My Gaming Journey – Part 2 – 16bit Era and the Game Boy
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My Gaming Journey – Part 2 – 16bit Era and the Game Boy

The natural progression from the NES of course was right into the SNES.  I think the SNES may still be my favorite console, mostly for the graphics.  There is such a perfect simplicity to the sprits of the SNES.  It was just enough power and memory to make larger complex titles, but not overly complicate them.  I enjoy modern pixel graphics games, but they are always much higher resolution with so many more colors.  It's just not the same.  After the SNES, consoles became much more about polygons and 3D graphics. In case you didn't catch it, I had a…
Solo Play – Escape from the Space Station
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Solo Play – Escape from the Space Station

I picked this solo game up on a lark because it was on clearance at a Kohl's and the clearance was 75% off or something, so it cost me a couple of dollars.  I really didn't know what to expect from it but it sounded interesting with it's enticement of puzzles to solve, and my slowly growing interest in playing more Solo Games.  Then I sat on it for a few years not actually playing it. The box contains: One Scenario "read first" note 3 trifold papers with information about the station 2 cards of punch out tile pieces 10…
Who Am I, What is Lameazoid?
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Who Am I, What is Lameazoid?

Part of Blaugust involves some, optional prompts, and one is an introduction post. This is one I have done before many times and it's probably mostly all there on the About page linked above. But I'll recap a bit here for those just joining in. Welcome to Lameazoid, my first blog that I keep dragging along behind me. When it began life on Geocities it was The Chaos Zone but I did a sort of rebrand when I moved to Livejournal in the early 2000s. It's technically all the same.blog, though I have purg d and restored content on it…
Horizon Zero Dawn Aloy
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Horizon Zero Dawn Aloy

This line of Playstation based figures kind of felt like it came out of nowhere a month or so ago for pre order. Most of them look pretty cool but I don't really play most of the games and have no real attachments to most of the characters. I do however really like Aloy's look and was at the time, playing Horizon Zero Dawn on the PC. She seemed like a good choice to try out the line. I was a little worried before receiving the figure itself. The actual company making these is Spin Master, which makes more, young…
Transformers X TMNT – Party Wallop
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Transformers X TMNT – Party Wallop

I have lost track of how many of these crossover Transformers we have gotten but it's a pretty neat line that for the most part has been done pretty well. I particularly like that they are mostly original molds. It feels like it would have been easy to just do some mediocre repaints. I suppose making actual meaningful molds was probably part of the deal for getting some of these IPs. The TMNT crossover is pretty good, it's not perfect, but I like it. Party Wallop definitely has the "Ninja Turtle" look in Robot mode, with a few spots of…