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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.

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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Troubleshooting over…PHEW!

Had a few days of helping users on the Codeweavers forum and Discord. Threw a troll into a cage for being a jackass and I’m beta-testing the new version. I know all of this is taking away from my site. We have some snow all over the darn place here. So today despite medical issues gotta go snowblow the driveway which isn’t short but isn’t crazy long either. I think I’m going to get an article up about yet another book but this one was one of the 3 I helped with Kickstarter so I wanted to show it off. I didn’t do the tier where my name is in the back on this one but that’s no big deal 🙂 I also have good lighting so far despite the overcast. I will set up a photo area to get shots of all my Nintendo Game and Watch games for the next story I have just about finished. So that’s about all I have at this 8 o’clock hour. Lots to do today. I’m going to get out and start snow blowing shortly so I can get my beef stew in the crockpot and start photography!

Till then here’s a picture of Nickelodeon bumper.

Arrrgghhh! Busy doing troubleshooting!

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!

Gameboy? Pffffttt… Game & Watch is where it’s at!

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!