a blog about video games from a guy stuck in the 90s!
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Suggested musical pairing: Link's Awakening - Title Screen From the first second of the Link's Awakening remake teaser video, I knew exactly what I was looking at. It's no wonder, considering just how many times I've played through Link's Awakening, and the fact that it was my first Zelda game ever when I was a …
Continue reading Why the Link’s Awakening Remake Makes Me So Damn Happy
Well, well, well... what do we have here? It's the revival of an old series where me and my faithful companion Munchkin, an EMPOLEON, thoroughly slash and thrash our way through Pokemon Pearl! Catch up on previous installments here: Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Piplup Run – Munchkin’s Journey Begins (part 1) Pokemon Pearl: The Solo …
Continue reading Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Run – Back on Track! (part 4)
Gamers are a strange group of people. Music collectors don't subject themselves to music they don't like for hours on end, just to be able to tell people that they did. Cinephiles don't watch dozens of hours of films they're not enjoying just to say that they've "gotten the full experience." But gamers? Dump a …
Continue reading What Makes You Aim For 100% Game Completion?
It's been a lively two days for those of us who have been keeping up with E3, and my personal favorite so far has, by far, been the bizarre presentation by LimitedRunGames! I've talked about them many times before, as they are by and large one of my favorite gaming companies out there - keeping …
With my recent purchase of Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc for the Playstation 2, I have officially lifted my self-imposed video game embargo! It's truly an exciting time - some great titles are coming up (or have recently come out), particularly for the Switch, and I'm feeling good about the next couple months. One thing worth mentioning …
A few months ago, after Christmas but before I fell off the face of the Earth, I decided to do something very simple to fix a problem I was having - I was going to stop buying games completely until I finished a backlog of games that I already owned. I had noticed a pattern in my …
Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game
A few weeks ago, Ian over at Adventure Rules has graced the blogging world with his next great event - Secret Valentine! The rules are not unlike that of Secret Santa, but each blogger who entered is paired with another fellow blogger at random, and to write an appreciation post about them, highlighting some of …
Continue reading A Happy Secret Valentine’s Day to…. The Gaming Diaries!
