It looks like I haven’t been very good with keeping the monthly ‘what I’ve been playing’ post going! I’m really bad at logging what I’m playing. But I guess the long and short of it has been more Pokopia, especially now that the DLC has been released, UFO 50 for Switch, which my wife got me for my birthday (the physical special edition with the guide!), and Super Mariomon, a romhack of Pokemon Emerald. I’ve…
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I decided to take the plunge recently get a new pocket retro gaming device. For the past several years, I’ve been using a Pocket Go S30. I’ve had it for probably six years or so, and while it wasn’t the best, it was just good enough to be what I wanted out of one of these things. It was cheap, around $65, it was small and portable, and it had an okay screen. It could…
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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…
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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 some good ideas in…
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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…
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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…
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