June 15-21, 2025
As I predicted last week, no game time this week so the update will be shorter. I did, however, make great progress going through “Best of” lists for older consoles to add to my emulation library. I’ll get to that in the conclusion/upcoming section.
Game Acquisitions
I actually spent a little bit of money on these. Space Pilgrim Episodes II and III were given away for free a while ago but I unfortunately missed the giveaway for IV. I figured I might as well get the conclusion to the series and support the dev while I’m at it, so I bought IV. I also bought some DLC for SteamWorld Heist which is a game I got a while ago that’s not reflected here. I’m not sure how to represent DLC purchases since they’re filed under the base game and thus not really a game purchase or backlog addition. Let me know if you all have any ideas. As for the “Good Job!” game, I actually stumbled across it on itch.io during my emulation research. There’s a Switch game with the same name that I decided to add to my list but when I googled it, this little RPG Maker gem popped up! Arcadia Fallen and Nova Hearts were Steam family purchases, and the others were Epic/Prime/itch.io freebies as usual.
# of Games: 10
Total Money Spent: $1.23
Price/Game: $0.12
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 Episodes 2-7 (still watching, show ongoing)
· 11:14
I’m happy to announce that Disney didn’t dumb down Daredevil for release on Disney+. It was just as good and gritty as I remember the Netflix show being. Great stuff, I’m curious to see how the season ends now that the serial killer is dead. And it was cool seeing cameos from Ms. Marvel’s dad and Punisher! I’m still a sucker for connected universe stuff even though most people seem to be over it by now. 11:14 was an interesting short film about a bunch of interconnected storylines that lead up to a car crash. It’s intentionally confusing at first but slowly comes together as you see events take place from each character’s point of view. I liked it, but it was surprisingly gory so watch out for that if you’re squeamish. Also, Agent Coulson from the MCU is in it! He looks exactly the same (this movie came out in 2003).
Conclusion/Upcoming
Now, on to the emulation stuff. In my last update, I mentioned that I had finished cataloging all the games I’m interested in from DS, 3DS, GameCube, and PS1. This week, I managed to catalog everything from PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita, SNES, N64, and Switch! I’ve added way more games than I expected as part of this project, I’m probably 200+ games added at this point 😅 I’m sure they’ll all be great (or at least not suck). I’m fairly sure I added more SNES games than PS2 games which surprised me. Next up will be Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance which will be the end of the original platforms I was going to look into for this project. After I get through those, I’ll peruse the Sega and Xbox libraries as well as a couple more obscure platforms like 3DO and TurboGrafx-16. There are so many classics I missed out on!
For this week, I’m going to finish up Daredevil and start Tales from the Loop. That one’s a short 8-episode sci-fi mini-series that aired back in 2020 that I thought looked interesting. It should be a quick watch. If I manage to get through that, I’ll start Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves series. That one’s also a pretty short sci-fi show at only 18 episodes, but I’m curious to see how the director of Alien handles a TV show. Unless my friend distracts me with more movie recommendations, I’ll finally be getting to the first Ghost in the Shell movie. As a reminder, after I watch Ghost in the Shell 2 the following week, I’m gonna deep dive into all the anime series and TV movies so I’m really looking forward to that. Once again, no single-player gaming time planned as I continue focusing on this emulation thing. If my friend and I hang out, I’m sure more Tales of Phantasia will be in order. Things are getting intense story-wise. Thanks as always for reading!
Backlog total: 3,296 (+6)
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