I am about to shock a lot of you, but I very rarely ever consider how many games I buy in a year. It really doesn’t cross my mind unless something or someone forces me to really look inward and go “Shit I spent an unfathomable amount of money on an adult hobby with my…
Category: Personal
Fixing An Unstable System
Well, this post took a bit longer to finish than I planned, but here we go: It seems I finally have a stable system again. Getting there was kind of an odyssey… Tech is a curious thing, one problem can lead to something completely different, it just snowballs from there and finding the actual cause…
Gaming Memories: 1990s Adventures (Part 1)
The adventure genre was pretty much always one of my favorites, starting way back in the early 90s when I had my first PC. I loved the often-creative stories and characters (my first few experiences with the genre very much helped with THAT) and the games being easy to get into (usually no timing-based puzzles,…
History of a Transformers Fan – Part 3 (Final)
Part 2 summed up my thoughts on the Unicron Trilogy, this one will cover the remaining time from then (Transformers: Cybertron aired in 2005, though I watched it in its Galaxy Force form) to now. The next series at the time was Transformers Animated, which I really liked after getting used to the art style….
Gaming Memories: Golden Sun
All things considered, there are only a handful of times where there was a game I absolutely HAD to have when I finally had the console I wanted
Gaming Memories: Game Gear Games
From other posts you might already know that the Sega Game Gear was the first gaming system I owned (got it as a christmas present). And I also wrote 2 separate posts on games that I had for it (Castle of Illusion and Dragon Crystal). But since I don’t really have some big story for…
History of a Transformers Fan – Part 2
The previous post ended with me watching the first season of the Beast Wars series on TV, which reignited my interest in the franchise. This was around 98/99 (the series only started airing in 98 here in Germany, 2 years after it was originally released) and stores here at the time had “Robots in Disguise”…
Gaming Memories: Castle of Illusion (Game Gear)
Castle of Illusion was one of the first games I played on the Game Gear and also my first Jump’n’Run overall. Honestly, I was pretty lucky in that regard, considering this was also a license adaptation. That could have gone a lot worse (thanks mom and dad for picking this one). As an introduction to…
Gaming Memories: Operation: Inner Space
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A demon / evil force possesses your computer and now you have to enter it in a miniature plane / spaceship to re-capture your program icons and free your computer from the evil influence. Sounds like a plot that is right at home in the 90s, isn’t…
Gaming Memories: Castle of the Winds
In the time before Windows 95, when Windows 3.1 / 3.11 were around, there were pretty much 2 “classes” of games: DOS games that were as you knew them at the time, taking up the whole screen, the interface seamlessly integrating into it (of course dependent on the quality of the developer) etc.. And then…