Ah, summer vacation! Hopefully I'll be able to get more blogging done, not to mention some new videos uploaded, I've got so many old games to play and talk about, especially after my latest retro gaming spree! A few weeks ago I went to video game convention that's not too far from my home, called Too Many Games, where there were so many retro and import games that I went a little crazy! Some people…
Read more →One thing I didn't mention in my post that may be of interest to some people out there is that these games are all available to download for free online! Al Lowe, who many of you know as the guy who made the Leisure Suit Larry games for Sierra back in the day, was also the designer of the three games I spoke of in my post, with the exception of the Winnie-the-Pooh game, where…
Read more →Wow, sorry for the lack of updates lately, guys. School work has really taken a lot of my free time up. But I found a good solution/cop-out for a new post, putting up a paper I wrote for one of my library classes last term, which was for my Resources for Children class. We had to go back to something we remembered as impacting us as children and evaluate it. Since we were allowed to…
Read more →PAX East was a week ago, and it was only my second PAX ever but so far it was far more fun than the first one. I look forward to next year's PAX doing its best to top this one. Anyway, I took a lot of random video footage with my Flip camera and took some photos with my new Droid 2 phone, and thought I'd share them by putting together a video about my…
Read more →One of the classes I took at Drexel this past term was Storytelling, which was a blast, if not a bit challenging for someone that has a fear of public speaking. Digital storytelling is something that I'm already a bit familiar with, having done a few videos now in the Let's Go Retro series (with more coming soon!) and so for my digital storytelling project, I made a video which definitely has the vibe of…
Read more →This week I decided to hit up a local retro gaming shop that I like to frequent, Next Level games, and see if anything new and exciting had come in. I ended up with a few things I bought out of curiosity, and one cool import find that I can’t wait to try out! So here we have, from left to right, The Faery Tale Adventures, Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones, and Teenage…
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