I’ve loved Ninja Gaiden for as long as I can remember. When I saw the film The Wizard as a child, Super Mario Bros. 3 wasn’t the highlight for me, the brief showing and subsequent mentioning of Ninja Gaiden was. I read the Worlds of Power book cover to cover multiple times. And I, of course, played the NES game (and to a lesser degree, its sequels) over and over again (never finishing any of them).
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I’d had my eye on a ROG Ally for a while. My Steam Deck has been my primary portable gaming device, but it’s starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Knowing that a price increase on ROG Allys is a very real possibility, I decided to bite the bullet and pick one up.
I went with the Xbox Ally X because it’s the most powerful of the ROG devices. I know there are portable devices with better specs, but they are more expensive and less-known quantities. I’ve now spent a few days with the device, and I have thoughts.
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As I mentioned in my Oblivion post, I got my Xbox 360 early in its lifecycle and absolutely loved the system. While I’ve had mixed feelings about Microsoft and Xbox for the past decade and a half, I will always have a soft spot for the Blades era of Xbox 360.
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In an effort to beef up the gaming capabilities of my WinXP machine, I recently grabbed this NVIDIA GeForce 745 GPU for twenty bucks.
It’s a slim, PCIe card with a small fan that does not require any additional power (its consumption max is 55W).
It slotted in to the motherboard nicely, and then the trouble began.
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I recently picked up some vintage Apple manuals, the most exciting being The AppleSoft Tutorial. Just look at that cover!
In case you’re not familiar, this is a manual included with Apple II computers of the era. It serves as an overview of the hardware and as a basic BASIC programming guide. Here are some highlights, presented without context.
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Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls game and despite the myriad flaws, its weird, seemingly endless open world made me fall in love with the series. When Oblivion was announced I knew I had to play, but I also knew my aging PC (that could barely run Morrowind) would not be able to handle it without extensive and expensive upgrades.
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This HP Pavilion Slimline s5510f is a desktop PC that comes equipped with Windows 7 and one of the worst GPUs NVIDIA ever made. On one hand it’s slow and can’t really play most games released after the year 2000. But on the other you can pick it up and carry it with one hand so I don’t totally hate it.
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A tribute to Quake, Quake mods, Brazil, and Brazilian bootleg games, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT is one of the most delightful boomer shooters in recent memory.
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Thanks to the wonderful site Vintage Apple, I was able to check out a scan of the first issue of Macworld. It’s a fascinating magazine; part promotional tool, part behind the scenes, part user guide.
Here are some of the highlights for me:
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Playing the Leon sections of Resident Evil Requiem in first-person perspective felt a bit like Doom 3 to me, and once I finished it, I was in the mood for some Doom. I played a couple of Doom games and realized I have a lot of opinions about Doom. That’s what this post is.
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