Hello Pixlbit! I've been put on a hiatus on here because of Destiny. I have been playing this game every single day since its release. I've already completed the story and just continue to build my Warlock up. I've dabbled with the Hunter and Titan just to try them out. I can't tell you how many hours I've sunk into this game because I lost track.
How are you all? There has been a lot I want to blog about but the time I have I usually use to play games. I have been working six days a week with Sundays off and its a regular thing. It sucks not having full weekends off but its paying the bills. I have gone through some major arguments were it seemed like we were actually getting a divorce. It is almost been to the point of me not caring anymore. Things are ok now though.
Sick Boy: It's certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What do you mean?
Sick Boy: Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed...
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Some of his solo stuff's not bad.
Sick Boy: No, it's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: So who else?
Sick Boy: Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley...
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: OK, OK, so what's the point you're trying to make?
Sick Boy: All I'm trying to do is help you understand that The Name of The Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What about The Untouchables?
Sick Boy: I don't rate that at all.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
Sick Boy: That means fuck all. Its a sympathy vote.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: That's your theory?
Sick Boy: Yeah. Beautifully fucking illustrated.
- Trainspotting
"Give me a little bit of bass with those 88s" sings The Capitols in the song "Cool Jerk". . . What to play then. For NES we've got: Metal Gear, Zelda II, Double Dragon, R.B.I. Baseball (I mistakenly put it with '87), Contra, Ikari II, Super Mario Bros 2, Bump n' Jump, and Castlevania II; for Arcade: Super Contra, Splatterhouse, Altered Beast, Gradius II, New Zealand Story, Vindicators, Alien Crush, and Double Dragon II; for SMS: Phantasy Star, Miracle Warriors, Shinobi, Wonder Boy, and Ys: Vanished Omens (good year for SMS!); and for PC: Ultima V, Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance (the first of the SSI DnD games), Exile, Bard's Tale III, and Wasteland. I must've been in a bloodletting mood because I chose Splatterhouse.
I had a pretty reasonable pool of games I wanted to play from 1987. Arcade games: Contra, Street Fighter (begining of the fighting game scene?), Double Dragon, 1943, R-Type, Sky Shark and Xenophobe; NES: Mega Man, Legend of Zelda, Ikari Warriors, Rygar, Arkanoid, Kid Icarus, Wizards and Warriors, R.B.I. Baseball, Metroid and Castlevania (what a year for NES!); Nothing for Sega Master System's debut; and PC games: Leisure Suit Larry, Dungeon Master, Head Over Heels, and Maniac Mansion. I decided to go with Ikari Warriors, but when that went too fast, I added Sky Shark.
Well now, long time no see/blog/speak/spell/anything.
I went through a bunch of lists for this year and came up with some titles to consider for my visit to nostalgia land. For NES it was: Commando, Ghosts n' Goblins, and Gradius. Sega Master System it was: Alex Kidd, Space Harrier, and Alien Syndrome. Arcade it was: Return of Ishtar, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, Out Run, Rygar, Gauntlet II, Darius, Ikari Warriors, Jackal, Joust 2 and Victory Road (the sequel to Ikari Warriors). PC/Mac it was: Star Flight, Wizard's Crown, Space Quest, Might & Magic Book 1, and Dark Castle.
Long time no see, pixlbit. Here's an update on what i'm playing atm- and i'd love to hear what you've been up to!
I went to my doc in July and everything went fine, for the most part. My doc did tell me that I had to get a test done or see a different doc tomorrow. I am a bit nervous since whatever they tell me will be the outcome of something. I can't say what it is but it's important, but I'll let you know in a blog post when I come back. It's this exact reason why I've been absent here and everywhere. So tomorrow, please pray, hope, or wish me good luck that everything goes well because I'm a bit nervous and I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to what I can't talk about yet. So thanks for reading and later.
Humble's having a flash sale on SHMUPS
Good Monday morning World of Pixlbit, how was your weekend? I hope everything is going well for you good people, and there was lots of relaxation and some game playing. On my side of the internets there was some gaming but I would like to talk about a couple of new games (I know some of you are like “Hell Yeah no Simpsons Tapped Out”) that I’ve been playing, as well as a Demo. Sound like fun? Yeah it does.
1985 and home console video gaming makes a huge comback with the release of Nintendo's NES. Disguised as a VCR (that's a videocassette recorder for those who don't know) and coupled with a toy robot so nobody would call it a video game machine, the NES reignited home console gaming. Super Mario Bros. was the big hit that year, but I'd played that and had a copy of Mach Rider waiting for my attention, so I went with that. But before I started, I watched a bunch of video of other games that came out that year like arcade game Tiger-Heli, and PC games: Tau Ceti, Oregon Trail, Ultima IV and The Bard's Tale.
1984: consoles pretty much dead with the crash of '83; the arcades still pretty good with titles like: 1942, Punch-Out, Marble Madness and Space Ace; PC doing well with King's Quest, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. I looked at a lot of video of these games and more from this year and decided on replaying 1942 within Capcom Arcade Cabinet on XBLA and within Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded on PSP.
All last week they had different games on every day and today being the last day it appears that all of them are offered in the finale.
Destiny is all the rage these days. I know we have a number of folks here on Pixlbit who are playing it. My wife was particularly intrigued and so we picked it up from Redbox tonight to see what it was like. And it seems like a really cool game. Very pretty, even on old hardware (PS3 in this case), and the feel of the gameplay is really good. But for our situation there is one glaring flaw: NO LOCAL MULTIPLAYER. Perhaps this wrinkle was common knowledge but neither of us had heard about it and surely the folks at Bungie threw in all the options. After all, their Halo games support local, LAN, and online multiplayer. Why should Destiny be different?
seems to be coming and it's great. It gives me all the feels. I think that's because many of the big positive events in my life and a lot of my memories are strongest if they happened in the fall.
Or at least that's what the Los Angeles Times Magazine called it. Anybody know what I'm talking about? That's right! The Sandman! As in, the comic series by Neil Gaiman. I've read only the first volume so far and it is pretty much what everybody said. It was interesting and sets a great foundation for the series but wasn't particularly amazing. I tell you what, though, I have no idea where this is going to go and since it's about the King of Dreams, I guess it can go anywhere. And I'm really looking forward to it too! Now to start the second volume...
Things may not be all that rosy at the moment, but I'm still trying to remain positive. My mother's feeling slightly better, which is a huge relief. Now here's hoping nothing else decides to come out of the blue and cause even further trouble.
I watched a lot of videos on some games from 1983: arcade games Mario Bros, Spy Hunter, Crossbow, Star Wars The Arcade Game; PC games Ultima III (check out The Spoony One's review of it. It's fun.), and Troll's Tale; console games Quest for Quintana Roo on ColecoVision, Pitfall II on Atari 2600, and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin for Intellivision.
