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Can't get enough.

I couldn't pull myself away from this game on XBO the other day to make a blog about it. Right now, I've in a kind of glitch where an animal won't move from the helicopter landing spot, so I can't add a new animal. What the heck!

Time to get focused on 1968 and actual video games rather than related stuff. What was released that year? Well, nothing commercially, I guess, but games were being made for the early computers at various institutions. Apparently there were a lot of business sims being written in the early programming languages and some people got creative with it like Doug Dyment and his game Hamurabi (misspelled, whether by accident or not I don't know, with one "m") which attempts, in text, to simulate the economy of a 3000 BC Sumerian city. It was also called The Sumer Game for some versions, and it was later rewritten for BASIC by David H. Ahl and put in BASIC Computer Games, published in 1973. The 1978 edition became the first million selling computer book. This version of the game is thus the best known.

After I picked up Disney Infinity figures Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse at a Gamestop the other day for their clearance price of $5 each, I started organizing my Disney Infinity swag by putting them in some backpacks and shoulder bags I got at Goodwill. That got me thinking about my Skylanders. I have bags for those too but I remembered I saw some custom bags at a Five Below near me. So I went there and bought two at $5 each, one for Skylanders Giants and the other for Swap-Force. Here's a pic of the Swap-Force case which is identical to the Giants case but with different graphics:

Yea, so I'm still doing this Gaming-by-Association thing on the side of my rentals. Why? It's fun.

I played mostly Lego Marvel Avengers on XBO, but I did a little bit of Borderlands 1 and some Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World on 3DS. I'll do the least played first. 

I started this game today on XBO. So far so good. It's pretty fun. I'm on the hunt to unlock Ultron, and after a few hours, no sign of him. I have a feeling I'm going to have to play most of the game to unlock him. That's fine. The only issue I have at the moment is that sometimes it's hard to see where you can build something because the highlighted area is subtle as heck. Also, there are a lot of special powers and sometimes it's hard to figure out which one works where. Sometimes it doesn't matter, though, because in story mode you only have access to the two characters they give you on a particular level and they might not have the power you're looking for. But once you finish the level in story, you can go back in free play and use any character you've unlocked. I like trying to find the hidden Stan Lees. My mission is to save the Stan Lees!

I'm going through my collection now and trading in anything I don't have strong feelings about and saving the credit to help pay for a Switch, when I can get my hands on one. I tore through my XBO/PS4 games yesterday; and today, I hit the first shelf of Xbox 360 games. I saved some. Here's some of the stuff I saved. 

My plan, so far, is to play some more Borderlands 2 from The Handsome Collection and then pry myself away from that after a couple hours (usually very difficulty) and play Lego Marvel Avengers, which I just got with my preorder money from Halo Wars 2 (I'm going to rent it instead). But I just noticed that my first rental game on the way is Yoshi's Woolly World for 3DS. Whether it'll get to me by Saturday is a question. If it does, I'll jump right into that first. Here's some more detail on these games below.

Every year, around the holidays, I go looking to see what new Halo books have been published. In 2016 I got a few and just finished the first one, Halo: New Blood by Matt Forbeck.