September 30, 2011
I acquired a space-themed game, a 1993 space-themed CD-ROM title called Space Adventure:
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Oh, and I also acquired a somewhat more recent and mainstream space-themed game– StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
It’s pretty difficult to work through any of my 900+ DOS/Windows games (including the 200+ games not currently present in the database) when I’m just having too much fun playing SC2. It leaves me feeling like a bit of a sellout. It’s just so mainstream. I know all about the controversy surrounding the game — can’t play, even single-player campaign, without being connected to the internet; no LAN play — but I haven’t been able to bring myself to care. I’m really enjoying a game for the first time in quite awhile. If I ever finish the primary campaign, I might be motivated to plunder my archives for other real time strategy games I have acquired (perhaps revisiting some of the titles I have already briefly examined for this blog or recently acquired. But given the ponderous rate at which I’m playing through the Wings of Liberty campaign (really taking my time and getting all the achievements on each mission), the new SC2 expansions might be out by the time I get through the main 24 missions.
Well, back to it.
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September 27, 2011
I recently acquired a sizable collection of computer games from someone who clearly is or was very enthusiastic about war-themed video games. War games are popular among the type of people who would normally contribute to an entity such as MobyGames. As such, all of these acquisitions are already in the database (though I do have a lot of scanning ahead of me since scans of many of the CD-ROMs I acquired didn’t make it into the database).
I’ll start with some World War II-themed titles:
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Flight games, notably Jane’s Combat Simulations:
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Uncategorized war games:
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And a few stragglers that don’t really fit into the (modern, 20th century) genre of war game:
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September 26, 2011
Random grab-bag of obscure acquisitions from recent online auctions:
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September 25, 2011
15 discs, fresh from my favorite thrift store. Let’s start with the Barbie titles acquired which, remarkably, are still not in my collection:
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Here are the purportedly educational games from this haul:
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Here are games that I group by no more than the common property that they came with no cover art, only bare discs:
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- SSN-21 Seawolf
- Microsoft Fury^3 — oh wait, I do have the back of the jewel case available for this game and the tiny screenshots and the controls cheat sheet makes it seem like a Descent clone
- Fisher-Price: Time to Play Pet Shop
- The Great Word Adventure 1: Tune Land — featuring Howie Mandel, part of “Lil’ Howie’s Fun House”
And 2 more titles which probably don’t qualify as games, but I still collect schlock like this, especially as outlandish as this:
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- Mary-Kate & Ashley’s Dance Party of the Century — first title of this ‘franchise’ I have acquired
- Nick-O-Matic Design Factory — boasts over 650 projects
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