The Video Game Librarian

So I figured that going back to get my master's degree would change up my usual video game playing habits, my previous habits being that whenever I was not at work, I was most likely playing video games. I had no idea just how much that would change, as in...I've pretty much not played anything at all for the past five weeks. And what I have played is stuff that I can pick up, play…

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Synopsis Quest!

Finally, I can play a complete RPG from start to finish with no problem, even with my full-time job and part-time graduate classes! Synopsis Quest from Skipmore is a complete old-school RPG experience, chopped into 25 game segments, each lasting under one minute. It's WarioWare meets Dragon Quest! I found this game to be incredibly charming, and some of the segments played on your expectations making a deviously fun challenge, even if the challenge is…

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Too Many Games!

Last Sunday L and I went to a classic video games convention called Too Many Games, being held kind of in the middle of nowhere. It was actually smack dab in the middle of a farmer's market, and I think while wandering around the tables of random crap being sold for a dollar, we were starting to doubt if we were in the right place. Low and behold, right in the middle of it all…

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