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I was going to play Sid Meier's Civlization Revolution today but I had to wait for the download, so I tried to find someone online to play Ticket To Ride. I waited a while in Quick Match hoping someone would pop up, but no one did, so I jumped back in my Minecraft game from yesterday. Well, that got pretty obsessive, and, after a while, Mark joined my game and then things got really crazy. I never did get back to Civ Rev.

Got a very late start. Felt like crap. Went to Mark's. Played a few games that knocked me around a bit. Had to break for a family dinner. Came back and was in no mood to be challenged or fight for my life in a game, so I turned to some low key board and building sim games the rest of the night. 

Thought I'd share the playlist I'm listening to this week. This is everything I could find in my collection and which I bought this week. I'm having a lot of fun listening to all this stuff in shuffle mode. It gets me through my last hour of work every night and it's a blast. 

I just finished volume 3 of the original TMNT and found this Abadox game ad under the front cover. Abadox is a 1990 side-scrolling shoot 'em up like a Gradius for the NES. You have to shoot your way through the digestive track of an alien organism. I'm going to have to add it to my list. See pic below:

1991 seems to be the real start of the '90s the way I see it. I heard Blues Traveler, Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Spin Doctors all over the radio (As soon as I listened to my playlist tonight, I was immediately brought back to the 90s and everything I did in those years). The SNES came out and the war between Sega and Nintendo began; although, i wasn't gaming at all and wasn't aware of it. The only movie I saw in the theater that year was Woody Allen's Shadow's and Fog. I don't remember anything about it, but I do remember the theater I went to see it in New York. It was a trying year for me that ended in me returning to my hometown. Below I've listed some media I'd like to visit, or in some cases revisit, this week. 

Today began with a lot of NES games, culminating in a Wizardry campaign that saw The Super Friends turn into Super Fiends; and ended with an earfull of potty mouth poetry from the characters of Bulletstorm. Here's the breakdown

What do you do for a nerdfest? Do nerdy things like play games and see science fiction or fantasy flicks. It may be beyond nerdiness to be doing this at my age, but what else do I got? Nuttin'. So there it is. Breakdown below. If it's not too freaky for ya. 

I went a little bit nuts on Gamestop's buy 2 get 1 free sale this weekend. I only had two titles in mind when I went, and each were at different Gamestops, so I ended up hitting the sale twice. Then I couldn't resist visiting my local retro shop just to see what they had on my NES list. Luckily they had a few things I wanted. Gaze at the gaming goodness below:

Swag can come in many palette pleasing forms. This one is music flavored. Enjoy. 

I didn't interact much with media in 1990; out of school and desperately looking for work to get by didn't leave much time for anything else. I think I heard that band World Party and their single Way Down Now on the radio. I always like them. I was probably listening to rock radio, so I likely heard Alice in Chains and Jane's Addiction for the first time. Gaming didn't happen at all. I didn't read anything either other than Arthur Janov's Primal Scream book (I was doing the therapy at the time). I saw Akira Kurosawa's Dreams in the theater that year with my girlfriend. That's one I remember clearly because it was really good. Eventually I got work doing maintenance at a resort in the woods (I wanted to get into publishing but I got no responses). It was like a summer camp for rich New Yorkers. I did all sorts of jobs there, and it was nice to be outside all the time. I got the nickname "Monk" there for my reticence.