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 Second in my recap of the gaming I did in 2014. It'll all end with my GOTY pick in part three.

I started the day by going to Hope’s Cookies for cookies and John’s Village Mart for hoagies. That stuff was darn good!

Started the day with a little virtual fireplace. It's an Indie game on Xbox Live called simply Fireplace and you can set it up anyway you want and watch it burn. Toasty. I roasted my chestnuts too.

Took a quick trip to the mall at Plymouth Meeting to take the photo below at my local retro store, Jay St. Video Games. The traffic was horrendous and I got in and out of there as fast as I could.

Who gee! What did I play this year. So many games! I'll stick to what just came out this year and split this up into three parts: Regrets, Bought but Forgot, and Played. It'll all wind up with the last entry being my Game of the Year, or Goaty as I like to say it (yes I know it's actually GOTY).

This was the November 1982 issue and the last one I have for that year. These are some of my notes and scans of things that interested me. You can read the whole issue if you want at annarchive.

 Continuing my obsession with Dragon Magazine. These are my notes to the articles within.

I played my original Xbox today. I didn't think playing it would last too long, but I so underestimated the goodness of Sid Meier's Pirates!. But before I got ye olde Xbox over to my friend's place, I made a little Gamestop pit stop and thought to preorder a game that was already out. Silly me. I was hesitant to buy it, but this game has been on my mind now for months, and it just seemed the right thing to do. Picture below.

And I guess I had to watch football too. Funny thing about that. I was playing Angry Birds Star Wars while watching The Birds (Eagles) lose to the Cowboys. For a while there, we were in perfect sinc: I would clear a level, and the Eagles would make a great play. Then . . . not so much. Ah well, it was fun anyway.