What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

3D3D (PS4)

February 14th, 2025

Last night, I made blogging complicated for myself by starting Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. I'm interested in game history, so I'd been wanting to play one of these Digital Eclipse interactive documentaries for a while. So far, I feel like it does a nice job of putting the included games in context, and it's so cool to see how video games as a format can pull together multimedia in a cohesive, easy to follow way!

I only got to three of the games in the package last night, since I wanted to spend some time with them. I cleared a run in 3D3D, a disorienting but cool Sinclair ZX81 maze game. (This is the first game for the platform I'd ever played.) It took me a bit of time to get my bearings, since I'm not great with spatial awareness and adding vertical directions messed me up, but it was very satisfying when I finally did. This was simple, but cool

I maybe liked the included ZX81 version of Centipede a bit less, but that's because I used to play ridiculous amounts of more normal versions of Centipede as a kid. To be fair to this, it's pretty good for being based on a screenshot, and I could stick with it long enough to satisfy myself by clearing a wave. Past that, though, I didn't want to mess with it much more, and that's fine.

My last game for the night was Deflex V, a VIC 20 bouncing ball puzzle game. I actually really enjoyed this one, but went to bed before clearing a run. It was decently challenging with fair-feeling logic behind everything, it was somewhat relaxing, and it flashed and yelled weird things at me. I'm looking forward to coming back to this one soon!

That was all my gaming for last night, but tonight, I've been dealing with Friday exhaustion by putting together a little sticker set craft where you furnish an isometric room. I got a set of these just to try them and am starting off with a magical pony fashion shop, due to my mature and sophisticated tastes. I've already done more than is in this photo, since my focus is shot tonight, so I'll update this again tomorrow.