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I uh... thanks to Steam and two notebooks for reminding me how little I went outside as a kid. Arcade Missile Command Splatterhosue Game Boy Tetris PC (DOS) Blood Doom (1, 2, Plutonia) PC (Modern) Counter Strike (1.6, Source, Global Offensive) Elite Dangerous Garry's Mod Minecraft S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Tabletop Simulator Team Fortress 2 Terraria PC-8801 Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead PC-9801 Yu-No Super NES The Lawnmower Man

Game Boy Tetris - 130 minutes PC-9801 Jelda - 45 minutes Lode Runner - 10 minutes Well, a slow week for gaming but still a fun one. Most of my time was on-the-go Tetris, the usual, and I can say that man I wish I had a slightly smaller Game Boy. The DMG is awesome, no doubt, but my backpack is stuffed to the brim with books and things for projects to the point where I have to play stuff Tetris. Maybe I'll look into a Pocket, I used to do a lot of LSDJ so I avoided the GBP but nowadays that may just be nicer... The PC-98s, specifically the 9801 and 9801E, got put on the "useless" desk... okay none of the computers there are useless, it's just that they're extremely gimped compared to others in the same line. See the PC-8801 and Apple II+ that also sit there. The plain 9801 got the "usual dead test" routine as I finally made some 8" disks for it - just run Lode Runner and wait for the extremely ear-grating buzzer noises, thank the person who previously taped the thing quieter - and the 9801E got to play some Jelda. It was good fun, I just need a mini-DIN keyboard that has a working : key. Next week is lining up to be a whole lot more Kenbak programming, Tetris playing, and waiting on boxes. Hopefully something good will come out of that?

Game Boy: Tetris - 240 minutes MZ-80K: Numbertron - 85 minutes Two systems, two games, and that's it for me. It was a busy week with other things going on, between being disappointed in the Battlefield 2042 Beta and picking up a full-scale Kenbak-1 replica I've been managing to keep myself busy. I finally "bit the bullet" and bought a CleanJuice XL for my DMG, stupid me paid $35 for a 60-pack of AAs then instantly realized $35 is the same cost as the darn rechargeable mod. Handheld Legend isn't even that far from me, six hours driving, so standard shipping is only two days which makes me feel that much more like a fool. Oh well, other devices need AAs so it's not like it was really a waste of my money. The MZ-80 finally got a proper place to sit, next to the PC-9801E in the bedroom, and I'm quite happy with that. Numbertron is still the only game I have, apparently another game Minesnake... well I really wanted to try Minesnake but I couldn't, they locked their itch.io page with it out, so that made me a bit sad. Oh well, maybe they have it elsewhere and Numbertron is still great fun! Speaking of said Kenbak-1, that's going to end up eating most of my free time so I'll see if I get anything but Tetris in work downtime for next week. I signed up for a game jam with the full intent of using it to go about learning a new platform, not actually going for winning anything, so I have to hold true to myself and at least submit something. It'll be damn simple, 256 bytes of RAM and eight LEDs should make that obvious, but that's okay.

Not a ton of time to play games but enough to have some fun. Game Boy: Tetris - 165 minutes PC Engine: Horror Story - 40 minutes Pac-Land - 30 minutes Splatterhouse - 40 minutes The Game Boy traveled yet again, Tetris still being the only thing in that cartridge port, and it was quite nice. I haven't hit any new records or done anything really all that impressive, it's just screwing off in 20-minute bursts during free time, but I've noticed myself getting better at stacking blocks. I've decided to switch things up, the stack on the right side instead of the left, and I feel like it's almost better in some ways? I'll have to play more to figure that out. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before bed I said I'd play a bit of PC Engine. I did spend a good chunk for that Super SD System, I've got to get some playtime out of it! Monday was two runs of Splatterhouse, I got hit twice on the first so I had to try again for a perfect run. Wednesday was Horror Story, I didn't do well but it was quite fun. Friday was Pac-Land, a game I both seem to love and just not care for at the same time. It's looking like I'll be shipping another large box from Japan next week, it'll arrive hopefully the week after, and I'll have a few new systems in the house! Adding a PS1, Saturn, Cassette Vision and two more NEC PCs (PC-8001, PC-8801) finishes out a fair few things I've wanted to buy for a while now. Now to just play some games on 'em...

PC-9801: Galpus - 45 minutes PC Engine: Splatterhouse - 16 minutes Yep, just two games for the whole week. That's okay though, it was still a fun time! Most of my week was taken up by the two new PC98s, an original model and 9801E, which both needed their own sets of repairs. Exploded barrel batteries, loose factory bodge wires, and nearly forty years dust always make for a fun time but I'm glad to say that both units are now in clean and stable shape! I have no games that run on the original 9801, 96K of VRAM is miserably small for anything but business software or the earliest titles, but I do have Galpus for the 9801E. The game, oddly enough, requires you to rotate your monitor vertically and runs pretty close to the arcade version. I was quite impressed! The PC Engine got a little bit of playtime, exactly one playthrough of Splatterhosue to be exact. I've run through that game so many times that it's no longer a challenge, I'll still call it my favorite game to this day but I won't deny that it's just a speedrunning thing for me now. Biggy Man and Captain Mozzarella are really the only points of issue, the first because I usually forget to carry both shotguns across the stage and the second because I slide around like a fool, but they're not enough of a problem to actually make me lose a life. It's looking like next week will be a lot of organizing hardware, after all getting a bunch more computers means actually cleaning off shelves and neatening things up, so I'm not entirely sure on what I'll play. I may finally buy an XT-IDE for my 30-286, I've been wanting to run something on that machine again since it has a nice SoundBlaster, so maybe some older DOS titles?

Well, a few weeks of "I don't have any time for games" later and I finally got a bit in! MZ-80K Numbertron - 157 minutes I finally remembered to get a picture of something, check out that Sharp! The MZ-80C earned a place on my computer desk within a week of buying it, I've been absolutely loving programming on this thing more than any other Z80-based retro computer I own for reasons I have yet to even understand myself, and this week it just got better. I found out about Sharpworks a while ago, Numbertron was actually part of why I bought that computer, and a physical copy of the game made it to my mailbox on Thursday! I love my simple arcade-y puzzle games, this definitely falls into that category, and it's been an absolute blast to play for the four days I've had it. My scores haven't been too amazing, I think 1,052 has been my highest and I've yet to actually clear more than half of the screen, so I'm hoping to do better over the course of this next week. Speaking of this next week I finally did things like buy a power adapter and controller extension for my PC Engine, my PC-9801VX is coming home after four years of being lent out to friends, and I managed to find an original model PC-9801 (plus a PC-9801E) for a price I'm willing to pay (under ¥10,000 for both) after six years of searching! It should be a pretty fun-filled / NEC-themed week, that's for sure.

Arcade: BloodStorm - 71 minutes Zaxxon - 45 minutes Game Boy: Tetris - 210 minutes PC-9801: Maison Ikkoku - 3 minutes A decent amount of playing and repairing went on for the week. The PC-9801F arrived! It got torn down instantly, lucky me the barrel battery hadn't spilled everywhere, but I think it has power supply issues. The computer consistently crashes after ten minutes of being powered on, both 8MHz and 5MHz mode, and the only fix I've found is to power it down until the caps are bled then restart. If it means anything the composite B&W output is extremely warbly and dances all around any old CRT I throw it on, too. Lucky me I could get it powered just long enough to boot Maison Ikkoku, the only 2DD floppy game I own, and I can say that when it runs things are pretty nice! Sadly no time could be had on the 8801MkII from the same package, again power supply issues as I'm entirely missing the 12V rail under load (only getting 2.3V) so that needs replaced before anything can even happen... at least the keyboard feels really nice? Tetris got dragged around with me in my Game Boy yet again, this time in a stock DMG, and wow the screen replacement in my other one is just too nice to me. There's definitely an appeal in seeing that original screen nowadays, I get that, but man is it nice to be able to play the system anywhere that isn't perfectly lit. Some of the arcades got a little maintenance so I gave them a little playtime while I was at it. BloodStorm is by no means a game I really enjoy, if I remember right my whole reason for buying it was because how stupid it was, and sadly I think I figured out how to beat the entire game without any effort. Freon just makes things too easy, freeze 'em then finisher since you can do that any time the enemies are stunned. Zaxxon was a gift for my father, it was one of his favorite games and he still loves it to this day, and it was having some sound problems with sound. Half an hour on the bench with two new ICs later and it was working perfectly again, I tried to play it but man I'm not nearly as good as him at it.

Game Boy Tetris - 210 minutes MZ-80K Asteroids - 20 minutes PC-9801 Door Door - 50 minutes Dragon Slayer - 25 minutes Lode Runner - 80 minutes Mystery House - 10 minutes I won't be getting any more time before Monday but that's alright, it's because I have to clean some shelf space for more old computer stuff! The PC-9801F arrives Wednesday alongside a PC-9881N disk unit. I didn't need the 8" floppy drives but I really do want them... Door Door was pretty entertaining, Dragon Slayer is just classic, Lode Runner has been my favorite so far, and Mystery House is the same name as the Apple II game not the same game. The MZ-80C will have new power supplies on Tuesday, the old board is fully toasted so it's being tossed for some modern 120V-capable alternatives. I found someone had made an Asteroids port but I can't say I recommend it over any others, I respect what it does for the hardware but man is it choppy to play. And of course the Game Boy got dragged along, more Tetris this time practicing in the heart levels. Not much to say, I haven't set any new records for myself but I am still loving it.

Game Boy Tetris - 148 minutes PC-9801 Lode Runner - 81 minutes The week was pretty busy, I spent a lot of my game time working on getting things cleaned up for a silly idea I had to make it so game consoles aren't scattered everywhere, but I got a little time in to play some games. I bought another SCSI card for my PC-98s, a second Logitec LHA-15U, as the 9801F is going to be coming over soon and I quite enjoy my SCSI2SD. I'm trying to set up a little hard disk image, probably DOS 3.3 as older games seem to like it the most, and of course Lode Runner says "9801F" on the front so it was the first game I put in. I'm honestly not sure what all runs in 8-color digital RGB mode and I know the stock 128K of RAM is probably too little but eh, RAM cards exist and that's really the fun of buying such an old model to me! The Game Boy got carried, again more Tetris, and I didn't play it as much but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good time. I really should buy that Everdrive... My MZ-80C came in, an hour ago as-of typing this message, so if I'm extremely lucky I may get to try a game on real hardware by the end of the month. It needs some love, the power supply has a blown input fuse (I'll be swapping the 100V board for new 120V-capable boards anyways) and there's a lot of dust to remove, but the CRT survived transit which is just awesome. I'll definitely be emulating more random software this week!

Game Boy Tetris - 257 minutes MZ-80K Numbertron - 71 minutes So I've always known that the Sharp MZ line of computers existed, I've just never actually seen one. Browsing itch.io I ended up finding some homebrew title, Numbertron, and around the same time I found an extremely cheap MZ-80C on Yahoo Auctions. Long story short I tiredly committed to shipping 13kg of computer, actually make that 23kg of computer because it's coming over with a PC-9801F, across the Pacific. I was going to buy an Everdrive GB soon here but that can wait until I see how much work the computers are going to need. Speaking of Game Boy I ended up carrying mine with me again. All Tetris, I've been jamming that game in downtime at work, and the darn AAs finally died. I think should get one of those cleanjuice rechargeable batteries you just drop in because they do look cool, it would definitely beat having to go to the store on break to buy more batteries.

Game Boy: Tetris - 219 minutes PC-9801: Binyu Hunter - 62 minutes Cosmic Psycho - 36 minutes Well, after ages of saying I would, I finally put an IPS panel in my damaged DMG. Of course Tetris was the go-to game when fixed, it's a favorite of mine, and that ended up eating a fair amount of free time. I'm pretty sure that thing earned a place in my backpack. Speaking of repairs, again with the PC-98s, I have an As3 with leaky caps in the power supply. One DigiKey order later + one ZenMarket package arriving = some strange games, that's for sure. Binyu Hunter is sci-fi Cabal with dialog, Cosmic Psycho is a mix of VN and action game, and both were full of adult content which I think should just expect by now.

Had to do some repairs on one of my PC-98s, a UV11, so I broke out the only 3.5" disk games I owned and remembered to log my times down! PC-9801 Dragon Quest - 119 minutes Popful Mail - 71 minutes The Return of Ishtar - 82 minutes Dragon Quest is an odd one, apparently some say it's a bootleg MSX conversion? I'm unsure of exactly where it's from but it's cool to see no matter what. It's playable, the YM2203 sound great, and I'm glad I have it. Popful Mail usually hates hard drives and to my surprise it has no issues with my new SCSI2SD setup. It's not the "best" version of the game, I think that goes to the Sega CD, but I really do quite enjoy the PC-98 version. I didn't get very far, just Stage 2, so thankfully my saves to hard drive work now! Ishtar freaked me out for a second. I've yet to see a 15KHz title until this now and thankfully my AccuSync worked after a minute of freaking out. It's strange to see a co-op title of all things but it does work surprisingly well, or I guess as well as one person simulating two players can make it work. I'm afraid my other two titles need more RAM, 640K just wasn't enough, so maybe I'll try to get a 1MB C-bus card...

Three or so years ago I sold my SuperGrafx, well traded it, for a X68030 Compact. Not bad if I say so myself but man have I missed that console. $ouch on YAJP/StoneAgeGamer later and I have another PC Engine! You'd think I'd have realized how easily I can get one of these sooner being that I constantly import old Japanese computers... (I know that there's an updated SSDS3 out which does digital video plus extra but after owning a SuperGrafx I don't mind "missing out" on it. The games were nice but I can play a better version of the only one I cared about on said X68k, this will be going via Composite no matter what, and I could just get a MiSTer for FPGA core shenanigans. Maybe I'll consider upgrading later down the line when I don't have sit in a waitlist.)

It's tough to just pick one game so here's a few: Every Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden game: The reason I even originally wanted a NES. Kirby's Adventure, Gimmick!: I'm a sucker for cute things, they're memorable, and both play great. Deadly Towers, Hydlide 3: I have a soft spot for odd RPGs, both have been tens of hours of fun. Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and Uninvited: I loved the Mac versions, these ports are awesome. I could probably reduce the collection to those titles and be happy. There are tons of other amazing games no doubt but these have been staples in my collection and usually what I return to when I do play the NES/Famicom.

Apple II Sabotage - 156 minutes Just one game. Always loved Sabotage, first non-Sierra game I got shown on the Apple when I was given it by family and the best paddle game I own. It's a bit rough to play at times due to the Monitor /// ghosting like mad and my paddles definitely need cleaning yet it stays being tons of fun. I got my serial card in, a CCS 7710 (I wouldn't put a nice SSC in a II+ because half the software I see taking advantage of the SSC won't run anyways due to not having a 65C02) which the seller had also bundled with a 7720 Parallel card (having RAM instead of ROMs but notably sharing the same driver as the 7710) and a homemade clone of the ALF MC1, which was all of $16 and some change on eBay. Loaded up ADTPro and it turns out whenever I use the generic Serial driver made for the 7710 it just goes to a black screen so I guess that was a bust, the serial does work amazingly for a VT52 emulator to my PDP-8 though and the thread about using the A2 as a VT100 emulator has me interested as maybe I could interface it to the 11/23+, so I just went back to loading stuff over audio for now. Depending on how the day goes I may go grab a new game, I saw the shop has Wolf3D for the Jaguar which I heard was quite good and has some unique bits to it, and I'll definitely be trying to load more random Apple bits. I want to find more games that use these paddles, they're a fair bit fun, but I just don't know many titles that aren't RPGs or text adventures so that'll take some time.

Arcade: Asteroids - 72 minutes Cabal - 14 minutes Missile Command - 91 minutes Pac Man - 7 minutes Soul Edge (Ver. 2) - 46 minutes Tetris - 20 minutes Xybots - 22 minutes Atari 2600: Demon Attack - 20 minutes Midnight Magic - 35 minutes Atari 7800: Xevious - 11 minutes PDP-11: Super Star Trek - 20 minutes VIC-20: Omega Race - 46 minutes Woohoo, variety! Arcade stuff was all fun, mostly test time on everything but I did take some extra time with Asteroids/Missile Command and Soul Edge Ver. 2 is one of my own PCBs. Can't say I did too great at any of 'em, nothing really worth bragging about, but ah heck they're all fun to play. The 7800 came out to do some Atari stuff. Xevious is the only 7800 cart I've found/I dislike the 7800 stick so I haven't had much reason to search for more 7800 games yet, it's mainly my 2600 nowadays, but maybe I'll get one of those adapted NES pads or an Eladdin controller/PCB to build with here someday. PDP got time in mostly playing around with the old DECUS C compiler, it's relatively slow running on the 11/23 with no FPU and I think it was made for something higher-end, but I broke out SST and realized that I can't remember how to play that for jack/I haven't actually played it since I used my old Compucolor before it went on the shelf/I vaguely remember the manual being quite large meaning it's not a priority at the moment. Finally I pulled the VIC out and fired up Omega Race. That Kraft stick I have which looks like a C64 is cool, I love playing stuff with that and it feels so nice, but aw man those VT100/3270/Apple II keyboard have me spoiled and the VIC feels like stale gummy bears which made me . I finally ordered a serial card for my Apple II, about seven years of complaining about not having one later, so that's cool to me. Hope is if I can, in the 64K I have/with a Videx 80col card, emulate a VT52 or VT100 then maybe I could hook it to the PDP? The 'ol b-day shows up soon here too so I'll probably buy myself something fresh to play with, maybe expand the S-100 box out a bit with some new FPGA-based kit or look into a MiSTer.

Ah man, school and work-related stuff (or lack thereof for a while) had me playing about nothing and doing other stuff but I picked up some games recently so back to posting times it is. Apple II Karateka - 22 minutes Jaguar Tempest 2000 - 168 minutes PDP-11 Dungeon - 78 minutes The Apple II is out and up again as I realized I still had the pesky RIFA cap in my PSU and needed to remove that before it went poof and made a foul-smelling mess, what better way to test it afterwards than playing something? Turns out I still sucks at Karateka/playing joystick games with paddles is hard but whatever, it looks fun. T2K has been tons of fun, it was definitely worth the $30 I paid for it anyways, and it's been about all I do with my Jaguar. I look at buying a new game now and then, my collection is just Cybermorph/DOOM/T2K with a single controller on the RF out, but I'm not sure what is or isn't good so I'll need to look into it some more. The PDP has come along a ton further than when I got it, it's still a very basic system (Q/CD backplane, 11/23+ CPU, 128KW of RAM, and a RQDX3 with a RX50 disk drive) but having storage I can easily swap is super cool. I hope to buy a MFM drive emulator soon so I can have megabytes of space but hey, Dungeon doesn't take more than 130K so it fits fine in the 400K a RX50 disk holds. For those who don't know it's just pre-"Zork" Zork, same game with a different name and text at points, and it's always a ton of fun to run through. I looked at maybe getting the 7800 out and playing some arcade-y stuff so who knows, maybe some of that for next week? The front of house at work is coming back tomorrow meaning that I'll have to do arcade things to make sure everything is good before next weekend when the state lets us open that portion, I'll definitely have some times logged off those machines as I can't wait to get to mess with those again even if it's a little bit of extra work to disinfect the control panel so often.

Arcade: Soul Edge Ver. 2 - 15 minutes PC (DOS): DOOM 2 - 96 minutes PDP-11: Tetris - 55 minutes Welp, not a ton but it was fun. Lot of work and helping people move but I did get some time in which is nice - as-of posting I'm waiting on my sticks and buttons for the Soul Edge board which are supposed to arrive sometime today, I've just been shorting buttons on the harness to ground for now to test everything which isn't exactly a good way to play a fighting game, oh well. Doom 2 because why not I guess, I did 1 last week anyways - friends from school and I did a co-op run and it was good fun, kinda nice as I was the only one who had actually even played the game before out of the four of us so it was nice seeing people learn the game. The PDP also shows up again for some Tetris, not much though. I've been struggling to find a terminal that'll emulate a VT52 all too well past one on Windows but I'd like to move to using a RPi as I have one in a case with some RS232 ports right off the side of it thanks to a little 4-porrt board which would make it a nice console of sorts. TU58FS works perfectly (although I did buy a hard/floppy disk drive controller so who knows how long I'll keep needing the TU58 emulator) but I can't get a terminal that wants to do the graphics right and don't have a VT52 or VT100 that supports cyrillic making some stuff impossible to play. It's move-in week on-campus and I volunteered to help since they always seem to be short on staff and then have a game club event on Saturday that I need to bring setups for, plus I agreed to help most of my friends move back to their apartments since I'm the only local out of the group, so no clue if I'll get many more games in but Ion Fury is looking nice and I'm thinking about getting a GDEMU clone for the heck of playing more Dreamcast.

Arcade: Soul Edge Ver. 2 - 75 minutes PC (DOS) Blood - 312 minutes The Ultimate DOOM - 180 minutes Forgot the times for last week out at Replay and I honestly don't remember everything I played so I'm skipping those - this week was a lot less variety but whatever. So yeah, got a new arcade board in which is neat. Found someone selling a Soul Edge v2 for cheap, I always love messing with our v1 at the arcade so this seemed like fun. I still don't have buttons and sticks for it but I mounted the board, power supply, and one of those cheap GBS8200 v4s to a bit of scrap plywood and it's a nice setup, hooks out to any old VGA monitor (my spare IBM 8513 for now) and it's probably heading with me to school the weekend after next to be set up as something at the game club event for incoming freshmen alongside a bunch of other stuff. Past that it was just classic FPS time, I ran through the first two episodes of Blood on Extra Crispy which was frustrating and then messed with old doom for a while as I had no better ideas of stuff to do. Not sure if I'm going to have much for the next week past more of the usual with old 90s shooters and Soul Edge, don't really have much else to do past some work and I'm trying to wind down a bit before school starts up again - if anything I'm probably going to do co-op stuff anyways as some friends are coming up to town early due to on-campus jobs, being RAs, etc.

It's definitely been fun but I decided against Sunday, had friends out yesterday and four more today but nobody else can do tomorrow - just waiting around for the first band as I type. Got a $10 Odyssey 2 and worked down some deals on Studio II carts but it definitely wasn't like last year walking out with Commodores, a 5200, and a Studio II for ~$125. Lots of fun with the games as always, no competition for me, and then two hours back to Erie after the last show - the feet are sore so I'm glad to get some time to sit down.

Aquarius: Tron Deadly Discs - 22 minutes VIC-20: Omega Race - 15 minutes "Maybe I'll beat something" yeah that didn't work out. So after struggling with the school I go to for a few days for screwing up my schedule the second semester in a row and not being able to get back all my courses I had one day of playing games. The Aquarius came out as for some reason I decided I wanted to try programming it again... yeah that's not happening, even playing Tron made my hand cramp up and the keyboard isn't much better. The VIC-20 fared a bit bitter with good 'ol Omega Race but I just didn't hold attention on it for very long, oh well. The PDP did get used for ~450 minutes or so, friends and I wrote a game in straight C forever back and I got my DECUS C compiler going after tons of effort so I'm going to see about porting it back if at all possible - so far so good but who knows how long that will last. ReplayFX is this week and that means woohoo, arcade/pinball machines and probably a new console or handheld is coming home with me - no clue what it will be but I hope it will be fun. Since the PDP is going to be on I'll probably try something else with it but I've run out of RT-11 stuff and I still haven't built my drive adapter board so I can run a floppy and MFM drive, eventually that'll happen I guess.

I'll be driving down from Erie again, third time, but just Friday and maybe also Saturday instead of a four-day pass. Sucks to see the seminars go but it's understandable, I remember last year the ones I went to had not that many people at all show up anyways. I'm excited to just get to play some of the stuff that we don't see up where I'm at and listen to the bands, Bit Brigade is the only one I recognize this time around (never stayed up or was playing games when Flashback was on in the past) so they're the only one I really want to catch but I imagine the others will also be good. I don't know if it'll be like the first time I went but now I have friends going with me, it should be fun getting to play stuff multi-player although I don't know if I'll be able to do stuff like buy a 5200 and drag that around with other people unless I bring a big bag...

Well, nothing more for today because it's finally not hot and I want to do work outside, so... Atari 2600 Kaboom - 250 minutes Atari 5200 Moon Patrol - 45 minutes PC-9801 Dead of the Brain - 560 minutes PDP-11 Tetris - 30 minutes RCA Studio II Squash - 14 minutes X68000 Akumajō Dracula - 200 minutes Cameltry - 55 minutes ...and most of that was just in two days. Running down the list I broke out the 2600 for Kaboom and got really into it, man why do I keep forgetting that it's a fun game? The 5200 was out for a bit of Moon Patrol, I keep forgetting that I don't have space for it on my shelf that hold systems by the PC and need to use it in a different room, so I think I spent more time moving it than I did playing. PC-98 makes an appearance as I found out someone had done a translation for Dead of the Brain - it crashes a bit and I don't think I'd have wrote some of the same text but I mean for a quick and non-machine translation it's actually really nice to see, cool of whoever did it - I'll still stick to just reading the JP text but this was neat. The PDP came out for more Tetris and trying to run a C compiler, yeah C was different back then so that was fun to try and figure out. The Studio II got brought down by the PC from my room and I quickly realized that I'd much rather be playing with a ELF or VIP with some chip-8 games but hey whatever Squash isn't a bad Pong game. Finally the X68000 pops up as I fixed up three - all of them had dead power supplies, one of them in addition had broke drive belts on the floppy drives and another was missing a power switch. Some capacitors, belts, 3D printed parts, and video cables later and I got them all working. Tested them with my two go-to games, got the one out the door just in time for its intended purpose of a birthday present with a SCSI2SD full of games and the other two are waiting around on the shelf now - still no clue what to do with them but my personal 68K collection is now sitting at 11 systems and I only really need one (maybe two just to keep a 68030 in case?) so I'll probably start trying to find some of these a good new home. Hopefully next week will be something interesting but I get the idea it's not going to be, have to go deal with my university messing up and deleting my schedule about a month before classes start for the second semester in a row, going to have to try and get back in the courses that are now full because I lost my spot due to this, and also work exists... maybe I'll beat something for once in a good while? So far Dead of the Brain is just about the only title I've actually completed this summer.