PixlBit

Back from a short vaca. Then played one day of gaming. Read some more. Bought themed socks. 

The pizza shop were I played Sky Shark is no longer there and their delivery guy, Rocking Rod, who I used to see on campus a lot in the 1986-1990 time frame I was there, has passed on. For the most part though, nothing has changed all that much. There are a few new buildings is all (this is Hamilton College in New York btw). The people are all different of course. I only met one professor who was there when I was and he was a music teacher, an area of study I barely had anything to do with. I took one course in piano and not with him. But it was fun to see the campus again. 

Back at home, I tried out the Super Game Boy for SNES. 

I now have just three Game Boy games: Alleyway, Super Breakout and Space Invaders. They all work just fine in a Super Game Boy plugged into a Retron 3. I made a new list of interesting GB and GBC games I want to add to my collection if I can find them locally. 

GB

Radar Mission - like Battleship but more interesting.
Mysterium - traditional first-person RPG
Choplifter II - Like the first. 
Fortified Zone - Top-down shoot 'em up.
Trax - Hal labs cartoony tank shooter. 
Xenon 2: Megablast - vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. 
Buster Brothers - Capcom balloon shooter with cool backdrops. 
Arcade Classic No. 3 (Galaga/Galaxian) - of course. 
Harvest Moon GB - likely too expensive now but I'll look anyway. 
Legend of the River King - same
Pokemon Red/Blue - same

GBC

1942 - of course. 
Hands of Time - Top-down action game with puzzle elements. 
Magical Drop - I like this match-3. 
Wacky Races - didn't know this existed. Have to check it out. 

I picked up Wii Ski after hearing Cary's The Pizza Pixel Podcast. I saw Road Trip (PS2) too but it was $40. There is a bundle of Wii Ski & Snowboarding out there somewhere. Nice addition to my Wii library. 

I hope that ballance board isn't a requirement for the game. 

I also dug back into Borderlands GotY on Xbox Series S and finished the General Knoxx DLC and started the ClapTrap's Robot Revolution. I redid my skill trees according to a guide for Mordecai which has helped a little bit. I can now break shields easily and get health from Bloodwing. I'm building my gun skills now for a complete build of the character. I'm playing just for story and then move on to B2 where I will have a new procedure for choosing weapons that I hope will work better than going by resale value like I'm doing now. I basically just want to revisit the story of all the games and have fun doing it before I inevitably get Borderlands 4. I may go back to PS3 versions here and there too. 

Well, that's a short week, really one day only of gaming. I'm deep into The Golden Compass book which I'm enjoying. I remember scoffing at the movie when it came out, but now I'm interested. I also read the Dinotopia book but didn't enjoy it much. Great illustrations but the story plays wreckless havok with dino facts for the sake of a dream of riding dinos and talking to them. I get how kids would love it though. I'd play a video game of it though. I see now there is one for GBA, Xbox and NGC. I'll see if I can get one of them. 

Chow. 

Oh yeah, I bought Kirby socks. FUN!