Blog Reboot?

I more or less abandoned this blog for awhile. I've been detailing my game exploits in public, game specific forums on Gamefaqs.com, hoping for more direct engagement with fans of the games I've been playing. And for the most part, I've been enjoying that.

But again I've been feeling like reaching out more on a more personal platform. Although this blog, as it stands, is not really reaching out, as that would require people actually reading this.

Well, I'm gonna speculate on what I could do about that. It'll probably amount to nothing, and probably very quickly, but we'll see what happens.

I've been playing a lot of retro NES games with arcade-style difficulty, and been enjoying it. Recently I beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Gradius, and just a few days ago I finished the massively difficult Ghosts and Goblins.

Truthfully, I kind of lament how little interest there is in old classics like these. Although I would like to try out a lot of games I've missed in the last few decades, the truth is I still have a lot more interest and passion in games from the NES and SNES era, and games that evolved from them. It's hard to find a good balance between trying new things and old, but I don't mind erring on the side of old.

I have a copy of the Mega Man original game collection on the Switch, and I started playing it. I beat Mega Man 1 yesterday. I've been wanting to replay some of these games for 30 years. It should be fun.