[Editorial] Guess what’s next on I ❤ Old Games! – 23/07/17

Hello guys,

Another week spent looking for good games and waiting for something I’ve bought on eBay. Since I want to repair a console I’ve bought (and I don’t want to spoil which one is until is fixed 🙂 ) I’ve ordered one of those screwdrivers made just for the strange screws you can find on the gaming consoles and a soldering iron. I hope I’ll receive them next week, so next weekend I’ll have all the time to prove myself in this brand new hobby 🙂

The delivery times are very long but considering that I’ve paid everything less than a Coke and an ice cream it’s worth the wait.

A few days ago I’ve received my brand new issue of Retro Gamer and, even though the cover story is about Virtua Fighter, a game I’m not particularly fond of, there are some interesting pieces about Double Dragon and the Super Game Boy.

Today I’ll be to my parents house and I’m gonna visit an old family friend that is supposed to have very old computers in a container he has in the garden. I already know they will be wrecked, dirty and not working but who knows, maybe I could find anyway something interesting. I know there’s a thriving market for old computers, even though they’re in horrible conditions so in case I don’t know what to do with them I can always send them to somebody who knows how to fix them. I used to work with this family friend years ago because he’s kind of a “chief” of the Public Assistance, a sort of Red Cross organization made by volounteers. I’ve spent some years there back then, I worked on the ambulances as a rescuer and I’ll be glad if I could help them with a donation, since they work almost only with donations made by citizens. In case I’d have to sell the PCs a huge slice of the grossing will go to them.

GAMES

• Europa Universalis IV
  Begun: November 16th, 2016
  Status: 60% completed, on hold
• Duke Nukem – Episode three: Trapped in the Future
  Begun: January 4th, 2017
  Status: 60% completed, on hold
• Super Mario Bros. 2 – The Lost Levels
  Begun: January 16th, 2017
  Status: 12% completed, on hold
• Castlevania
  Begun: January 24th, 2017
  Status: 66% completed, on hold
• Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
  Begun: April 25th, 2017
  Status: 33% completed
• Super C
  Begun: June 23rd, 2017
  Status: 57% completed

BOOKS

• Retro Gamer Issue #168
  Begun: June 28th, 2017
  Status: 95% completed
• The ZX Spectrum Book
  Begun: June 17th, 2017
  Status: 35% completed
• The Ultimate History of Video Games
  Begun: November 16th, 2016
  Status: 4% completed

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