It’s that time again
Time for something new. While working on this new theme I found that about this same time last year was when I switched the theme before, into the Big Blue version. It seems I can only tolerate my selected designs for a year. Oh well, keeps things interesting and (sometimes) re-motivates me to write. Your […]
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More tales from Counselor’s Corner
As if finding one of the former Nintendo Game Counselors that helped me back in the day wasn’t treat enough, this time they found me! If you missed the first article about my lost Nintendo Power letters, go check it out, and then continue on with my interview with Kirk Starr, the ex-GPC that I […]
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My Wii regret builds
I made my choice to go with the Nintendo Wii because I had reached a point in my gaming “career” where I was looking for something different. I wanted more than the same old sit-and-mash games. And some games delivered on that promise and are actually fun to play - Wii Sports, Guitar Hero, Olympics. […]
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My DS PDA challenge
After I got my wife a Nintendo DS for her birthday and experienced first hand how nicely it plays and works, I needed one of my own. With the DS’ touch screen and flash cart tools, I saw that it was entirely possible to use the DS as a PDA as well as a gaming […]
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Saving killed the video game star
Spend a little time around The Toast and you’ll quickly find I’m somewhat of a retro gaming nerd. Specifically the classic NES from the 80s. I grew up on that system and thus it holds a special place in my heart. I’ve done my best to keep up with gaming through past 20 years and […]
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Design beyond the home page
I found an article in the New York Times about how Google is not improving their Google News service. You can think of Google News is a giant link list of news topics. Google News harvests news from sites around the world and lists them. But the one aspect of the article that caught my […]
