Upcoming posts
The goal was to start a few playthroughs of some of the 1990s FMV adventure games I'm played in high school and college, but then the world started to crumble at an even faster rate. The goal is still to spend time in those games and turn my reflections into blog posts, but it's going slower than I wanted.
Here are some of the things I've been reading to distract me.
Virtual Moose continues to write great Indie Game Roundups and I'm excited to put some time into Booze Elroy.
Wrestling with Pixels is great. I've already shared my love of wrestling games here a few times and this book does a great job chronicling (nearly?) every wrestling game made. I read a print version because I generally prefer them, but the screenshots are all in color in the pdf/epub versions, so keep that in mind when deciding which version to get.
It looks like MCoorlim has found a way to have a lot of fun on the internet. I really like how they take old BASIC programs that came printed in magazines and books and makes them work on modern systems, all played via their blog! This is a great concept and everyone else who enjoys vintage computing and programming should adapt it to their own interests (and then tell me so I can follow you).
I Might As Well Explain The Joke is a new blog with monthly entries made up of well researched articles about old jokes and their place in popular culture. It seems like something captures the zeitgeist pretty hard every year or two and then sticks around for a generation. It's one way we can age ourselves (Kids and their 6-7. In my day it was Cornholio!) and connect with our similarly-aged peers. This blog has focused on things that I remember from growing up, which has been a lot of fun for me. I always appreciate when things I remember just existing when I was young are put into their historical context.