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Having had the privilege to serve as a trained Combat Medic in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, I’m a proud member of a 250-year-old tradition. Founded in 1775, the “surgeons” (what the medical corps was called) have been taking care of soldiers on the battlefield and off.

I attended the same school on the same base as many decades of medics before me have. I enjoyed my training and took it very, very seriously. I left a dream job to join about 4-5 years after the events of 9/11. Seeing coffins draped in the American Flag kick-started my personal transformation from civilian to soldier to a medic.

I collect WWII items from the medical field. I find that conflict to be the most fascinating to me as warfare was changing, and we were still sending our medics to war with no weapons per the Geneva Convention. These men fought the war with sulfa powder and bandages.

One fact I’d like to put out there is that during WWII, the Combat Medic still didn’t train in combat ops. However when the Ranger Battalion and Airborne Battalions were formed, the Medic evolved and had to train right alongside the men who would “Lead the way (5th Ranger Battalion that soon became the motto of the U.S. Army Rangers on D-Day)

So I thought I would share my collection with the world. Some are reproductions. Mostly the Rations and Bandage boxes, but there are some authentic items in there. The collection is probably 80/20% real vs. reproduction.

Please enjoy my collection and take a moment to be thankful for these men and women from our founding until right this very moment put the lives of their charges first above all.

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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!

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!

Hello everyone! Well, it’s been a busy past week posting and writing, watching and reading. I need a few days to work on the next upcoming articles. We have a look at my vintage Nintendo Game and Watch collection, California Games the VHS Board Game, and a look at my Atari 2600 Activision game collection all complete in the box! *Articles not necessarily in that order*

While I work on this here’s a flier for the classic point-and-click game Sam And Max Hit the Road from the ’90s! By the greatest point-and-click company out there… Lucasarts! If you have Good Old Games as your storefront for Computer Video Games this game is in their library and cheap! Worth every penny though it’s also on Steam (where I have it). At about 250MB – 300MB, in full pixel glory, there’s no reason not to give this hilarious P ‘n C (point and click) game a try!