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.
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'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.
I read this book about the history of board games recently. It was very well done.
Lego: The Hobbit is a 2014 game based on the Peter Jackson films that came out after he did Lord of the Rings. I finished the main storyline and am in the process of hunting down and crafting every darn thing in it. I quite like this post game challenge in Lego games. It's where the real exploration and problem solving come into play.
Microsoft Rewards on Xbox offered me points for getting an achievement in any EA game offered through Game Pass Ultimate. I chose to return to Mass Effect Andromeda and got very invovled with it and still am.
From February 'til now, I've managed to pick up quite a few new games and consoles. Bargain bins and trades have been good to me this past month and a half. Here's the lot:
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.
I finally stopped playing Microsoft Solitaire Collection on Android in February. I got all the achievements that were fun to get, so I moved on to another game with Xbox achievements, Microsoft Sudoku. It's free but ad supported. Apparently it's not on Game Pass because that's probably how I got the premium edition of Solitaire. I know I didn't purchase it. Ads are annoying but not a game breaker for me.
A lot went on while I was blogging daily in February. I thought I'd let y'all in on every game-related thing, but it'll take a few blogs to do it. I'll start with Serious Sam.
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.
During my temporary work layoff, I've sometimes visited a museum or game store/arcade. Here's the story in pictures.
15 Years of Super Mario Galaxy!
I broke out the OG Xbox and played some Halo CE, not without some technical hiccups either. Then I dove into all the Game Pass Quests for the week and month and found myself playing a lot of survival horror games. It was all a barrel of monkey laughs.
That's RetroCon Philly, PA, in the town of Oaks where there is a large convention center in the suburbs. I actually went to two conventions last saturday, RetroCon and a Sports Card Convention. I tagged along with my friend and his dad to the sports card con, and then my friend and I went to RetroCon right next door. Here's some snaps and stories.