Good morning Pixlpeeps! I have some time after breakfast and before a phone call meeting so let’s do a quick recap of some of the games I may have been playing. Spoiler: there really isn’t that many games I’ve been playing, hell I spent more time installing a couple that playing.
Lots of stuff. Some I've spent more time with, others just briefly. It's a list.
Only a hundred years until the events of Rush's 2112 album. I can't wait.
Happy Halloween! I’ve got some treats for you all, and no tricks! More spooky game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com! Well, not very many of them are scary, I write for a family friendly video game site for parents after all. But please go ahead and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s begin!
I feel like I play some many different games right now, that it's pointless to list them all. So I'll just run through my new routine and maybe you can guess what I'm playing. I suppose, if I stick to anything for a long time, I'll do a blog on that, but right now it's like describing what's on my plate at a buffet - a little of everything.
Two of the biggest arcade games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games were Scramble and Super Cobra. These side-scrolling tunnel shooters were produced by Konami, and were both released in the same year, with Scramble being released early in 1981 and Super Cobra being released later the same year. Both were notable for being among the earliest forced-scrolling games and for having distinct stages that flowed into one another. Konami considered Scramble and Super Cobra to be precursors to its popular Gradius games, and in some cases even listed Scramble as the first Gradius game.
Alright I have around 30 minutes to write, edit pictures, and upload before I have to go pick up a rental car, so let’s see how well I do. Good morning Pixlpeeps! It’s a warm day here in Sunny Southern California and I’ve been MIA for the week but that’s because I’ve been tinkering with Madden as well as searching for a particular toy. Let’s start with Madden
In the past four months since my last blog post, there's no telling how many times I thought of this website or even visited and thought about posting a new blog and then for whatever pathetic reason decided against it or was distracted by something else. I keep falling into this trap, no matter how hard I try. I think its a good idea to let some time pass between blog posts so that I'll have something to post about but the time slips away. As a result of posting one now, I'm stuck with the challenge of recapping what I've been doing for the past 4 months (or not). Let's see how I do...
I've been hunting around for games for my personal library at Gamestops the last few days, like I used to all the time in the 2010s. I found two out of three I was looking for yesterday (Valkyria Chronicles (PS3), Gears of War 3 (X360) - $2 and $1 respectively), and at the store I went to today, found nothing. But I noticed a buy-4-for-$30 (all must be under $15) sale and found some stuff I wanted. It works out to $7.50 a game, which is pretty good. Here's a picture:
I can't say anything interesting happened with me in 2011, just more blogs on 1UP.
A few months ago, we got a couple of downloadable only collections of Namco NES and Famicom games. I even wrote about them, which you can read here. But did you know that in Japan, they got a physical copy of the game on the Switch, and that it had different games and a new interface? I actually imported this game because it was only 30 bucks, which isn’t bad for an import title. So let’s take a look at this collection and what makes it different from the ones we got in the US!
I started writing blogs for 1UP in 2010. That's about all. The rest is contained in this list of media I enjoyed that year.
I tried writing this over the weekend but each time I would get stuck, thought there was no real focus, and I just didn’t like them, so here we are on a Monday and I have some game stuff to talk about and I have the stuff I want to share from the pickup portion of the Quick Hits. That is one long sentence. Anyways we’re going to stop with the long sentences and go…
I played this today hoping to get a lot of achievements quickly. This did not happen, instead I got into the game and played it a lot - in between crop harvesting in Farm Together.
I played this a lot in between farming crops in Farm Together today.
Not much going on for me in 2009, when I look back. I read a lot of books and played a lot of games. I bought a new laptop, an Inspiron from Dell that's still working today. The urge to upgrade is very strong right now. Here are some of my favorite media from 2009.