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Started the day with a little virtual fireplace. It's an Indie game on Xbox Live called simply Fireplace and you can set it up anyway you want and watch it burn. Toasty. I roasted my chestnuts too.

Took a quick trip to the mall at Plymouth Meeting to take the photo below at my local retro store, Jay St. Video Games. The traffic was horrendous and I got in and out of there as fast as I could.

Who gee! What did I play this year. So many games! I'll stick to what just came out this year and split this up into three parts: Regrets, Bought but Forgot, and Played. It'll all wind up with the last entry being my Game of the Year, or Goaty as I like to say it (yes I know it's actually GOTY).

This was the November 1982 issue and the last one I have for that year. These are some of my notes and scans of things that interested me. You can read the whole issue if you want at annarchive.

 Continuing my obsession with Dragon Magazine. These are my notes to the articles within.

I played my original Xbox today. I didn't think playing it would last too long, but I so underestimated the goodness of Sid Meier's Pirates!. But before I got ye olde Xbox over to my friend's place, I made a little Gamestop pit stop and thought to preorder a game that was already out. Silly me. I was hesitant to buy it, but this game has been on my mind now for months, and it just seemed the right thing to do. Picture below.

And I guess I had to watch football too. Funny thing about that. I was playing Angry Birds Star Wars while watching The Birds (Eagles) lose to the Cowboys. For a while there, we were in perfect sinc: I would clear a level, and the Eagles would make a great play. Then . . . not so much. Ah well, it was fun anyway. 

I had one game on my to-play list that wasn't at least eight years old, and so I was able to locate it at a Gamestop in my area. I was off again to pick up another video game but this time at a most nonretro store. PIcture below.

I went to the other Jay St. Video Game store in my area and grabbed a few things. They had a storm trooper outfit in the front window with a Santa hat on. This store also had three gaming stations set up so you could try any game before you buy it. I thought that was really cool. I saw just tons of great retro systems and games, but I stuck to my list and got what's pictured below.

Since I'm thinking of taking a break from Borderlands, I put together a short list of games I'd like to play next. I chose about twelve, then went about seeing if I had them all in my collection. I didn't and so I went out today to my local retro game store, Jay St. Video Games, in the mall and then hit a Gamestop there too. The result is as you see below.