What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Bubsy Sega Genesis Cover (300 Piece, Searchlight Comics)

June 13th, 2025

Tonight, I am so tired it is almost painful, but I didn't do too much gaming last night. I did finish my Bubsy puzzle last night, which was nice! I have some other Sega Genesis game cover puzzles from the same seller, but my next less-than-1000-piece puzzle is a manga one from Etsy. I started that today, so I'll have a photo of it tomorrow.

In terms of actual games, I was only playing super casual stuff yesterday. I didn't want to actually go for a walk, so I played some Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. It was fine!

Before bed, I plugged away at Baking Time, too, which was also fine. I was working on levelling up the pets that auto-generate numbers because it doesn't really matter what I do in this. It made me sleepy, and that was enough.

June 11th, 2025

I'm running late tonight because I did an oddly timed grocery run after waiting around to avoid a storm that never happened. This will be a quick post! I tried a Survivors-like I had stashed called Carrot Survivors because one of my friends saw the words "carrot quest" at work. It just felt like I was fated to give this game a try after that. It's really fun, and silly! You can make a pixel version of the Initial D car run over eggplants, and I like that in a game.

I did a few runs through the forest in Dragon Cliff, too, but was extremely sleepy and didn't finish any quests. Even though this is an auto-battler, it takes enough grinding that it's not exactly fast.

I worked a bit on my Bubsy puzzle, too! I'm hoping to finish this over the weekend and get back to the Jujutsu Kaisen puzzle.

June 9th, 2025

I am trying to get back on track today, but didn't really make many efforts in that direction yesterday. I played a couple rounds of Vampire Survivors, which did help me relax a bit.

I worked on my Bubsy puzzle after getting back from the movies, too, which was okay.

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.