I got several Batman Gotham Knights comics recently and found them loaded with game ads from that time, early 2000s. Here are the pics:

What goes better with gaming than junk food that makes you giddy like 5 year olds on, well, Ding Dongs and Funnybones. Yeah, it's unhealthy, but it's only 1. . . ok 2. . . fine! 3 days a week. How else am I going to get through hours and hours of Halo mulitplayer. Ok, I don't play Halo multiplayer, but hours and hours of multiplayer Forza Horizon 5. Anyway, I bought some stuff for my retro gaming and played some more board games. 

You may not know about the Pocky and Rocky game series, but they’ve had four titles under their belt with a new one that just came out!  They’re 2-D shooters, but they don’t auto-scroll (think Ikari Warriors or Commando), but it’s the theme that makes them stand out.  The games have a Japanese myths and legends motif.  They’re really fun games, but also really hard!  Or maybe I just suck at them, I dunno.  Anyway, since the new game just came out, I thought I’d be your tour guide in this shrine featuring all the games in the series!  So let’s begin!

I traded in the last of what I wanted to trade to Gamestop today, and just like last week, the salesman referred me to a retro store for selling the rest of my stuff. This was another one I didn't know (or forgot) about, Game N DVD Exchange in Media, Pa, a short drive from where I live. I went there and traded the rest of my stuff for store credit. I got pretty good value, I thought. Here's a video of some YouTubers who went there. 

...and I'm thinking about the first decade of the 2000s, 2000-2009. Here's a list of games I want to focus on this month when I'm not chasing rewards points or some new release. 

I couldn't resist a quick chat on my comics reading and console-setup. Here goes. 

I played a hefty amount today with some good results. Then I got resupplied with OG Xbox games from my friend and from a few online orders which appeared today. 

Happy BaD! As always, I'm really bad about participating in BaD, my last blog was almost 5 months ago, but I do look forward to the BaD entries of others.

I’ve cooked up a feast of game reviews for you all to read over at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d really appreciate it.  After reading all of these, you should have nice, fat, full tummies afterwards!  Bon Appetit!

Well, I finally knocked Tool of Destruction off Mount Backlog. I might go back for a replay and to see if I can get the last couple of gold bolts and a few more skill points, but that will be later. I moved on to Casey's favorite, A Crack In Time and finished that day before yesterday and did a challenge mode run through yesterday in between cleaning and reorganizing my kitchen area (Death to all ants!!!) I set my timer for 15 minutes of game time after I would finish up one task and before moving on to the next. It was a pretty good motivational tool. I may keep that up, it was quite effective.

Yes, I'm alive. Busy and burned out at work and it's not even June. More about that at the end. I've been gaming more these days, so I actually have something to blog about for a change. And yes, true to form, they are all "late to the party" games that I'm sure everyone else played ages ago.

I'm playing a lot of games from 1985-89 this month but also some new stuff that came up, older stuff, and old but not so old stuff too. I'm playing everything, but I'm thinking about '85-'89 mainly and what it all means to me, music, games, books, film, you name it. So here are a few screen shots and a list of stuff I've been playing, if that's interesting to anybody. 

I don’t know if it was because there was a Spring Sale, or if it was Golden Week in Japan, or maybe because of all the Coronavirus stuff.  But there have been a BUNCH of games on sale lately.  A few weeks ago, I got about five games on sale on PS4 for mostly less than ten bucks each!  Most of them were arcade collections.  Originally they were all 20 bucks, which isn’t THAT bad anyway.  But I feel that digital only collections like this are still too pricey at that amount.  If they were physical copies yeah I’d pay that.  But since they were only digital I decided to wait for a sale.  One of the games I got from that sale was the Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle, which comes with seven arcade classic co-op side scrolling beat ‘em ups.  There are also a bunch of neat artwork galleries in this game as well, plus you can save your games and even play them online!  But since I like to talk about the games in these collections, let’s do that with this one.  In the coming weeks I’ll talk about some of the other games I got on sale, too!

I really need to blog more. Actually, I need to game more so I'll have more to blog about. But anyway...

Good morning Pixlpeeps and Happy Presidents Day! Special shoutout to the 29^th President Warren G. Harding!

Okey dokey. Here are the last titles I’m grabbing from Metacritic. These cover all the games I want to play (or play again) with a 90 rating.

Can you believe the Nintendo 3DS was released 8 years ago in 2011?  I don’t like calling a game system ‘dead,’ because I feel a game console in only dead if you don’t play it.  But the 3DS is certainly at the end of its retail life cycle, as Nintendo isn’t making any more games for it, focusing solely on the Switch now.  So when a game console or handheld reaches that point in its life, I like to write a blog or two highlighting the best games for it (or at least the ones I really liked).  So here are some blogs about the best games on the 3DS!  There were SO many that I had to split it into two parts.  The first part we’re going to go over my favorite downloadable games, along with some other features of the 3DS I really liked.

Got another batch of games I’ve recently reviewed over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on and read as many as you can and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s begin.

NIS America recently released a collection of some of SNK’s arcade hits on the Switch.  While SNK is mostly known for their fighting games and NEO GEO, before then they made other arcade games, too, and that’s what this collection is all about.  So no King of Fighters or other NEO GEO games.  Mostly pre-90’s stuff here.  But despite having a lot of army themed shooters, this is still a pretty good collection, so I thought I’d go over the games on it today.

Arcade games were the gold standard of video games for over two decades. Dedicated arcade machines could have more sophisticated hardware than home consoles and computers were capable of having without being prohibitively expensive. This situation lasted until the mid-90s, when consoles like the PS1 and N64, as well as PCs, caught up and even surpassed arcade machines. Before then, the ultimate complement that could be paid to a video game was "arcade perfect." The arcades were often proving grounds for new home console technology. Sega used its arcade games in this manner, and Namco's games had hardware based on the PlayStation architecture.