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Greetings, folks! I'm finally done with attending conventions for the season and I'm moving onto the next big projects on LGR. And the biggest one (other than a video about Long Island Retro) is the 20th anniversary for The Sims 2. I'm hoping to have a video about it out in September and I would love feedback from any who care to share.

After asking lots of LGR viewers about this at the past few conventions, I've learned that many of y'all stopped at The Sims 2 before beco...

LGR Wrap Up - July 2024

https://youtu.be/0Yh794REyq0

The July 2024 episode of the LGR Wrap Up is available for viewing, so let's jump into the videos from the month as well as your questions submitted last time.

Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you very much for your ongoing support, especially during these weird months where not as many videos go up due to conven...

LGR - Panasonic SuperDisk Camera from 1999

https://youtu.be/0RWcmHQDEEs

Greetings, all – it's been a minute! Things have been kinda nuts lately, in no small part due to conventions.

My brother and I spent a full week in New York both hanging out in the city and then as a guest at Long Island Retro Gaming Expo (expect two videos from me about that soon, one being a travel vlog and the other a more conventional convention video.) And as I type this, I'm p...

The Sims 4 Lovestruck Review

https://youtu.be/2TdR12u-qq8

It's that time of year again! Another expansion for the game that refuses to die, ha. Can't believe there are sixteen of these $40 addons now... not including all the dozens and dozens of other types of packs I no longer cover.

And this may be it for a bit from me! I'm going to be heading to New York for Long Island Retro Gaming Expo this Saturday (although the show is the follow...

LGR - The 1995 Acer Aspire

https://youtu.be/8dWtK4lMBJg

Got a certified 90s classic right here! A once-common PC that has now become a desired rarity among certain enthusiast dorks like myself.

If you saw my VCF Southwest video recently then you may recognize this machine. I've been looking for a complete original Acer Aspire system for years now and as so...

LGR Wrap Up - June 2024

https://youtu.be/rLO-e7D1Yy0

The June 2024 edition of the LGR Wrap Up is available for viewing, so let's dive into the videos from the past month as well as your questions submitted last episode.

Feel free to leave questions or discussion topics for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you for your ongoing support, and I hope to see some of you at one of the two conventions I'm attendi...

KDS 75-Disc Organizer for PCs

https://youtu.be/xYIn80jAAmU

Another early 2000s oddity here on LGR this week! One that I'd never heard of before it was sent to me in the mail some months back, and boy was I intrigued to try it out and poke around its mechanisms.

The KDS PC CD Organizer was first released in 2001 and holds 75 discs of any type! Mainly because it doesn't do any actual reading of the discs itself and instead relies on your P...

LGR Oddware - Novint Falcon

https://youtu.be/jhGeq_yQYyg

Another oddity I've wanted to cover for ages! Finally it's time to talk about the Falcon haptic feedback controller by Novint Technologies. And dang, when this thing is playing a game tailor-made for the device, it one stellar experience. Well, assuming that the tailor-made game is any good at least... and that is not always the case, as we find out here.

But yeah, hope you enjoy...

LGR Fifteen Years Later

https://youtu.be/VQ-RUn5lzgw

I can't believe this but... I'm celebrating 15 years of LGR! And when I first starting making these videos, the retro gaming and vintage computer scene looked quite different. So let's take a look back at how much the hobby has changed in the last decade and a half! Which is mostly for the better, I feel.

Thank you, genuinely. for your ongoing support, on here and elsewhere over the l...

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The LGR 15th anniversary is coming up! WTF! And I have some thoughts I wanna run by y'all. Please leave comments with your suggestions after watching the video if you decide to do so. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/wbYtqBe15fM

To clarify: I am not looking for video ideas. The video is already in progress. What I'm seeking are things to add to the video, specifically things...

LGR - Building a Dual Pentium Pro NT Tower

https://youtu.be/P_so2nUob1Y

Back again with another retro computer build! And this one is a bit outside of my usual consumer level wheelhouse in terms of hardware and software. Which is exciting and energizing stuff! Annnd also more time-consuming with some surprising hurdles to overcome, because of course.

Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, ideas are brewing for future updates and fixes and tests......

LGR Wrap Up - May 2024

https://youtu.be/Hxa7QbvxnbI

Greetings to all LGR supporters! The May 2024 release of the LGR Wrap Up is now available for viewing, so let's dive into the videos from the last month along with your questions submitted last episode.

Feel free to leave questions or discussion topics for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you for your ongoing support, it is highly appreciated!

LGR - The MacPhone

https://youtu.be/sCLvocTX2Ug

A classic kind of LGR thing this time around! Taking a look at the Intermatrix MacPhone from 1984, one of the early Macintosh add-ons from the year the system debuted.

Pretty straightforward episode here! Just going over a little history, unboxing and setting it up, and testing it out in various ways. To be honest this is an even simpler device than I thought it was going into th...

LGR - Some Weird Keyboards

https://youtu.be/ighXtmX-2sI

A simpler video this time after spending two weeks making that Streets of SimCity retrospective!

And this is one that's in the same vein as the "Three Weird Mice" videos I've done, just with weird keyboards instead. And well, while I intended to cover three keyboards here, as you'll see in the video only two keyboards ended up getting covered and it still resulted i...

LGR Wrap Up - April 2024

https://youtu.be/BlYGqGHonG4

Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The April 2024 edition of the LGR Wrap Up is here for viewing, so let's dive into the videos from the last month along with questions and discussion topics brought up last time.

Feel free to leave any questions for next month's episode in the comment section below. And as always, a huge thanks for your ongoing support, and have yourself a good month!...

LGR - Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later

https://youtu.be/SCzLGoH_IdQ

Revisiting Streets of SimCity 27 years later – or really 14 years later for me! Yeah the last time I covered this on LGR it was 2010 when the game was 13 years old... it's now 14 years later so I think it's high time for a revisit!

It's crazy to look back at that old video and what the channel was back then. For example, when the original review of this went live in 2010, the v...

LGR Oddware - The Mouse Yoke

https://youtu.be/JrWb9jj3IsU

Fresh LGR Oddware! This is one of those things that I've had for I don't even know how many years and always intended to cover, yet I always forget exists. Then every so often someone will email me offering one or poke me on social media asking me if I knew it existed, and well, that happened yet again recently and finally pushed me over the edge.

As for the Mouse Y...

LGR - My First Digital Camera! Intel CS630

https://youtu.be/tI9qHg2yGtw

Here's one I've been meaning to do for ages, and now that springtime is here and has me outdoors quite a lot again, I felt inspired to go out and shoot with this thing. For the first time in like 23 years!

The Intel Pocket PC Camera is a deeply simplistic, glorified webcam with batteries, when it comes down to it. There truly isn't much going on at all, but that kinda made it an ...

LGR - The 1999 Canon Inkjet Mistake

https://youtu.be/6aoBK-K_K-Y

YOU KNOW... sometimes, plans simply don't work out whatsoever. That's certainly been my experience lately.

For starters, I bought a 25-year-old printer and I regret everything, haha. Actually, I bought three of them in a moment of sheer delusion. Either way though, in an ideal world this was going to be a quick, fun romp into late 90s color in...

LGR Wrap Up - March 2024

https://youtu.be/-avO2c4K_Ug

Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The March 2024 LGR Wrap Up is up for viewing, so let's dive into the videos from the last month and all of your discussion topics.

Feel free to leave any questions for next month's episode in the comment section below. And as always, many thanks for your ongoing support, and have yourself a good month!

UPDATE! Sadly I was unable to attend VCF East d...

LGR - Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later

https://youtu.be/abmiv22Q7xA

The longest LGR game retrospective yet! UT2004 is a huge favorite and it was a must-cover for me in 2024, so seeing as it turned twenty at the end of March, here we are. My last two weeks have been utterly chock full of work on this, other than a brief diversion to put together that last donations unboxing video. Time well spent, I hope!

Feel free to share your thoughts on this one on...

LGR Donations Unboxing - March 2024

https://youtu.be/aRisQETt3dY

Got another one of these eight months later! The last one of these was in July last year.

Thanks to everyone who sent things in, or even simply offered to do so! It is all appreciated :)

Lemme know if you notice any oddities or screw-ups in the video, I still have a couple of minor things to tweak in the final edit so there's time to fix it. Next week I hope to be back with anot...

LGR - Restoring a '97 Gateway G6-233 PC

https://youtu.be/LxvuyGYDWqI

A straightforward exploration/restoration video about a sorta-halfway-classic 90s computer! I recently received this lovely Gateway 2000 desktop, a G6-233M model, and thought it deserved some attention. Naturally it was complete with some surprises, setbacks, and unexpected bits of technological weirdness that made this 2-day project turn into 5, ha.

I really enjoy doing these every s...

LGR - Toshiba Libretto W100

https://youtu.be/Kla9W42o1uI

Back with another funky old laptop on LGR! This one isn't as old as I typically cover, it's only from 2010, but it is absolutely off-kilter enough for a video. 

This is the Libretto W100, an innovative dual 7-inch touchscreen UMPC from Toshiba. The final machine in the fabled Libretto line and the first consumer Windows laptop with twin touchscreen displays! It was built as a lim...

LGR Wrap Up - February 2024

https://youtu.be/XVPc3Vw9g00

Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The February 2024 LGR Wrap Up video is here, so let's dive into the videos from the last month and all of your discussion topics.

Feel free to leave any questions or talking point ideas for next month's video in the comment section below this post. As always, a huge thank you for your ongoing support for the channel, and have a nice month!

LGR - Dune for MS-DOS

https://youtu.be/JvP3d3QB-4k

The reviews must flow! And the spicy subject matter this time around is DUNE! The first computer game adaptation, made by Cryo Interactive and Virgin Games in 1992. I've long used this as a sound card benchmark/demonstration, but it is so much more than that.

Yeah I've been extremely stoked for Dune Part Two hitting theaters this month (which I saw over the weekend and holy balls was ...

LGR Oddware - The Titans Sphere

https://youtu.be/jJSCPIRdYVM

Oddware returns! I didn't realize that it had been over 4 months since the last episode, jeez. So here we are with the first one of the new year!

And dang is this thing a true oddity. Not only is the Titans Sphere basically unheard-of other than a few offhand references in lists of “worst controllers of all time” or whatever, but it's the only example I have ever come across ...

LGR Wrap Up - January 2024

https://youtu.be/UuEWg0Y3Htk

Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The first LGR Wrap Up video for 2024 is here, so let's dive into the videos from January and all of your excellent inquiries.

Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. I hope you've had a good 2024 thus far, and as always lemme give a huge thanks to you for your ongoing support!

LGR - The Most Unwanted PC

https://youtu.be/8g-qSdMIFFQ

Been taking it easier this week after the big SC3K retroactive last week wiped me out, so here’s a straightforward video about a boring old computer.

And the boringness is the whole idea! These Dell OptiPlex machines are cheap and plentiful for good reason. Many good reasons actually. So I grabbed one on a whim recently and decided to give it a go, not only to see if it was...

LGR - SimCity 3000 25 Years Later

https://youtu.be/MngTH_mh_Is

32 minutes long?! Darn right it is. Whether or not this is my best game review/retrospective, I can't be the judge, that is for you to decide. But that was certainly my goal going into this project.

Ever since my SimCity 2000 retrospective went gangbusters at the end of last year, I've been mulling over and analyzing...