Alexandra Hall's saved articles

Nothing super fancy, but in 2015 my best friend bought me a custom Xbox controller. It’s been my favorite controller ever since. I use it with my Xbox and PC. I have shortened my gamertag since then to just “Weirddude25" though

My best gift was, hands down, the NES my parents bought for me when I was a kid. In today’s world, it’s hard to describe just how magical getting one of those felt. I’d printed out this giant banner using a dot matrix printer (so the pages were one long connected thing) and hung it down the wall of the stairs begging… Read more

I got a Cybiko when they came out 20 years ago (mine was neon green, not pink, but otherwise it was this exact model). This thing ruled. It had a fair number of downloadable games that were not entirely terrible, but it also had a pretty OK RF radio so you could message with other people who had Cybikos, allegedly…

27 years later, still in perfect “works on the first try” condition (I wound up giving the other to my brother when we were older)

Worst: U-force Controller, power glove, actionmax system, those 1000 in 1 games on like 20 disks that are mostly shareware, the lawnmower man CD Rom game, a knockoff ps1 save cart that lost my ffvii save. Read more

> Turns out, my mother tucked a copy each of the two new Pokémon versions, Gold and Silver, into each boot. Now that was cool. Read more

The best was receiving not one, but TWO Sega Genesis (Genesii?) on my 7th birthday. I grew up in joint custody, so each of my biological parents unknowingly bought me one on their own, so no matter what house I was staying at a given week, I had a Genesis. Also in the mix is 1990, when I got a Game Boy and that… Read more

I honestly can’t remember what I got as gifts and what was just purchased. I’m basically the only person in my family who understands games so they usually just do a gift card rather than deal with game titles and platforms and junk. Read more

I brought it on myself! One year I asked for Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, which still holds a special place in my heart regardless, after renting it multiple times and not finishing it. Turns out I was 90% done with it from rentals. Having played FF2/4 previously, I figured I was maybe half way, totally expecting a new…

When I was a child, I was about to go to the Mayo clinic for open heart surgery. My dad knew how much I loved video games, so he and all the other fire fighters at the station chipped in and bought me a GameBoy upon release. I was ecstatic and was by far the best gaming gift I ever received. Read more

I’m a bit torn on the best thing I’ve gotten, but the worst was probably a copy of Snood for the GBA. Yes, Snood.
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Hmm, I think I dig the Korean version more than the others. The language seems to fit a bit better with the breathy kind of singing style? Probably just to my ears. Read more

When I think of a hauntingly ethereal song from a Link's Awakening commercial, this is what springs to mind:

This and the original are my favorite video game soundtracks of all time. The tunes are so good!  Read more

When someone mentions Link’s Awakening and Commercial. Someone should mention Rik Mayall.

I played Doom, Half Life and Gears on PC. I also looked at my previously played games on Steam, Origin, Epic AND the PS4, Xbox, Switch and my phone. Read more

This is my list though. I don’t care what other people played! Read more

If this whole thing wasn’t, as you said, a vanity project of a dumb, racist, sexist pile of human shit I’d be incredibly excited...as it stands, it’s just a $15 Billion dollar bad joke...

But we can’t have a measly $600 stimulus cause of “the deficit”...ffs.... Read more

The HDR is absolutely stunning. We need a top 10 HDR games list (2020). HDR has proven to be a must-have and not some gimmick like 3D was. Read more

It’s still around, just freelance: https://www.youtube.com/c/HighlightReel/ Read more