What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

December 2025

December 12th, 2025

I'm making a lot of Christmas ornaments the past few days, which is fun, but a little difficult to blog about. I might show some of them off here soon. For tonight, though, I'm doing a normal post.

Last night I got really into Titans Pinball, a cheap pinball game I picked up for XBox. It's from the same developer as Dragon Pinball, and certainly looks to me like it uses the same engine, too. I like this table so much better, though! I kept playing again and again for an hour or so, despite some suspiciously searing eye pain towards the end of the session.

I played through Where Christmas Elves, which was an extremely cute and charming stuff-finding game. I've really liked this series of these games, especially the cuteness level of the art, so I put this one off a bit so I'd still have it left. There's still one more of these to go, though!

I also went back and played some Air Twister, which was fun. The controller rumble is really off putting in this, though. The rumble for my own shots make it feel like I'm taking damage. I like it as a strange Space Harrier sort of game, so I'll just turn that off and keep playing.

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December 11th, 2025

Yesterday wasn't a big day for video games, but I did have Clicker Heroes running for a while as I did some other stuff. This has a really nice sense of forward momentum for an idle game.

I did a few puzzles in Picross S: SNK Classics and Neo Geo before bed, too, which helped me get to sleep a little faster. I'm still kind of tired today, but feeling much better overall.

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December 10th, 2025

I don't want to post today, but I played a lot yesterday. My only finish was Candy Box Clicker, a brief, but very cute idle game I found on itch.io. I liked this, and it was nice to play before bed.

My other gaming yesterday was on XBox. I tried Guwange, a Cave shooter, and really enjoyed it. I got absolutely destroyed, but it was run one in a new bullet hell! I didn't stand a chance, and that's ok.

I did an arcade playthrough in Girl Fight because it would be nice to finish off such an odd little game. It's tacky, but I don't hate playing it.

I played a few rounds in Dragon Pinball, too. It was frustrating!

Clicker Heroes got to run on my TV for a long time, too, and that was fine.

I'm super sleepy tonight, but I'll do my best to do a better post tomorrow!

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December 9th, 2025

I was playing around with XBox achievements yesterday, which was kind of fun! I mostly sat out the PS3/360 console generation where achievements started, so this still has some novelty for me. I downloaded and played Clicker Heroes through the day, which seems like a pretty decent idle game so far. I'm just making numbers go up, but it's been relaxing and low maintenance so far.

I tried Battle Puzzle 2048- Space Girls, too, which is a 2048 game that doesn't run well. There's always a Live2D girl refusing to stand still on the side of the screen, which I think is dragging down performance, and generic dance pop with bizarre lyrics about space bounty hunting and robot girls is constantly playing. The base game is fine, but the presentation is overwhelming and confusing.

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December 8th, 2025

I wanted to do an image heavy post today, but I'm having massive problems getting images off of my phone. I'm just going to write it anyway and hope I can get myself the screenshots later. They're an important part of the whole thing! (Edit: I got it fixed!)

Anyway, yesterday, I had a nice time playing with one of my Game Boy shaped Famicom-on-a-chip systems. I got one off Amazon, with a 666-in-1 rom, and it actually has decent enough buttons to enjoy the games! Because of that, I am playing through some of the "original" games scrambled in with the bootlegs. I started with Mad XMas, which is about Santa chucking candy, presents, and deadly bombs at an elf. This is the same game as Angel, a game where an angel throws stuff at a mummy that I played a couple weeks ago, but it doesn't pause. It only took seven minutes to finish, though, and it was mindless and painless.

I played Small Dinosaur, too, which was also the same game as Mad XMas and Angel. This was not a coincidence- I learned this would be the case from the Bootleg Games Wiki. I really like the sprites in this one, though! It's bright and cheery, but since it's the exact same game as the others, it's another seven minute long bit of nonsense.

I tried one called Magic Egg, too, which seemed to be a little reaction test about smashing angry creatures and sending cheery ones up a mysterious tube. Both seemed like bad options from here, but I wanted to grind this out and see how long it was. Unfortunately, the more I played, the more often it crashed, so I had to set it aside for the day.

Finally, I tried one called Bug Catcher, which was easy to the point of tedium until it very suddenly became impossible in level 19. It was another "catch stuff" game where you have to make a weird little guy eat bugs that match his color. Despite my snark, I curled up in a ball and played this for an hour straight. It was an ok smooth brain experience for a Sunday afternoon.

Before bed, I played a few puzzles in Picross S: SNK Classics & Neo Geo, too. Time Attack mode in this is like Mario Picross on a much stricter timeline, so it is the least relaxing Picross I have ever played. It's still pretty neat.

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December 7th, 2025

Yesterday was somewhat busy, so I didn't work on any model kits. I didn't play games until it got late, either. Since I was excited to go see Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution tonight, I downloaded Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash onto my Switch 2 to see if it ran any better on the newer machine. It actually did, which was nice! It's still not an amazing game, but I had a nice time running one of the arcade ladders and might spend more time with this now.

I played a few puzzles in Picross S: SNK Classics & Neo Geo, too.

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December 6th, 2025

Today will be a quick post, but I finished the Sega Saturn model after posting here last night! It came out so cute, and with so many nice little details! The tiny save backup battery is my favorite. I'm glad I finally built this!

I also started another kit, which looks rather troubling so far.

Before bed, I tried a game called Cozy Organizer, which is totally okay and relaxing so far! It's bright and cute, and feels more like a toy than a game. Putting things on shelves will be a decent sleepy game activity.

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December 5th, 2025

I'm getting back to building some model kits today! One of my co-workers got in my head about the importance of panel lining to being a real Gunpla builder, but with my hand tremor, I couldn't get the lines straight, even at my most careful. It made me feel inadequate and fake, and sucked all the fun out of it. I followed another webmaster on here, though, Plamo Freaks, and they did a post about tackling a kit they were afraid to approach. The photos they posted of it looked amazing, and even though I even do plain, out of the box builds, it reminded me how much fun it can be to see a kit come together!

Today, I started back up with a kit of a Sega Saturn, thinking it might be easier than a mech. I messed up some of the stickers already, even though I'm only three steps in, but that's ok! It's really neat to see everything pop together, and I'm excited to finish it.

My gaming last night was somewhat less interesting than this, at least to me. I did a couple of runs in Unfair Flips, getting the same bad end both times.

I made up for that with a really excellent run, at least by my standards, in Meteora's Mystic Merge. I almost got two of the largest possible piece merged, but didn't quite make it! I'm sure I can someday, though.

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December 4th, 2025

I said in last night's post that I needed to clear some games to get icons off of my Legion Go's desktop, which I was serious about. I started that quest with a run of Unfair Flips, getting the last bad ending I needed for a full achievements run. I'd say that this game is my nemesis, but it's nice to chill out and flip the coin while I'm watching TV.

After that, I tried Out of Sight, a diorama style hidden object game. I thought this would be short, since it's free to play, but it's got 20 levels! The mouse controls were a little funky for me, but this is nice so far.

I also played and finished Hidden Cats: Snow, and found all 100 cats in five minutes. Aside from it being very easy, I was also tired enough to find the meows upon finding a cat weirdly unsettling.

I finished the night grinding levels a bit in Ani Idle, but this was not a good going-to-sleep game. It's pretty laid back, so I can't put my finger on why I felt that way, but it just didn't succeed at that for me. That doesn't mean I'll quit, but it does maybe relegate this game to daylight.

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December 3rd, 2025

Today, I bought a bundle of cozy games, but alas! My Lenovo Legion Go's screen is full of game icons, and I need to finish some of them before I download the games I got today.

Holiday Survivors is probably not going to be one of the games I clear in this quest, and that's fine! It's a weird, dirt cheap little Christmas themed Survivors-like, but it doesn't seem to have any permanent character upgrades. It felt a bit slow to me, but I got better at it as I played last night. I do think I will play through it all. This genre is relaxing, and I'm ok grinding through anything that's even competent within it. I just don't really feel inclined to rush through it because of seasonality.

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December 2nd, 2025

Last night, I played a bunch of online matches in Pokemon Puzzle League and Panel de Pon, but since it was just 2-player matches and I'm also super sleepy, I don't have a ton to say about that. I forgot to take screenshots, too.

I played Picross S: SNK Classics & NeoGeo later, finding joy within the color puzzles. I love this game.

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December 1st, 2025

I'm super sleepy, so this will be a bit of a short post. Yesterday, since I knew it would pop up for the first post of December, I tried XMas Shooting--Scramble!!, a Christmas themed bullet hell shooter. I didn't beat the first level yesterday, but I feel like I can. It's weird and festive, and the first level boss is an anime girl who came at my anime girl Santa with a cleaver. Video games are neat.

I also did a 30x30 puzzle in Picross S: SNK Classics & NeoGeo, and it was great. I wish more of my Picross games had really big puzzles in them.

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