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Really farmed a lot this week. Is that a real verb? Got me a Pokemon game for 50 cents too. 

I'm definitely feeling a farming frenzy coming on: glued to the screen, not moving for hours, barely aware of my surroundings, forgetting to eat. It's on the verge of unhealthy obsession, but I just laugh about it and pull myself away at the end of every "weekend" and get back to work.

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

The dreaded stealth gameplay got to me again in several new games I tried out this week. But I finished Doom Dark Ages, discovered some new Atari games, and got sucked into an old classic again.