This is a retro game store I found today in Glenside, PA while trading in old games. The town just borders northwest Philadelphia.
Well, my new job fell through and now I'm up a creek without a paddle. Nothing new here really. So during these times between jobs, I find myself drawn to simple games. I somehow can't get into a long story or deep gameplay at times like this. So here are the few things I played on Thanksgiving day and Sunday.
Over the years, there have been many different types of cartridge software released. Where music and video media (eventually) became standardized, each game system had its own form of storage media. In addition to carrying interchangeable game software, companies tended to make the design and appearance of the cartridges themselves distinctive as a marketing gimmick. Most of us have memories of having game cartridges in boxes, not to mention blowing on the edge connectors when our games glitched out. So here's a brief overview of various game cartridges throughout history. This is not an exhaustive list.
It’s a couple of days before Thanksgiving, which means Black Friday deals are hitting the internets, which is nice but I do kinda miss strolling into a store watching people go nuts on a cheap TV/laptop while the DVDs were located in the clothing section of all places or my personal favorite next to the milk (you crazy Walmart). The past couple of years my Black Friday shopping has been online because I’ve either been visiting family, or just lazy.
Ended the day today packing up my Xbox One and taking it home from my friend's place. Not sure when I'll have time to go over there with my new job, but maybe I'll get one day a week of gaming in. We'll see. I think I might suspend Xbox Live for a while too and play more retro stuff on retro consoles. Chasing rewards points takes up too much time, and if I don't have much time, I'd like to play exactly what I want. No plans on what I'm going to play next because I don't even know my work schedule yet. I'd like to play Dragon Quest IV. Anyway, here's what I played today, my last day of Xbox One for a while.
Is it modes or moods, I'm not sure, but I had two modes I was in today. One was the mode of chasing after rewards points, the other was playing any old-school-looking turn-based RPG I could find on Xbox's Game Pass.
I have a new job starting in a week and I may be working weekends, so I don't know when I'll be gaming after this weekend. Maybe not at all, but probably sometime. Today I mainly played Forza Horizon 5 and Dicey Dungeons but a few others passed by.
I’ve cooked you all up a Thanksgiving feast of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com. You’ll get all nice and fat after reading these! Please read as many as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s dig in!
This is a list of the games I played the most in the 90s. There are plenty of ties and a shortlist of games I really want to play still.
Something to think about. I made a list of the top-selling home video games of the 90s, one for each year. I tried not to repeat a franchise if possible. Some of the numbers are not exactly known, but I think this makes a good list of top-selling games of the 90s.
Better than just, "Played" and a timestamp. I've always been a fan of the absurd and dada art procedures. Why should I make sense in a senseless world? RIght? Well, the rest of this is pretty sensible. Played these on 11-14-2021. Satisfied?
Just by playing Forza 5 today, I cleared several different rewards challenges. Eventually though, I took a break from it to play another game for more rewards points. Sometimes I feel like I'm now stuck in Game Pass hell and can't get to my own games anymore. Hell it may be, but I'm enjoying it. Haha.
When I do one of my podcasts with my brothers, I try to think of a topic that we can both talk about enthusiastically. I’ve noticed my brother Nathan really likes to talk about Disney parks and stuff, so that’s what we did in this one! We talked about our top five favorite Disney characters and our top five favorite rides at the Disney World theme parks!
I was unable to get here from my phone yesterday, and almost thought the site shut down.
Mainly spent my time chasing down the weekly Game Pass rewards but tried some others as well.
Microsoft Rewards had me doing a lot of things like a bing daily set of quizzes and achievement hunting today. I needed three achievements in anything and one in Back 4 Blood that counted for two different rewards. The beginning of the month always has a lot of challenges. Then I tried a Game Pass game I thought looked interesting.
