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I wonder what the old pre-Internet media equivalent is of me and Rus
posting the PWB every week out of habit for only one another. Is this
like the remaining veterans of a war calling each other on the phone
until only one remains? Or like the dwindling members of an old creed
(like Jacobites or S Club 7 fans) clinging to a way of life because
nobody else will?

Play:
--=--

Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns (Wii) - The light went on last weekend at
the arcade, where I realised that my son seems to get the most fun out
of the light gun games that have some kind of narrative behind them. I
broke out the Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns disc (which costs a
disquieting $100 on the secondhand market now) and the two of us made it
all the way to the end of the LA Machineguns story with only a handful
of continues. He instinctively understood when it was time to target
enemies and when it was time to target projectiles, and I'm starting to understand now how valuable innocence is in terms of being able to enjoy
dumb game premises like this. Although he's immediately lost some of it already because I queued up Gunblade NY (with its simpler 3D models and rougher poly textures) and he immediately sussed out that it was
essentially the same game with fewer bells and whistles. He then elected
to run off and play Roblox instead.

The Making of Karateka (PS5) - Woo, it's nice to see all the different
home computer ports all next together. Shame that the unusual NES and
GameBoy ports aren't in the collection as well, but I get why they'd be
harder to licence or have emulators for. The remastered version of the
base game is really nice, and I made the classic mistake of running
headlong into an enemy's strike rather than being patient and settling
into a fighting stance like I'm supposed to.

Wizman's World Retry (PS5) - Oh hey, it's a port of a Nintendo DS game.
Some global calamity has caused all the residents of a city to be
hunkered down in their homes, unable to leave and go into the outside
world. And it's not like this was topical at the time or anything
because this game came out in Japan only in 2010. Normally I'm put off
by the medieval old-timey dialogue that games like this end up getting
when they have an English script written long after the fact, but
something about the way this text was constructed makes me believe that
it's purposefully, deliberately off-putting in a way that's meant to
contrast with how the game will end up presenting the world that's
outside of this isolated community once the mystery starts getting
unfolded. Hope I can stick with it long enough to see that all get
unwrapped.

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Collection (PS5) - Well this isn't bad. It
turns out that all of the Digital Eclipse documentary releases
(including the Karateka thing and the Atari 50 collection) are all using
the same funny menu system to present their interview and art extras. Thankfully there's nothing to unlock here and it looks like all the
games are available from the get-go. I'm ashamed to say that the only
thing I'm really interested in playing is Tempest 2000, which isn't much different to what you get in the Atari 50 collection, but it's still a
welcome sight after all this time.

Roguecraft DX (EVC) - So this is technically an Amiga game, but it's
being sold as a single title native to the Evercade so Imma call it a
Evercade game. It's kind of unnecessary? An isometric take on Rogue64
(one of the bite-size RPG freebies on the EXP handheld) that adds some additional player character options and some map variation that's not in
the original. The music isn't half bad either, but the graphics are kind
of mushy and unclear on the tiny handheld screen. It's better with an
HDMI screen connected, but that's kind of not the point of having the
Evercade library in the format it's in.

Want:
--=--

R-type Tactics I + II Cosmos (PS5) - Out this month! Probably. If it
doesn't get delayed again. I don't know why I'm looking forward to this because I remember the original PSP game took forever to play. Every
turn was an hour or more of just weighing what to do and where all the
units would end up going on a giant hex map that didn't hardly fit on
the tiny screen. Not 100 percent sure that having it regular
console-sized is going to help with that.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who felt like he should have done more shopping this weekend.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

I wonder what the old pre-Internet media equivalent is of me and Rus
posting the PWB every week out of habit for only one another. Is this
like the remaining veterans of a war calling each other on the phone
until only one remains? Or like the dwindling members of an old creed
(like Jacobites or S Club 7 fans) clinging to a way of life because
nobody else will?

Last of the Summer Wine springs to mind, much as it does for Usenet in
general to be fair. Presumably this also implies I might shortly be
talking about cracking cheese, but for now I'll settle for another
fairly mature product...

Play:

Minecraft (PC) - I found some diamonds, so that was nice. I then
proceeded to not mine them, because I don't think I have a Fortune III
pickaxe on this version - and if I just mined them normally instead, I
know I'd probably be getting half as many diamonds as I could. There's
probably some tortured hedonic-treadmill analogy I could wheel out
here, but I see it more as a reluctance to open the box and observe
the collapsed state of a certain cat. :-)

Picross e6 (3DS) - took a break from the Mega stuff, and played some
proper Picross on the Picross game.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

The timing of my game-based mining exploits, given recent RL events.

Unsuccessfully trying an "LCE Save Converter" that can apparently
convert between Java Minecraft and Legacy Console Edition saves, yet
which doesn't seem to support Vita saves. I can't say I'm shocked by
that, but it's a bit frustrating all the same.

-Rus.
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