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Mid-course correction or mid-life crisis? You decide.
OEGE is just around the corner, and it would seem that there’s a serious lack of vendors actually dealing in retro video games. The thought occurred to me recently that maybe I could actually thin the old collection out just a little bit – open up some space at home, make a buck, and pass some of these games on to folks who’ll enjoy ’em. When I went to look at my game boxes this morning, however, something altogether different came over me, a realization of sorts: where collecting is concerned, for the most part, I’m getting out of the hobby ASAP. … Read more
It’s done. Thank God it’s done. It’s Miller time! Well, that’d mean something if I were a drinking man. As it is, I’m a man who still needs to drop chapter stops and author the DVD, and once that’s done, and I’ve verified with my own eyes that the whole thing doesn’t look, sound or read like crap, then it’s time to duplicate like there’s no tomorrow, because there’s only a tomorrow until April 10th.
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Phosphor Dot Fossils Level 2, the follow-up to the successful 
After our mid-morning meal – ravioli, peaches and a few veggie crackers for Evan, and a big ol’ baked potato for me – we guys were sitting around the house, our bellies full and both of us verging on full-blast sleepy, when a random Google search lead me to MisfitMAME. Put simply, MisfitMAME is a modified version of MAME that allows you to run various and sundry… well… unofficial versions of certain games. Some of these are well-known graphical and game play hacks that apparently don’t make the cut for MAME itself (such as Popeye Pac-Man, the game for which I was Googling), and some of them, frankly, are user-made. Some of the user-made hacks are as cheesy as, well, the multifarious useless hacks of Atari 2600 games that are floating around out there. But there’s something neat about the fact that they hacked arcade code. Now, yeah, much like the 2600 hack scene, you wind up with completely pointless modifications such as a version of Pac-Man where the ghosts all wear Elton John glasses (WTF??), interesting mods such as Pac-Man Unleashed and a hack that turns the graphics of Pac-Man into a replica of 2600 Pac-Man, and actual seen-in-the-arcade hacks such as Popeye Pac-Man. Stuff like Pac-Man Unleashed and 2600 Pac-Man at least show some humor and imagination; the two zillion minor graphical or speed hacks of Pac-Man, I could do without.
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