Year
2013
Do you have a favorite game that is totally obscure? That one game you spent hours playing that leaves your friends scratching their heads when you call out its title? I have to think no matter what the platform is,… Continue Reading →
The year was 1990 and after getting an NES for Christmas of 1989 I decided I wanted to get a Game Boy that Spring. Portable gaming on the level of the Game Boy was still a fairly new concept at… Continue Reading →
I’m not stranger to Atari’s, or its compatibles. As a small boy we had Coleco Geminis, Sears game systems, and actual Atari’s. I remember when I was 5 or 6 we fried one of the Colecos, and one of the… Continue Reading →
So it’s a rainy day here in Chicago and I have been listening to podcasts all day about retro gaming including one about old Commodore 64 games, and I was suddenly transported back to being a kid. You see on… Continue Reading →
The Grand Emperors Classic Post – Originally Published October 19th, 2013 I finished Assassins Creed 3 this weekend after playing it for the past 10 months, off and on. Being a gamer with a life, and having my eldest son being at… Continue Reading →
The Grand Emperors Classic Post – Originally Published October 18th, 2013 Welcome to my Retro-Video Gaming Blog!! In case you can’t tell by the title I’m not a hardcore gamer mostly because I have a life going on; you… Continue Reading →
Ok, I’m back after a frustrating last couple weeks, and I’ve managed to pick up a few more records and even found an interesting piece of audio history. I stopped at my local Goodwill a few weeks back to dodge… Continue Reading →
My son and I headed down to the basement to play some video games while my wife went to visit next door. I wanted that real video gaming atmosphere, and popped open the my Targus 320 CD case, and flipping… Continue Reading →
Where are all the 45’s? I mean I can find LP’s like crazy, but whats up with the 45’s? I get it 45’s are the singles and all the really good songs are on them. Being from the pre-electronic music… Continue Reading →
On the hunt for vinyl records in the bowels of thrift shops, you come across a lot of *ah-hum “Interesting” records. Notice I said interesting, because for all I know you may enjoy Leonard Nimoy’s The Way I Feel, or… Continue Reading →
August 31, 2013 So since I started collecting records I’ve heard nothing other than, “check the resale shops and thrift shops there are records galore there!”. Well that’s true there is a ton of vinyl in the resale shops, but… Continue Reading →
The last thirty years have been an interesting time in recorded music. We’ve jumped from vinyl, to tape, to CD, to MP3/iPod. For music lovers there’s been a bit of a frustration in the constant changing of media forms in… Continue Reading →
August 14, 2013 Well today a text came into me on the way home from work “A package came for you. What’s in it?”. What was in it, was my first record purchase off eBay, and a long lost record… Continue Reading →
Welcome to my blog on amateur vinyl record collecting! I started this blog because I just got into this hobby (sort of) and I didn’t see any other blogs out there like it to help inspire me, and direct me…. Continue Reading →
August 10, 2013 Earlier in the week my eldest son and I ran in and out of a local thrift shop in search of records, and we were in luck. Four stacks about two feet high of vinyl, but hard… Continue Reading →
