In my year-long project, June is 1970s month. In video gaming this means Pong, Atari 2600, arcade games and various LED handhelds. 

I played a little bit of several titles, but what I mostly played was Earth Defense Force 2025 with my friend and an assortment of randos. 

Games played or just visited over the last week. 

I grabbed all the rest of the Outlaw Nation comics in the bargain bin to see what other game ads might be found. There were a good number of them. Here are the 1-pagers.

My friend and I started playing this a month or so ago and haven't stopped since. Let's see the evolution of my Necromancer over time as I acquired new gear. 

This is what I picked up last time I was at Classic Game Junkies. I'm also including an item I saw there but didn't buy. 

I found a few of these print ads one day, and then I hit the motherload with a comic called Outlaw Nation. This comic had five or more video game ads per issue. I photographed them all to share here.

I just finished the last issue of this Witcher comic book story arc. I wasn't all that thrilled with it at first, but its ending changed my mind. 

Welcome to a (relatively) short news edition of Nerds Without Pants! Julian was on vacation when we recorded this, and is still in “away” mode as this goes up, so please excuse the brief show notes this week

Quite a few actually in the last month or so. I had some rewards money from Microsoft, and I'm working on a new game plan and needed some games to make it work. 

I'm a big fan of developer People Can Fly, so when I saw that this game was theirs, I jumped on board. I bounced off it a few times initially. I liked it but the feeling of the controls felt slightly off to me. I tried adjusting the speed of the analog sticks, but it didn't quite work. When I decided to really dig into this game, I figured it out.

I've seen several of these "Comic Book Story of" books lately. I've read one on the history of pinball and now this one on video games. It's surprisingly good and enormously fun to read and see. 

As soon as I saw a new release of Catan for consoles last month, I got the game. I have the board game too, but I haven't had an oportunity to play it. Console versions, however, I've played a lot, including this new one. 

Fantastic guests make for fantastic shows, so for this episode of Nerds Without Pants we are joined once again by Bill Tucker of A Gamer Looks at 40. He’s here to not judge as we let our vicious side out and talk about video game baddies we LOVE killing. Over. And over. And over again. Oh, and Justin gets very creative in Video Game Cage Match. Enjoy!

This is the third game I'm playing on Android for Xbox achievements. It's a good quality Mahjong game. I'm enjoying it. 

Every day that I visit the comic store, I browse the bargain bin for interesting single issues from the past. In addition to trying out new stories and characters, I find video game ads. I started scanning (and now photographing) them. Here are the latest ones. 

 Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants! Friend of the show John Gholson returns after a very long absence to talk about games we wish we could play again for the first time. It’s a fun topic with lots of asides and trips down memory lane. We also talk some Fire Emblem, Like a Dragon, and PSVR 2, plus much more!

I graduated high school in 1986 and was off to college that fall. My parents were generous enough to send me off with a new computer, an Apple Macintosh Plus. 

I was right in the middle of High School when my parents bought their first home computer, the Apple IIc in 1984. I was 17. 

After ejoying Halo Infinite's open world exploration, I decided that was one of my favorite things in games, and so I dug up an old series to get back into, Just Cause. 

I read two new game related comics and set up my toy train set and Christmas village. 

I set up my Disney Infinity on my Xbox 360, and  played some Immortals: Fenyx Rising and Pillars of the Earth. Pics first!