Tag: retro
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The finale of the Animorphs TV show is buck wild (and bad)
It’s been a while since I finished my reread of the Animorphs book series, and just this week I finished watching through the TV show for the first time. I’d seen some of it back when it first aired back in the 90s, and even then I could tell that it just wasn’t good. Having…
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I beat Dragon Quest! It was… Okay.
Ever since Dragon Quest XI was announced as coming to the Nintendo Switch, I’ve been keeping an eye on the series. I’d tried the original game on iOS before, and had popped in to Builders once, but neither of those intrigued me the way that the preview for XI did, and listening to the Dragon…
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80s style gore-fests: Stranger Things 3, Doom, and A Robot Named Fight
Apologies for the late post… there’s been a lot going on in life, and I completely forgot to get this up yesterday. I think I’m going to change my blog post day to Fridays going forward, to give me more time to think about what I want to write about. I’ve accidentally found myself consuming…
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
This post is the written version of a podcast episode on YDWMY Reviews about my feelings on having completed The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the very first time. Listen instead of reading here. I’ve been a fan of the Legend of Zelda series for as long as I can remember.…
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After 29 years, I beat The Legend of Zelda!
There’s a story in my family that while my mom was going into labor, my older brother was kept occupied by teaching a family friend how to play the legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I grew up with that original Nintendo and its classic games, and with an older brother who actually…
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