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Scheduling Thoughts
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 10 April, 2012 at 9:21PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
Scheduling Thoughts

So I'm near-constantly slogging away on more Retro of the Week posts. I'd like to get a good-size buffer of them going before I start making good on the 'Retro of the Week" part of this whole thing. When that happens, I'm not sure, but rest assured, I'm working towards it.

I'm also working on ever more Modern of the Month articles. As you'll be able to see in due time, there's considerably more thought and words put into a MotM than a standard RotW, to m

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To The Moon
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 22 March, 2012 at 11:17PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
To The Moon

I typically like to write about older games. Games that were made in the heyday of the medium, before it became a cashcow that had decisions being made by bearucratic publishers rather than by trained game developers. (not to cast too negative a light on the state of modern gaming) I feel that there's usually more.... Soul. More love, more passion, more tiny details put into the games of old. Little things that don't really contribute to the gameplay at all, but are there just because someone cared about the game enough to throw in a little something extra.

The game we're featuring today, however, is from this century. More notably, this decade! (at time of writing) Even MORE heinous than that, it was released late 2011! (November 1 2011, if I must be precise.)

But you know how it is with these retro-themed games. Some of them manage to capture that ol' classic gaming spirit so well that they could easily go alongside anything made for the SNES, Genesis, DOS or NES or whatever fancy dangle you kids play these days.

So here I am talking about something that's probably even newer than your last haircut. Today's focus is; To The Moon.

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