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  • Here’s Some Stuff I Bought: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 edition.

    Here’s Some Stuff I Bought: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 edition.

    October 22, 2025

    Time to cover the stuff I bought at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025, with a small rant about the state of retro game collecting.

Recent Posts

  • Cold Fear: French-ident Evil.

    October 11, 2025

    Ever wanted to play a survival horror game that uses the classic fixed camera and the newfangled innovation of Resident Evil 4? Cold Fear has you covered.

  • Desert Crisis: A Half-Life mod with a soundtrack straight out of 2004.

    September 8, 2025

    In one of those rare “hyperfixation” modes again, I write about a Half-Life mod that has a soundtrack that just oozes 2004.

  • Who Wants to be a Millionaire: The Album – One of the strangest soundtracks I’ve seen.

    Game Show a Go Go, Getting Nerdy about Music, Video games and pop culture

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    April 21, 2023
    Who Wants to be a Millionaire: The Album – One of the strangest soundtracks I’ve seen.
  • BlackOPS for Half-Life: An interesting mod with a hard-to-search name.

    Half-Life, Mods and Maps

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    March 30, 2023
    BlackOPS for Half-Life: An interesting mod with a hard-to-search name.
  • Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune on the Nintendo 64: GameTek’s last hurrah.

    Game Show a Go Go

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    February 27, 2023
    Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune on the Nintendo 64: GameTek’s last hurrah.
  • I Am Alive: Ubisoft’s dollar store version of a survival action game.

    Contemporary Reviews, From the Bargain Bin

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    January 26, 2023
    I Am Alive: Ubisoft’s dollar store version of a survival action game.
  • I Bought Some Stuff! The Rest of 2022 Edition.

    Getting Nerdy about Music, Some Stuff I Bought!

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    December 31, 2022
    I Bought Some Stuff! The Rest of 2022 Edition.
  • The lowlights of The Game Awards.

    Video games and pop culture, Video Games and The TV

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    December 16, 2022
    The lowlights of The Game Awards.
  • FOX n FORESTS: A retro-style platformer with a surprising twist.

    From the Bargain Bin, Reviews

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    November 28, 2022
    FOX n FORESTS: A retro-style platformer with a surprising twist.
  • Blood: Just what the hell does “crudux cruo” mean, anyway?

    Reviews

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    October 31, 2022
    Blood: Just what the hell does “crudux cruo” mean, anyway?
  • My First Sony and my love for cassettes.

    Getting Nerdy about Music

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    September 20, 2022
    My First Sony and my love for cassettes.
  • Visiting The Last Blockbuster Video.

    Travelogues, Conventions and Events

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    August 29, 2022
    Visiting The Last Blockbuster Video.
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