What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Axolotl (150 piece, Micropuzzles)

June 7th, 2025

I'm trying to get back to normal after a tricky week, and it's a steeper road to climb than I'd expected. Since there were building-wide apartment inspections earlier in the week, everything superficially looks okay, but I have a potholder by my work desk, bills on the bookshelf, a big stack of dishes in the sink, and a lot of other fun to deal with. I've got two days to get back to normal before doing the whole cycle again, but it feels daunting!

Because of that, I am very much having a "squirrel away time on little craft projects between important stuff" weekend rather than a gaming one, which is fine! I did do some achievement hunting in Meteora's Mystic Merge last night, doing goofy stuff like disconnecting from the internet to force 10 games to sync, or chucking pieces straight out of the playfield. It's a fun way to play, and makes me wish there were achievements on some of the silly little games I have on Switch.

Other than that, I was pressing forward with offline projects. I finished the axolotl puzzle I'd been working on the night before. It came out really cute, I thought, but the pieces felt kind of wobbly, and it was too easy to get mismatched pieces snapped together. It's tiny, though, and it was nice that it took up so little space.

I started a less-than-official 300 piece puzzle I'd gotten from eBay, too, of the cover of the first Bubsy game on Genesis/Mega Drive. I played this on Super Nintendo back in the day, so I feel as if I am betraying my childhood to do the Sega version of the game as a jigsaw puzzle. I'm pretty impressed with this so far, though, and am looking forward to working on it a bit more.

I also worked a bit on a sticker scene, but the round backdrop and my own sleepiness made it tougher than normal for me to comprehend what I was doing. It's cute, but I felt somewhat dumb trying to piece it all together.

June 6th, 2025

Work has been a struggle this week, so I'm planning to enjoy a weekend of little activities and video games. Last night, I didn't get very far with anything. I started a new small jigsaw puzzle I had, from a brand called Micropuzzles, just out of curiosity. I got pretty far, accidentally launched it across the room when I got surprised by a text alert, and then got pretty far again. It's only 150 pieces, though, tiny as they are, so I should finish tonight.

I played some more 2048 on my Atari, too. I am getting into the swing of this version of the game, and got up to 512 in a couple of rounds last night. I don't think I'll see a 2048 tile for a while, but that's okay! I'm enjoying this.