Alright, so years of the Midwest Gaming Classic for me. I mean sort of since there weren’t shows in or . Like most of the previous years here are some bad photos and light commentary from my trip.

   Cosmic Fantasy is a game with an excessive number of random battles. It’s probably the worst I played in that regard. It’s not just the quantity of battles, it’s the difficulty. The first random battle in the game can easy lead to a game over screen. Let’s see if we can make it just a tiny bit...

   I’m starting this page much earlier in the year than I usually do. The Game Hunter section used to be about cool finds at garage sales, estate sales, and thrift stores. Now it’s mostly about absurd game prices I see in the wild. That’s definitely the case today. Click here to see the first three...

   For the fourth time I’m posting a virtual card for anyone who follows this site. I guess that makes this a regular thing now. Click here if you’re curious to see some new video game themed ornaments and hear about which games I finished in ..

   Here’s the second of three planned holiday features this year. This turned out to be one of my favorite catalogs to look back at. December was the twilight of the bit era. The Saturn, PlayStation, and Windows were just months away. The xmas catalog isn’t all that different from...

   Here’s the first of three planned holiday features this year. Don’t say I’m not doing my part to spread a little cheer. Exactly years ago three consoles were battling it out to win the holiday season. Meanwhile the last survivor of the previous generation was somehow still kicking and the...

   There are two holiday catalog scans coming soon. Until then, this is all I have for the moment. About three years ago I wrote an article breaking down the save RAM for J.B. Harold Murder Club on the TurboGrafx CD. I briefly revisited it to sort out how the checksum works. It’s interesting to...

   I didn’t plan to do a summer of scans but here we are. This catalog turned recently and has the first preview of Street Fighter II for the Sega Genesis. It is also the first catalog to list the Turbo Duo which is exciting for a small number of people. Click here to check it out...

   Well this is embarrassing. I scanned this all the way back in August and forgot to post it for almost years. I think I planned to post this in January but life had other plans. Better late than never I guess...

   There was a period of time around when I posted these catalog scans to Tumblr instead of this page. It was simply a matter of bandwidth and storage. Once I fixed those issues I moved all these catalog scans back here. Except for this one because I confused it with a very similar catalog. ...

   The first collector’s edition X Files DVD sets included a bonus game playable on PC and Mac. These appear to have been lost to time. I can’t find any pages about them but maybe I’m bad at searching for stuff. So I’m restoring an old virtual machine and trying them. Not all of them worked but...

   Despite having no background in art, or anything even close to it, I try to determine the paintings used in Falcom games from the Vita to PlayStation era. Here’s the link if you want to see how this effort goes...

   I started this Game Hunter section back in when it was possible, common really, to find NES and Super Nintendo games for a quarter. Today a whole lot of people view retro games as an investment so that’s not the case anymore. As such this section evolved into something I never intended but...

   The annual Midwest Gaming Classic was last weekend. Here are or so pictures of things I felt like mentioning. Along the way let’s see how the show has evolved over nearly years.

   For no real reason I’m going to write a Java program to read AWS Cloudfront logs via AWS Athena and display the results on a small screen connected to a Raspberry Pi. If any of those words interest you, click here to see how it turnd out.

   I try to keep pieces on this site positive. Or at least that is something I recently commited to. I won’t always succeed and I’m afraid this might be one of those times. In this article I look at the GTA Definitive Edition remakes and find some odd things. I also finally finish San Andreas...

   It’s been almost two years since I worked on this demo. I recently decided to pick it back up again. The first order of business was re skinning it to use the same tileset as Speedrun Tower since it looks better than my original art. See the comparison here...

   This is another rambling article where I try to figure out why some weird browser thing is happening. The last one of these I did generated the most feedback of anything I posted in . So I guess people like this kind of thing. I like figuring out strange problems. Everyone’s a winner here. ...

   This is the second of three catalogs I recently acquired. Unfortunately this isn’t in the best condition. If you can get past that you’ll find some good things in here. The PlayStation vs Xbox vs GameCube battle is in its rd year and there many important new game releases. There are also some...

   Very recently I acquired some Electronics Boutique catalogs I haven’t scanned yet. There are fewer of these left and I will eventually run out for real. Until then, here is the October catalog. It’s not very different from the August one and that’s OK. Check back for at least one more...