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December 20/2023 Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
First off, it’s been too long since I did this. Plowing through these games and getting that little check mark on Launchbox is really affirming to me in a weird way, so I’m glad to be back on this train. Hoping to pick the pace back up post Christmas and start getting into the flow…
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July 10/2023 Cosmic Star Heroine
Well that took too long. Not the game, to be clear, this is a breezy fifteenish hour playthrough, but me sitting down to actually put my thoughts down took too damn long. Turns out, summer with small kids can be just as hectic as the school year. Anyway. I recently finished Chrono Trigger, which I…
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May 16/2023 Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft
If you like visual novels, Dagon is a really cool little bite sized game of about 30-40 minutes that just walks through a Lovecraft story with some nice visual and audio accompaniment. Free on GOG.
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May 15/2023 Sonic 2
I feel so unequipped to say anything intelligent about Sonic 2, despite it being the first 16 bit game I’d ever played, and despite having recently finished it. It’s a game that I’ve always had a lot of admiration for, ever since it showed up at our Toys ‘r Us in one of those massive…
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April 27/2023 King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
So, from the ages of about ten through sixteen, I lived through sort of a personal dark age when it came to video games. We were broke, and had moved to a very rural part of Missouri where access to new games (or even old ones) was pretty limited, and so I made do with…
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April 25/2023 Pokemon LeafGreen
So, I never had a Game Boy as a kid – with as broke as we often were, I think dropping money on another, less powerful gaming system when we already had a Super Nintendo at home was just too much of a lift. That said, I was certainly not immune to the whole Pokémon…
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April 5/2023 Doki Doki Literature Club
So – not retro at all, but Doki Doki Literature Club is absolutely worth experiencing. Deeply disturbing at parts, and utterly heart wrenching at the end… I’m pretty sure this is only the second or third game that’s ever gotten me to cry. Definitely not for everyone, but if you like indie horror, this would…
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April 4/2023 Wendy: Every Witch Way
So, I saw some random video about the best games for the Game Boy Color, and Wendy got brought up. Upon firing it up, I discovered that it might actually be the inspiration for VVVVVV – it’s an adorable little 2d platformer with a gravity reversal mechanic that lets you hang from the ceiling. I’m…
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March 10/2023 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
What a phenomenal game. This is the one that, through endless hours playing the kiosk at Montgomery Ward’s (yes, I am indeed old) convinced me to get an N64. Factor 5 squeezed every drop of power out of that system, and I honestly think it holds up fairly well. Super fun, nice difficulty curve, and…
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March 9/2023 Portal
Little change of pace, I decided to run through Portal, which was absolutely delightful. Is it just me, or did the music in this game really influence film scores of the last fifteen years? Like, something like Annihilation (great movie, btw) really feels like it took some score beats from Portal in terms of the…