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2025

The Other Games of 2024

This was my first full year back playing games in a big way. Games have always been something I go in and out of. After taking a break of several years from serious gaming, during which I bought a Switch and played a grand total of two games on it, something flipped a switch (pun not intended) for me in September of 2023, and for the first time since I was in elementary school, video games became my main hobby again. I had something like a gamer’s mid-life crisis, where I realized that if I didn’t start playing through them...

January 8, 2025

2024

About the Dream

I’m trying to play every video game. The idea came to me when I was flipping through some old issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly, God rest its soul. Growing up, I loved video games, which makes me really unique, I know. There were a lot of other things I loved—Pokemon, football, airplanes—but video games fascinated me most of all. Part of the reason was their sheer unavailability. I was luckier than most kids in that my parents (atheists the both of them) saw no problem with video games, so I could play as much as I liked, but financially we...

October 23, 2024