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I broke out the Retron '77 for some 70s Atari action and then got sucked back into Farm Together 2. 

Mario Kart World was recently released as a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title.  I was lucky enough to get a Switch 2, thanks to help from my family.  So let’s take a road trip tour at all the tracks you can race on in the game.  So grab your road trip snacks and let’s roll!

I decided to go strictly with games released in the 70s next month. This really limits the video game landscape for me, but I made a list, and I'll see what I can do with it. Here's what I got so far. 

I've been really grinding like mad in Farm Together 2. 112 hours so far exclusively playing it and nothing else. Here's the latest. 

Yo! Yo! Yo!  I’ve got new game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

My month to month theme is largely for reading, but I've tried to think of gaming as well. Oh course, before Pong in '72 or thereabouts, there was no video games available to the wider public. It seems to me the 50s were all about board games and the 60s . . .  maybe pinball? I know both have existed long before that and after but I need to center on something for those decades. In any case, I came up with a list of board games for the 60s I'm interested in and a few pinball tables I can actually play in digital recreations (I may actually go to an arcade too and play some real style). 

I watched the trailer for Farming Simulator 25 where hikers are taking selfies in front of modern harvesting machines and then racing them across fields. Nerds! Haha. I'm okay with my cartoony jeep in Farm Together 2. I've tried the Farm Sims before and they are mondo complexido. I love farming but not that much. 

It's amazing to me the difference when you are totally absorbed by a game. Time just flies by and everything else around you just vanishes in importance. I'm not thinking about switching games, or taking a break or anything like that, it's just Farm Together 2 as much as possible. 

Around this time of year, I like to make a list of my best games SO FAR, because usually the AAA titles are released later in the year during the holiday season, and the titles that came out earlier tend to be forgotten.  So here’s when those games get their due.  Keep in mind that this is my list only and no other outside opinions contributed.  And if a game isn’t on this list, it either just didn’t appeal to me as much or I haven’t had a chance to play it yet.  Ok with that out of the way, let’s begin!

Lots of stuff this week, but it all comes down to Farm Together 2, which will be my friend and mine's obsession for the coming weeks.