What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Warioware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (Nintendo Switch Online)

May 20th, 2023

Last night, I got out of work on time and could go home, as the parking garage I was in only got partially barricaded for an event. Instead of playing games much, though, I ate baked goods and freezer food while watching Buster Keaton movies with family, which was a very nice way to end a fairly relentless week.

I did play WarioWare Inc., Mega Microgame$ for about five minutes just to wind down before going to sleep and did better than I expected. I might give the stage I'm on another try today.

Today, I feel so worn down that I had a small panic over misplacing my breakfast donut, so I don't know how much I'll be able to do or accomplish. I'll see, though!

April 9th, 2023

Tonight, I'm back from a trip to Chicago, and have just done so much background and tidying work on the site that I missed during the week that I'm starting this post a bit tired. It was a fun weekend, though, and I'm glad I got some background stuff squared away, too.

Yesterday afternoon, I relaxed and played Switch for a while, hoping to avoid anything too intense. I started with an Arcade Archives game I'd picked up out of curiosity a while ago, Touki Denshou Angel Eyes. It's a mid-90s Tecmo fighter, and I was curious to see how their stuff played in 2D. I had fun playing it for a bit, even if it felt a bit unfair, but it looked very strange! Some of the characters were rendered 3D sprites, and others were traditionally drawn, so despite feeling smooth, it looked somewhat slapdash. I had fun, though, and I'll try it again! I'm motivated to defeat the super cheap final boss, since I was making progress against her.

After getting a little tired of that, I played Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ until my Switch battery got too low. I'm still not very good at it, and it's still fun.

I haven't been sleeping super well for quite a while, so I'm probably going to sleep rather than playing many games tonight. I feel pretty cheerful, though, so that's not so bad.

March 7th, 2023

Today's post will be somewhat short because I willfully stayed in bed longer than I should have before an office day at work. My main game yesterday was Disney Tsum Tsum, but after my first round of playing it for the night, I felt irritated and bored, like I couldn't stand to play it anymore. It's not permanent, but that's how mobile games are sometimes.

Because of that, I played Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Microgame$ before bed instead. I hit the Jimmy T. remix level, failed a few times, and went to sleep.

February 22nd, 2023

My computer was updating this morning, and then I felt way burnt out after clocking out from work, so today's post is super late! Yesterday, though, for a work event, I got to go bowling! The bowling alley had all of the "cosmic bowling" stuff on, which was really cool in the middle of the afternoon. Certainly, bowling is not a sport I am any good at, but I had a nice time anyway.

Once I got home, I decided to go back out and see the new Ant Man movie, which was fun, so I didn't play many video games. I did do my first pass at the next set of games in Warioware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$, for Dribble. I thought the taxi themed frame story was very cute, and liked the music in this level, too, but the minigames were a bit boring, compared to the last two sets.

February 18th, 2023

I'm so glad it's Saturday, and the start of a three-day weekend to boot! It's nice to not have the weight of work immediately hanging over my head. Plus, the weather seems decent enough to go outside today, after some snow a couple days back, so I'm hoping to take advantage with a walk over to Starbucks this afternoon.

Yesterday was a really nasty work day, so once I got clocked out, I ordered a pizza and played Idiot Maiden, a game that I'd downloaded on a whim from itch.io. If you'd like to play it, too, here's the link!

Idiot Maiden was a cute, pleasant, sacrifice and summoning themed RPG Maker game, focused on puzzles rather than combat, and I really enjoyed the hour or so I spent with it! The puzzles themselves were decently easy, but not in a condescending way, and I liked the pixel art quite a bit. It was really nice, especially for a free download.

Before bed, I played Warioware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ for a little bit and got kind of frustrated that I can't unlock the last of 9-Volt's games. I might move forward and come back to it, more for my own sanity than because I think it's an undoable goal.

February 13th, 2023

I lost track of time yesterday cooking and watching Succession, so I feel like the day got away from me. It was Sunday, so that's basically okay.

Despite that, I got started playing Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu on my Shonen Jump Famicom Mini, which is possibly not the most reasonable choice of RPG to make while Persona 5 Royal sits on my game shelf. I really want to play through a game in Japanese, though, and am inexplicably vibing with Saint Seiya lately, so I sat down with dictionary in hand to give it a shot. Then, I promptly got wrecked in the tutorial battle. I think I know what I did wrong, which is more an issue of "playing a bad game with no instruction book" than it is "lack of language proficiency," so, even though it lets me move forward after losing, I may still go back in to see if I can make any sort of dent in Marin's tutorial battle. Maybe it's unwinnable, but it'll let me try something before risking a game over out of bafflement.

I played Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ for a little bit, too, trying to get all of 9-Volt's games unlocked in my grid. Ater 40 minutes, only one question mark still taunts me. It's both a mark of good progress and indelibly frustrating.

February 12th, 2023

Yesterday didn't end up being so bad, and today is okay, too. I already made it to the grocery store, and am excited to have gathered the ingredients to make Japanese curry for dinner. Since I don't watch sports, I have a nice, calm, and empty day ahead, too. Next week is going to be a bit hardcore, so I'm grateful for the chance to chill. I don't know what I'll do, but that's okay.

I didn't really play many games at all yesterday. I wanted to start a relatively modern RPG, but had a bad, nervous feeling about picking one and ended up bailing on that altogether. I did play some more WarioWare, though, finally seeing all of Jimmy T's games and doing first clears for Mona and 9-Volt's sets of games. I really hate the "hit the nail" boss battle at the end of Mona's games, mostly because I suck at it, so a lot of my fairly limited game time last night was spent just trying to get through that.

February 11th, 2023

I'm glad it's the weekend, but it was hard to sit down and blog today. I did some crafts already, and went over to a store closeout sale where they marked up the prices of all the items before putting them on clearance. It's not the most above the board tactic, but it seemed to be working for them.

Last night, I played some of Warioware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! on the GBA app they added to the Nintendo Switch Online service. It was really fun! I'd played the Game Cube version before, back when it was new, but this one is new to me. My goal is to unlock all the games on these grids that it shows you on the menu, and I gave up last night with one question mark remaining on the Jimmy T grid, with all the sports games. It was kind of frustrating to go to sleep with such a tiny amount left to get, but ultimately, I did need to sleep. I'll keep going today!