There's been rumblings about Microsoft bringing back some classic Rare IP for E3. So I thought I'd talk about what I'd want that IP to be brought back is. Though it will probably be Battletoads as an XBLA game.
Good morning Pixlbit Nation! My Monday is starting off slow but it will pick up later on today, but for right now, I want to take a nap. Anyways so how was your weekend? Anything fun happen? Did you play any games? Of course you did, you’re Pixlbit and all you do is play games. So did any of you catch the X-Games? On ESPN 3, they aired the eGames portion where a couple of teams played Heroes of the Storm (remember way back when I was making fun of them for the college version?) Well this time they gave the competitors the same medals as those handed out on the X-Games. I’m sorry game players but I don’t think playing a video game is a sport. So I watched that for a bit just to see how the X-Games was going to treat it before moving on to watching an episode or two of Daredevil (I think I am on Episode 10 or 11 now.) Anyways it is Monday, and we usually save TV Talk for Friday so let’s get started!
Rather than bringing you the latest in our scheduled line of dev blogs, here's an off-topic one with the specific intent of showing off the new logo. I think it came out pretty alright and I hope you guys like it too. Let me know what you think!
As is my usual weekend activity, I headed over to my friend Mark's place. First thing I did was set up my NES, but then I booted up the 360 to check the sales and watch the Fallout 4 announcement trailer on youtube. Sky ship? Oh yes! Then I put on Netflix and looked up something to watch from 1986 in keeping with this week's theme. Mark and I watched season 1 episode 3 of The A-Team and about half of Ferris Bueller's Day Off before something crashed the system. Thank you MS for having such a reliable system for doing non-gaming things (sarcasm). I thought that was what you wanted it to do most. But it was just as well, because I was getting a little bit tired of Ferris Bueller and wanted to get to some gaming.
So I had a few tech problems over the weekend. The most eventful problem I had was with the wireless modem. We lost our Internet connection when the provider was suffering from a blackout so we waited a bit. When the provider was supposedly back up and running again the modem still didn’t connect. After a one hour with India’s tech support, which aggravated me to no end, and a visit from our provider it turned out that the modem just broke. They gave us a new one and now we just need to setup our devices again.
In the last weekend of May, Nintendo held a new Nintendo World Championships at Best Buy stores around the country. Participants played the championship mode on the 3DS NES Remix game, and winners will play in the finals in LA during the week of E3! You may have read about many people on the Internet getting all excited over all this. But why? What’s the big deal? Well, it’s because for people who grew up in the NES generation, the original Nintendo World Championships 1990 was such a monumental event for those who attended it. Including me. So in this blog, I’m going to share with you my experiences with that original event, and how it shaped me as a game reviewer today!
I remember the first days with my Nintendo 64. It was Christmas, 1996, and I was living at my parents' house in Minnesota. To say it was winter outside would be an understatement. Meanwhile, I slowly sneaked through winter winds on the snow/sniper board in Goldeneye. I'd never imagined a game so enveloping. I snuck through the environment, aiming at enemy heads a hundred yards away. "THUMP!" went the silence rifle as I sent them to their graves.
Today was the library book sale. I rarely find games there but I always find music. Today the nets brought in a nice assortment of CDs. There are also four bare naked ladies in there. See if you can find them in the pic below:
I already told you I bought a new PS3 to replace my burned out launch model. The old one had a 750 GB drive in it that was almost full but unfortunately Sony does not allow hard drives to be moved from one unit to another intact. they must be reformatted.
So Community may be done for good. But then again, the show has been suspected of ending for good every season since 3. So it may go on. But since it's about Six Seasons and a Movie, I thought I'd look back and see how the show was. So I thought I'd rank the seasons since the show is unique in how each season feels so distinct from one another.
I got my Club Nintendo item, a 3DS cart holder, recently. I think it was about three months to get here, but that's ok. It's pretty cool, but now that I think of it, I don't have much use for it yet because I've bought all my 3DS games on day one, or in the case, so I don't have any loose carts for it yet. I'm sure though, when I start picking up used games, that the loose carts will come, and now I have somewhere to put them. It's the size of a regular 3DS game case, so it'll fit nicely with my other games. Pic below:
Happy Friday Pixlbit Nation! I can see the weekend, and its waving back. I don’t know about you but man oh man this week seemed to drag its feet getting to this point. Currently it is really windy here in Southern California, because apparently there is a hurricane off the coast and it’s changing the weather a bit. I’m not complaining because a couple of days of cooler weather are always fine especially if we are staring at triple digits for the next couple of months. Blah! After I finish typing this I’m going to try and enjoy a little bit of this by going to the local satellite post office (it’s at a golf course.) I might take my camera to get some shots of the mountains. Anyways let’s get this edition of Quick Hits started!
Well according to this Latinpost blurb. Last line of the article. I'm not buying it.
A whole bunch of Strategy war games! Pay what you want for 4 of them, or up to 10 for the whole lot.
I'm thinking all about 1986 this week, as mentioned in my previous blog. Yesterday, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, I picked up quite a haul of music, and a single game. Here's a pic.
It's been months since I wrote a blog. I haven't been in the mood lately. The trials of life have been keeping me busy. When I'm not working or fixing something around the house, I'm playing games and watching a lot of movies. I finally bought a PS4 a couple weeks ago. A PS TV came free with my console purchase. I'm not sure about everything it does, but I know I can play Vita games on it. I can finally play my Persona 4 Golden I bought a couple years ago.
So, Fallout 4 was officially announced yesterday. Can't say that I am surprised. Can say that I am super-excited about this one.
May was my best month so far this year for getting things done, though one of these was in the works for quite a while.
This all started as a game with my music collection. Each week I'd listen to another past year's music. Well, I couldn't stop there. I had to look up what was happening in gaming, books, and film too.