What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Sword of Fargoal (C64 Mini)

May 15th, 2023

This morning I had to go into work early for training, and had been so worried about sleeping the night before that I was barely able to sleep at all. I then got stuck in overtime at the literal last minute of my shift, forcing me into an 11-hour shift on no sleep. I am now so sleepy that I feel somewhat dizzy and disoriented, not to mention that I bought Little Caesars pizza on purpose! There's some game stuff I really want to write about, though, so I'm going to do my best here!

I did another couple runs in Sword of Fargoal yesterday, highlighting what's either an oddity of the game or the C64 Mini. Every time I reset the game, it "randomizes" the same way, so that my first go of a dungeon in a session will always have a character with 12 HP, 8 battle strength, and 1 healing potion. I should investigate if it keeps the second run the same each time, too, but for the fun of actually playing it, I ended up making a save state after losing my first run, to keep it rolling new characters to try.

I just genuinely struggled to open a Hi-Chew, so I'll keep tonight's writing about the other game I played, Tron Evolution: Battle Grids brief. I like Tron and the Wii motion controls in this don't feel too bad yet. I'll be more in depth about this after I get some sleep.

Good night, Neocities friends! Rest is important, and I hope you are all getting plenty of it.

May 13th, 2023

Tomorrow, I'm probably going to do a pretty big post, since I'm trying to clear a Community Day event in Pikmin Bloom and think I have a shot at making the 10,000 step goal. I'm at 3,500 steps at 2:00pm, so I think I'm on an okay track.

Last night, though, I got it in my head that I needed to play something old, and ended up getting out my C64 Mini and playing Sword of Fargoal. This wasn't a game that I'd played before, and it seems to be a pretty basic, slow-paced roguelike. The random stats for the player character were already interesting after just a few rounds, though. I rolled 3HP for one run, which was atrocious, but I could also one hit kill most of the enemies I came across, until I was painfully slaughtered by goblins. In my attempts last night, I couldn't make it past the first floor, but it's a C64 RPG, so it's hard to be upset that it's pretty difficult. I want to play at least one more run today. Maybe I'll even get a non-terrible screenshot this time!