I see the end of my 360 games in sight and so started putting my PS3 games in order for some serious PS3 action in a couple of weeks, probably.
The Star Fox series has always been special to me. When I turned 8, shortly after the original game came out, my parents surprised me with it on my birthday. At the time, I remember thinking the 3D graphics were incredible and the game was extremely fun. I was addicted to blasting through space and foiling Andross' plans to dominate the universe. Years on, I remember obsessing over my Nintendo Power issues that showed Star Fox 2 - the new characters and crafts looked amazing. Unfortunately, it wouldn't officially see the light of day until I was an adult, but my Star Fox appetite would soon be satiated with Star Fox 64.
I might have gotten confused, frustrated and dead in many of them, but I enjoyed them all. Who says you got to finish stuff? It's the journey not the destination, I say.
My new plan is to roughly follow my reading plan. This month I'm reading from the years 1900-1949. The games just have to be related to the period in some way. So this blog is about my week's plays and some new pickups.
Recent reviews I’ve written over at GamerDad.com are blooming, so please click on the links below and read as many as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
. . .about Generation 3 in console video games, but more specifically the years '84-'89. It's my theme for March this year. I couldn't resist expanding it to include arcade, PC and board games too. I thought I'd share it here.
I'm going to focus on the three titles that grabbed my attention, and most of my time, this week. Also a surprise new purchase at the end.
So recently I played through Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe on Switch. Knowing that I’m a huge Kirby fan, you’re probably wondering why I didn’t get this game back when it released in February. Well I don’t really like paying full price for Switch re-releases and remakes, especially when I already paid for these games back on the original console. So I waited and asked for it for my birthday, which is what I usually do for games I want to get, but don’t have to play right away. So since I had already played this one back on the Wii, I decided I can wait and put it on my birthday list. After playing it, I have to say that unlike a lot of other Switch rereleases, this one’s actually pretty good and adds a lot of extra content. One of the extra things is an amusement park with ten Kirby mini-games from past titles! And since I like to write blogs about games that have a lot of mini-games, especially if they are presented in a museum or amusement park, let’s take a tour of Merry Magoland!
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire retook the sales crown in 2003 making it five years since '98 that the franchise won it. Mario Kart Double Dash, a game I always wanted for its co-op but never got, was #2 in '03. Steam was fully released out of beta and Call of Duty began. Here are the games I'd like to play again or for the first time.
I didn't own this back in 1980 when it came to the U.S., but my next door neighbor had one. I spent a lot of time over there playing with him and all the other 13 year old kids that came over.
The 1980s was a decade with no shortage of TV action/crime dramas featuring a suave loner with a high-tech vehicle on a crusade to champion all that is good. At the top of the pile was Knight Rider. Each week, David Hasselhoff hit the road to stop criminals with the help of KITT- a super-advanced Pontiac Firebird Trans Am voiced by William Daniels (aka Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World). A popular show in syndication by 1988, Knight Rider was the perfect candidate to get a licensed video game on the even more popular Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). So now, sit back and join me on this shadowy flight into a dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
It’s a lot of 2’s today. Good morning Pixlpeeps and it is a cool morning here in Hawaii. It’s currently 6am so no sun but in about an hour there should be some sun, let’s get started.
Zoo Tycoon was released in 2013 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One. An upgraded edition was released in 2017 called Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection for Xbox One and S|X and added to Game Pass. I played the 2013 edition a lot and when the UAC version came up in a Game Pass quest recently, I played it again and realized that this version gives me a totally fresh set of achievements and new animals. I'm excited to play the whole game over again.
Good morning Pixlpeeps and it is a warm sunny morning here in Hawaii. Ok so I kinda mentioned in previous blogs that there has been a lot going on and this is the reason why: I moved. I officially left California on Monday, and I am spending a couple of months in Hawaii until the house is built in….Nevada! Las Vegas to be exact. It has been a wild 6 months and there is another 5 months until the house is built. Until then I’ll be splitting time between Hawaii and then Nevada. It’s exciting, and stressful but I’m at the point where I don’t have to do anything but just relax and enjoy the ride.
After I quickly bailed on a few games, I looked through the free-2-play games list in the Xbox store and found some fun ones that took up the rest of my game time on the weekend.
Had me some fudge mint cookies not unlike the girl scout cookies Thin Mints. Then been played some games. (Suck it Grammarly. I love red underlines)
If you live anywhere in the northeastern United States like me, your space is likely being invaded by the periodical cicada brood this time of year. After experiencing the terror of having one smack me in the eye the other day, I realized that these critters share some interesting commonalities with the insects in the arcade classic Galaxian. They’re red-eyed, noisy in groups, and will eagerly dive-bomb you as if “Ride of the Valkyries” were blasting in the background. If you told me cicadas were the inspiration behind this game, I’d totally believe you.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with tons of games and all kinds of crazy stories. I did not game much because I had my second shot (Part 2 of the Pfizer), still didn’t get my sticker, and I thought I would be sick as a dog the entire weekend. Since I already had the virus I was fine, but my post virus cough has seemed to return. Whatever, so most of my weekend was continuing to clean up the mess that is my music libraries (FLAC and AAC/MP3) but the days leading up to the weekend and Sunday afternoon I may have squeezed in some games just to say I played some games, and progressed my created players.
Good evening Pixlpeeps! Ok so I had some work stuff today, and it went faster than expected but after that I took a crazy nap because my body is catching up on some lost sleep. For some odd reason I’ve been waking up at 5am, going back to sleep at 6am and finally hitting my alarm when it goes off at 7:12am. Odd week. Anyways it’s late yet here I am writing about the past week’s stuff.
This was the demo disc for the March 2002 issue of The Official Xbox Magazine. It has demos, trailers, a behind-the-scenes video, tv ads, and gameplay highlights. I find it a cool trip down memory lane to watch these things again. Here are some more details..
It turns out AirForce Delta Storm didn't work and I had to return it, but it was the first demo on Official Xbox Magazine's demo disc 3. So I played it there and everything else that was on it.
My friend and I played a lot of games together back in the OG Xbox years. I thought about the top 50 games we played the most. It's made up of 17 FPS's, 9 Co-op, 9 Collections, 4 Racing, 4 3PS's, 4 Action-Adventure, 1 Flight, 1 Sports, and 1 RPG. Here's the list in roughly chronological order: