56 super mario odyssey - my snowline circuit class s record: 01:04.30

Dear Readers,

More exploring and bound racing in Shiveria.

55 super mario odyssey - my return to shiveria, cosplaying as an ice climber

Dear Readers,

After finishing collecting all the Power Moons outside, I decided to go back to Shiveria to find more there.

54 super mario odyssey - trace-walking on ice score: 90 points

Dear Readers,

A little bit more exploring in the snowy Snow Kingdom. Plus a bit of icy trace-walking.

53 super mario odyssey - no more racing on the ice please!

Dear Readers,

I'm putting my foot down! No more racing in this area today! It's too cold and icy anyway. Just want to explore this winter wonderland.

52 super mario odyssey - snow kingdom koopa race record 00:19.38

Dear Readers,

It's a new area and that means another Koopa race challenge. Let's get it over with.

51 super mario odyssey - fox's glacier mints land

Dear Readers,

Now to explore this snowy area more thoroughly. Hopefully no more racing minigames for a while!

50 super mario odyssey - my christmas present to myself was getting those bound bowl races over and done with

Dear Readers,

Happy Christmas! I had another go at that bounding race thingy in the snowy kingdom.

49 super mario odyssey - even more snowy bounding races for christmas

Dear Readers,

I banked my Power Moons from the beach and set sail for the snowy kingdom just in time for the season :). I now have 545 Power Moons banked!

48 super mario odyssey - super scary eel 64 returns

Dear Readers,

Now for the last few bits and pieces to do in Seaside Kingdom before moving on.

47 super mario odyssey - taking the cheep cheep way on the underwater highway

Dear Readers,

Some underwater excavation of Power Moons in the Seaside Kingdom this time. There's so much to see and find underwater!

46 super mario odyssey - gardening and racing at the beach

Dear Readers,

I continued relaxing at the Seaside Kingdom.

45 super mario odyssey - gushing about seaside kingdom again! 500 power moons banked!

Dear Readers,

Now to leave New Donk City and head for the Seaside Kingdom! But first...

44 super mario odyssey - out-scooting the dinosaur

Dear Readers,

I entered the chimney near where I found Mayor Pauline's hat and was transported to a place far away from New Donk City...

43 super mario odyssey - scooting, leaping and vaulting on rooftops

Dear Readers,

For some weird reason there are motor scooter parks on the roofs of New Donk City. Trying to figure out how to reach them is the main issue with that business plan!

42 super mario odyssey - mystery mario theatre 3000

Dear Readers,

I went into the theatre in New Donk City and to my surprise they had Super Mario Bros. on the screen!

41 super mario odyssey - the east block of new donk city

Dear Readers,

I had a chat with Mayor Pauline, who was very appreciative of my having saved the day on the moon :) She thanked me with a quiz. Oh well! Better than her trying to leave me on the moon I suppose!

40 super mario odyssey - better racing than mario kart

Dear Readers,

Not much more to do in the Lost Kingdom for now, so let's head back to the Metro Kingdom and New Donk City :)

39 super mario odyssey - mario of the caribbean

Dear Readers,

Now for more Power Moon hunting in the Lost Kingdom, this time involving lots of climbing.

38 super mario odyssey - stretching around the lost kingdom

Dear Readers,

I decided to return to the Lost Kingdom to find more Power Moons and activate the moon rock. I stayed in pirate gear, which makes me look the part of a lost island explorer!

37 super mario odyssey - imagine a cube-shaped handheld console with six screens! it would be stupidly cool!

Dear Readers,

I decided to leave for the Cloud Kingdom. When I was here before it was just the arena to face Bowser, but now I see there's a moon rock...

36 super mario odyssey - the restored lochlady dress display and thinking once again about this game's lousy ending

Dear Readers,

I decided to bank my Power Moons and head off to the Lake Kingdom. I now have 371 Power Moons :)

35 super mario odyssey - more nutty power moons to find

Dear Readers,

More Power Moon hunting in the Wooded Kingdom.

1 zx81 dungeon maze - 7 mazes inspired by zx81 and dandy dungeon

Dear Readers,

YouTuber Villordsutch played this recently and when I watched his video I immediately had to download and play it myself!

34 super mario odyssey - exploring the secret flower field for power moons

Dear Readers,

Still exploring in the Wooded Kingdom, this time around the secret flower field area.

33 super mario odyssey - gliding around the wooded kingdom

Dear Readers,

I continued exploring in the Wooded Kingdom and bought some explorer gear to look the part!

1 streets of rage - seeing what the rage was all about, 103,200 points

Dear Readers,

I finally decided to give Streets Of Rage a chance! This is the special 3DS release of the game.

32 super mario odyssey - dinosaur terror in the deep woods!

Dear Readers,

I was stumped on the last few Power Moons for the Sand Kingdom, so I decided on a change of scene to the Wooded Kingdom. I also unlocked more costumes and dressed up as Diddy Kong!

31 super mario odyssey - underground sand kingdom for more power moons

Dear Readers,

Still in the Sand Kingdom! This time I explored the underground cavern under the inverted pyramid again.

4 pac-man - gb version - 41,820 points, beating mark's score!

Dear Readers,

I wasn't expecting to beat Mark's 33,430 from his Pac-Man GB review video by such a large amount but I managed to do it :)

64 kirby planet robobot - 19:22.69, a nice new clear time for the arena

Dear Readers,

One of my StreetPassers was still beating my time in The Arena, so I decided to go see if I could do better.

3 pac-man - gb version - 30,030 points, a little less than mark from classic game room's score

Dear Readers,

Had another go of the Game Boy version on 3DS Virtual Console and improved my score. Not as high as Mark from Classic Game Room's score though!

30 super mario odyssey - northwest sand kingdom power moons

Dear Readers,

Today I continued Power Moon hunting at the northwest building in the Sand Kingdom.

29 super mario odyssey - how do i stop this game from telling me to play with detached joy-cons

Dear Readers,

Why does the game always boot up by showing a screen suggesting I play with detached Joy-Cons and hang there for several seconds? I don't want to.

Anyway, more Sand Kingdom exploring. This time, the ruins for more Power Moons!

28 super mario odyssey - chilling out at the oasis with lakitu

Dear Readers,

Now to take a nice relaxing tour of the desert in the Sand Kingdom!

27 super mario odyssey - touring tostarena

Dear Readers,

Now to hunt for some extra moons in the Sand Kingdom and break open that moon rock.

26 super mario odyssey - colossal fossil

Dear Readers,

It's back to the Cascade Kingdom with me to look for more Power Moons. Didn't want to do a Broodal boss rush right now!

25 super mario odyssey - the broodal dark side

Dear Readers,

After collecting 250 Power Moons, Cappy told me I was able to travel to the Dark Side of the moon. I decided to take a break from treasure hunting to check it out!

24 super mario odyssey - learning the diving boost jump thing

Dear Readers,

Still hanging around at the Cascade Kingdom. The music here is glorious and all, but when you're looking for moons it can get a teensy bit samey. It was great for the trailer but we've got the game now!

23 super mario odyssey - playing pool with chain chomps

Dear Readers,

I left Cap Kingdom for now and went to Cascade Kingdom to hunt for more Power Moons.

22 super mario odyssey - most of the other power moons in cap kingdom

Dear Readers,

More Power Moon excavation in the Cap Kingdom.

21 super mario odyssey - exploring the cap kingdom for more power moons

Dear Readers,

I headed back to the Cap Kingdom, where a whole bunch of energy gathered in a block like the one I saw back on the moon. I decided to check it out.

20 super mario odyssey - let's all go on holidays!

Dear Readers,

Now to hang out in the Mushroom Kingdom with the Toads!

19 super mario odyssey - super odd ending

Dear Readers,

Chapel just ahead! The bell rang like it was the Angelus or something.

18 super mario odyssey - journey through moon heck

Dear Readers,

Now to explore the lava filled underground cavern of the moon.

17 super mario odyssey - cappy dresses me up for marriage for some reason

Dear Readers,

Now it was time to chase Bowser up to the Moon Kingdom!

16 super mario odyssey - the last of the samurai castle

Dear Readers,

With the Broodals out of the way (for good?), it's time to follow the road to Bowser and this remixed Mario 3 Bowser music!

15 super mario odyssey - poking around bowser's castle

Dear Readers,

Now for Bowser's Castle! I was surprised to see it was an ancient Japanese style castle. Pretty cool :)

14 super mario odyssey - ruined kingdom, the dark souls of mario odyssey kingdoms

Dear Readers,

I decided to move on and deal with the erupting volcano later. Next up is Bowser's Kingdom! Or so we thought...

13 super mario odyssey - swimming with the podoboos and fryin' with the fry pan bros. also, meet meat mario!

Dear Readers,

I powered up the Odyssey once again and headed towards the Luncheon Kingdom.

12 super mario odyssey - bounding in the nineties!

Dear Readers,

Cappy and I could now go to the Snow Kingdom! We went there straight away.

11 super mario odyssey - gushing across the bubbly seaside kingdom

Dear Readers,

After reliving the festival yet again, I hunted down a few more moons in New Donk City before heading to the Seaside Kingdom.

2 pac-man - gb version - 29,740 points

Dear Readers,

Just thought I'd give this a go. I was inspired to play this again since Mark from Classic Game Room is currently reviewing a bunch of Pac-Man releases for many consoles :)

10 super mario odyssey - new donk, new donk! it's a heckuva town!

Dear Readers,

Now that the weather's better and it's a new day, it's time to explore New Donk City properly and get ready for the big main festival! :D

9 super mario odyssey - too-realistic bad weather in the city

Dear Readers,

Finally! The Metro Kingdom! I didn't come at a good time though. It was in the middle of a very stormy night and there was big trouble on one of the skyscrapers. The rain looks awesome and a little too much like what the weather's like here irl now.

8 super mario odyssey - new donk city or bust!

Dear Readers,

I went back to that Fuzzy area with the ledges but couldn't find any other moons. Ah well. Onward to taking care of the Broodals in the Lake Kingdom. After that, the Metro Kingdom! Or at least, that was the plan...

7 super mario odyssey - unzipping the lake kingdom

Dear Readers,

Now to head to the Lake Kingdom for the first time!

6 super mario odyssey - the tank that doesn't have tank controls!

Dear Readers,

Now that I've chased the Broodals out of the Wooded Kingdom, I'm gonna go explore the place more.

5 super mario odyssey - kicking broodal butt in the wooded kingdom

Dear Readers,

If I try playing this game with detached Joy-Con controllers, will the opening loading screen stop suggesting it to me? Anyway, Halloween's over so let's go to the Wooded Kingdom.

4 super mario odyssey - why cap kingdom was the best place to celebrate halloween

Dear Readers,

I headed to the Cap Kingdom instead of the Wooded Kingdom for now, because it's a Halloweeny place and it was still Halloween during this session :) I'm glad I was able to access it now!

3 super mario odyssey - capturing goomba towers in the sand kingdom

Dear Readers,

Now to explore the Sand Kingdom at night!

1 halloween - scored 51,525 points

Dear Readers,

Wasn't sure what to do exactly for Halloween so I played the Halloween game for Atari 2600! There's an Angry Video Game Nerd episode about it as well so I know about it somewhat. I watched it again and the video came out like 9 years ago. Wow...

2 super mario odyssey - exploring the icy sand kingdom and the inverted pyramid

Dear Readers,

The title screen now greets me with Mario screaming the title of the game and an instrumental version of "Jump Up, Super Star!". I started up the Odyssey for the first time and headed to the Sand Kingdom with Cappy.

1 super mario odyssey - odyss60 frames per second!

Dear Readers,

It's finally here :) Just had to install the day 1 update patch first. Let's a go!

23 zelda breath of the wild - bolson's wood

Dear Readers,

I went looking for more restless crickets. I don't usually spot them until it's too late :/ I also delivered the wood to Bolson.

22 zelda breath of the wild - hunting down the sheep rustlers

Dear Readers,

I went back to Purah's place and went upstairs to read her diary...

64 final fantasy explorers - the roof of the north cave, online coop with joseph and gobbie the goblin

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 512 Paladin and I was EL 173 Knight. No Nova again sadly.

21 zelda breath of the wild - purah's 100 year old "snap!" meme

Dear Readers,

I climbed up the huge flagpole in Hateno Village! I had to replenish stamina along the way a couple of times. Maybe I should upgrade...

20 zelda breath of the wild - rescuing a house from bolson prefabs

Dear Readers,

Now for more mingling in Hateno Village.

19 zelda breath of the wild - mingling in hateno village

Dear Readers,

I arrived in Hateno Village at a good time. It was the Blood Moon. I decided to hang out and mingle for a while.

18 zelda breath of the wild - between fort hateno and hateno village

Dear Readers,

I hung around Garill's fireplace to cook up some more food before heading off again.

63 kirby planet robobot - meta knightmare new record: 1:28:16.62

Dear Readers,

Now for the final Lv6, which takes much longer than the others. Took me nearly 40 minutes last time.

62 kirby planet robobot - meta knightmare lv5 best time 13:39.52

Dear Readers,

Now for Lv5, the city at night stage, that makes me feel like the Dark Meta Knight!

63 final fantasy explorers - online co-op with joseph, cecil, kikayon and gobbie the goblin

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 484 Paladin and I was EL 172 Knight. No Nova sadly but we were joined by Cecil, an EL 999 Freelancer and Kikayon, an EL 999 Machinist.

61 kirby planet robobot - meta quick through seas and deserts

Dear Readers,

The Meta Knightmare re-run continues! This time it's Lv3 and 4 I'm doing more quickly.

60 kirby planet robobot - improving level 1 and 2 times in meta knightmare, checking out ophelia tree damage

Dear Readers,

Public transport services came back so I decided to head out and look at the damage caused by Ophelia. It was no longer a category 3 hurricane by the time it got to us, but it still did a lot of damage, especially to trees. While commuting I played Meta Knightmare Returns again to improve on my times and for fun.

1 berzerk - gaming in the aftermath of ophelia

Dear Readers,

Hurricane Ophelia weakened but it left me without electricity and internet for a couple of days. I spent one of the dark nights playing Berzerk for the Atari 2600 on my Atari Flashback Portable while listening to a battery powered radio.

17 zelda breath of the wild - hestu's maracas and the road to hateno

Dear Readers,

I hung around in Kakariko for a bit longer before setting off for Hateno.

16 zelda breath of the wild - mingling and training in kakariko

Dear Readers,

Now for more mingling in Kakariko village! It was a rainy night but I still found people to chat with.

15 zelda breath of the wild - seek out impa... complete!

Dear Readers,

Now that I was in Kakariko, I decided to mingle around! First though I climbed up the wall of the pass and plucked arrows out of the village entrance and collected my 4th Korok seed, which was on a ledge under a rock.

14 zelda breath of the wild - magda's flower maze

Dear Readers,

I left the Riverside Stable and soon came across a bridge. On the bridge a Bokoblin was attacking a woman!

13 zelda breath of the wild - forgotten controls, first signs of civilisation!

Dear Readers,

Now it's back to Hyrule! By gum it's been a while!

59 kirby planet robobot - protec and atac against landia ex, 3,215 experience points, 100% clear and secrets!

Dear Readers,

Now for Quest EX; versus Guardian Angel Landia EX; a meaner looking, more teeth-baring version of the enemy from last time! I teamed up with Doctor Healmore, Hammer Lord and Beam Mage.

62 final fantasy explorers - eye of the goblin, online co-op with joseph and gobbie the goblin

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 465 Blue Mage and I was EL 171 Knight. No Nova with us this time sadly. Just Gobbie the Goblin, on its own quest to gain experience! Joe was also developing his Blue Mage skills :)

58 kirby planet robobot - team kirby clash - landia, 2,645 experience points

Dear Readers,

Now for the 5th quest, versus Guardian Angel Landia. I chose Sword Hero as usual and my teammates were Doctor Healmore, Beam Mage and Hammer Lord.

57 kirby planet robobot - team kirby clash - pyribbit, 2,192 experience points

Dear Readers,

Now for quest #4, up against Flaming Frog Pyribbit. My teammates were Beam Mage and Hammer Lord.

56 kirby planet robobot - team kirby clash - whispy woods, 2,220 experience points

Dear Readers,

Now for Quest 3, Ancient Tree Whispy Woods! By my side were Hammer Lord and Beam Mage.

61 final fantasy explorers - defeating the final therion! online coop with joseph, nova and gobbie the goblin

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 456 White Mage, Nova was EL 215 Knight and I was EL 169 Knight.

55 kirby planet robobot - team kirby clash - mr. frosty, 1,795 experience points

Dear Readers,

I went on to face Mr. Frosty, sticking with Sword Hero. I tend to stick with one class in RPGs. My teammate was a Beam Mage.

54 kirby planet robobot - team kirby clash - gigant edge, 1,315 experience points

Dear Readers,

Now to try this game for the first time. The first quest was versus Gigant Edge. I chose the Sword Hero. I had no other players so the game gave me a CPU controlled Doctor Healmore teammate.

53 kirby planet robobot - kirby 3d rumble level 2 score: 37,290; level 3 score: 61,150

Dear Readers,

Now it's back to Kirby 3D Rumble. Been a while since I played this so let's continue and do the second level.

52 kirby planet robobot - 9th attempt successful, true arena record: 35:28.60

Dear Readers,

Now for my eighth attempt at The True Arena using the Stone ability!

51 kirby planet robobot - attempts 6 & 7 in the true arena, getting further!

Dear Readers,

I went back to The True Arena for a sixth attempt, using the Stone ability again.

50 kirby planet robobot - 5 failed attempts at the true arena

Dear Readers,

Now for The True Arena! For the first attempt I chose the Doctor ability for the health potion move, which I thought would come in handy.

60 final fantasy explorers - enjoying snowy mountain views, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 433 White Mage, Nova was EL 213 Knight and I was EL 167 Knight.

49 kirby planet robobot - completed the arena in 31:46.14 with mirror ability

Dear Readers,

Now it's back to Kirby to try The Arena! I picked the Mirror ability as I love its reflect shield move and wanted to try it out on other bosses!

48 kirby planet robobot - beat meta knightmare returns and unlocked jukebox!

Dear Readers,

Now it's time to face the haughty Haltmann as Meta Knight! Lots of butt kicking ahead in Lv6!

59 final fantasy explorers - crafting the ragnarok, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 417 White Mage, Nova was EL 211 Knight and I was EL 165 Knight.

47 kirby planet robobot - lv5 i am the dark meta knight

Dear Readers,

My Meta Knightmare trial continued into a lively city at night with bright lights everywhere. Standing on top of a building behind a mask like this makes me feel like Batman! In other words, I'm the Dark Meta Knight :)

2 yars' revenge - nom nom tactics, scored 66,381 points

Dear Readers,

I continued playing more of this game and found some more tactics.

1 yars' revenge - actually learning how to play, scored 65,570 points

Dear Readers,

This is an iconic game and it came on the Atari Flashback Portable I bought recently, so I thought I'd learn how to actually play it!

58 final fantasy explorers - deflecting bahamut's toes, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 390 Black Mage, Nova was EL 209 Knight and I was EL 163 Knight.

46 kirby planet robobot - lv4 battling through the desert industrial complex

Dear Readers,

Now it was time to continue my trial in the desert industrial complex.

45 kirby planet robobot - all 200 stickers collected!, meta knightmare through sea and ice cream

Dear Readers,

With level 3, my Meta Knightmare trial slowly took me away from civilisation and into the elements with exposure to sea and ice creams.

57 final fantasy explorers - grant's endgame, online co-op with joseph, nova and grant

Dear Readers,

Joseph, Nova and I eventually got to play online together and our friend Grant joined again too for a while. He got to experience the endgame. :)

44 kirby planet robobot - meta knightmare through city streets and casinos

Dear Readers,

Now for level 2, where I took my training to the busy city streets. Doesn't seem like the safest place to train... especially when I can easily smash Waddle Dee motorists on a whim!

43 kirby planet robobot - first level of meta knightmare returns mode

Dear Readers,

Now to try Meta Knightmare Returns! I forgot the last time I was able to play this mode in a Kirby game. Was it Super Star Ultra? That was quite a while ago. This mode is always really cool and fun to play as post game content! It can often look kind of strange to see such a cool character like Meta Knight tear through cute Kirby levels, but it also feels cool to do as well!

42 kirby planet robobot - 6-8 ex longing for one last turn with the robobot armour

Dear Readers,

On the map, this level is crowned with a Robobot armour. Safe to say it features heavily! It also seems to involve the weird and wonderful virtual world.

41 kirby planet robobot - 6-7 ex all area hard dance remix

Dear Readers,

Now that times are peaceful again, let's collect some more stickers and finish the extra levels!

40 kirby planet robobot - 6-6 final bosses and ending!

Dear Readers,

Now it's time for the boss of the last world! It won't be the end of the game of course, as my save file is still 51% complete and there are other levels here to do too.

56 final fantasy explorers - online co-op with joseph and randoms

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 367 Knight and I was EL 159 Knight. No Nova with us unfortunately, but we played with some random online players.

55 final fantasy explorers - true knighthood, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 364 Knight, Nova was EL 204 Knight and I was EL 157 Knight.

39 kirby planet robobot - 6-5 virtual robobot boss rush

Dear Readers,

From the looks of the map, 6-5 appears to continue my adventure in the virtual world with the deadly blocks. Thankfully I'll have more help now that there's a Robobot armour here too!

38 kirby planet robobot - 6-4 deadly tetrominoes

Dear Readers,

On the map this level has all these abstract dark cubes, making it look like it takes place in some kind of weird virtual world.

37 kirby planet robobot - 6-3 mode code sequence

Dear Readers,

Deeper into the Ark map, this level looks like it has lots of crate moving and electric wiring.

54 final fantasy explorers - knights of the round onion, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

Jopseph, Nova and I all became Knights. I almost never change jobs but I wanted the Sword Schema!

36 kirby planet robobot - 6-2 navigating laser hallway

Dear Readers,

Higher up in the Ark, this place has lots of lasers!

53 final fantasy explorers - crafting all monk gear

Dear Readers,

At this point I was EL 156 Monk. I thought I'd see what it'd be like to dress up as one!

52 final fantasy explorers - unlocking vaan of FFXII, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 347 Beastmaster, Nova was EL199 Knight and I was EL 152 Monk

1 pac-man - gba version - 29,340 points; hi score 30,360

Dear Readers,

I decided to have a quick go of this game. It's the Game Boy Advance version found on the compilation Pac-Man Collection and this is the Wii U Virtual Console version of that.

35 kirby planet robobot - 6-1 the heavily guarded museum

Dear Readers,

Now it was on to Area 6: Access Ark! Finally, the mothership!

34 kirby planet robobot - 5-7 ex boxboy! cameo!

Dear Readers,

This is the one last level to take on before going to the Access Ark mothership.

51 final fantasy explorers - encasing and scavenging, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 341 Paladin, Nova was EL 198 Knight and I was EL 151 Monk.

33 kirby planet robobot - 5-6 versus purple dedede clones

Dear Readers,

Another boss encounter with Susie! She made another dramatic entrance by singing about her favourite evil alien corporation. Then she revealed her latest invention, a big purple clone of King Dedede!

32 kirby planet robobot - 5-5 another train level :D

Dear Readers,

5-5 is another train level! Yay! It starts on the roof where I get blown back to the back of the carriage. Better off inside! The music is a metallic futuristic standard Kirby theme.

50 final fantasy explorers - more scavenging, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL339 Paladin, Nova was EL 195 Knight and I was EL 148 Monk.

8 asterix - round viii rescuing getafix and heading home

Dear Readers,

Now to rescue Getafix and go home to Gaul! The entire level is a chariot race.

7 asterix - round vii lost in egypt like eejits

Dear Readers,

We left Greece meaning to go to Rome, but ended up in Egypt like eejits! "I believe we are lost!" Obelix says.

6 asterix - round vi crossing the mediterranean

Dear Readers,

Instead of turning around when we got to Greece, we continued across the Mediterranean, thinking Rome might've been on the other side!

5 asterix - round v - ending up in greece

Dear Readers,

We were supposed to go to Rome, but we ended up in Greece! Obelix wondered if we took a wrong turn. We did indeed.

4 asterix - round iv going south

Dear Readers,

We headed south at least, though it looked like we were bypassing the Italian peninsula...

3 asterix - round iii in the snowy mountains

Dear Readers,

Round III took place in the snowy mountains, possibly the Alps. Some nice upbeat music here.

2 asterix - city rooftops and castle

Dear Readers,

The next stage was an autoscroller and took place on the rooftops of an urban setting.

1 asterix - sega master system version

Dear Readers,

I gave this a go recently. SEGA made a couple of their own Asterix games so I was curious to see what they were like.

49 final fantasy explorers - resonating at last! online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

This time Joseph was EL 337 Blue Mage, Nova was EL 193 Knight and I was EL 146 Monk. I was having some trouble with the internet but it went back to normal eventually.

48 final fantasy explorers - ramuhsing online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 336 White Mage, Nova was EL 192 Samurai and I was EL 144 Monk.

3 monster hunter stories - learning the battle system

Dear Readers,

Now it was time for a bit of adventure with Navirou on Velocidrome's back running along with me. Not sure where my other two buddies were.

2 monster hunter stories - my rite of kinship

Dear Readers,

It was a year after the attack of the Nargacuga and it was time for my Rite of Kinship where I got to become a true Rider.

1 monster hunter stories - trying out the demo

Dear Readers,

This demo was just released recently and it looks quite different to the other Monster Hunter games, so I thought I'd give it a go. No usage limit so that's nice!

47 final fantasy explorers - completing aberrant subquests, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 335 White Mage, Nova was EL 190 Samurai and I was EL 143 Monk.

46 final fantasy explorers - online co-op with joseph, nova and grant

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 334 White Mage, Nova was EL 189 Samurai and I was EL 142 Monk. Our friend Grant joined us too!

45 final fantasy explorers - finishing off 10 star quests, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 334 White Mage, Nova was EL 189 Samurai and I was EL 142 Monk.

44 final fantasy explorers - online co-op with nova and joseph with his new nintendo 2ds xl

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 331 White Mage, Nova was EL 187 Samurai and I was EL 140 Monk. Joseph bought the just released New Nintendo 2DS XL after the Circle Pad on his old one broke, so we were back in action!

31 kirby planet robobot - 5-4 returning the road rage

Dear Readers,

It's another driving stage :) this was pretty fun the first time. let's see how it is here!

30 kirby planet robobot - 5-3 hidden waddle dee graffiti artists

Dear Readers,

Now for the giant screw building of this area! This time they just give you a Warpstar to use to get up to the door if you want. This stage has floor tile hazards. You can observe the patterns as they come in from the background.

29 kirby planet robobot - 5-2 secret casino window

Dear Readers,

It's another casino level! Watch out for the giant billiard balls! The Stone ability is very handy as they can't hurt you when you use it.

28 kirby planet robobot - 5-1 screaming at giant turtles

Dear Readers,

Now for area 5, Rhythm Route! This area takes place in another urban area but at night. The music for the map is a chirpy electronic chime which also suits a nighttime urban setting.

27 kirby planet robobot - 4-7ex groovy dream land 3 bonus music returns!

Dear Readers,

This level starts off nicely with a rendition of Gourmet Race and a Rube Goldberg mechanism with batteries :)

26 kirby planet robobot - 4-6 versus mecha knight

Dear Readers,

Susie appears again! This time she's being all sweet but then sics Meta Knight... er... I mean Mecha Knight on me.

25 kirby planet robobot - 4-5 bomb drone puzzle fun

Dear Readers,

On the map this level has those big swinging hammers on display. They're certainly here and it's another factory level.

24 kirby planet robobot - 4-4 kabula returns!

Dear Readers,

4-4 is the giant screw building of this area. It's also another Jet Mode shmup/stg stage.

23 kirby planet robobot - 4-3 pyramid battery factory

Dear Readers,

4-3 takes place in some kind of vast factory. Check out all the awesome pyramids, their seams all lit up and mechanised! Lots of conveyor belts here too. I would have to guess that they're producing batteries, as there are a lot of puzzles here based on them.

22 kirby planet robobot - 4-2 guiding poison clouds

Dear Readers,

4-2 is quite windy with the propellers everywhere! Also a great place to use the Poison ability, as you can make attack clouds travel through obstacles along the wind.

21 kirby planet robobot - 4-1 punching giant metal logs

Dear Readers,

Onward to Gigabyte Grounds! Area 4 is set in a desert. The map has various industrial elements associated with deserts such as structures that look like oil rigs, though some look like food blenders! The theme's instrumentation consists of sitar plucking and clanking and echoing metallic sounds, conveying the atmosphere of being all serious and industrial in the scorching heat.

20 kirby planet robobot - 3-7 ex final bit of business at the dockyard

Dear Readers,

Before we leave the docks of Overload Ocean, let's do the last and hidden area, unlocked by Code Cubes.

19 kirby planet robobot - 3-6 boss fight vs susie

Dear Readers,

It's time to face the boss of this dockyard and show them a thing or two! The part before it when you're in the water and the sunlight is bouncing off everything is pretty :)

18 kirby planet robobot - 3-5 robo-shark infested atlantis

Dear Readers,

Usually this would be a boss stage, but it's an ordinary stage instead. This area is a bit longer. It's pretty cool! It's like a cyberpunk city, but completely submerged! The music also sounds a bit like something Basiscape would do. It's nice.

17 kirby planet robobot - 3-4 falling ice cream cone trees

Dear Readers,

I've generally grown tired of levels based on sweets in video games, but this one is specifically about cold sweets like ice cream cones and ice lollies, which makes it a lovely summer level!

16 kirby planet robobot - 3-3 auto scrolling in different directions

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the giant screw tower building of this area, partly submerged.

15 kirby planet robobot - 3-2 robobot on wheels

Dear Readers,

On the map screen, this stage looks like it has a giant car of some kind hanging from a crane. It's what the mech suit turns into when it gets the Wheel ability!

14 kirby planet robobot - 3-1 punching giant squids

Dear Readers,

Onward to the new area. Overload Ocean looks like it was changed by the aliens by making it look like a dockyard. Some nice steel drums in the map screen theme.

13 kirby planet robobot - 2-6 ex punching forklifts to get one last game of pool in

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the extra level from area 2, unlocked by collecting Code Cubes from all the other stages here.

12 kirby planet robobot - 2-5 vs holo defence api boss

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the boss of Area 2, the Holo Defence API.

11 kirby planet robobot - trying kirby 3d rumble, level 1 score: 36,300

Dear Readers,

Now to try one of the sub-games from Kirby Planet Robobot.

10 kirby planet robobot - 2-4 casino kirby

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this casino level! No gambling whatsoever happens here, apart from dice rolling, which always gives some form of goodies.

9 kirby planet robobot - 2-3 new poison ability

Dear Readers,

It's another giant screw building like in the last area. I guess every area has these. It's still kinda funny how it's introduced all dramatic, then plays happy bouncy Kirby music :)

8 kirby planet robobot - 2-2 kirby gradius

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this super fun stage where you combine the mech suit and the Jet ability to turn the level into a horizontal shmup/stg!

7 kirby planet robobot - 2-1 ness' ability from earthbound

Dear Readers,

I headed to the next area, Resolution Road. The first area is some kind of metropolitan area with motorways.

1 monopoly - mega drive version

Dear Readers,

I decided to try out the Mega Drive version of Monopoly. It's not too bad a version of the game, though I prefer the Game Boy Color version.

6 kirby planet robobot - 1-6 ex a remix of tunes and levels

Dear Readers,

This level I unlocked by collecting all the Code Cubes for this area and I started right away in a mech suit, unscrewing screws and using other mechanisms.

5 kirby planet robobot - 1-5 versus clanky woods and returning to obtain 1-1's rare sticker

Dear Readers,

Time to take on the first boss! Yes it's Whispy Woods again but this time it's a mechanised version, Clanky Woods!

4 kirby planet robobot - 1-4 robobuilding

Dear Readers,

Level 1-4 started with a dramatic camera pan of a tall, highly mechanised structure. Then it played the same upbeat jingle from the other levels as I made my way up the long spiral ramp to the entrance.

3 kirby planet robobot - 1-3 a train level! :D the new doctor ability

Dear Readers,

Now for area 1-3. It started off with a tutorial about Amiibo usage. Bleh. But then the level reavealed itself as a train level! This platformer starts off strong :)

2 kirby planet robobot - first stickers and second level

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the second level and list the first stickers of my collection.

1 kirby planet robobot - hooray for hints! first level

Dear Readers,

With Kirby Triple Deluxe completed 100%, I finally took a dive into this new game. I say that, even though it came out last year! It's still new to me!

22 super mario maker - terra's theme - final fantasy vi by mop it up

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this Mario 1 automatic musical stage by my friend Mop it up.

4 kirby triple deluxe - all 256 keychains collected! 100% game!

Dear Readers,

I uncovered the locations of the last two keychains to elude me! Thank you walkthrough!

3 kirby triple deluxe - 254/256 keychains collected now!

Dear Readers,

I found 2 more keychains in Level 6. Woo! Still didn't get them all though... Hm... :/

21 super mario maker - 8-1 tank! tank! tank! by mop it up

Course ID: 8A28-0000-016A-E697

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this Mario 3 autoscrolling airship stage by my friend Mop it up.

20 super mario maker - snow day!!! by joseph

Course ID: AF13-0000-01D0-C4F4

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this underground Mario 3 stage by my friend Joseph.

19 super mario maker - nintendo fun club #001 by joseph

Course ID: 6D98-0000-01C7-AFAD

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this Mario 3 airship stage by my friend Joseph.

18 super mario maker - gotta p? (just hold it) by joseph

Course ID: 703B-0000-00F2-13C7

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this Mario 3 ground stage by my friend Joseph.

17 super mario maker - 7 deadly sins by joseph

Course ID: 4B1D-0000-008E-D73D

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this New Super Mario Bros. U style castle stage by my friend Joseph.

16 super mario maker - 6-4 thwomp throwdown by mop it up

Course ID: F7BF-0000-0162-6E08

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this Mario 1 castle stage by my friend Mop it up. Thwomps... so many Thwomps!

15 super mario maker - 5-1 plug those leaks! by mop it up

Course ID: 04D3-0000-0158-3A0C

Dear Readers,

Today I'll try this Mario 3 style stage by my friend Mop it up.

14 super mario maker - 4-1 wall kicks will work by mop it up

Course ID: C77D-0000-0152-4521

Dear Readers,

Haven't played this in a long time! Just over a year I think... Lots to catch up on! Had to download an update that took 2 minutes to download and took another 2 to install.

77 epic dumpster bear - 7-6 final stage and 100% game!

Dear Readers,

Level 7-6 is called "Fast Fire Climb" and it's the last level in the whole game! It takes place on the space station world. Maybe this is part of the escape sequence in the game's ending?

76 epic dumpster bear - 7-5 unlocking the last level

Dear Readers,

Level 7-5 is known as "Tricky Temple". The eastern world was lovely but had the most horrifying enemies in the game!

75 epic dumpster bear - wasteland workout

Dear Readers,

Level 7-4 is called "Wasteland Wall Jumps". Forgot how dreary world 4 was.

1 Hey! Pikmin - puzzling and tapping demo

Dear Readers,

Another 3DS demo that game out this week is Hey! Pikmin. Very very different to the other Pikmin games. This time it's a 2D puzzle platformer.

1 ever oasis - trying the adventuresome demo!

Dear Readers,

Let's try the Ever Oasis demo! I'm hearing nice things about this, so why not give it a shot?

74 epic dumpster bear - 7-3 back to the desert during this heatwave!

Dear Readers,

Level 7-3 is called "Boiling Bumper Jumps". Back at the desert world. With this recent summer heatwave it feels a bit like a desert!

73 epic dumpster bear - 7-2 waiting before dropping

Dear Readers,

Level 7-2 is called "Snow Drop" and is a throwback to the snowy world 2.

72 epic dumpster bear - 7-1 world 1 throwback :)

Dear Readers,

On to the bonus world, Champion's Dumpster! The map is an image of a beautiful night sky, above the clouds. Level 7-1 is called "Crazy Crates" and is themed after world 1! I missed the lovely music from there :)

71 epic dumpster bear - 6-7 end of game dragon!

Dear Readers,

Boss time! This time it's the Space Dragon.

70 epic dumpster bear - 6-6 no castles in space :(

Dear Readers,

Level 6-6 is called "Space Climb". I guess it wouldn't make sense to have a castle stage in a world that's set inside a space station moon base, which itself is a kind of castle.

69 epic dumpster bear - 6-d portal puzzle four

Dear Readers,

It's the last portal puzzle level. Gonna miss these cool towers in the space station world!

68 epic dumpster bear - 6-5 electrical hazard in the dome

Dear Readers,

Level 6-5 is known as "Electric Wall Jumps". As you can expect, mainly electrical enemies here! This also seems to be high up within the lunar base, judging by the background. Maybe it has a big dome ceiling.

67 epic dumpster bear - 6-c portal puzzle three

Dear Readers,

The white portals in these towers were kinda confusing to me, but now I know they're there to warp to the next section of portals.

66 epic dumpster bear - 6-x secret space tower

Dear Readers,

Secret level 6-X is known as "Space Secret". Very secret! Shh!

65 epic dumpster bear - 6-4 deadly slide

Dear Readers,

Level 6-4 is known as "Space Slide". For a very good reason too. Lots of sliding going on here!

64 epic dumpster bear - 6-b portal puzzle two

Dear Readers,

I really like these portal puzzle stages! This one is a tower as well. I'm getting a clearer picture of what the outside of this lunar space station may look like now with these portal puzzle towers. Maybe they're at the corners of the station like on a castle?

63 epic dumpster bear - 6-3 grinding into the unknown

Dear Readers,

Level 6-3 is known as "Space Grind". Lots of Sonic style grinding on rails and bumping off bumpers!

62 epic dumpster bear - 6-a portal puzzle

Dear Readers,

Puzzles in space! I like these different coloured portal puzzles!

61 epic dumpster bear - 6-2 t bumpers

Dear Readers,

Level 6-2 is known as "Space Bear Hunter".

60 epic dumpster bear - 6-1 bear in space!

Dear Readers,

Level 6-1 is known as "Future Bear". The world is called "Space Station". The path to fight the evil corporation has led me all the way to outer space!

2 kirby triple deluxe - 252/256 keychains collected now!

Dear Readers,

I explored all of level 4 and 5 and found some more new and rare keychains. Some of them from level 6 too. Here are the ones I found since last time...

59 epic dumpster bear - 5-6 big beast boss

Dear Readers,

It's boss time already! This is one of the shorter worlds. The boss here is a big freaky kaiju thing!

58 epic dumpster bear - 5-d pushy puzzle four

Dear Readers,

It's the last puzzle stage of this world. Time doesn't seem to flow in this world at all as it always seems to be the same time of day in every level. It's still lovely though :)

57 epic dumpster bear - 5-5 non-eastern castle stage

Dear Readers,

Level 5-5 is known as "Mountain Castle". A castle stage already? Yeah this world is a little bit shorter than normal.

56 - epic dumpster bear - 5-c pushy puzzle three

Dear Readers,

These Pullblox-like puzzles are getting a bit trickier!

5 arms - slam dunking into the 2nd global testpunch weekend

Dear Readers,

It's well worth jumping into the second Global Testpunch weekend! Some new stuff is available. There's the slam dunk basketball thing, there's the new character Twintelle and there's a boss that's like Goro from Mortal Kombat!

55 epic dumpster bear - 5-x p-wing bear

Dear Readers,

Level 5-X is known as "Auto Flight". It's an auto scrolling stage with the wing power up, so it's Flappy Bear! Though that may be an unfair comparison!

1 kirby triple deluxe - 247 keychains! just a few more!

Dear Readers,

Before I started this blog I had played this game to the point where I got 98% completion. There's more stuff to get like keychains, so I decided to revisit the levels in the game to go hunt for them!

4 arms - finally wins me over! :) oh oh oh oh! na na na na!

Dear Readers,

This is the last Global Testpunch session I did this weekend. I got on much better and enjoyed it a lot more too :) The title of this post has some lyrics from the theme tune, which is very catchy!

3 arms - almost giving up due to a mario kart-like blooper thing :(

Dear Readers,

I was fit to give up on this game entirely when I found out there's a part where gunk sprays over the screen and obscures the view :( Other than that, here are some other highs and lows of the global testpunch!

43 final fantasy explorers - circle pad trouble, online co-op with joseph and nova

Dear Readers,

At this point Joseph was EL 329 Red Mage, Nova was EL 184 Samurai and I was EL 138 Monk. Joe decided to try out the Red Mage class.

2 arms - playing with motion controls, don't hit the tabletop!

Dear Readers,

During the next global testpunch session I tried the game with motion controls in tabletop mode.

1 arms - trying the first global testpunch

Dear Readers,

I tried out the first Global Testpunch for this new and upcoming game, just to try it out!

54 epic dumpster bear - 5-4 farting unlocks the secret level

Dear Readers,

Level 5-4 is known as "Gassy Bear Returns". Love this power up :)

53 epic dumpster bear - 5-b pushy puzzle two

Dear Readers,

It's another of these cool Pullblox-like puzzle stages. Some of the red salmon coins are hidden on high ground.

52 - epic dumpster bear - 5-3 you're not allowed to say "balls" on miiverse

Dear Readers,

Level 5-3 is known as "Temple Dive". It's a tower style climbing stage. I wonder if it takes place in a really big pagoda?

51 epic dumpster bear - 5-a pushy puzzle

Dear Readers,

Puzzle stages are back! Yay! I wonder why they were missing from the last world? Maybe the evil corporation doesn't like puzzles so they got rid of them.

50 epic dumpster bear 5-2 - portal-like portals

Dear Readers,

Level 5-2 is known as "Bear Portals". True to its name, it's partly about warping through portals.

49 epic dumpster bear - 5-1 lush eastern temple challenge

Dear Readers,

I'm starting a new world called Mountain Temple! Level 5-1 is known as Pushy Platforms.

48 epic dumpster bear - 4-7 crumbling the rock giant boss

Dear Readers,

Boss time! The boss of world 4 is a rock giant. Its size is pretty intimidating! Pretty agile too!

47 epic dumpster bear - 4-6 between fireballs and swinging axes

Dear Readers,

Level 4-6 is known as "Forest Castle". For a castle stage, there isn't a whole lot of castle here. Maybe the corporation destroyed most of it too with all their freaking axes.

46 epic dumpster bear - 4-y auto-scroller

Dear Readers,

Level 4-Y is known as "Auto Bear". It's an auto scrolling stage. Nothing to do with Dumpster Bear driving a monster truck unfortunately.

45 epic dumpster bear - 4-5 axing too much

Dear Readers,

Level 4-5 is known as "Bear Bombs". Nice comeback for power ups in this world :)

44 epic dumpster bear - 4-4 too many axes and flamethrowers

Dear Readers,

Level 4-4 is known as "Fire Axe Challenge". Fire? Check. Axes? Check. Challenge? Check!

42 final fantasy explorers - return to amostra, online co-op with joseph, nova and terra

Dear Readers,

Joseph, Nova and I made our grand return to Amostra after not having played together since last summer! Terra joined in too after a while.

43 epic dumpster bear - 4-3 a ruder version of yoshi's flutter jump

Dear Readers,

Level 4-3 is known as "Gassy Bear". In this level you get a farting power up! It works as a double jump :)

42 epic dumpster bear - 4-x dumpster bugbear takes flight

Dear Readers,

Level 4-X is known as Can Bears Fly? This reminds me of the magazine adverts for Banjo-Kazooie, one of the best games ever :)

41 epic dumpster bear - 4-2 dumpster bear returns to rail grinding :)

Dear Readers,

Level 4-2 is known as "Pipeline Grind". I missed these too! :)

40 epic dumpster bear - 4-1 my ruined home

Dear Readers,

Level 4-1 is called "Home Sweet Dumpster", my old home before it got ruined by the evil corporation!

39 epic dumpster bear - 3-7 sand worm stomping

Dear Readers,

Dumpster Desert almost conquered! Only thing left is the Sand Worm boss!

38 epic dumpster bear - 3-d puzzle explosion four

Dear Readers,

The last puzzle desert stage! Some of the puzzles themselves are tricky too...

37 epic dumpster bear - 3-6 auto scrolling tower castle

Dear Readers,

It's Desert Castle! This is an auto scrolling tower style stage. New challenge to outrun a fiery death!

36 epic dumpster bear - 3-y love it when an enemy takes out another enemy!

Dear Readers,

Level 3-Y is known as Desert Wall Jumps.

35 epic dumpster bear - 3-c puzzle explosion three

Dear Readers,

Paid the usual 75 salmon coins to get in! Another tricky block breaking puzzle stage with some very far reaching jumps to do

2 tetris - researching strategies, cleared 72 lines and earned 9,107 points

Dear Readers,

While researching for instructions and strategies for this version of the game, I came across harddrop.com's wiki. It's pretty cool and told me what the items do :)

34 epic dumpster bear - 3-5 platform edge jumping

Dear readers,

Level 3-5 is known as Dumpster Sweat. Doesn't sound very pleasant! Imagine dumpsters in the desert... Ugh!

6 altered beast - finally made it to the fifth round!

Dear Readers,

Since last time I've been having lots of trouble on the third round and couldn't get past for a long time. Then I finally did and passed the fourth round too!

6 terraria - the goblin army and the eater of worlds, online coop with mop it up

Dear Readers,

Been a while since this session! Over a month. I'd better write about it now as it was pretty eventful. Mop it up and I took on a boss in this session!

33 epic dumpster bear - 3-b puzzle explosion two

Dear Readers,

Paid the usual 75 coins to get into this stage. I guess it's that way clear across the board?

2 puyo puyo tetris - marathon tetris 218,014 points

Dear Readers,

This game had a great demo and encouraged me to go ahead and buy a physical copy of the game! The game loads super fast and you can select regular 1 player Marathon Tetris from the title screen and jump right in to a game! That's the way to do it :)

32 epic dumpster bear - 3-4 homing missile nightmare

Dear Readers,

Level 3-4 is known as Sand Movers. It's still night in this world.

1 flash point - sega tetris, but with flash mode like in columns!

Dear Readers,

Flash Point on Mega Drive has a pretty interesting history. According to segaretro.org, it comes from the SEGA Ages collection of Tetris and there is no other known version! It's a shame, because it has a goal oriented take on the typical Tetris gameplay that's reminiscent of Columns in Flash mode.

1 tetris - sega mega drive version

Dear Readers,

With SEGA coming out with a new Tetris crossover game, I thought I'd try out the old Mega Drive version!

1 columns iii: revenge of columns - learning to play the competitive scenario

Dear Readers,

Puyo Puyo Tetris is out soon! I've been playing some of SEGA's other block matching games like this. This installment of Columns has some of its own special things to offer!

1 snipperclips - playing the demo in single player

Dear Readers,

Saw that there was a demo for Snipperclips going, so I decided to give it a go!

2 super bomberman r - 1.3 update with 60fps, further update wishlist

Dear Readers,

I updated and tried out this game again. Great improvements yes, but I'd like even more!

1 puyo puyo tetris demo - seeeeegaaaa! tetris!

Dear Readers,

I tried the demo for Puyo Puyo Tetris. Every time you finish a session, it goes back to the opening logos, where the characters take turns saying "SEGA!" and "Tetris!". I like this a lot :)

The game itself though? Really challenging!

31 epic dumpster bear - 3-a puzzle explosion

Dear Readers,

Now for the first puzzle stage in the desert world. It costs the usual 75 salmon coins to open up.

1 sonic the hedgehog 2 - collecting some emeralds

Dear Readers,

First time writing about the sequel! I thought I'd play and collect as many chaos emeralds as I could in the short time I had for this session.

30 epic dumpster bear - 3-3 homing missiles don't sleep

Dear Readers,

Level 3-3 is called Night Attack. It's got a more subdued night time version of the desert world music and it's also quite dangerous!

5 altered beast - jump kicks are faster! Scored 262,000 points

Dear Readers,

Professor Asobin gave me a hot tool tip when the game was loading. You can kick a lot faster when you're in the air!

1 space invaders '91 - sega version, 16,110 points

Dear Readers,

I had a go of this recently. It's the Mega Drive version and not the arcade game of the same name.

1 flicky - beating the default hi score for 124,930 points

Dear Readers,

Arcade oriented games really should have a good high scoring system and rankings. The "ending" could be to reach the top and you could have the staff names as the default table listings too! Everybody wins!

4 sonic the hedgehog - atgames version through tv

Dear Readers,

Played a full session of Sonic 1 with all emeralds again, but this time on one of those ATGames portable devices connected to a TV.

4 altered beast - skill setback

Dear Readers,

Played some more Altered Beast and was out of practice. Big setback in skills!

29 epic dumpster bear - obelisk scaffolding

Dear Readers,

Level 3-2 is known as Desert Climb. I may be climbing an obelisk like the one in the distant background, or possibly even its scaffolding

28 epic dumpster bear - 3-x homing missile bullet bills

Dear Readers,

Level 3-X is known as Super Sand Movers. It takes place at night!

27 epic dumpster bear - 3-1 remember alf? he's back! in stamp form!

Dear Readers,

Now for the first stage of Dumpster Desert! 3-1 is called Sahara Sand Bear.

26 epic dumpster bear - defeated the werewolf boss

Dear Readers,

Now for the boss of the Icy Yukon world! Defeating it will end winter forever! Or at least until next year.

25 epic dumpster bear - 2-d snow puzzle four

Dear Readers,

Been a small while! About a month or so. Level 2-D is Snow Puzzle Four and costs 75 salmon coins to open up.

1 fairune 2 - a demo that's better than some zeldas!

Dear Readers,

The sequel to one of my favourite RPGs of this generation has a demo that's just out! Thought I'd give it a go :)

3 sonic the hedgehog - why the gamecube controller is the best sega mega drive controller ever

Dear Readers,

I had another go of Sonic 1, but this time it's the GameCube version. I love playing Mega Drive games with a GameCube controller! Here's why.

2 pac-mania - easiest, slowest setting

Dear Readers,

I had another go of this game while waiting for a burger meal at a diner.

1 columns - leisurely time trial points 2k to 3k

Dear Readers,

Played a couple of quick games of Columns! Mega Drive version, Time Trial, Level 0.

3 luigi's mansion 2 - going up in the world, online co-op with mop it up and ninsage

Dear Readers,

Did you know the European cover art for Luigi's Mansion 2 glows in the dark? Now you do! After owning the game for four years, my copy's cover has gotten kinda wrinkled and bumpy in the spots where it glows, but it still does glow though!

Bustin's makes ya feel good so I had another online co-op session of this game with Mop it up and NinSage!

2 luigi's mansion 2 - ghostly disconnects, online co-op with mop it up and ninsage

Dear Readers,

I played another session of ghost busting with Mop it up and NinSage and had some hiccups with the online connection.

1 luigi's mansion 2 - luigi ghostbusters, online co-op with mop it up and ninsage

Dear Readers,

It's been a long time since I played Luigi's Mansion 2 online but it's well worth coming back to! NinSage finally bought a copy of the game so now we can all play together! Yay!

5 terraria - filling more of the local map, online multiplayer with mop it up

Dear Readers,

Mop it up wanted to find more goodies and I needed to manage inventory. Busy times in NinTerraria!

1 ms. pac-man - april fool's special on google maps, scored 19,130 points

Dear Readers,

It's possible for nice things to come out of April Fool's Day. A pretend product can be announced for example and then so many people wish for it to be true that it ends up being made anyway. There you go! Marketing tactic!

This year, Google Maps had a Ms. Pac-Man icon you could click to adapt a street network into a dot munching maze. I gave it a go!

4 terraria - fishy rainy day creatures, online multiplayer with mop it up

Dear Readers,

No jokes today sorry, just talking about another online play session I had with Mop it up in Terraria.

3 terraria - giant eyeball boss, online multiplayer with mop it up and jason

Dear Readers,

After a good start, Mop it up and I continued our adventures in NinTerraria world. At one stage, Jason came along to join in too. Here's how our play session went.

2 terraria - starting a new online multiplayer world with mop it up

Dear Readers,

About time I started this game properly beyond the tutorial! Mop it up and I played together online.

1 pac-mania - why i love this 765 game

Dear Readers,

Pac-Mania is probably my most favourite Pac-Man game ever! I don't have 765 reasons off the top of my head explaining why, so I'll just talk about a few reasons.

3 altered beast - round 3, the bear jumps like sonic!

Dear Readers,

Now to round 3. It's another depth lower than the last round and has midsection platforms, stalactites and stalagmites.

2 altered beast - round 2, eyeball plant thing

Dear Readers,

I eventually made it to this stage. Underground cave with purple blobs, big rattlesnake dragon things and that stubby beaky thing from Golden Axe.

2 splatoon 2 - second global testfire slot and the charger's new feature

Dear Readers,

I jumped into the second slot of the global testfire, which took place between 3am and 4am GMT on Saturday. I used the charger weapon this time, using the gyro sensor to aim. Here's how I got on...

1 splatoon 2 - my time with the first global testfire

Dear Readers,

It's Global Testfire weekend! I decided to jump in and try the first session that took place between 7pm and 8pm GMT Friday. Here's how I got on...

Before I got into any match, the game gave me a tutorial. The B button is now the jump button instead of X, which is now the map button. This caught me out quite a lot but I'm sure I can get used to it. It's also kinda weird how the camera control descriptions were labelled "inverted" when they were normal. It's nice to have the option to change though! I also used the Splattershot for this hour long session.

Now for the matches:

Match 1:
Won 58.6 to 25.8

Began playing on the Reef stage. Just messing around laying ink on everything. Splatted one guy. Nice winning start :)

Match 2:
Lost 27.3 to 56.8

First loss! Oh well. Got a load of the new special abilities, including the missiles where I can aim at the others from a distance. They're nice enough and I got many splats out of it.

Match 3:
Lost 31.2 to 59.9

Musselforge Fitness arena this time. This place has the feel of a large indoor shed or something. I got splatted through the wall because of someone using the powerful stingray weapon. Pretty dangerous stuff.

Match 4:
Won 56.6 to 35.3

Finally winning again! I still can't get used to pressing B instead of X to jump but I will. Also, there's a shortcut to do a super jump where you hold the D-Pad and press A. I can't suss it yet.

Match 5:
Won 55.4 to 36.6

I got ambushed by the other team but it didn't stop our team from winning! In the Global Testfire a random gender and skin tone is chosen for you for each map and no fancy equipment, making the experience pure. Competitive games can be the nicest in the first few months :)

Match 6:
Won 69.7 to 18.6

We absolutely trashed them this time! Very satisfying to ambush and splat many members of their team too! Woo!

Match 7:
Won 55.0 to 36.4

I got splatted by that missile launcher special for the first time. Didn't stop us from winning again though! I also did a bit of that taunt-y jump when you splat someone. :P

Match 8:
Won 58.5 to 32.3

I splatted them a lot during this round and didn't get splatted once. No laggy splats either, which always knocked my confidence during close quarters combat in the first game.

Match 9:
Lost 24.0 to 53.5

Back to the Reef stage. I splatted loads of people, only got splatted once. Lost badly enough and someone dropped out on our team.

Match 10:
Lost 32.6 to 46.9

Didn't get far at all in this one. They were quite good at keeping territory.

Match 11:
Won 46.2 to 45.6

Very close match! Back at the Fitness arena too. Had an awesome time here and splatted them many many times, two of them in the last few seconds, which was pretty satisfying!

Match 12:
Lost 40.5 to 43.1

Another very close match! I had some very narrow misses. Especially at one point where one of them had the jetpack spray special going on and were firing heavy shots past my head.

Match 13:
Lost 39.1 to 45.1

I got splatted 3 times, including once by missiles. They didn't get away with it though! Didn't stop us from losing however.

Match 14:
Lost 42.6 to 46.6

I did pretty well with the splatting. I got them many times but our team still lost.

Won 7, lost 7!

The Global Testfire session lasted until about 8:15pm after all. Glad I was able to have as much fun as I could and even beyond the scheduled hour :)

After playing non-stop for an hour, my Switch battery was down to 40% from a full charge. Gonna have to charge if I want to play again during the weekend...

1 altered beast - rising from my grave, round 1

Dear Readers,

I always had trouble imagining who would be nostalgic for Altered Beast. It must be the power of it being a launch game, as well as a pack-in game for the SEGA Mega Drive. Either way, it's always coming up in SEGA rereleases and the 3D Classics Collection is no different. Let's actually sit down and play it!

2 maze walker - beat the game!

Dear Readers,

I played another good long session of this game and I reached the end! I had to use the Helper Mode though, which gave me much needed 30 lives to start with!

2 sonic the hedgehog - got all emeralds!

Dear Readers,

For the first time ever, I got all six chaos emeralds in Sonic 1! Hooray!

1 maze walker - plodding along in 3d

Dear Readers,

One of the big draws for me to buying SEGA 3D Classics Collection was the inclusion of this Master System game, which originally had an option to be played while wearing 3D glasses. I was tickled by the fact that they went to the trouble to adapt this for 3DS!

1 air hockey - atgames sega handheld is awesome!

Dear Readers,

I recently got one of those AtGames portable SEGA Mega Drive handhelds. It's the Sonic 25th anniversary one with 80 games on it. It's got weird sound but otherwise plays and looks well. In addition to the SEGA games it's got a bunch of arcade games with Tec Toy branding. This is one of them.

1 sonic the hedgehog - half the emeralds

Dear Readers,

Recently I played the whole way through Sonic 1. I haven't done that in years, probably during his 15th anniversary when I beat it for the first time! The version I played is the SEGA 3D Classics Collection for Nintendo 3DS.

12 zelda breath of the wild - second person narrative in the quest subscreen

Dear Readers,

I went back to the Temple Of Time, where the Goddess Statue was now glowing. I thought I'd meet the old man here, but instead I had the option to trade soul orbs for extra hearts or stamina. I decided not to go for either yet.

11 zelda breath of the wild - stopping objects in time

Dear Readers,

I went into the last shrine on the continent and was given a really interesting app for my Sheikah Slate. It enables me to freeze an object in time!

10 zelda breath of the wild - coming down from mount hylia

Dear Readers,

On my descent from Mount Hylia, I came across a tougher teal Bokoblin that was all alone and guarding a treasure chest. I hadn't seen anything like this yet so I had to check it out.

9 zelda breath of the wild - climbing to the top of mount hylia

Dear Readers,

After thinking about it a little bit, I decided to climb to the top of Mount Hylia.

8 zelda breath of the wild - making spicy food for the cold weather

Dear Readers,

I cooked up lots of dishes using the chilies I pilfered from the Bokoblin farm. Good thing I caught lots of fish and picked up loads of apples earlier!

7 zelda breath of the wild - stealing chili peppers from bokoblins

Dear Readers,

I continued up the mountain path until snowy heights were approaching. I happened on a tower like the one I couldn't climb last time because it was too tall for my stamina levels. However this one looked scaleable, so I climbed right up there! On top was a chest of arrows and there was a Bokoblin camp in view. I knew what the game wanted me to do!

6 zelda breath of the wild - culinary catastrophes and more koroks

Dear Readers,

I eventually made it out of the woods and navigated my way up a mountain trail at the edge of the plateau.

5 zelda breath of the wild - my first death and game over

Dear Readers,

On the trek I took through the forest, gathering lots of stuff like mushrooms, apples and even some honey, I came across a nice little meadow which had lots of mushrooms. While picking some, a big pile of rocks came to life and its name appeared along with a life bar! A boss!

4 zelda breath of the wild - invading bokoblin camps

Dear Readers,

Now for the third shrine. I decided to warp to the first shrine and then continued onwards into the forest on my path towards the next one. It was here I came across many Bokoblin camps.

3 zelda breath of the wild - the first live guardians i meet

Dear Readers,

Before I left the tower to head for the ruins, I noticed a big thing moving slowly in the sky. Some kind of airship? I'll probably find out later.

When I got to the ruins, one of those mechanical tentacled wrecks I've been seeing all over the place came alive!

2 zelda breath of the wild - more qr codes and puzzle shrines

Dear Readers,

I climbed down from the tower that sprouted from underneath me and heard a familiar voice. The old man from before flew in on his sweet paraglider.

1 zelda breath of the wild - opening my eyes

Dear Readers,

It's time to play the game of the moment! I am Link in a brand new adventure in a big big world. A woman's voice said to open my eyes so I did. I found myself in a Shrine Of Resurrection. Soon I'm using something called a Sheikah Slate to interact with weird looking QR codes. Technology must've changed a lot in the past 100 years!

1 super bomberman r - thank you konami for including a 1 player mode!

Dear Readers,

Here it is! My first Switch game! Bomberman's been gone a long time... he must've heard a rumour there was a new console generation beginning!

24 epic dumpster bear - 2-6 nothing icy about this castle

Dear Readers,

Level 2-6 is titled Icy Castle and is the castle stage for this world. Kinda weird how it's snow everywhere except for here, which has lava everywhere. Snow is still in the background though.

23 epic dumpster bear - 2-c snow puzzle three

Dear Readers,

Level 2-C is the third snow puzzle level and costs 75 coins to unlock.

22 epic dumpster bear - 2-Y tricky wall jumping

Dear Readers,

2-Y is called Super Snow Movers. I got here by finding the secret exit during regular Snow Movers aka level 2-5.

21 epic dumpster bear - 2-5 spiked balls into wolves faces

Dear Readers,

Level 2-5 is titled Snow Movers. lots of spiked balls in this stage. I like the way they can kill wolves :)

20 epic dumpster bear - 2-b snow puzzle two

Dear Readers,

Now for the second snow puzzle level. It costs 75 salmon coins to unlock.

19 epic dumpster bear - 2-4 wintery night diving

Dear Readers,

Level 2-4 is called Snow Dive. Very long climb at the start. It builds to a big drop and another belly flop at the bottom.

18 epic dumpster bear - 2-a - snow puzzle one

Dear Readers,

It's the first puzzle level of this world. It costs 75 salmon coins to unlock. Some new platform mechanisms here!

17 epic dumpster bear - 2-X shaky platforms and cannonballs! yikes!

Dear Readers,

2-X is titled Shakier Snow. Back to daytime! Lots of shaky crumbly platforms here...

16 epic dumpster bear - 2-3 a bear in the snowy castle at night

Dear Readers,

Level 2-3 is known as "Frozen Garbage". Is it being a little hard on itself or is there another reason for this name? Let's see...

15 epic dumpster bear - 2-2 - crumbly platforming

Dear Readers,

Level 2-2 is titled Shaky Snow. Lots of spiked balls and collapsing platforms on this stage!

14 epic dumpster bear - 2-1 icy yukon ho!

Dear Readers,

"Cannon Bear Run" is the name of stage 2-1. Nice reference to Cannonball Run! This stage is called so because of the enemies that are like Bullet Bills from the Mario games.

13 epic dumpster bear - 1-7 first boss! king zing?

Dear Readers,

Now for the first boss in the game! It's a massive bee, just like the zing sting things from Donkey Kong Country! This level is titled "Big Bee Attacks!"

12 epic dumpster bear - puzzle crates four

Dear Readers,

Level 1-D costs 75 coins to unlock. Many multi-directional crates clustered together here.

11 epic dumpster bear - open air bowser castle

Dear Readers,

1-6 is Trash Castle, no doubt inspired by the castle stages at the end of worlds in Mario games. The music here has a dramatic and serious tone to it and it takes place at night.

10 epic dumpster bear - 1-c puzzle crates three

Dear Readers,

Now for the third puzzling stage. Nice variety of them in this game. This one has multi directional shipping crates.

9 epic dumpster bear - bombing giant bees

Dear Readers,

Stage 1-5 is known as "Bees, Bears, and Bombs". Here we find giant bees, which are like the zingers from Donkey Kong Country.

8 epic dumpster bear - puzzle crates two

Dear Readers,

1-B is titled Puzzle Crates Two.

7 epic dumpster bear - the hard to reach coin on 1-Y

Dear Readers,

Stage 1-Y is titled Bumper Grind and I got here by finding the secret exit in 1-4.

6 epic dumpster bear - ramps and springs at sonic speed through the night!

Dear Readers,

1-4 is known as "Ramps and Springs". I went back to this stage to improve my target score from 86 points.

5 epic dumpster bear - first puzzle platform stage

Dear Readers,

Stage 1-A, called "Puzzle Crates", is the first puzzle platform stage and costs a few of the salmon coins I collected to play. It also uses the Wii U GamePad as well as regular platforming, so that means Log Games put in a decent bit of effort to make use of the hardware. Nice one :)

4 epic dumpster bear - bumping for red salmon coins

Dear Readers,

Stage 1-X is titled "Bumper Wall Jumps". I got here by finding the secret warp exit in stage 1-3! I like to imagine Dumpster Bear found a secret area by searching thoroughly in the dark, something that a regular laybearson would overlook and miss out on some secrets.

3 epic dumpster bear - towering into the night sky, first secret exit warp

Dear Readers,

Stage 1-3 is titled "Dumpster Dive". It takes place at night and features an alternative version of the first level's music, which is something I always think is pretty cool in games. It's more serious and dark in tone.

2 epic dumpster bear - wall jumping through second level

Dear Readers,

Now for stage 1-2, He who bears, wins. Similar to the first stage but with some new additions.

1 epic dumpster bear - initial play, gushing about classic game nods and fresh bear activity

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about starting this novel and highly enjoyable platformer that's like a cross between New Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country Returns, with a bit of the original Sonic The Hedgehog in there as well. I got it in a recent eShop sale!

1 ninzilla - playing a browser game while waiting for the nintendo switch

Dear Readers,

Played a browser game on Android today. It's inspired by this news story I read on GoNintendo about the Japanese Nintendo online store crashing, probably due to all the excitement of the new Switch console.

11 new super mario bros. 2 - w1-2: 6,809 coins, keeping the hole covered

Dear Readers,

Improved my score a lot this time! This time I just focused on the last section of Koopas again.

10 new super mario bros. 2 - 6 million coins!

Dear Readers,

I finally reached the 6 million coin milestone! My current strategy is working! I'm glad, as StreetPass has dried up a lot.

9 new super mario bros. 2 - W1-2: less than 5,000 coins, clearing 3 koopa areas

Dear Readers,

I focused on three areas filled with Koopas, that being the main big one near the end, the one under the halfway flag and the the one with the P-Switch.

8 new super mario bros. 2 - w1-2: 5,241 coins

Dear Readers,

Got a nice new record in W1-2.

22 final fantasy ii - the attempted seduction

Dear Readers,

After doing the best we could on Deist Island, we headed back to Altair, where we learned that Hilda was behaving strangely.

7 new super mario bros. 2 - w1-2: mega mushroom research

Dear Readers,

Now to suss out how to get 9,999 coins on W1-2. There's a Mega Mushroom on this stage, so that'll help clear out some blocks to clear things up.

21 final fantasy ii - the chimeras of deist cavern

Dear Readers,

We were now the egg bearers and the last hope of the wyverns. We had to go back into the cave on Deist and place the egg in the underground spring there. However, we still had that big guy to fight, who turned out to be three big Chimeras, each with three heads!

6 new super mario bros. 2 - w1-1: 9,999 coin maximum reached!

Dear Readers,

I finally did it! I had to do a little adjustment in strategy but I finally got the maximum 9,999 coins in W1-1! Here's how...

5 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: OVER 9,000 COINS!

Dear Readers,

I found a new coin scoring strategy on W1-1 that saves me from having to get any warp pipe at all!

4 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: OVER 8,000 COINS

Dear Readers,

I did the same double Goomba stack strategy as in the previous post for stage W1-1, but as fast as I could. Coin score got a little higher! Here's what I got...

3 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - TWO GOOMBA STACKS AT ONCE

Dear Readers,

Still on 1-1, I managed to increase my coin score quite a lot by shooting both Goomba stacks at the end with the same golden fireball. Here's how I did it.

20 FINAL FANTASY II - BIG GUY IN DEIST CAVE, WYVERN EGG

Dear Readers,

We got the pendant, but I wanted to explore more of this dungeon, so we went deeper.

2 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: MILKING THE GOOMBA STACK FOR COINS

Dear Readers,

I collected 7,538 coins, my highest score yet for stage 1-1. Here's how I did it.

1 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - COIN TOTAL SO FAR AND W1-1 RECORD

Dear Readers,

I've owned and played this game since it came out in Summer 2012. I replay it when I get new StreetPass challenges, with the aim of eventually maxing out the coin counter at 9,999,999 coins, but StreetPass has died down a lot recently. As of now I have 5,772,013 coins collected from playing the game over the years. Just over halfway there.

1 ALTER EGO 2: DREAMWALKER - MORE SWITCHING AND WITH AWESOME MUSIC!

ZX Spectrum Vega game #0036

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the sequel to the wonderful Alter Ego, where the box headed character and its mirror image continue their puzzle platforming adventures! Denis Grachev of retrosouls.net made this one also.

19 FINAL FANTASY II - FOUND DRAGOON PENDANT

Dear Readers,

After going in and out of the cave on Deist island several more times to heal, we finally found the pendant! It was in the weirdest place...

1 ALTER EGO - A GREAT GAME ABOUT SWITCHING!

ZX Spectrum Vega game #0035

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this lovely puzzle platformer by Denis Grachev of retrosouls.net. I played the NES one before but now I'm trying it on the ZX Spectrum Vega.

18 FINAL FANTASY II - SCARY HILL GIGAS GANGS AND WEIRD GREEN SOULS

Dear Readers,

We went to the cave on Deist island, where we met enemies both terrifying and weird.

3 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HORACE - BEAT VILLORDSUTCH'S SCORE!

Dear Readers,

Had another serious go at this game with the aim of getting the high score and beating the 10,000 #1 position on the table held by Villordsutch!

17 FINAL FANTASY II - SURVIVORS OF DEIST

Dear Readers,

After some battles with new water based enemies, we eventually got to Deist. Just had to suss that we had to sail all the way south to appear in the north!

2 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HORACE - BUYING TIME TO KEEP THE LEVEL LOW

Dear Readers,

I decided to have another go to see if I can get a better score... and I did! I'll talk about a strategy I used to get more points.

16 FINAL FANTASY II - PIRATE AMBUSH! CAPTAIN LEILA JOINS THE PARTY

Dear Readers,

Maria was suspicious of the female sailor, who introduced herself as Leila and offered us a ride to Deist, but Firion decided we should take the chance anyway, as no one else we asked was going there.

15 FINAL FANTASY II - DRAGOON AND WYVERN MISSION

Dear Readers,

Back in Altair, we heard the king had taken a sudden turn for the worse, so we went to visit. Minwu just shook his head when we arrived.

14 FINAL FANTASY II - DESTROYING THE DREADNOUGHT

Dear Readers,

On leaving Kashuan Keep, we could see Cid's airship flying overhead. The Dreadnought was chasing it!

13 FINAL FANTASY II - KASHUAN KEEP, WHERE THE ENEMIES START GETTING SERIOUS

Dear Readers,

Kashuan Keep is where things start to get kinda serious and mean with the monsters. At least we had Gordon to keep us company.

12 FINAL FANTASY II - EXPLORING THE WORLD WITH THE FIRST CHOCOBO EVER!

Dear Readers,

We made our way back across the snow plain and round to Salamand after losing Josef. Poor guy.

11 FINAL FANTASY II - JOSEF'S SHORT ADVENTURE

Dear Readers,

When we got back to Salamand, we asked Josef about the Goddess' Bell and he joined our party!

21 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - BUILDING A HOUSE AND FLYING BETWEEN VILLAGES

Dear Readers,

Just a single player creative session for today. I felt like building a house, so I started a superflat world on peaceful.

10 FINAL FANTASY II - DREADNOUGHT MASSACRE AFTERMATH AND THE NEW PLAN

Dear Readers,

On following the Dreadnought west, we found that it had already destroyed Poft, Paloom, Altair and Gatrea and killed almost everybody.

20 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - SINCE WHEN DID DIDDY KONG WEAR PANTS?, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Christmas was over now, so Mop it up and I played my world with the Mario 64 texture pack again. I tried the Diddy Kong costume. Hoo ha hee!

9 FINAL FANTASY II - RETURNING WITH MYTHRIL AND THE MISSION TO BAFSK

Dear Readers,

Now that we had the mythril, we headed back to Altair. It was great to finally have some material for new weapons and armour. The only problem was, we couldn't afford full sets!

19 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - THE UPDATE THAT ALMOST RUINED CHRISTMAS, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

It had been a while since I last played and I had Mop it up over in my world. Before we started though, I had to download and install update 1.10, also known as Patch 15. It took almost 11 minutes to download & install and uh... it changed a few things...

8 FINAL FANTASY II - SEMITT FALLS RESCUE, THE AWESOME DUNGEON & BOSS MUSIC

Dear Readers,

Our first meeting with Josef was an unhappy one, as the empire had kidnapped the townspeople to slave away in the mythril mines to the south.

2 NEW RALLY-X - FLAG STRATEGY

Dear Readers,

Had another go of this game while waiting for an extremely late bus. Also examined the scoring mechanism more closely.

7 FINAL FANTASY II - INTERCITY TRAVEL BETWEEN ALTAIR, PALOOM, POFT, BAFSK AND SALAMAND

Dear Readers,

We're a bit braver and more able to travel further now that we have Minwu(and his canoe!), so we rowed across the lake from Altair and headed to Paloom.

6 SPLATOON - 11 MATCHES IN REGULAR BATTLE

Dear Readers,

Goodness me, I haven't played this game since the Pokémon Splatfest back in February! I felt like playing a few matches, but in a stealthy and pacifist way. I didn't splat anyone, but I got splatted quite a few times.

6 FINAL FANTASY II - THE ADVANCED MINWU AND HIS CANOE

Dear Readers,

We returned to Hilda with the sad news from Finn and didn't tell her about Scott's feelings. She commended us on our infiltration mission however, and gave us the opportunity to help with the rebel cause. We now have access to Minwu and his canoe! I love how those two words rhyme :)

3 SUPER COLUMNS - ENDLESS EASY 0 SCORE: 69,095

Dear Readers,

I played this game one day while waiting for a bus, but stopped when a friendly dog came looking for attention. He was trying to get me to put in a good word for him to another dog that was in heat. This is about stacking columns though, not dogs.

5 FINAL FANTASY II - TO FINN AND THE FIRST OF MANY SAD DEATHS

Dear Readers,

Happy New Year! Hope 2017 will be a good one :)

This time we went north around the body of water and navigated our way to Fynn. It was pretty dangerous here with all the soldiers crawling around.