Hi. These are words about games I’ve played.
I used to run some gaming websites, but those are all gone now. Right around When The World Ended, I found myself writing about games again. I don’t really know why, it just seemed like a good idea. I had thoughts and didn’t have a place for them, and I know better than to shout into the void of Twitter or Reddit, so I shouted into a text editor.
Several years on and I have now written a bunch of words about a bunch of games, so here’s a website. I try to write at least a little about any game I consider myself “done” with, either because I squeezed all the gaming enjoyment out of it, or because it infuriated me.
Your 2024 End of Year Roundup
I played fewer titles to completion this year than usual, but I played more than twice as many as usual thanks to the glorious bounty that is UFO 50. Going to call that one a wash. I think this wasn’t a quantity of games year, this was a quality of games year, so here’s my picks.
Best Indie: Incredibly strong list of games this year between Animal Well, Balatro, The Plucky Squire and UFO 50 (as well as many others I didn’t play), but of these only Balatro ascended to the level of forever-game.
Marvel Rivals (2024)
I prefer the real Overwatch 2. I said the real Overwatch 2. Perfection.
FPGA Gaming on a Budget with MiSTER Pi
Background I’ve been emulating games since finding NESticle in the late 90s. A huge amount of my gaming diet of the early 2000s was spent tinkering with emulators, graphical settings, following dev builds, endlessly hunting for the best gamepad to use, and generally catching up on multiple generations worth of games I missed in the aisles of Blockbuster Video. In recent years, though, I’ve been more interested in having a single device hooked to my TV that can reliably emulate as many systems as possible, in a way I can reasonably fit in with the rest of my consoles.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (2024)
And she’s buiiilding a stairway… of bed frames
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
NES Remix 4: Switch Edition: Now with Fewer Games