1UP basically sunk and I turned up here in February, just in time for blog-a-day. What else? Nada mas.
I started writing blogs for 1UP in 2010. That's about all. The rest is contained in this list of media I enjoyed that year.
Not much going on for me in 2009, when I look back. I read a lot of books and played a lot of games. I bought a new laptop, an Inspiron from Dell that's still working today. The urge to upgrade is very strong right now. Here are some of my favorite media from 2009.
Welcome to Nerds Without Pants! Well, we asked for epic video game music, and y’all did NOT disappoint. Let’s get right to it!
You know what I don’t get? It’s 10am local time, there is a vehicle in the driveway, you know a lot of people are still stuck in their homes, so why doesn’t USPS guy/gal/whatever just hit the doorbell, drop the package and walk away? Instead they leave it literally on the Welcome mat instead of the nice hiding place known as the post next to the door like UPS guy? These are the same people who broke my other package from Amazon and instead of owning up to it, probably tossed it and deemed it as lost. Yes, this is how I am starting my Friday.
I currently have the NASA/Space X launch streaming on my laptop and they showed inside the vehicle and it hits me, they’re sitting in there waiting for the launch in just under 2 hours. What are they doing? I get they are going over preflight and all that jazz but you have three big screens inside the capsule why not play something? Hell why not watch something, check your email, go Reddit, something. It’s kinda odd the astronauts are sitting there but they are not talking to each other. Either way I’m excited to see this. Growing up I wanted to be a part of NASA but I’m not a fan of heights so that job was out. Anyways it’s exciting to see a launch. Have a good one and WASH YOUR HANDS!
Ok so I didn’t get back for my Part II of Adventures At The DMV, so we shall do it here. I didn’t get my Real ID (the fancy smacy one that let’s me into airports). So this is what happened: First I didn’t write down my confirmation code that I filled out the application so I had to do it again. Funny considering that I needed to fill out the application just to get the appointment. It took all of five minutes so no big deal. Next my Birth Certificate isn’t the official one so now I have to get one from the state I was born in, and that’ll take 2 freaking months. MONTHS! A little bummed but I was told since I’ve had a passport I should try and get it renewed and it covers me going on an airplane. So I’ll do that next week.
Since I’m on Day 2 of stalling for a theme for my #BaD2020 let’s ramble on about what game I played on the flight home from San Francisco. Remember the past couple of weeks where I bought the IPega Red Knight and combined it with my old music player? Well I didn’t play that, but instead I played a Tecmo Bowl style game on my iPad called Retro Bowl.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps and I have to say this is the first time I’ve been in front of a laptop in a couple of days. I spent the weekend in San Francisco for a baby shower for my future nephew. While we were there I also spent time as a tourist doing the ultimate touristy thing and that is take the bus tour around the city, see some sights, soak up a little history and trivia and overall just enjoy the cool weather. Since I have no idea what to do for BaD this will be my jumping off point…and as a bonus my trip details will be in bullet point for that good ol’ fashion Cliffs Notes feel.
Since 2019 is, for all intents and purposes, over, I am posting my top 10 games of the year for 2019.
I got encouraged by a friend at work to keep on going with Death Stranding. Luckily, I forgot to return it, so I was able to get back in there and solve my problem. Then I realized I needed an achievement on Xbox to get the daily rewards points, so I switched systems and played several different games there.
Good afternoon Pixlpeeps! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving (for you Canadian folks I hope you had a wonderful week). I did something different this year and spent time with the family in Las Vegas. We spent a week in Las Vegas and went to the strip once. Crazy, right? Anyways let’s take a look.
On Saturday I had a blog all typed up because I didn’t want to get out of bed and be productive. After finishing it I didn’t like it so here we are…I’LL READ IT LIVE!!! This opened up more time for me to actually play some games. Crazy, right? Let’s take a quick tour because I think my laundry is almost done.
We are what a week away from Halloween and I still haven’t bought any candy, carved a pumpkin, or figured out which jersey I want to wear as I hand out candy. Since my neighborhood has so few people who go trick or treatin’ everyone gets a handful of candy. The neighborhood also had an event at the park last week where people were supposed to park at the clubhouse and handout candy from their trunk. I didn’t do this because it was last Saturday, and in the daytime. Anyways we have had enough candy talk let’s see what Chris has played.
I’m going to save the day with more game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK, let’s go!
Every time I play Xevious on one of Namco’s "museum" compilations, I can’t help but reminisce about the time when I first discovered the game in 1992 on the Atari 7800 (a system which also familiarized me with other Namco classics outside of Pac-Man). Back then, our family couldn’t afford the Super NES or Sega Genesis. So, in a move of what I think was out of pity, a friend of ours gave us her 7800 with a huge bag full of games. While rummaging through the cartridges, I came across the little oddity known as Xevious. It was probably the first game I had heard of that started with an “X”, and the name intrigued me. I quickly fell in love with the unique enemy designs and mysterious land structures peppered throughout the game.
Yes um. . . played me some Forza Horizon 4, Wargroove and Just Cause 4. All were very nice. Details. . .
So last we’ll look at the rest of the games on the vol. 3 collection of Atari games, these coming from the 2600. I have to say that I don’t have as much nostalgia for the 2600. I did play it a lot at friends and neighbors’ houses, but I didn’t own one myself until many years later. Plus I just don’t think most of the 2600 library is that good. I did like most of Activision’s games, and there were a few arcade ports that were decent, like Moon Patrol or Centipede. But most of the Atari made games just didn’t grab me. So if I gloss over a lot of these, now you know why. Anyway, let’s look at the games on here.