Hey all so as you know I did a big expose on Crossover by Codeweavers. Well, I’m very active in their discord and their forums for the Mac version of their software. Well between all the help I’m doling out I’ve had numerous medical appointments. I still have to shoot the G & W games for my article. I’m hoping to do this within the next day or so. I just honestly don’t want to open them from the way I have them displayed in custom bags for NES Manuals (they fit perfectly in them.
Do you use Crossover for Linux or Mac? Do you enjoy G & W games? Drop me a line in the comments section to let me know if there’s a desire for the articles. If I don’t hear from anyone I’m still gonna post them! Why? It’s my site LOL! Till the next article I leave you with a toy line that I always thought was fun! There were blue and orange ants and I think their butts glowed in the dark if I remember! They are called Army Ants. They were always in the cheap section of the toy aisles due to the fact they didn’t do much. But I enjoyed the one pack of blues I had!
Upcoming article! I have to do the photography now. Anyway, the article is all about the Nintendo Game & Watch games! Pre-Gameboy, some Pre-NES, and some during the NES. So many fun games! The hardest part is getting ahold of them due to their new collectible market. I was able to get a lot of mine before the market exploded. What I have left is to shoot 8 games. I’d like to do a proper shoot with the ones that open / close like a clamshell LONG before the Nintendo DS they were pushing dual-screen technology. I don’t want to say much more at this point as I don’t want to ruin my 1-2 minute read and pictorial. Enjoy the picture above of Super Mario Bros. and yup that one is in the collection! I’m going to leave you with a stroll down memory lane with a picture of Babbage’s! The place to get your PC Demo on floppy, and eventually cartridge video games! These stores lived in malls and they were one more reason to visit your local mall!
As most of you don’t know my gaming tendencies one of my all-time franchises is the Civilization series. I have played every version since it hit the CD-ROM in the early 90s as version 2. Playing through all the new features and differences in looks and play styles was a trip. I hated V for many of the same reasons I’m going to tell you why I HATE what he did with VII…
WTH SID! You have quite possibly the best Civ to date with the last one (VI), and you go back to V style of graphics and gameplay? SCREW YOU SID! I have over 2500 hours into version VI. You expect the next one to build on it!
Let’s go back to Civ V which sucked in every way possible good thing I got it on sale from Stack Social for like eight bucks. So, well into V, I saw how it was (it was the only one I didn’t buy off the bat cuz it looked awful). By looking awful I mean WTH SID again realistic graphics nothing original. Well, he did that in VII! I want something that doesn’t look like Old World meets Ara: History Untold.
What made VI so special was the original graphical content and well everything except the constant crashes in MacOS… Everything was original the characters had this stylized look to them almost cartoonish but not quite.
Civ VII what the HELL! Pardon my language, but I have had such high hopes they would build a bit on VI, but no, they took the gameplay down to V for the lowest common denominator of a gamer… They don’t even offer large maps! Yeah, it looks outstanding, but crap, there’s no real control over how things happen they just sort of do. I even bought the Founders edition (the $130 version)! I put in for a return after 50 min of play.
I think I’ve ranted enough but I had to get it out there how bad 7 was after waiting and playing 6 forever… I’m going to post a few screens in the first two look in the upper right my heat sensors are going off and nothing is happening! It does look beautiful but that doesn’t make a game SID!
Again from a long-time Civ player don’t bother because like I said you can play any number of games from Old World to Humankind to Ara: History Untold… You’ll get all original styles and some unique play styles. Plus the game stops in the 1960’s tech era. NO future tech or zones which means they are gonna nickel and dime the hell out of users with DLC and DLC Characters for who knows how much each over the years it’s in action..
Here are the pics time to go help users on the Crossover Mac forum. I’m on there a lot answering questions it’s more fun than playing Civ VII that’s for sure… I’m gonna get out of this ass parlor…it stinks.
I just don’t feel they (the articles) are up to the same quality that I (at least in my mind) have been putting out. One is about the game series Blaster Master and the other is Sid Meiers Pirates! I kept going off script in my articles as I had just purchased the highest level of the game Civilization 7 and the crap I experienced would get my blood pressure rising.
I was given 2 days early access and up to 2 hours to return it (Civ VII) on Steam. I lasted about 50 minutes before I finally turned it off and hit the return option. But that’s another article / (warning) RANT I have written. It’s a rant as I have been playing Civilization since V2.0 on Windows 3.1 and a CD-ROM! I don’t know what order I want to release these articles so until then they are sitting in a few text docs on the old Macbook Pro Max M4. I gotta say that as I HATE WINDOWS and am a Mac-only person (yup one of those) but I have to use CodeWeavers Crossover (take a read of my review on this) to get my vast library of games to work…
So in conclusion I just don’t know at this moment what to finish and put out. Hopefully, it’s nice and sunny tomrrow we are under a storm winter storm advisory and are getting hit. If can get some natural light to take photographs of my Game and Watch Gallery Collection I will. Again the article is started but I was not happy with the lighting that I have (2 big windows). My room lamp in the game room isn’t an LED and puts off that orange light… IF need be I’ll use my standing desk lamp that has 5 different lighting modes. However, I didn’t get them open today (they are each wrapped in plastic NES Manual bags).
I also don’t want to use Wikipedia unless I have to. I always like to write based on my experiences but sometimes ya just need dates or that one piece of info you can’t think of at the time. I ALWAYS have and ALWAYS will call out when I gather content from Wikipedia or another source.
So please excuse the lack of posts today my mind is in a jumble sitting here with so much content! But until tomorrow here’s a picture of some A-Team Toys (enemies) from back in the day!
Sorry, everyone, medical crap is in the way again. BUT! I almost have done the following article: PreNES and during NES: The Game and Watch toys. I also will be posting some random things in most categories of pictures I’ve found on the interwebs. The sad thing is these photos get passed around so much that you have no idea who took them or the artist who made them. So as usual I will do my best to credit when it’s possible. It’s NOT that I don’t want to it’s just that a lot of the time posters don’t credit either. And NO it’s not from facebook/X/Bluesky any social media platform unless you count Tumblr that’s the only one I use and I don’t even post or repost. So anyway look for a couple of posts tomorrow as the blizzard hits us and then maybe 2 on Sunday. Next week I’ll have some cool new tech from the medical field to review! So that’s the update for today. Stay tuned!
