My Gaming Journey – Part 3 – 32/64bit Era
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My Gaming Journey – Part 3 – 32/64bit Era

This era of gaming is where things started to get a little more varied. This would essentially be the Playstation/Saturn/N64 era of gaming. Though I am not sure I have ever even seen a Saturn, much less played one. Playstation definitely dominated this era of games, but for my part, I stuck with Nintendo. I also started really pushing into PC gaming as well, but I covered all my PC history last year. The Nintendo 64 was the first console I bought with my own money. I was working by this time, and had plenty of free flowing cash. I…
Whoops, I Dropped the Blaugust Ball
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Whoops, I Dropped the Blaugust Ball

I'm skipping "Creator Appreciation Week" here for "Staying Motivated Week." There are no rules anyway, you can't stop me. Apparently I dropped the balloon Blaugust and have missed days. Which is fine, really. I mean it's 100% fine. I never intended to "post every day" to start with, it just sort of, started happening. My first "miss" was Saturday, which was a "What I've been playing" post. These are basically the only posts I can't pre write, and I was busy Saturday and tired, so I just, didn't. Plus it was just, "More Overwatch and Sky." My wife and daughter…
Toy Story 2 Dynamic 8ction Heroes DAH-074 Al McWhiggin
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Toy Story 2 Dynamic 8ction Heroes DAH-074 Al McWhiggin

As a toy collector, this felt like a figure that was a weird requirement to own.  It's also a figure that feels less likely to get a lot of toys.  He was the villain for Toy Story 2, for the most part, but Toy Story toys tend to revolve around the Toy characters, who are all "toy sized."  Plus he is just kind of a goofy weird design in general. I was a little warry because I don't really know anything about the company making these.  Buying from lesser known companies isn't always an issue, and neither is buying from…
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…