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I brought over to Mark's place several arcade collections I had today: Data East Arcade Classics for Wii, SNK Arcade Classic Vol. 1 for Wii, and Taito Legends vol 1 for Xbox. The Xbox game wasn't backwards compatible with 360, so I put that aside. Then I got a bug to play Culdcept Saga instead, and when I did, I realized I could update my rig shot with the new TV. Pic below:

This is going to have to be done in three parts. Sorry for the length, but it's impossible when you're playing retro arcade games. You can rip through so many of them so quickly. They were designed to be played in less than five minutes at a time. What are modern games average play time, ten, maybe fifteen hours (not counting phone games of course)?

Some swag this week. No games yet, but there's always time for that last minute. We'll see. Pics below:

Yes, I'm getting into more of my music game this week with 1987. The rest of the media is just coming along for the ride.

Took a trip to Longwood Gardens today with Mark to take some photos. When we got back, I set up my PS3 and downloaded Namco Museum Vol. 4 for the game, The Return of Ishtar, the sequel to Tower of Druaga. It was $5.99. Then it was going to take almost half an hour to download, so I switched feeds to my 360 and started playing Minecraft again in Mark's created world. Well, it was 11pm and time to stop before I checked in on my download. I installed the game and booted it up just to see if there was some kind of opening scene. It looks like it will be something like a side scrolling beat 'em up with swords. Of course, I didn't have time to actually play it. This Minecraft just carries me away. 

As is my usual weekend activity, I headed over to my friend Mark's place. First thing I did was set up my NES, but then I booted up the 360 to check the sales and watch the Fallout 4 announcement trailer on youtube. Sky ship? Oh yes! Then I put on Netflix and looked up something to watch from 1986 in keeping with this week's theme. Mark and I watched season 1 episode 3 of The A-Team and about half of Ferris Bueller's Day Off before something crashed the system. Thank you MS for having such a reliable system for doing non-gaming things (sarcasm). I thought that was what you wanted it to do most. But it was just as well, because I was getting a little bit tired of Ferris Bueller and wanted to get to some gaming. 

Today was the library book sale. I rarely find games there but I always find music. Today the nets brought in a nice assortment of CDs. There are also four bare naked ladies in there. See if you can find them in the pic below:

I got my Club Nintendo item, a 3DS cart holder, recently. I think it was about three months to get here, but that's ok. It's pretty cool, but now that I think of it, I don't have much use for it yet because I've bought all my 3DS games on day one, or in the case, so I don't have any loose carts for it yet. I'm sure though, when I start picking up used games, that the loose carts will come, and now I have somewhere to put them. It's the size of a regular 3DS game case, so it'll fit nicely with my other games. Pic below:

I'm thinking all about 1986 this week, as mentioned in my previous blog. Yesterday, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, I picked up quite a haul of music, and a single game. Here's a pic.

This all started as a game with my music collection. Each week I'd listen to another past year's music. Well, I couldn't stop there. I had to look up what was happening in gaming, books, and film too.