In my last article I went into somewhat excessive detail on my recently purchased PowerBook G4. The machine was quite “used and abused” and was running an install of MacOS X 10.4 Tiger which was somewhat broken. Also broken on the machine was the Superdrive, which eliminated my ability to actually reinstall Tiger, or upgrade […]
We get in quite a few repairs at work. It’s not our focus by any means but alongside the normal business of the used game market we offer repair services. For reasons I won’t speculate on here, our most common repair requests are for PlayStation 4 consoles. Normally (as in, about 75% of our repairs […]
A few months back I wrote an article on the PlayStation Classic titled, as you would expect, “The Incredible Failure That Is PlayStation Classic” where I went over the almost comedic string of things wrong with the PlayStation Classic. Now, a few months later, post holiday season and now that the “hype” has died down, […]
It’s been 5 months since the last Angry Video Game Nerd episode review. 5 months since the last entry in a little pet project that on the surface seems so absurd yet when you think about it makes so much sense, as his “reviews” are really their own cinematic pieces beyond the nature of just […]
Apparently today marks 20 years since the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VIII, an RPG with a mixed reception in the community but one that I absolutely adore. Let’s go back to the mid to late 90’s. RPG’s were big. Really big. The genre which had been a bit more of a niche in the […]
Nintendo announced back in 2017 that in 2019 the Wii shop would be shutting down, a process which would in effect mark the end of the life span of the Nintendo Wii. Right now we’re in the middle of this process. Back in March of 2018 the ability to purchase and add Wii Points to […]
I feel like I normally doom myself to procrastination when I speak of upcoming plans for the site, but the past few days have proven fruitful writing, and I’m feeling optimistic, so why not take a chance, right? I’ll be keeping this short, as I really just wanted to put up a list of subjects […]
Another thing of note in YouTube’s never ending “let’s try things, then change those things, then remove those things a few years later” pattern over the past decade is the removal of automatic post sharing. Strictly in this case sharing to Twitter and Google+ (which quite honestly I think were the only two options left) […]
Back on January 15th YouTube finally killed off the annotations feature completely on all videos. This came about a year and a half after YouTube ended the ability to create and edit annotations in any form, rendering those existing on videos as “stuck” so to speak, and not allowing any newly uploaded videos to take […]
In a bit of current gaming news that spawned some “discussion” worth commenting on, Microsoft had some issues this past week regarding their Xbox Live service. Now, I didn’t pay too much attention to this for two reasons – one, I was busy, and two, when I did fire up my Xbox One during said […]
It’s the tail end of January which means you know what around here – me taking a look at February’s Games With Gold lineup! January wasn’t a bad assortment at all, but could have been better — let’s see how February looks! Starting off as always with the Xbox One we’re looking at Bloodstained: Curse […]
Continuing a tradition started last year, I’ve decided to devote an entry today to the plans of my good buddy Prince Watercress. He’s certainly an awesome friend, and one of the most prolific content creators I’ve ever known. I’m completely serious. To give you a very simple summary, this guy has: a retrogaming blog, a […]
I’m a bit late to the party writing this one up, but as is tradition for the first post of the new year I’m taking to writing my possibly overly optimistic plans for the next 365 days or so. Right, let’s get to it. 2018 proved to be a rough year, much like 2017. My […]
Woohoo! It’s about to be a new year and with that comes, well, a new month and new Games with Gold. 2018 wasn’t a bad year by any means – it had its high and low points, but on a whole provided a good selection of games and a few that I enjoyed checking out. […]
2003 would prove to be one of the most, shall we say, interesting years of my life. I’ll spare the details but it was chaotic, to say the least, and at a point during it much of what I owned was stolen. Not a great start to your adult life, but I learned quite a […]