Pixelcade

Still goin!

Well, still going to the room. I have a hutch coming for my ultra-tiny doorless closet. Some other goodies as well. Here is the room in a panoramic shot, going from my lightsabers on the left when you look in from the door to the final saber that basically marks the door frame. The lighting doesn’t look right, but again, the camera, as good as it is seems to be struggling with all the colors I have glowing in here.

Please excuse some of the colors as the camera does a fair job at merging them, but as you can see, my blue lightsaber is lost (last on on the left towards my desk).

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It may take a second to load the picture file because it is large and panoramic, and I didn’t want to sacrifice quality for speed.

August 18, 2025 by Pixelcade .:Loot Crate:. .:Tech:.

A few weeks later and I’m still decorating…

Lots of new things pulled out from storage, bought or traded for. Check out the new lighting and light sabers! Brought my glass display case in here and loaded it with some of my more valuable handhelds from the Big N.

I’m selling a few things on Mercari and eBay at the moment to recoup some of the hidden costs of building this room out. Nothing but doubles, but still I have a ways to go with a bunch of new artwork coming and old board games, which are proving to be very affordable at $8-$30, and the ones at the $30 range are new or just produced and off the shelves. So here is where I stand at the moment! Please excuse the mess (drills and hammers etc…) I’m still hanging shelves and have original movie posters coming for Space Ace (a Don Blueth laser disk cartoon game from the mid 80’s) and The Land Before time. For the hall way. A HUGE reproduction of my favorite sci-fi movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. Picked up a “Neon” (Actually bendable LEDs) Sign form my game room “Bates Motel – No Vacancy” lots of goodies on the way. Moving and shaking. Picked up limited art prints of The Secret of NIHM and The Iron Giant. Those were slightly costly but I’ve been able to off set with sales. As things come in I’ll be sure to get pics and add them to my loot crate.

I had to delete the previous post as I messed up the backend of the code and accidentally deleted my old gallery… That’s what happens when you’ve been up for almost 5 days with little sleep. The last image shows a one-of-a-kind woodcut Diablo III demon head with eyes and a mouth that, if the light hits them right, change color to the ambient light. Also, that Secret of NIHM poster is an actual marquee that would be above the door to the theater in the movies from back when this film came out. It’s supposed to be backlit, but I have no means to make a shadow box and put a light in it. There is an image took off the artists page where he was showcasing the image of the Lord of Terror himself. The last one is my cool new rug that has LED strip inside the rim that can change to many colors and patterns.

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Hiatus

Hello everyone,

I know it’s been almost a month since a new post. I have to say my medical conditions are to blame for that. It seems like lately every single day I’m at a medical facility of some kind. Meaning my mood to create and write and photograph things is at a low again.

I have a few articles I just need to do photography for and my goal is to get them done at some point this week.

Coming up: California Games – The VHS board game of the late 80s, Nintendo Game and Watch – along with my collection, and a few NEW books that I have not shown here.

Due to my condition, I’ve also traded in my 12-foot camper for a 20-footer, which will be much easier to climb in and out of. Getting two 80+ lb dogs into it should also be much less of a challenge. And it has a shitter that will NEVER be used, so there’s that. So I can’t be like cousin Eddie dumping my sewage into the storm drain in the middle of winter “Shitter was full!”

So there you have a lineup of what’s the come not all this week my first goal is to cover California Games, a VHS board game! I have a couple of other board games also arriving this week I’ve wanted since one launched and the other when I was in late High School. Found them at great prices even with shipping (Come on do something about those shipping prices gov!)

Anyway, here’s the update and a road map! I just gotta get back into the swing of things after all this other real-life B.S. hit me.

-Pixelcade
Until then here’s a bit of a promo for Laser Disc!

March 9, 2025 by Pixelcade Uncategorized 0

A peek inside NES Endings Compendium!

I thought I’d show just a few pages of what to expect if you buy this book. No page shows off their book like Bitmap does. It’s an independent publisher. Enjoy the screen caps! If you like what you see pick it up. I’m enjoying it there are a lot of games I’ve not played which is hard to believe.

February 18, 2025 by Pixelcade .:Book/Movie Reviews:. 0

Fresh off the press!

As any reader knows I pledged to Kickstarter for 3 books. The first one is hot off the presses and just got to my house! It’s the second book in a set called NES Endings Compendium. I have the first one in hardcover (yes I’m a sucker for hardcover art books and fact books like this). So it came and the printing quality is spot on! I was expecting this one to have the quality of the first one and I was not disappointed. In the pictures of the book, you’ll see what I picked up at my pledge level.

First, we have the book. Second, a poster showing all the titles of 1990 with boxes for completed, sell, own (I think sell and own), and a bookmark. The picture of the book open shows one of my favorite games on the NES and then subsequent titles on other platforms to this day. River City Ransom! I have one too many books to get through and I have 3 more on the way one from England and the others as far as I know are stateside. The other two are the ones from my Kickstarter pledge post. The third is another Bitmap Book which I’ll post when it gets here from across the pond.

Not really an exciting post but hey I needed to fill the void! Enjoy the pics!