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Just looking at my 3DS XL notifications after coming home from work tonight. Looks like I got six all at once when I went to this Hotel. I had four from earlier in the week, so now I'm maxed out with 10. Weehoo! Time to play some Mii Plaza games. 

More riffing on Dragon Magazine #94, February, 1985.  In this month and year Frank Herbert published his last Dune novel, Chapterhouse: Dune. I read the first trilogy of Dune books but I didn’t read all of the second. I lost steam after reading Children of Dune. Chapterhouse: Dune was the sixth book. There have been a lot of games of all types based on the Dune novels. The one I’ve been looking for is Dune: The Battle for Arrakis for the Genesis. It hasn’t been in any collections or been downloadable anywhere. You can only play it on the Genesis. Publisher Virgin Interactive is no more and developer Westwood Studios was bought by EA and then closed. So maybe EA has the rights to Dune: The Battle for Arrakis? Who knows.

I preordered Codename: S.T.E.A.M. (out March 13th) yesterday. While I was there, I tried to by a points card for Wii. Last time I got the DSi card and it was good for Wii too. When the Gamestop saleman scanning though, it was no good. So no more points cards for Wii. I'll have to use a card to get my virtual console games or spend big money for a Wii-U. Or, I could get the games I want on 3DS. I'm considering that right now. I'll probably go Wii though.

Last week I collected 9 Miis and then had a party running them through the six Mii Plaza games. Here's some of the things me and my Mii friends did.

I finished Inferno Mode on Hard today playing co-op with my friend Mark. Then we replayed the boss to try and get the last Diablo Triumph Challenge, which is beating him without picking up a health potion or drinking from the health well. This is a little trickier than it sounds because Diablo and his minions all drop health potions after getting hit and it's hard to not accidently pick them up. I discovered some of my equipment increases my reach to gold and health potions, so I removed all those before the battle. After a few tries, we both got the challenge and the associated achievement.

I didn't exactly follow my plan I laid out in my previous blog. I went straight to my friend Mark's place and we headed out to watch Seventh Son in the theaters. It was a pretty much a by-the-numbers fantasy flick: very predictible but full of interesting special effects and action. Just turn your brain off and have fun, and it was. Then it was time to pick up some burgers at Five Guys and head back to play video games. 

Thought I'd run down what I'm planning on doing later tomorrow (technically it's today, but I'm going to sleep the first 8 hours, so it feels like tomorrow to me).

I just finished John Shirley's novel Halo: Broken Circle, the latest, and 13th, novel about events in the Halo universe.

Concerning Dragon Magazine 94, February, 1985, the month and year Steve Jobs was interviewed in Playboy Magazine about the Apple Macintosh computer, a hot product on the market that year. It’s an amazing interview with just tons of Mr. Job’s prognostications and insights into the computer industry. I think I was part of this Apple revolution and didn’t even know it. I had a Macintosh Plus I took to college in ’86.

So just before BaD began, Mothman mentioned he was going to post a lot of Panda pics again this year. That put me into a kind of Panda fever and I started planning on playing every game with a Panda in it for BaD. Well, I decided, after buying a bunch of games, that maybe I was stealing Mothman's thunder a little bit, and so I ditched it. But, I was glad to have the games I got, and now I can do a little blog about them.