a blog about video games from a guy stuck in the 90s!
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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!
Welcome to the first post of a new series, Living in the 90s. This started as a tribute to Toys "R" Us but took on a mind of its own. I present this "memory dump" of my childhood at my local Toys "R" Us, and I hope you can relate to it as well! By now, …
It's true everyone. I have existed on a single planet for my whole life. I know - with galactic real estate prices at an all-time low, I have barely scratched the surface when it comes to exploring the universe, and I really have no excuse. I'm embarrassed to say, but all of my existing has …
Continue reading My Favorite Game for Every Year I’ve Been Alive
Note: the following is not a paid advertisement, and is merely an acknowledgement of a product that I fully recommend to protect your stuff! No affiliate links or anything - just good ol' talking about a thing I like. Love, Geddy One thing that unites us all as gamers is that we hate everyone who …
Continue reading WaterField Designs Console Case Appreciation Post
Well, it came and went, as Nintendo managed to sneak a mini-direct out ninja-style at some crazy hour of the morning. In fact, when I received word that it had been streamed, I immediately dismissed it as yet another hoax due to the hour it "allegedly" streamed. Didn't I feel silly when I realized it …
Continue reading Thoughts and Favorites from the Nintendo Direct
A couple of weeks ago, Ian from Adventure Rules started the second round of his Charming and Open Event - a community blogging dealio wherein commentators pose videogame-themed questions to which he responds with a blog post. In turn, a question is volleyed back to the original asker, and they are to do the same. …
Continue reading What Video Game Dungeon Would I Move In To?
First and foremost, I hope everyone had a great Christmas! It hurts to type it out, but it's true. Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which I am about 25 hours involved in, is the last game purchase I'm going to make for a while. I should have seen it coming though - like the housing bubble of …
Continue reading I’m Quitting (Buying) Videogames For a While!
2017 has been nothing short of an incredible year for gaming - unanimously one of the greatest years that gaming has seen since the late 90s. Honestly, I asked literally every gamer out there and they all said the same thing. Oh, I didn't ask you? You must have been sleeping! The year saw not …
Continue reading The 2017 Master List + My Top 5 Games of the Year
Snowy levels are a hot topic this time of year! Fellow blogger Scott of Insert Memory Card posted a great list of his favorite snow levels while this article was in progress, so if you haven't checked out his list yet, check it out here! It's that time of year again, folks! The time when …
Over at The Well-Red Mage where I sometimes post words structured into paragraphs about video games, our leader and crimson king The Well-Red Mage himself is always asking the big questions. Last week, it was a short question with potential for some... tall answers, "tall" being an opposite of "short." I don't know. Anyway, the …
Continue reading Answering Big Questions: “What IP would you bring back from the dead?”
It's not a secret that games like Xenoblade Chronicles are of the "slow-burn" variety. That is, really getting into the meat of the game and getting to an established point where the game lets you take over can sometimes take many hours. More hours than a lot of games are from start to finish, that …
I find 80% of statistics fascinating, 100% of the time. Talking to a longtime buddy of mine, we ended up on the topic of Nintendo Switch, and more specifically, how great the portability factor was. It blew my mind when he admitted that he rarely, if ever, plays it in handheld mode. To me, the …
Yesterday I had a conversation with my co-worker and fellow Nintendo-everything fanatic, and he explained to me that he wasn't interested in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 because he had never played previous installments in the series before. I explained to him that none of the Xenoblade games are connected, and spoke more about my experiences playing …
Continue reading Why You Should Buy Xenoblade Chronicles 2 This Friday
UPDATE 1/10/18 - I was recently able to find my FFXIV page for my character! You can see all of my (aged) gear bought with many, many Allagan Tomes of Philosophy resulting from many, many dungeon runs for hours on end. Check out my character page here! Most gamers have made the tragic mistake of …
It's been months since I touched this article, having mentally divorced myself from Breath of the Wild and being unable to wrap up this series. That being said, for whatever reason I've stumbled upon a bout of motivation to complete it - perhaps due to the fact that I inadvertently wore my Breath of the …
Continue reading The Breath of the Wild Critique – The Reflection Phase (part 4/4)
If you've been a long-time visitor of Nostalgia Trigger, this is going to sound very unlike me - but I completely forgot that the SNES Classic Edition came out this past Friday. Let me rephrase - I knew the date that it was being released, but I completely forgot that the calendar had somehow moved to September …
Continue reading SNES Classic Edition: Unboxing and First Impressions!
13 years. It's been 13 years since a 2D installment in my top franchises of all time. The Metroid series may not have always had a spot on the podium, but since the early 00's, I've managed to play through almost every game in the series multiple times, and something clicked with me in more recent years. …
As my pending nuptials creep inside the "one month to go" mark, I've found myself very distracted from gaming, blogging, and blogging about gaming, aside from the occasional burst of motivation. And as ill-timed as this may be, I've also been suffering through a rough bout of Gamer's Block! What is usually my go-to for relaxation …
Why, hello there! Today is an exciting day, for it is my first time participating in the Question of the Month, put on by none other than Kim from Later Levels! This month, the burning question on the collective Internet hivemind is: Who's the most memorable video game NPC? The games we play are filled with some …
