PixlBit

Only one more week left of my 70s gaming. Other than Space Invaders, a few Atari 2600 games, a pinball game, and Mattel Electronics Baseball, I haven't really been doing much. The 70s are pretty lean for video games I'm interested in. So why not look forward to a very packed September of 80s gamesI

Remember those Tamagotchi virtual pet keychains that were super popular in the late 90s?  Well they’ve never really gone away.  In fact, back on the Nintendo DS, they had a series of games called Tamagotchi Corner Shop, and there were three of them!  You ran little shops and would play touch screen mini-games to serve and help out other Tamagotchi customers.  My brother Jeff and I were weirdly obsessed with those games back in the day, probably because we did like those virtual pets (Jeff was even a Tamagotchi for Halloween one year when he was little).  Well, Tamagotchi Plaza is the sequel to those games, so of course I had to get it.  There are a dozen shops for you to run, and two more if you have the Switch 2 version.  I thought it might be fun to run through the shops in this game, so let’s go!

More farming this week in Farm Together 2. Approaching the endgame as regards achievements, but it won't be done quickly. I also picked up two digital games on sale on Xbox, Valiant Hearts: Coming Home and The Bluecoats: North & South. 

On the latest episode of Down Home Gamin, I discuss a game that was a staple of early childhood. Penetrator, developed by Beam Software of Australia, is a Scramble clone made for the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and C64 in 1982. It has a number of features which set it apart from the many other Scramble clones of its time. 

Really farmed a lot this week. Is that a real verb? Got me a Pokemon game for 50 cents too. 

Summer is winding down, so let’s have one big last bash with game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

I'm definitely feeling a farming frenzy coming on: glued to the screen, not moving for hours, barely aware of my surroundings, forgetting to eat. It's on the verge of unhealthy obsession, but I just laugh about it and pull myself away at the end of every "weekend" and get back to work.

Games Beaten

I broke out the Retron '77 for some 70s Atari action and then got sucked back into Farm Together 2.