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Willkommen! This is page 7 notes to the Brett Weiss book, The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987. Perhaps a few of you will remember these times, or at least remember the first few years of NES where such great titles as The Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros., Mega Man, and Metroid were released. Anyway, on to more notes. 

Onward with more gameplay footage and thoughts about games from the second generation of video gaming that takes place from Star Wars: A New Hope to Predator. Or more specifically, my notes as I continue to read Brett Weiss' book The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987.

I guess this question is on everyone's lips on the week of Thanksgiving (provided you celebrate Xmas). Well, I thought I'd ask the Pixlbits out there the same question. But first, I'll tell you my answer.

The notes continue as I read Brett Weiss' The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987. Follow along as I watch some gameplay videos and record my thoughts on certain games.

On Saturday I crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on the way to North Carolina for a week's vacation. It's always neat to film it or stop at the rest stop and take pictures of passing freight, or sometimes military, ships. We didn't stop this time, but I filmed the crossing. It usually takes over 20 minutes to cross the Chesapeake, but I cut the video down to 3 minutes of highlights. There are ten such bridge-tunnels in the world. How many are in video games, I wonder?

That's 100 greatest console video games between the years 1977-1987. I struggle to figure out how to shorten this Brett Weiss book's title and still convey its meaning. Anyway, more multimedia notes!

This weekend I'm off to Corolla on the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a whole week. I rarely get a vacation away from work, but when offered one by family members, I always accept. I'm going with my sister's family and my mom. I'll have to start packing soon but, before clothes or anything else, I'll need to figure out what games to bring.

That's the nickname you get at level 45 in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel if you're playing as a Claptrap robot. Needless to say, I played a whole bunch more of this game today. I gained six levels playing co-op with Mad Krammer on True-Vault Hunter mode and got almost to the end of the story again.

Started out today playing Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel on True Vault Hunter mode with the implacable Mad Krammer on Xbox Live. I got really, really frustrated with getting knocked around so much. It was like I had a butter shield protecting a fat weeping child; I got knocked down, then got up again, over and over and over. I was pretty good at getting a kill to revive myself during Fight For Your Life Mode though. Then I watched the Eagles play Green Bay and saw pretty much the same thing play out for the Eagles. They got knocked down, got up again, but basically stayed down more often than up. I give Green Bay the respect due, they played an immaculate game of football. 

Today I donated the last of my books to the library. When I got there, I realized it was book sale day, and so I went down to the basement to see what's what. I knew they had gotten in a bunch of old Avalon Hill board games about a month ago, but I had only a very slight hope that any of them would be left, and sure enough, none were; but there was a box of old Dragon magazines, probably from the same donor as the board games - 65 issues ranging from #65 to #214. I thought about it a while. My instinct was to grab the whole box. Then I thought I'd only take the ones from the 80's. Finally I gave in and grabbed the whole box. At 10 cents a piece, it all came to $6.50. I can't wait to read through them and scan the covers and any interesting graphics within, like ads for video games or board games.