll be starting Monday with that. The AV cable wasn't transmitting a signal it seems. I swapped out the cable and it worked. Thankfully it wasn't something internal. This is the N64 I had way back in the 90s. It's still working fine.
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One of the most prominent developers on the Atari 8-bit line was, of course, Activision. Known as the world's first third party developer, Activision was formed by disgruntled Atari employees with the promise to treat individual developers like rock stars. If you ever read a manual for a 2600 Activision game, you've seen the "about the author" bios for each of them. Eventually, as Activision grew and became more corporate, its employees would leave and form their own companies. Most notable among these were Accolade, Absolute Entertainment, and the best known of all of the baby Activisions, Acclaim Entertainment. By 1990, Activision completely flamed out, was bankrupt, and well on its way to going out of business. A new CEO that came from the grocery store industry, one Robert "Bobby" Kotick, was hired... and the rest is history.
I took the day off work today (Saturday) in order to be at my mom's birthday dinner, so I spent the afternoon with a few games. First was Microsoft Pinball Arcade for Game Boy Color, played on my Gamecube Game Boy Player, and then Destiny on Xbox 360.
Sorry folks this is ridiculous. Even in disk format this is still absurd.
The National Video Game Museum in Frisco, Texas just opened, and Cary here at Pixbit did two articles on it with pictures galore of all the interactive exhibits, celebrities, and cosplayers. Check it out on Gamerdad.com here (http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2016/04/07/the-national-videogame-museum-opens-in-frisco-tx-part-1/ ). There are two parts so click the link there for that as well. You'll be glad you did. The museum has an arcade, great murals and displays, and video game memoribilia of every type. I don't know how they got all that stuff in there. The place must be huge! Also, if you go, Cary might be working there.
Happy Friday from a damp Southern California! Currently there is a break in between showers and before I lose interest and find something to play I figured it is time to write up my next edition of Quick Hits before I go and play some games. Anyone try the stream from PS4 to PC? I played a little last night and I’ll give you my impressions about it on Monday. Anyways it is Friday and its time for the other stuff I like to talk about so let’s get started with Quick Hits!
Not really but, it does seem Sony is trying their best to kill these two systems, when in fact they are awesome devices that need to be supported more. Well, they are being supported by Devs with games, like the one I just got and Odin's Sphere. Unless you find a WalMart that has maybe one game, you can only find the games at GameStop. Well anyway, I love my Vita and will get a PS TV soon. Here is the game I picked up.
So yesterdsay was a pretty much crappy day. I left my room for 5 mins and my kitten kids spilled milk on my 3DS.....So my lovely day was spent replacing my ruined 3DS with a new one. Had sell a bunch of games that while I didnt want to part with them, it had to be done. I did the transfer process and when I went to play one of my games a second ago none, of my save data is on it. So when I get home Ill have to figure that out. Why the hell does save data not transfer over? Nintendo should have gotten that changed with the new 3DS. I upgraded to a bigger SD card because I think im gonna go digital. To get the gold coins on the new reward system you pretty much have to buy digital so Nintendo pretty much helped with that choice.
Nintendo and Namco have worked together a lot in the past. Namco’s good at making arcade baseball games, so Nintendo had them do some Mario baseball titles. Namco’s Taiko drum music games were a hit in Japan, so Nintendo had them do Donkey Konga. And Namco also is known for racing and fighting games, so they helped Nintendo with the arcade Mario Karts and recent Smash Bros. games. So when Nintendo wanted to make a Pokémon fighting game, Namco was up to the task again, since they are known for fighters like Tekken. In fact, that’s why the Pokémon fighter is called Pokken, as a combination of Pokémon and Tekken. So I thought in this blog we’d take a quick look at the game and check out which Pokémon you can play as!
Stabbing mammoths sounds like fun. But so does stabbing a can of SPAM.
I had a little adventure today. I went to my local retro VG shop, Jay Street Video Games, to get a Gamecube memory card. I traded in the backlog games I played over the last few weeks and got just enough to cover the new and overpriced $14 card. Then, as I was going home, I was reminded by a Wii icon on the back of the package just where I put my old memory card. I had used my Wii as a Gamecube recently and stowed the memory card with it. I checked to be sure first, and then went back to Jay Street, returned the new one, and got Persona 4 Golden for Vita instead. Picture of that and more below:
I started today with a backlog game, Super Mario Land for Game Boy played on my TV via the Gamecube's Game Boy Player. Handheld games sure look nice on the big screen. Well, I'm not much of a platformer fan. My favorite was Donkey Kong Country and maybe Klonoa and that's about it for platformers I've played for more than an hour at a time. I played some of Super Mario Land and it occured to me this is like the best game for a kid. Remember being on the playground and trying to see if you could climb to the top of the jungle gym? Kids are always trying to test what they can do in the world. Super Mario Land is just that. You run, you jump and you see what you can do. So, I admire the game but I dislike repeating the same levels over and over. I did notice that I seem to have lost my memory card for my Gamecube. I wonder where that went, but I'll have to get another one pronto.