Chris Yarger, who I talk to every day on text, finished Zelda. He got a Switch about two months ago, and is kind of a Nintendo hater... it was a present for his sons. But I told him Zelda was good. He eventually changed his mind. But the other night he told me he was facing the final boss, and a little while after that he told me it was done. I'm way behind in Zelda, but I hope to get back to it eventually.
Maniac Mansion, easily one of the best Adventure games ever, is now available for the first time on GOG.com. It's also on sale for only $4. This includes the original version and enhanced edition.
I downloaded the demo for the new Kirby game, and while I really liked it, I don't think I'm going to buy it yet. Maybe sometime if it's ever cheaper. It's cool, and cute, and clever, but it's really a kids game, and I am so overwhelmed by my backlog, not to mention the fact I preordered Ni No Kuni 2 the other day. So it's just not meant to be right now.
With the advent of the new century, so came the Sega Dreamcast, a harbinger of bullshit to come. Me and Gregg moved out of the ghetto in the late 99 and eventually found a home in the Sunset area of San Francisco, near the beach. We were both making good money and could afford to pay out the nose. For that Christmas my parents blessed me with a Dreamcast, and I returned home with it and Sonic Adventure.
Our next inebriated adventure takes place in 1998/1999 when I was living with Gregg in a shithole apartment south of San Francisco during the Dot Com boom. I wasn't doing a lot of drugs then, but we would go out and drink, and when we came back we would play Smash Bros on the N64 all night.
Well, it's another Xmas, and my brother arrived yesterday from Maryland to do some gaming! First on the docket is Walking Dead... we did the first two episodes of the latest game last season, but now it's time to finish up the game. After that it's time for Star Wars Battlefront 2, which I know has problems, but my brother wanted to check it out, so... And for Xmas day we have Prey and Evil Within 2 coming. Should be a fun filled holiday!
Ok so this is my fourth try at writing this blog. Fifth if you count my crazy idea of trying to blog on a plane, but I'm hoping when I am done typing this, I will be happy with it and I will hit post. On Friday I had one all written out, and I was editing pictures when I said “why”. I wasn't really happy with what I was trying to share with you good people, so I scrapped it. Saturday I tried again but after two paragraphs I figured out that playing a freemium game on my phone was a more interesting. Its not like I didn't want to write to you folks, I just felt that what I was writing wasn't worth sharing. So here we are, July the 3rd or as I like to call it Fireworks Eve. By the way Happy Canada Day to you folks living above us here in the 48. Saturday afternoon the power goes out in my neighborhood and my neighbor's son in law comes over and asks if our Hydro is out. I figured he was talking about the power and I said yeah. He then wished me a Happy 4th. Anyways let's get started with what I hope to be the Quick Hits I had in mind but didn't share.
Welcome to a new episode of the Dumpster Fire, er, I mean, Nerds Without Pants! Yes, we had some serious issues getting this episode to you, but it should be somewhat entertaining. We’ve got the best of the games that never were, epic road trips, questionable MMO addictions, and an eclectic mix of games for Chrono Crossing. Let’s jump in!
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! As I type this what is normally sunny Southern California is gray, gloomy, and wet because we are having another storm roll through. Yesterday it was just gray and gloomy with sprinkles here and there, but now the water hitting everything is a symphony of different sounds and it is a perfect time to have some soup and maybe catch up on some reading...OR I can write about my experiences with you good people. Yeah I'll be back in a couple of hours.
Good morning Pixlbit, how are you today? I know you good people are excited that it is Friday and the weekend is hours away. I spent the earlier this morning doing my usual of beating my alarm by an hour, and watching local news while reading Twitter. Exciting isn’t it? I just finished editing some photos so why not start this week’s Quick Hits!
I’m bummed that the weekend has ended already. I would have gotten more stuff done (probably not) and maybe tackled other games on Mount Backlog but alas the weekend is over. Good morning Pixlbit. I’m currently sitting in day three of a Heat Advisory where on Saturday it hit a warm 118 here in Hot as Heck Southern California. I “escaped” the crazy heat by visiting the outlet stores a half hour away from here where it was a cool 106 but there was a breeze. I spent the maybe 30 minutes sitting outside and it was kind of nice
Good morning Pixlbit! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I decided to camp out in front of the TV, in hopes of trying to play through some stuff I own, and I did a little bit of that. I would have gotten through a whole lot more if random napping, and having a mini marathon of Ray Donovan Season 2 and random episodes of Archer didn’t get in the way. I didn’t knock out any games from Mount Backlog but I did manage to squeeze in some playing time with some 3DS Mii games and made some progress in a couple of other games.
Happy Monday Pixlbit Nation. So we are starting August and the summer is almost over. Of course here in my little piece of Southern California that means crazy triple digit heat and I’m at the point where I want to start knocking out more games off Mount Backlog. Since I haven’t given a games played update in a couple of weeks its time to catch up and see how July went.
Good morning Pixlbit Nation and Happy Tuesday! My day started at 4:00am for some odd reason and I tried for an hour to go back to sleep but eventually I just fired up the 3DS XL and waited for the alarm to go off. I’m not complaining I had a four day vacation where I got to do nothing but catch up on games, some shows on Netflix, and visited the local mom & pop music store. During this time I did take down two games from Mount Backlog.
It's another big dumb day picking up new media to consume. I also hit up the fast food chains: Wendy's for a chicken sandwich and McD's for a hot tea and Miis via Spot Pass. Soon I'll hit up a coffee shop and get my hour of reading done before work. Right now though, I'll share with you all my music and game finds in the wilds of suburbia. See picture below.
Pixlbit Nation, what is up? Happy Friday good people, hope the week treated you well and you are now ready to enjoy the weekend. So anything good happen? I became a year older, finished binge watching House of Cards, and other fun and crazy things but you’ll read about all that stuff later. Sound fun? Good, let’s get this started!
Happy Tuesday Pixlbiticans, and Turkey Day is only a couple of days away! Because of this I might only do one blog this week because, well let’s face it there is going to be a lot of food and I want to eat, sit in front of the television, and maybe enjoy a couple of power naps. Hey everyone outside of the US, go ahead and celebrate too. Eat something with turkey, put a buckle on your hat, and think about the stuff you are thankful for. Speaking of, I am thankful to have a little piece of the Internet like Pixlbit to write all my randoms and share common hobbies (and pick up some new ones) with you good people. There are a ton of good folks here who have different opinions, and thoughts I wouldn’t have but that’s the beauty of spots like this. We all have our views and nobody is wrong (unless you hate the Yogurtland Rockpop flavor. You’re just a terrible human being 
) and because of this I thank you good folks for making this little piece of the Internet warm and cozy!
Oh one hour of sleep I’ve missed you! For you folks who don’t move their clocks Sunny Southern California got to move its clocks back one hour early Sunday Morning which means, well nothing really especially since I’m still waking up at 6:30am, even on weekends. Blah! Anyways Good Morning Pixlbit Nation, how was your Halloween Weekend? Anything fun happen? Here in the neighborhood we had 10x the kids as last year! Yup ten kids total showed up to the house and got a handful of candy each. One kid freaked out, started running to show his parents, and almost dropped all his candy. Best costume of the day went to a little kid who dressed up as an old timey weightlifter. He got two handfuls of candy. I broke my rule of not giving teens candy when everyone was finishing off trick or treating, there was a guy walking around I’m assuming is his younger brother. I gave him a handful of candy because he was doing this for his bro.
Well Happy Monday good people of the 7 Pixlbit Nation (you’re not humming that bass line, and the hardcore folks are playing air drums). I hope your weekend was filled with fun/rest/games/pickups/and any other fun random things you folks like to do. This past weekend I had the ultra rare CD Friday. I didn’t want to have CD Saturday/Sunday because this weekend I wanted to spend the weekend doing nothing but camping out in front of the television. I did have one big goal for Friday, and that was to get my Dreamcast connected to my television and go back to 1999.
Ok Pixlbit I am back for Part 2 of my Quick Hits Chris Is Back Form Hawai’i blog. Now last time I went over how I started my trip (Thanks United) and some of the things I did on the islands. Today I thought I’d mention some of the actual gaming that went on. I mean c’mon this is a gaming blog I should mention the handful of times I whipped out the Vita, 3DS XL, and the tablets right? I also have some other pickups I’d like to mention as well so let’s get started before I force myself to eat Oatmeal.
Happy Monday Pixlbit! It is a nice 86 currently (it’ll jump later on) and I have a bit of free time, its time to keep you good people updated on what I have been playing, but first I saw that Twitter and some folks here are talking about Destiny. For you folks who are in the Beta, congrats! As for myself there’s nothing fancy going on here just some things I’ve spent time playing
Today is the 14th anniversary of the release of Final Fantasy IX, one of my favorite games of all time. The timeless tale of Zidane, Dagger, Steiner, Vivi, and the other characters lodged itself into my heart the first time I played it in my shitty rundown apartment in San Francisco, and ever since I’ve continued to play it every few years, because it brings me joy I can’t really find in anywhere else. According to Wikipedia, it’s the highest rated FF game on Metacritic, and for good reason: it’s the fucking bomb.
What day is it Pixlbit?