I thought I'd post this picture of my games up on the two bookshelves I bought last week. This is after the several purges I made for games to trade. I managed to add a few more bucks to the XBO purchase I needed to get my long time gaming buddy Mark to join the current generation. I also traded in older stuff Gamestop wouldn't take to my local game store and picked up Tales of Zestiria for PS4. Pics below:
I exchanged my broken Genesis controller for a working one at my local retro gaming shop, Jay Street Video Games. I got the same original style controller. There's a smaller one with six buttons, but I like the bigger one with three. Then I traded some stuff and got Pokemon Conquest for DS. I had a talk with the saleswoman about the game and 999 for DS. These were both hers originally it turned out, and she knew both well. I was torn as to which to get and went with Pokemon Conquest, but I really wanted 999 too. Maybe next time. Here's a pic:
I was down to around 25 free GB on my 360, and since I've been grabbing a lot of free games from Games with Gold, I decided it was time for a bigger hard drive. Got a 320 GB off Amazon for $44 and FedEx just delivered it. Now comes the fun part of transferring everything. The data cable I bought was used and didn't come with the utility disc, but I read somewhere that I don't need it. Hope that's the case.
I looked at my 3DS tonight (it's actually early Saturday morning) and saw the addition of 2 more Miis to make 4 total so far this week. I'm a little disappointed because I went to Barnes & Noble, a Nintendo Hot Spot, and only got one Mii from there. I didn't go there just for Miis though, I went there to buy Retro Gaming Magazine.
This month I've been completely absent from blogging. Sorry I couldn't participate in BaD this year. But I just had to share this in case others aren't aware yet. Last night, I was treated to a nice surprise upon booting up my Wii U and visiting the eShop. I saw the following:
Today I got deep into Silent Hill. So much so that I beat the game. Then I downloaded Tales from Monkey Island from PSN and played a few hours of that. I think adventure gaming puzzles are a real pain and should be easier, or at least have a hint system, not as generous as Professor Layton, but generous like the remake of Secret of Monkey Island (which I still got stuck in even with the generous hints - see how puzzle-challenged I am).
After thinking about randomly selecting old games to play during holidays, and reading a lot of old D&D stuff, I came up with an interesting idea. Why not make a monster encounter table for games. I used the genres listed at allgame.com (when it was up), and the stats I came up with few month ago on my gaming habits. The result is below.
I would be hard pressed to include a Castlevania title this year given how I did such last year with Castlevania Judgment. But given how the Wii U’s Virtual Console is getting a lot of Castlevania love this month with Castlevania: Dracula X, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, I thought this would be a good time to highlight a Castlevania title that might get overlooked by Wii U owners. I am hopeful that Wii U owners might be able to buy this WiiWare title that seems to have been long forgotten. I hardly hear anyone speak of this title, especially after the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. So hopefully you’re all in the mood to dust off your Nintendo Wii’s (or have the urge to enter your Wii U’s into Wii Mode to see if you can buy this little gem) for some retro gaming goodness with my number 9 pick for Octoberween 2014 – Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth.
Sorry for my absence you all know im uaually on here alot but my life is a busy one as late and thats my excuse any who like my headline says do they work Emulators on your tablets and phones and gladly I say yes very well in fact after I show you how well you may not play a vita or 3ds again ha ha!!
i finally broke down and bought one of these consoles. The Retron 3,which plays NES,SNES,and Genesis games. From what I understand it will play Famicom games as well. I had my doubts about this thing,but was pleasantly surprised by it. It works great and looks good even on a big HD display. I plan on getting a smaller old school tube TV for using it with. Maybe one of those old Sony or RCA flat screen types that I used to play PS1 games on. Retro games look awesome on those. It comes with 2 wireless controllers that work really well. Has two ports for your retro controllers on the front and sides. Connections for S-Video and regular A/V input with the White\Red\Yellow plugs. It's super lightweight and compact so I should be able to integrate it into my gaming rig easily. Now for the fun part.....retro game shopping!
My my it has been a long time, and so I’d like to apologize to all of you PixlBitters/1Uppers that I’ve inadvertently been ignoring due to work, filming, and the small bits of life in between – I always come back! With that said, earlier, I tweeted something that when I first typed it, didn’t realize how much weight it held. See below:
Christ I've been away for a while, and believe me - I didn't mean to neglect you, Pixlbit, you minx, but I have been extremely busy with real life - vacation planning, working my ass off, and of course, working on Season 3 of Retro Rampage.
