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I guess I celebrated Mario in a way by playing my randomly sampled game, Super Smash Bros. on Wii-U. I randomly rolled the Wii-U and the number 3. The game was number 3 on Metacritic's list of best Wii-U games. 

Weird month for me. My weekend is Tuesday and Thursday, so I added a half day after work today in anticipation of Thursday. I played one game for Microsoft rewards points, a second for Game Pass rewards points and then another randomly chosen game. I'm really enjoying the randomly rolled games. I love not knowing what's going to be next. 

Due to a schedule change, I was off today, so I gamed at my buddy's place. I started off with a new randomly rolled game 'cause I wasn't in the mood for more Red Dead Redemption. Then I tackled Game Pass weekly and monthly rewards points games. And then I squeezed in I am Fish. 

A whole lot, but not really because some I just looked at or played a short time. Still, a good long list. Here we go. 

RAW: Realms of Ancient War, a game I think I got for free with Games with Gold. It came out in 2012 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. I don't know how I missed this one, since I love the hack-n-slash genre. I got deep into it and so did my gaming buddy. Take a look. 

The Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom is another kid-friendly tv licensed game I tried on Xbox's Game Pass. Published by Outright Games who also published two other games I blogged about, Paw Patrol: On a Roll and Ben 10. I can't seem to discover the developer. It was fun though and short. 

I remember playing Dungeons & Dragons way back when. My favorite part was creating tables of random encounters. You'd list a dozen beasties and their frequency of appearing and then roll some dice at specific intervals to see what might appear. I loved that. So I thought I'd apply randomization to my backlog and any games I've missed that I should experience.

Sometimes a Xbox Gold free game is one I've never heard of. I usually give it a shot and most of the time I see something that is pretty decent. The Mace Griffon game a while back was one of those. Hydrophobia very recently was another. Take a look. 

Oh, the things I'll try on Xbox's Game Pass. Kill It With FIre was part of a rewards quest, if I remember right, and I kept playing almost to the very end. I found it much more fun than I expected. Maybe trashing a room while trying to smash bugs was cathartic or something. I especially like lighting things on fire, hehe. Take a look. 

I sometimes look for a short game on Xbox's Game Pass and The Pedestrian fit the bill one day. I got farther along in it than I expected. I enjoyed the puzzles a lot.