2014 was a pretty good year for me. I made a lot of money at my old job, enough to go on a trip to Disney World with my family that year. I even wrote about it at GamerDad.
My GOTY that year was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. How could I not give it that award since it had Pac-Man, Mega Man, and Kirby in it!
I don't have any qualms with looking up guides. If it helps me enjoy a game, then I say it's OK.
I can't really recommend Color Splash. The origami in the new game is neat, but I don't know if it's really stuff you could really re-create.
As a kid, I always liked those red Star Wars guys. But back then, the action figure of them was really hard to get.
I met the guy who played Lando (Billy Dee Williams) at PAX once and we talked for a good ten minutes or so.
Octopath Traveller started to drag for me after I found all the characters. It got too grindy.
Dragon's Crown is great. I always played as the Amazon.
I didn't really play Hang On in arcades as a kid, but boy I sure do remember seeing it everywhere. More specifically, I remember HEARING it everywhere. Seems like every arcade owner wanted to turn the volume up as high as they could for Hang On, so everywhere I went in the arcade, I could hear the title screen theme, "donnnnggggg, donnnnggggg, donnnnnggggg..." Only other arcade game back then I remember them having the volume up really high for was Punch Out, so after the title screen theme from Hang On, I would also hear "Bodyblow! Bodyblow!"
Here's an interesting video on Hang On:
When I get off work today, I'm spending Halloween night playing Animal Crossing, doing the Halloween event stuff. I'm dressing up as a hot dog in the game. No trick or treaters tonight because of COVID, sadly.
I watched The Wind Rises in a theater, too. I sure do miss those.
2013 was a rough year because my grandmother on my dad's side passed away, but Animal Crossing: New Leaf came out that year and it helped me make memories with my family after the funeral, so that's why it won my GOTY that year. I played it with my cousin and her kids after the funeral and it was nice to be able to play games with my cosuins again like I used to. I'm sure our grandmother was happy to see that in Heaven.
I'm working on playing and reviewing many different little games. It's definitely the busy season for that. On one of my days off, I did go to the local Top Golf and tried out their new Angry Birds golf game. Top Golf is like a golf driving range except it's very high tech. The Angry Birds game would read your golf swing and show it's trajectory as it knocked down structures like in Angry Birds. I may write about it later at GamerDad.com. I've never played real golf before, so I expected to do really badly. But I won first place in my group both times! I've never won anything sports related in my life! I did well because I was able to hit the ball the hardest in my group. I guess working out and lifting weights heavily nearly every day for two years has helped. I've gotten really strong!
I had a chance to review the G.I. Joe game but I declined because I was never a G.I. Joe fan as a kid. I was more into Transformers, myself.
