So many games, so little time

  So man, a vacation goes by really, really fast. My vacation has been spent primarily at home, and I’ve been trying to cram in as much video game playing as I can to make up for the lack of gaming when I’m working and then coming home to work on stuff for school. I’ve made some good progress so far, completing the new Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on PSP, then finally finishing up…

  I indulged in a little retro shopping spree over the weekend. Beauty and the Beast looks like it's never been played, it's in perfect condition. I'm interested in seeing how that game plays. It's made by Hudson, which seems an odd pick for this type of game. I guess I think Hudson and I immediately think of Bomberman and Adventure Island. Next we've got Animaniacs for the Genesis. I'm guessing this is the same…

Recently I purchased a Sega Genesis from a local used game shop so I could finally play some of the games that as a kid were denied to me and my Super Nintendo lifestyle. For the most part I’ve played many of the games I looked at with quiet longing when there were released on the PS2 and PS3 as part of the Sega Genesis Collection and Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, respectively. I’ve long ago…

So I figured that going back to get my master's degree would change up my usual video game playing habits, my previous habits being that whenever I was not at work, I was most likely playing video games. I had no idea just how much that would change, as in...I've pretty much not played anything at all for the past five weeks. And what I have played is stuff that I can pick up, play…

So PAX East 2010 weekend came and went in a blur. One big, crazy, explosion of games blur. Highlights of the weekend include getting to see Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade in person (of course), getting to see an early screening of Get Lamp (an upcoming documentary on text adventures and interactive fiction), the Omegathon finals, and getting to see a live podcast recording of the 1Up Retronauts show. Really, it was such a…

Finally, I can play a complete RPG from start to finish with no problem, even with my full-time job and part-time graduate classes! Synopsis Quest from Skipmore is a complete old-school RPG experience, chopped into 25 game segments, each lasting under one minute. It's WarioWare meets Dragon Quest! I found this game to be incredibly charming, and some of the segments played on your expectations making a deviously fun challenge, even if the challenge is…