In a perfect world (and I used to have that in the early 2000s) I would have consoles and a PC rig in my game room.
I've taken a few courses, but I've mostly always gone by my own instincts. So, I know the rules, but they often interfere with my process out in the field.
Well, at least on mobile. I saw lots of casual games for PC you can play for achievements. I'm still trying to figure out how to play them with a 15 year old laptop running win7.
I frankly thought that I wouldn't be too interested in going back to Atari games, but after playing a bunch of them I found some are still pretty fun. Once you accept the simplicity of the graphics, it comes down to gameplay, and some of this stuff still holds up. I am also surprised to discover some new ones that are good.
I loved the interviews in Atari 50, but I love the Atari Flashback Collections vol. 1-3 best for number of games and great UI (also achievements for certain games). Having said that, Atari 50 is the only place that has some Atari 5200/7800/Jaguar games. Oh, and they're adding more as time goes on, thankfully.
I downloaded everything I could think of on Xbox: Namco, Konami, Midway, Capcom, SNK, and Atari collections. I have to figure out what to do about that Activision Collection and the Intellivision one since they are only on PS2 and OG Xbox. I want to stick to original hardware whenever I can and I don't want more than two systems hooked up at once. I may take down the Retron 77 at some point and bring up a PS2 or NES to try and get some of the ports that aren't playable anywhere else.
I pretty much cruized through the game except for a few puzzles that took longer to figure out. They really want you to use their solution for each puzzle and stop you from doing anything else by making the block unmovable in certain situations. It seemed like a hastily put together game ment for the achievement/trophy hunters. I got 3K achievement points in just a couple hours playing.
I didn't go back to it, but I liked it.
The one thing that makes me wish I was playing on PC is mods. It was always fun to reskin a game or change the sounds.
I'm reading a photo book called If Your Bored with Your Camera Read This Book. There's a chapter in there called "Forget the Rules" and each part asks you to forget a different aspect of formal photography. I love that.
I put it on my wish list on Xbox.
I still like FX3 and it's still playable on Xbox.
I'll check out those Pro Pinball games. Seems there were four of them made for Windows and Playstation. When I get to that generation, I'll see if I can pick up some of them for PS.
I'm not good either. It takes some studying of the rule sheet for a table to get anywhere. I just wing it most of the time, though, and just aim at whatever's glowing.
