Let's go thrifting! FINALLY.
Here we are with the long-awaited episode fifty of LGR Thrifts, ahh it feels good to make another one of these. It might've taken me traveling 400 miles to a new location to get it done but hey, I was already making the trip anyway so why not.
Hope y'all enjoy this one! I sure had fun producing it. A new spot to peruse for vintage goodies is...
2024-01-23 21:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostGot another Three Weird Mice video here! Spent some days away on a trip for the holiday weekend and had just enough time to put this together right before and after it. Yep đź‘Ť
And while I was away I recorded a whole buncha footage, so the next planned video is… *drumroll* THRIFTS EPISODE 50
2024-01-17 20:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Ywp2CHQQQ
Greetings to all patrons on the $5+ tier! The December LGR Wrap Up video (and the final one for 2023) is now available for viewing.
Please leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. I hope you've had a happy new year thus far, and as always a massive thank you for your ongoing support! Here's to an even better 2024 ...
2024-01-11 23:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostHappy 2024! It's the future and that means ROBOTS.
1980s robots, of course – which are the best kind! And I cannot be convinced otherwise, ha. Growing up on a steady diet of 80s movies, TV, and video games packed with robots and androids really did a number on my psyche.
And yes this is the video that in my previous post I described as "quite a different one than the ...
2024-01-09 01:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Silly me thinking that we would make it through 2023 with only one of these expansions, but here we are. It’s The Sims 4: For Rent, the fifteenth expansion pack! Which sounds like a joke but noooope, it's there are $600 worth of these things now.
Thus ends LGR for this year! No video next week as I still have more holiday gatherings going on, and of course New Year's stuff ...
2023-12-27 19:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post
One more holiday-themed LGR video for the year! Just a quickly-made one to go up while I'm outta town for birthday/Christmas/family things.
Wishing you a good one and thank you for your ongoing support!
2023-12-20 21:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Chrisstmaaaaas!
It's that time of year again, and on LGR that always means Christmas video games. And this year we're taking a dive into the vast pool of seasonal Flash games. It's a nearly endless source of holiday-themed games from the 2000s and we barely scratch the surface here!
Not yet sure if I'll have another holiday episode this year, as next week is my birthday...
2023-12-13 00:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings to patrons on the $5+ tier! The November 2023 LGR Wrap Up video is now available for viewing.
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. I hope you have a nice December with all its associated holiday things, and as always a huge thank you for your ongoing support!
2023-12-10 17:14:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It's December! And while that normally means Christmas things on LGR, this collection of Duke games was just released and there was no way I wasn't going to cover it.
Especially since I got to be involved in making them! A little bit, at least! Turns out that I inadvertently put things in motion regarding the Duke Nukem 1 and 2 remakes included here, since after seeing 2023-12-05 22:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Aw yeah, it's that time of year again! November has become the month where I travel back a couple decades ago and unbox a sixth generation console. The Xbox and Dreamcast were covered the past two Novembers, and this time around it's the system from back then that I have the least experience with: the GameCube.
For reasons discussed in the video, I never really gave the poor ...
2023-11-22 01:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post
FINALLY! It's time for the SimCity 2000 30th Anniversary on LGR. A video that I've been planning for years in one way or another, although the most active work began last spring. Gathering up boxes and releases, diving into books and archives, and generally revisiting the game and my own childhood experiences. It's been a silly amount of fun for me going back to this one, especially after s...
2023-11-15 21:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a different thing on LGR this time!
I had this new old stock JVC camcorder from 20ish years ago and now is the time to finally open it up. It's pretty darned similar to the original camera that I originally used to record LGR back in the day (and the pre-LGR videos as well!) so it was a real treat to experience one basically brand new. I seriously did not expect to enjoy it as ...
2023-11-07 20:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings to all $5+ patrons! The October 2023 Wrap Up video is ready for your consumption.
As always, leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. I hope you have a lovely November, and lemme give a huge thank you for your ongoing support!
2023-11-06 23:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahh, finally the sequel to this long-running simulation game from the mid 2010s! If we're lucky maybe that *other* sim game from back then gets supplanted sometime soon too, cuz boy have I gotten tired of covering expansion packs to these things.
But yeah, Cities Skylines 2! It’s a game that irritates, amuses, confuses, impresses, falls short, compels, and repels wi...
2023-11-01 01:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
PRINTERS! I'm a sucker for an old printer with nifty features and this one absolutely fits the bill. So here's a laid-back episode all about the lovely little Sony Mavica Printer from 1999.
If you saw the recent CompUSA catalog video then yep, you'll know what instigated this purchase. Although in a ro...
2023-10-19 21:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Back again with a classic LGR retrospective! It's been a good amount of time since I've made a straightforward "here's a cool laptop" video, and while taking some folks through a tour of my collection recently this one happened to stand out to them. So I thought, what the heck, why not finally cover this one?
The Omnibook 800CT here has long been one of my favorite little subnotebooks...
2023-10-10 23:48:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahh, it is nice to be back to some of the usual LGR fare! As much as I enjoy the late summer convention season, getting back into my groove always makes me appreciate my day-to-day routine of researching, testing, filming, and editing. And at this point, Oddware is just about as comfy as it gets.
So, this right here is the Panther XL by none other than Mad Catz! While they were primar...
2023-10-05 19:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings to all $5+ patrons! Whew, it has been quite a month over here. Or uh, really two months, jeez.
Trips and sicknesses and things certainly put a dent in my ability to record but thankfully I am now feeling much better and getting back on track to normalcy! So finally the LGR channel wrap up/Q&A video for August (and September!) is here and ready to ingest at your ...
2023-10-04 22:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we go again! As you can see by the runtime this is a FAR more easily digestible video of the trip compared to the vlog, ha.
For the most part this is the same type of video I've made about VCF Midwest in previous years, but I tried to mix things up a wee bit by going over some of the prepwork for the show as well as giving a bit of a different take on the con itself....
2023-09-27 21:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, folks! First off thank you kindly for your patience. It's been unnerving not having anything new being made or going up the past couple weeks, it truly wigs me out! I like my routine and boy has my routine been upended this month due to the Chicago trip, then getting the virus, and most recently spending all my spare time going through the 7+ hours of footage from the trip. Whew....
2023-09-23 16:22:30 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, folks! It finally happened. Last weekend I came down with The Virus, dang it. Tested positive Monday, so I've been out of commission since then and haven't really felt anything but awful until today. I mean I'm still feeling awful but it's a less intense style of awful, I think. I haven't actually had this nastiness before now, which is kinda wild seeing as I've attended plenty of other conventions the past couple years since things opened up again.
So! That...
2023-09-15 21:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, all! In about eight hours from the time of posting I'll be starting my drive up to Chicago, Illinois. I think I'm finally all prepared and packed for VCF Midwest next weekend, and I am pretty darned stoked. And while I'll eventually be making a video about the trip after everything is over, in the meantime here's...
2023-09-03 01:12:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quickly-made, simple episode here! I'm in the middle of setting up, testing, preparing, and packing up all of the things that I'm taking to VCF Midwest, and this is one of the projects I really wanted to take care of before leaving six days from now.
Not much more to say, really! It's a straightforward "adding a thing t...
2023-08-28 23:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we go, the first LGR camera retrospective in years! I kinda had my fill on these a while back but since then I've collected a good number of a fascinating specimens, and this Agfa ePhoto CL30 Clik has long been at the top of my Want To Cover list. And for whatever reason now felt like the time to do it! It's also sort of a follow-up 2023-08-24 21:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings! It's been quite a busy week. I returned from my Long Island convention trip on Sunday and immediately got back to work on the projects I left behind earlier in the month. This particular episode is one of those I was laying a bunch of groundwork on before the trip, with the goal being to get enough done beforehand to finish it in a few days once I got back. Thankfully it worked o...
2023-08-16 18:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings to all $5+ patrons. Liiiiiive from New York, it's the LGR Wrap Up!
The LGR channel wrap up/Q&A thing for July is here and ready to partake of at your convenience. I'm currently in New York for the Long Island Retro show, but had a bit of downtime before the con and figured why not record this with quite the met...
2023-08-11 03:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Right, so! Got back in town Tuesday and got right to work on a few video projects, none of which are complete yet because they either: need far more time to be completed still, or fell apart entirely due to old tech being... old. Such is life.
So I slapped this together real quick since I'm prepping to leave soon for New York! I will be attending 2023-08-05 05:10:44 +0000 UTC View Post
HORSE RANCH.
Another TS4 expansion already, jeez. Probably the last one of the year but ya never can say for sure with this franchise, even nine years later. Straightforward stuff here, you all know the drill.
As for what's next, I'm headed outta town for a number of days here to help some family with things and then try and catch my breath next week. Been a busy month!...
2023-07-26 21:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this one escalated quickly! Started off as a simple video waxing nostalgic about the SideWinder FFB joystick just showing off a few games, annnnd ended up going down several rabbit holes on gameport adapters, DirectInput, patent trolls, and the quiet demise/resurrection of force feedback flight sticks. Would’ve had this done several days ago but I kept digging up fun tidbits to inclu...
2023-07-19 22:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeeeep it's been a while. So after nearly 8 months let's get right to it!
Massive thank you to everyone who sent things in, and I hope that you find some enjoyment going through all these goodies with me. Lemme know if you notice any editing mistakes or other bits of weirdness, long videos like this always have a higher chance for errors.
Till next time, have a good week!
2023-07-13 04:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post