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The Saving Grace Of Save States
Posted on Aug 15th 2020 at 12:00:00 PM by (slackur)
Posted under Save States, Mini Consoles, Emulation, Evercade, if save states were in real life sports would be so dull


Bonus points if you recognize this OG save state device.

Any gamer who has played for a few decades knows the moment; you pick up a favorite from your childhood, a game you put a ton of time into long ago, and now you seem to have lost all skill you once possessed.  Maybe your reflexes are strangely different from half a lifetime ago, or you've spent so much time playing other types of games that a particular skill-set has just withered.  Either way, gamers my age and older likely know the sad realization of trying to replay an old favorite and just hitting a brick wall.


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Thoughts On Gaming And The COVID 19 Moment
Posted on Apr 13th 2020 at 06:43:14 PM by (slackur)
Posted under Gaming, COVID 19, Neo Geo Mini, TurboGrafx Mini, Evercade

[img width=550 height=677]http://www.rfgeneration.com/images/games/U-005/gs/U-005-S-04655-A.jpg[/img]
Should have suspected survival in the future requires extensive use of Imperial Shuttles.

By now you have probably read quite a few gaming articles (including on here) about how folks are doing during these tough times.  In light of this moment, there were a handful of topics I tossed about when considering what to expand into a full write-up, and ultimately it seemed best just to take a few ideas and breathe them out a bit.  While this may read more like a journal entry, or really a series of rambling and disjointed thoughts instead of a concentrated article, it is my hope that constructively sharing thoughts right now may be more useful and connecting than one of my gaming lists or reviews.  Well, more helpful to me at least. Tongue



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