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In several of my articles I have mentioned that I purchase a lot of games while I’m out thrifting, so it always looks as if I am way behind on reviewing a game. As it is I have a few hundred games I have yet to sit down, play, and review. I look at it as a fun way to look back at what I, or someone else, has missed. As it is I have found a fantastic family-friendly game I picked up for just a…

In 2004 Milton Bradley released a re-theme of their very popular family game of The Game of Life (I loved this game as a kid) as the Spongebob Squarepants edition. This would have been at the very height of Spongebob’s popularity, about five years after the series premiered. The Spongebob Squarepants edition of the Game of Life plays a little differently from the original version. It comes with…

A long, long time ago when I was a small child, I enjoyed watching and also reading Garfield by Jim Davis. I thoroughly enjoyed the specials that were shown every Halloween and Christmas. I can remember all things Garfield from little PVC figures to the wild story about Garfield telephones (I wrote an article on these phones in 2023). There is one thing I do not remember, and it is the Garfield…

It has been 23 years since the original version of Hey! That’s My Fish! was created by designer Alvydas Jakeliunas. Alvydes would use the internet to contact Gunter Cornett at Bambus Spieleverlag where in 2003 Bambus would go on to publish Hey! That’s My Fish!. The original title for the game was Pingvinas, which is Lithuanian for Penguin. From that point on Hey! That’s My Fish! would sell out…

The other day I was sorting through some countdown articles on games to get an idea of the next arcade game I wanted to do a playthrough of. That is when I came across a list of five arcade games that quickly vanished from arcades in the 1990’s. After reading the article I was in agreement with the author on the games. Now as a disclaimer from the late 1980’s to the mid 1990’s I could often be…

First off, I would like to wish everyone a, very happy holidays. Now that Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday has come and gone, and Cyber Monday has ended which all means that Christmas is just around the corner. That means that it is time to finish up that Christmas shopping and of course grabbing those, last minute stocking stuffers. As a disclaimer I will tell you that the items I will be…

It is that time of year once again and it’s time to get down with some Black Friday deals. It has been five years since I last posted a Black Friday article and I felt it was time to jump right back onto the old keyboard and do a little deal talkin’. Target Let’s start off with Target. It is one of the largest retailers in the nation next to Walmart. This Black Friday they will have Spin Master…

A few weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast announced timeline for the 2026 season of Magic: The Gathering. Within that timeline there was a “to be announced” placeholder for their next Universe Beyond set. At the recent NYCC (New York Comic Con) Wizards of the Coast finally released what that new Universe Beyond set would be. That new set will be based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wizards of…

At this year’s MagicCon Atlanta Wizards of the Coast announced the next timeline for their Magic: The Gathering line. The new timeline lays out the next seven sets for the 2026 season. Some of the sets are definitely going to be quite interesting. Wizards of the Coast The new 2026 season kicks-off with the release of Lorwyn: Eclipsed on January 23rd. For a long time, fans have been clamoring…

I found an interesting and unusual game demo that was recently posted to Steam. Let me introduce you to ‘Shoe It All!” from Amberbite Games. In the demo the player takes the roll of a kid swinging on a swing. The challenge is to directly hit the obstacles that stand before the swinging kid. As you can tell from the demo that after each obstacle is taken care of the player will receive apple…

It’s another great Demo Day article. This one is a combination of two of my favorite things: cats and baseball. I have raised cats all of my life and I have enjoyed collecting baseball memorabilia, watching, and even playing baseball through the same period. Let me introduce you to Cats Baseball from Imagineer Co. Ltd. Cats Baseball is a story driven baseball game of sorts where a young cat…

I picked a really interesting new demo that dropped this morning on Steam. Let me introduce you to DryGin Studios’ Extinction Day. This simulator allows the player to act as a virtual grim reaper to destroy the citizens of Earth. I completed the first two prologues of the demo. This demo has allowed me to get a good feel of how this game will run. Once I dove headfirst into the game and it was…

I found another awesome demo to download and try on Steam. Let me introduce you to Gladiato Potato from C2alt Game Studio. The demo dropped on July 9, 2025 (I had planned on playing it but for some reason it disappeared from Steam) and the full game dropped on July 10th, 2025. The title says it all. The player is a potato fighting in an arena gladiator style against other spuds. When the player…

I think I may have to explain myself on how I review these demo games. These are not solicited to me from anybody. I wake up in the morning log into my Steam account and see what new demo games or free-to-play games have been uploaded. Back in the day I played a lot of RTS games. The first one I ever played was called The Nations and then I followed that up with games like Command and…

I moved into my current residence about two years ago. It’s a nice, gated community where I live on a fairly quiet dead-end street. Now I live in Florida, for the past ten years, and have learned a lot about gardening and landscaping here on the sun coast. I have discovered that most yards within so many miles of the coast are filled with sand. We accumulate sand from storms and from the Saharan…

I’m a huge anime fan and I have watched several of the Umamusume series. When I saw that Cygames had released a game based on the serious I had to -play it just to see what they did with it. A little rundown about Cygames. They have a bunch of anime themed games on Steam and on the Google Play and iOS. The games that they produce have amazing animation and graphics and awesome stories that draw…

I found another great demo. Let me introduce you to Strange Hunting Grounds from GaniTani. It is a really fun game that is reminiscent of the game Vampire Survivor. When I saw this listed, I knew I was going to have to download the demo to girl it a whirl. I love the isekai story of the girl, Cynthia, who is sent to a dark world based on Inferno is Dante’s Divine Comedy (great book!). In the…