It’s been a while since I’ve tried making a game. I write little ideas down in my notebook here and there, snippets or ideas that I think might be fun to do something with, but it’s been I think two years since I’ve made a finished game, my last one being Monarch’s Flight for the NES. So I was pretty excited when a while back I got an idea in my head, and started playing…
A lot has been said of Atari’s E.T. game, over the years. It’s a game that really strove to offer the player a more in-depth experience than what other licensed games were doing at the time. Aliens was made into an Atari game, and it’s essentially a Pac-Man clone, for instance, and while developer Howard Scott Warshaw’s vision proved too lofty for his five week time limit to create E.T., there’s…
Years and years ago, back when the original DS was absolutely huge, the Nintendo World store in New York offered a pretty cool feature where you could pay to have them engrave something on your DS! This is going back quite a ways now, so my memory on the whole thing is a bit fuzzy, but at least when I had it done, the process only took about a half hour. They had a binder…
If I’ve been keeping up with my new Backloggd account I mentioned last month, and I think that I have, I have not played a large number of games this month. But that’s because most of them are so darn addictive I just haven’t had time to play anything else!!! Pokopia Yup, I’m still playing this and I still haven’t rolled credits on this one, and that’s just fine with me. I know from my…
Geez, I’m bad at regularly blogging, even when it’s about something I like, like games! Anyway! I recently started using the website Backloggd in order to track my gaming. I figured this would be a good way to remember what to talk about, as my memory is so bad that two days after I’ve played something I’m not going to remember what I played recently! I use Bookmory for keeping track of my reading…
Duck Detective and the Secret Salami might be the perfect weekend gaming pick. It’s adorable, easy to pick up, and has some great voice acting. I don’t know what took me so long to get around to this, I remember hearing about it back when it came out, but like many smaller games and indie games that sound cool, when you have the time to play a new game you’ve already forgotten about it!…
Lately I seem to be in the mood for games that are on the short side. I recently played through the first Duck Detective game, and when I saw that Europa, which was on my wishlist, had gone on sale, I figured this was the time to try it. Just watching the trailer for Europa, I was struck by the gorgeous art style, which is clearly inspired by Studio Ghibli, and in particular the movie…
My love of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is long-standing and well-established. I’ve enjoyed almost every incarnation of the TMNT in their TV, movie, and comic book universes. Well, maybe not TMNT 3...*shudder*...I said ALMOST every incarnation! But one recent version I had missed was the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, which is based on the latest movie, Mutant Mayhem. I…
This past week I was a vendor at the New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market, their Christmassy “Wreck The Halls” event. This was just my second event I’ve tabled at, so I’m still feeling out how things work. The event had a couple of surprises in store for me, some of which is just me still getting my bearings and some of which was just the weirdness of the event! So some quick background, a…
Welp, I’ve put in nearly 40 hours in Pokemon Legends Z-A, so I thought I’d write a little about my thoughts on it. This is coming from a gamer who has been pretty enthusiastic about Pokemon ever since it first released, and I’ve played every mainline Pokemon game, and a few of the many spinoffs as well. I really enjoyed the last Legends game, Pokemon Legends Arceus, and was excited about a…