Monday, June 11, 2012

Firing the Retros

Sitting with mom while she goes through her Chemo, I'm unable to play my usual. I barely have Internet, so XBLA is out of the question (Killing my Raptr.com life) and I certainly don't have a PC rig here.

What I do have, however I am enjoying immensely. I dug out my old PS One with screen and I picked up a couple of games for it for I thought I would enjoy.

So at bedtime, I am enjoying the original ARC the Lad that is like 5 disks large. And when I need more action I'm replaying good old Air Combat (known ace Ace Combat in sequels throughout).

Arc the Lad is great fun looking at it through the eyes of history. You can see just how many games that came after were influenced by this one game.

If Arc ever loses steam, I'll default back to my favorite PSX RPG: Diablo (of course).


Arc the Lad is surprising fun. It really was ahead of it's time.

During the day when I'm in the living room with mom, I'm on my 360, just in offline mode. I've managed to polish off Battlefield Bad Co. Gold, Duke Nukem Forever, The latest Medal of Honor, and I'm stuck in Cuba in Kane and Lynch Dead Men.

In between, its the PSP and things like GItS, Coded Arms, and, for good measure Air Combat Skies of Deception.

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