Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run April 8-10 It's that time of year again. The Giant Bomb Community Endurance run is less than a week away. Which means I've once again come out of my hibernation to play some games while trying to raise some money for Pencils of Promise. Your donations can go toward building new schools in Guatemala, Ghana, and Laos. Along with just getting them the supplies th...
Hi everyone it’s once again time for the annual Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run . Hard to believe this event has been going on for 10 years now. The dedication everyone has towards the simple goal of raising money for a good cause is always inspiring. This year we had to quickly change our plans toward a new charity. With what is going on in the world it seems very important to get more dona...
Hello again! I’m once again going to do my small part for the GBCERIX. Raising money for Pencils Of Promise is always worth the effort. PoP uses 100% of your generous donations toward getting kids a better education. For example with enough money they could build a new school or even just getting school supplies to them that they wouldn’t have without your help. Click the link below if you want...
Hi, welcome to my little recap of my effort to raise money for Pencils Of Promise. Four years worth of effort into raising money for different charities via video game live streams and not much has really changed on my end. But the one thing that has always improved is the amount of donations everyone manages to raise each year. With over $8000 raised we managed to support 108 kids that now get...
Donate! https://fundraise.pencilsofpromise.org/fundraiser/1355168 After the first year I joined in on this event I promised myself that I would turn it into a 3 day event each time. Cause if I’m going in I might as well go all out in a respectable manner. Although that means my ability to beat all of these games in the time allowed is quite suspect but I’ll try my best. So let's go over each da...
1991 Welcome to the start of a 10 year rivalry that most likely inflamed the hearts of kids around the world thus beginning the console war. Personality I didn’t get access to either side till they were around for a few years. My NES library gets one last hurrah before it gets knocked down below the new consoles. This year was punctuated in my mind by the release of SMW while it also shows I’m...
1989 My original idea was to take a photo of every game I played. That was a bit of a hassle along with the fact that GB already has good box art for me to use. So instead you get to see my tub of NES games. Welcome back to my weekly blog about all of the games I've collected over 29 years. We've now come to the end of the 80's. By this point Nintendo had proved that game consoles were still a...
Yup I am trying to put these articles up weekly. From now on this'll be one year at a time. NES games only once again. This year appears to host quite a few classic games. At least in the US I like how both Zelda 2 and Super Mario 2 were both wildly different games compared to the first games. Mario 2 may just be a reskin of Doki Doki Panic but I do wonder what Nintendo was thinking when they d...
Those first few moments of picking up a controller to play Donkey Kong for the first time will forever be etched into my memories. Since that was my first experience with a video game. (As a side note I played the Donkey Kong Classics version so it won't be in this section of my retrospective.) Twenty-eight years later I continue to pick up a controller to play and create levels in Super Mario...
My Game Of The Year List may show my top 10 games yet I wanted to mention a few more by using a assortment of categories. Remember this is a list of games I played this year so it isn't going to count every game that came out this year. Best Visuals Who doesn't like to be dazzled by the graphical prowess of a video game? These days it may be a bit harder to impress compared to the days of when...
Up to this point I haven't picked up very many Persona collectibles even after becoming a fan for life after playing Persona 3. Turns out I just needed someone to go with a highly detailed chibi style. This Aigis figure seems really unique compared to most chibi figures thanks to the height alone. Here we see Aigis trying to escape her boxy doom Maybe I'm just suspicious of photos posted online...
TGS hasn't quite lived up to the heyday of announcements it used to have during the 90's. But this year was surprisingly impressive and I felt like mentioning all of the videos that caught my eye. First up a game that'll most likely fill everyone with despair. New Danganronpa V3 This reveal trailer gives nothing away other than showing us that they are now making Danganronpa 3 for the PS4 now....
After 28 years of playing video games I have also amassed a large collection of books/magizines that are related to my favorite hobby. Here is a small selection of photos of the items plus a bit of commentary after each one. Ah yes who doesn't remember the great special agent Justin Bai...Halley who is also known as Solid Snake. They may not be accurate but it is still a fun dumb read. Mario Pa...
Once I saw this sign I knew we finally made it to the Galloping Ghost Arcade. It was quite the trip since we had to take a fairly long train ride to get to Chicago. You can see Primal Rage II in this shot. Very few of these boards are still around since they were only made as prototypes. Also Sega Sonic the Hedgehog is the giant blue cabinet. To bad the trackballs weren't really working. All ki...
I've had a tumblr for a while now and it isn't really going anywhere so I'm reusing the photos I put on there to make blog post on here. The Nintendo DS era was a interesting time for me since it was the main time I actually imported games from Japan more often than once a year. In the case of the Ace Attorney games I only imported the first and third since I had to play them early. (Yet not th...