a blog about video games and culture from a guy stuck in the 90s!
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!
The WordPress community is certainly not shy when it comes to sending around good vibes, and I was recently nominated for the Mystery Blogger Award - twice! Now I'm generally not great at receiving these kinds of things so please forgive me if it's taken me a while to get a good response together. Truth …
Continue reading Celebrating Two Mystery Blogger Award Nominations!
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
If you were to ask what took so darn long to complete this game, I wouldn't really have a good answer for you! Released back in 2015 by one-man team consisting of developer Thomas Happ, Axiom Verge has been universally praised from everything to its aesthetic, to its storytelling, to its clear Super Metroid inspiration. …
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
