Adding 3 trillion tracks to my racing games collection with Lotus III My racing games collection is already quite complete with bangers like Super Cars, Super Hang-On, Stunt Car Racer and Pitstop amongst many others. One of my absolute favorite series is Lotus, especially the first two games. I've…

Scanned al my boxed Atari Lynx games Been busy scanning in my games collection. Took some time to add all my boxed Atari Lynx games: link. There are ten of them. Makes me want to play them, which is good! Also makes me want to buy more, which is bad! Want to add Blue Lightening and California…

The Witness Every once in a while, I like to add another Infocom game to my collection. I'm still missing quite a few so searching for a deal is quite doable. This time Ebay showed me a reasonable priced version of The Witness. Sadly most games are sold in the US and shipping prices are way higher…

A mural from Grim Fandango The Tapestry of Ages from Ultima IX and Alduin's Wall from Skyrim both look so great in my gameroom. Now I've added a mural from Grim Fandango underneath. There are lots of little details in these banners. I like to look at them from time to time to take my mind of…

It’s time to upgrade There are a lot of big box PC games in my collection, but none of these can actually run without an operating system. So those also deserve a place in my collection. Enter Windows 95. The first operating system for the IBM PC that actually made me feel that I upgraded from the…

What if Link takes just one wheel from each supply? Link thinks it's odd that there are sets of cart bottoms and four wheels everywhere. Why? Why must these carts be in pieces? Why must Link be the one to assemble each of them? And why aren't there enough materials to build even a simple shed.…

Using the scanner for a new project

Enjoying Tears of the Kingdom This weekend, I spend quite a lot of time with Tears of the Kingdom. I solved the situation with the birds and now I just dived into the mountain. I do miss the old Zelda dungeons a bit, but can see how that gameplay mechanic wouldn't fit in an open world game.…

Zelda deserved less cramped hands So after about ten hours into Tears of the Kingdom I noticed my hands cramping up with the Joy-Con controllers. I've only played Mario Kart World and Mario Odyssey on the Switch 2, but those were mostly shorter play sessions, especially because I played Odyssey…

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered < Deluxe Edition > I remember going to the local Dixons on March 21 2006 on my bicycle only to find out that they hadn't received any supply of Oblivion yet. That was a bummer. I cursed the whole way back. But all that was forgotten the next day when I…

Stickerwall Problem 1: A blank piece of wall in my gameroom. Problem 2: I need another excuse to go through all the games in my collection. Solution: Put up stickers. Serendipitous outcome: My gameroom looks even more chaotic.Question: Can you guess which one is not a sticker?

I love looking up at the sky (and going there) I love RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity, but what I don't like about those games is that you can't look around and see the sky. And spending 80 hours looking at the ground depresses me. That's why I love the…

Two new big box adventure games Having a new big box adventure game waiting for you when you come home is a marvelous thing. And having two is, like say maybe two times as marvelous! I was notified that a package had arrived at my doorstep and I figured it would be Foolish Mortals, but little did…

No retro games pickups in Paris While visiting Paris with my son I to see all the beautiful sights, I also had time to stop by a couple of retro gameshops. They have a whole street with them! I first went to Trader Games. Not a small shop and packed from floor ro ceiling with stacks and stacks of…

What kind of pirate do you want to be? An X-rated pirate? Do you want to be a seafaring pirate? A wimpy pirate? An x-rated pirate? An ass-kicking pirate? A gold pirate? A pirate who goes Wii? Or a limited edition pirate? The choice is now mine with the arrival of the third edition of Pirates!…

Beat Odyssey’s Bowser and got Simon closer to home Once again Bowser is defeated. This time in Mario Odyssey. It was very cool to play a Mario game again. The last time was years ago when I played Mario 3D World (which I'm currently also re-playing btw.) It's incredible how much new and exciting…

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Discworld reading snob Every now and again I like picking up a Discworld pocket to recollect the whole series as I had when they came out (although I had the first twelve books up until Witches Abroad bundled in four omnibusses). I love the artwork on the covers and they have nostalgic value for…

Zelda, Final Fantasies and Taito From part of the money I raised by selling a part of my Evercade collection, I bought... more games of course! I got Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Collection and Taito Arcade 1 for the Evercade. I loved Zelda: Breath of the Wild on…

Curating the curated Evercade collection I'm getting rid of a lot of my Evercade collection. I've been on the Evercade ride since November 2020. And ever since the beginning I decided that I wanted to have all the carts that were released (except the Home Computer ones.) In the beginning, I could…

For Blood and Honor has the best music Working at home today. Time to listen to all the music from Might and Magic VI through IX. VII has the best music!

September pickups For my monthly Wheel of Time pickup, I broke my rule of strictly buying the next book in the series which would have been number 10: Crossroads of Twilight. Instead I went straight for the last book in the series: A Memory of Light. The reason being that it was on sale of course.…

Expanding my Dune collection. With my first ever Blu-Ray discs! I love Dune. I loved the books. I loved the games. And although I liked the series and the movie, I didn't love them. Luckily there are the new movies. I love them! When I recently thought about them again, I knew I just had to have…

Progress in PoE and jumping around in Mario Odyssey I have been making steady progress in Pillars of Eternity. I ran some errands in Defiance Bay, went though the catacombs and infiltrated a cult there and killed some zombies in an asylum along with quite a few innocent patients. Although there…

“DPR” TantooMan for C64 Received the Developer Physical Release of TantooMan today. A great little game for the C64 from delta-machine. The developer made a select number of physical copies available. The game comes on an SD card that plays from SD2IEC. The card is housed in a DVD case with a…

I just backed Broken Relic - A Fantasy Point-and-Click Comedy Adventure on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

Siege of Dragonspear; largest boxed expansion yet Getting my hands on Forge of Virtue is one of the highlights of the year in terms of expanding on my games collection. As befits an expansion pack, it comes in a rather modest box. The same cannot be said of my most recent addition; Siege of…

That’s the second biggest monkey had I’ve ever seen! Encountered a really big monkey head in Apenheul, a zoo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. When you're a gamer, you are constantly reminded of your favorite hobby.

Kickman: A C64 cartridge that was not on my list Earlier this year I got my hands on a copy of International Soccer for the Commodore 64. With that I could tick off one more cartridge release from my wishlist. Turns out that my list was incomplete. I forgot Kickman and Sea Wolf The complete list,…

Forge of Virtue! Filling in the remaining gaps in my collection is starting to get expensive. But also still quite fun. Especially when we're talking about items like this Ultima VII addition addition. Forge of Virtue is billed as "Computer Gaming's First Add-In Disk". It's like early nineties…

Pillars of Eternity: Lord of a Barren Land After doing some things in Defiance Bay, I decided to return to my stronghold. The catacombs proved a bit too difficult still and I was tired of running errands through town. Once in my stronghold I purchased some upgrades and rested for a bit in the…

No, I didn’t actively seek out another version of Pirates! In the last 6-7 years I've never seen this second US release of Pirates! being offered up for sale on my local online marketplace. So when it turned up in my search feed, I just had to snag it up. And for a very reasonable price I might…

Replayed all the classic LucasArts adventure games Finishing Escape from Monkey Island marked the end of 6(!) years of playing through all the classic LucasArts adventure games. I started in 2019 with a first playthrough of Zak McKracken and slowly made my way through the other games. 2019: Zak…

Another Lands of Lore II version: more abstract but also ugly boxart Lands of Lore has such cool boxart! The witch Scotia faces you with her hand outstretched about to cast some wicked spell. It's quite a sight. I always found the boxart of the sequel, Guardians of Destiny, to be a major let down…

Escaped from Monkey Island – again That's it! I finished Escaped from Monkey Island again and it was an excellent adventure. I postponed playing the last of the classic LucasArts adventures, afraid that it wouldn't be as fun as I remembered and put a taint on my streak of playing through all of…

Let those VHS tapes again be played! I´ve started to visit thrift stores again on a regular basis. And although they generally have very paltry games sections, I did encounter a game last weekend that I bought online and haven't yet played since picking it up: Dragon Age Origins: Awakening. I…

“It’s like my whole life is a series of puzzles” Guybrush Threepwood, Escape from Monkey Island Replaying Escape from Monkey Island is so much fun! I played this 20 years ago and I don't remember much, but some puzzles are almost certainly easier because they are somewhere in the back of my mind.…

Too much Broken Sword? I just had to pickup the Broken Sword Reforged edition for the PS4 although I already have plenty of versions of the game. I'm hoping the remaster will provide enough enhancements to warrant the purchase. It certainly feels less of a compulsive purchase than the Evercade…

Starting out with my next big game After a few weeks away and playing only shorter games, I want to start on a larger gaming adventure. The last weeks I have played a lot on my Evercade and Mario Kart World on my Switch 2. My last big game was Baldur's Gate III, that I finished over 2 months ago.…

Adding to my PS4 JRPG collection When I was looking for an Evercade release to go with my monthly Wheel of Time book I couldn't find any with a cheap price tag. And because I recently already had caved and ordered the Toaplan Arcade 3 from Funstock because my usual shops won't get it back in…

Life On Mars Finished Life On Mars today. I don't play medroidvanias much, because I usually get lost or find the boss fights too difficult, but Life On Mars is not so difficult and relatively small in scope. I had to grind a little bit and use savestates, but that didn't hinder my enjoyment of…

Gaming Museum We visited the Gaming Museum in Kärnten while on vacation in Austria. Although small, the museum offers a wide spread of consoles from many generations as well as some some 8 bit computers, an Amiga 500 and a 386 PC. A lot of the systems on display are playable. What makes the…

Switch 2 made me go back to N64 I'm enjoying Mario Kart World on Switch 2, but to have some variety I'm dipping into the N64 emulation Nintendo offers on the platform. Before I knew it, I was knee deep into Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time again. I got it into my head to give Link another name for a…