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Today began with a lot of NES games, culminating in a Wizardry campaign that saw The Super Friends turn into Super Fiends; and ended with an earfull of potty mouth poetry from the characters of Bulletstorm. Here's the breakdown

What do you do for a nerdfest? Do nerdy things like play games and see science fiction or fantasy flicks. It may be beyond nerdiness to be doing this at my age, but what else do I got? Nuttin'. So there it is. Breakdown below. If it's not too freaky for ya. 

I went a little bit nuts on Gamestop's buy 2 get 1 free sale this weekend. I only had two titles in mind when I went, and each were at different Gamestops, so I ended up hitting the sale twice. Then I couldn't resist visiting my local retro shop just to see what they had on my NES list. Luckily they had a few things I wanted. Gaze at the gaming goodness below:

Swag can come in many palette pleasing forms. This one is music flavored. Enjoy. 

I didn't interact much with media in 1990; out of school and desperately looking for work to get by didn't leave much time for anything else. I think I heard that band World Party and their single Way Down Now on the radio. I always like them. I was probably listening to rock radio, so I likely heard Alice in Chains and Jane's Addiction for the first time. Gaming didn't happen at all. I didn't read anything either other than Arthur Janov's Primal Scream book (I was doing the therapy at the time). I saw Akira Kurosawa's Dreams in the theater that year with my girlfriend. That's one I remember clearly because it was really good. Eventually I got work doing maintenance at a resort in the woods (I wanted to get into publishing but I got no responses). It was like a summer camp for rich New Yorkers. I did all sorts of jobs there, and it was nice to be outside all the time. I got the nickname "Monk" there for my reticence.

I'm fighting the good fight saving villages in Minecraft from the blight of zombieism. It's no easy task. There are a lot of things you need to do to get that cure made. Mark and I had to start from scratch in a new world full of vulnerable villagers. Here are the things we did. 

That's how episode 3 of Tales from the Borderlands played, all two and one quarter hours of it; constant stutters, stops, and freezes. No outright crashes, but jiggy jaggies all the way through. It actually got me killed in one segment where I couldn't target a flying object because the animation kept stuttering. Oh! And load times. Why are there so many longish loading moments in a game like this? It's not pushing state of the art graphics or masses of gameplay mechanics. It's a long cutscene with some interactive moments. It should run smooth as silk. It was a great story though. The writing and voice acting were all top notch even though the mouths hardly ever matched the dialog. I tell you, somthing needs to be done about the programing in Tell Tale games. Telling great stories can be practically ruined by technical faults. 

I just finished reading volume 1 of the original TMNT comic. What a fun read! I am now a firm fan of TMNT and will be checking out the games when I get a chance. At the end of this volume, which came out in 1990, there was this video game ad, and since I have to save any video game ad I come across, I scanned it. It's an ad for the 1990 NES game, Phantom Fighter, a ninja fighting game based on the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. Here's the scan:

Everybody loves swagoo. Such a tastey dish. Pic below:

So I just heard this compilation of 30 Rare games will be available August 4th. I'm real excited and I think I'll get an Xbox One finally to have this, but I'm wondering, will it be available as a digital download? I've looked all around and I can't find out. I'm seriously considering going all digital downloads for games on the new systems. It'll save space in my apartment already crammed with games, plus I'm ready. I bucked the idea of digital download for games for a while but now I don't think I care anymore. It's just the way the world is going, and I just want to play the games. I don't care if I can touch them or not.