Brainlick

WTF happened to 2 yrs of writing.

Emulation.  We think of it now as a nifty way to keep the memories alive , and have some fun at the same time. Fact is, Emulation started in the 80's.  Yep.  Even with the older hardware, there were emulators.   Most of them required hardware add-ons.  Memorable units and Emulators that I can remember were the notorious Atari 2600 add on for the ColecoVision Video Game System, and an add on unit that turned a Commodore 64 into an Apple 2.  There were emulation add ons for The Intellivision too, that turned it into a machine capable of playing 2600 carts. I imagine that they would have different imputs due to key-layouts and voltage in the ports, plus pin-out adaption. and the Intelivision had Hard Wired Controllers if i remember correctly. Emulation, it makes me happy.  Also, all the new Fan Patches and Trainers and new translations of previously unplayable Japanese games enable me to enjoy stuff i'd otherwise have no access to (or understandi...

PC REVIEW:Retro City Rampage / Hotline Miami Platform - Windows in the last few months we had 2 "GTA-Likes" come out that i'm familiar with.  the first is Retro City Rampage, and the 2nd is Hotline Miami.  Hotline Miami, for me, was a little short, and i wanted more of something that ...  i don't know, violence, costumes, and psuedo open world style aside ... ...  ...  just wasn't there for me, and it just didn't really ... "click" with me, it was trying too hard to look like..  i don't know, something i guess  i wasn't digging. Retro City Rampage, on the other hand, I've dug, a bit at least.  The game-play is similar to Vice City, with a "Retro" (8-16bit) appearance , that everybody is doing nowadays.  The writers of the game wrote most of it in Parody and in Honor of the 80's and early 90's, in everything from Film, music, Cartoons, popluar culture, and of course, video games.  You have to kind of take it really ...

There's no time anymore.  no time to go take a little ride out a ways to go and pick up games. not since GameStop came in.  Why go out to Calpella when ./...  I hear this from Parents at the GameStop.... "Oh just hurry up and pick something, or get what you're getting ... we need to go to WalMart, or Verizon, or Starbucks... ".   which are conveniently located within a couple blocks of GameStop. No More stopping for coffee  on the way out to go pick up a Gameboy Cartridge. No more stopping by what used to be the old arcade and Laundry to drop a quarter in an old but still kicking Pac Man machine.  I can hear the sound in my head, and see the worn overlay under the joystick.  Traveling out to Werner's House of Games was a nice little ...  a trip.  a dedicated break.  It was the smile on his face when i saw him every time, and the joy in his voice and his laughter and our joking.  Sometimes I'd go out th...

i am selfish.  i feel so guilty re: werner's passing.  His health wasn't doing all that good and he asked me for my help to put up flyers to advertise his little shop. I didn't do it.  i got wasted becasue of c.  i didn't tell my fereinds to stop by on our way through there enough. i feel so awful i can not explain.  my due dilligence in being an asshole and a prick are beyond heavy.  i hate my self right now.

is the gaming industry dead? i dunno. to me it is.  my mentor and friend, Werner Deinemer, from Calpella CA passed away on 9/26.  He ran Werner's House of Games.  He was smart, ultra cool, played poker and was very kind to his customers.  I was his customer for 17 - 20 some years, i guess, can't remember....  so long.  I feel an unfathomable level of guilt in regards to his passing.  I was supposed to be putting up flyers and helping his little shop stay afloat by buying more stuff and getting his web presence up.  My girl of 11 years leaves on July 21, a month from our anniversary and start of 12h yr together.  Heavy depression ensues.  Heavy drinking, skirt chasing and Dwarf Fortress.  Lost / fucked off a chance at a job.  More depression.  more bad.  more dorf.  after basically locking myself away from the world.  No Phone to check on people, no going out to talk to him, no forcing my friends to stop b...