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SUNDAY:

Starting something a little bit new here. On Sundays I'm going to write up what I did all week, my work week being Tuesday to Saturday, and then on Monday nights do my weekend, Sunday/Monday.

Talking about Dragon Magazine 83, March 1984, a month and year when lots of interesting music came out. The one that made the biggest impact on me was the soundtrack to the film Against All Odds, a movie out that same month. It featured the titular song by Phil Collins and two other exclusive songs by former and current Genesis members: Walk Through the Fire by Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford’s Making a Big Mistake. Against All Odds was a decent Phil Collins track, but the other two made it onto my cassette mixes.

First up today was Super Mario RPG (Wii virtual console). I played this up unitl the first major boss, Mack, and beat him. I really love this game. I almost played it all day, but I decided I'd play up until a boss every weekend for a while. I guess it's so I can fit in some 360 gaming with Mark. I kind of like the idea of playing a game just up to a major boss and then doing something else. It breaks up the game into nice chunks that give you some time to think about it afterwards.

Stuff I did this Sunday:

I looked at my 3DS tonight (it's actually early Saturday morning) and saw the addition of 2 more Miis to make 4 total so far this week. I'm a little disappointed because I went to Barnes & Noble, a Nintendo Hot Spot, and only got one Mii from there. I didn't go there just for Miis though, I went there to buy Retro Gaming Magazine. 

While reading the second half of Dragon Magazine #106, February 1986, I thought about that date and remembered that the movie Quicksilver, staring Kevin Bacon, came out.  I don’t remember much about it except that Kevin Bacon rode some cool bikes, but the music I was very interested in because it featured Tony Banks, keyboardist for my favorite band at the time, Genesis. There was also a song with Fish, lead singer of Marillion, another band I followed back then. But enough reminiscing, on with Dragon 106.

I decided to step back from Diablo III and use it just as a backup in case the game I'm playing bores me or makes me rage quit. So that means I get to choose a new, or old, game to play. I also decided to use my Random Game Encounter Table, not just on holidays, but all the time - because it's cool. So I rolled an 86  on a d100 at Random.org. On my table that means an Action game. I went to my saved pages from Allgame.com and looked through the list sorted by rating (high to low) and year (old to new). I picked out one game I haven't played and one I have. See below for the result. 

I recently subscribed to USgamer.net's podcast, and in episode 7 this week, there was some really smart talk by the crew regarding the current state of triple-A gaming and consoles by regular members: Jeremy Parish, Kat Bailey, Bob Mackey, and Jaz Rignall. It feels almost like a 1UP podcast again.

Not much time today. Gotta work fast. Last night I ran my 6 Miis through their paces. Two of them didn't show up for the games though. I guess they didn't download any of them. So I used my coins to fill in and it was still fun.