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This is the VCF East convention experience! At least as it was for me across here in April 2025. Shoutout to those of you I talked to and hung out with there, it was a great show!
And here is a travel vlog in the same style as those I've done for other VCFs, which I post over on LGR Blerbs. So join me going from North Carolina to New Jersey, getting settled in Neptune, enjoying beachs...
2025-04-15 15:34:40 +0000 UTC
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Greetings! Sorry I didn’t get this posted here till now. It was scheduled to go live right as I was flying out for VCF East, and while I thought it was scheduled here as well, I was mistaken.
Anyway here’s something different! Not only a modern gaming build, which I haven’t done in ages, but also one with a sponsor. One that presented themselves at just the right time and integr...
2025-04-06 12:04:53 +0000 UTC
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Edutainment games on LGR? In 2025?! Yep!
It's been a busy couple of weeks here to say the least. Mostly due to enjoyable things happening IRL, but also because making videos is predictably unpredictable! All kinds of things ended up delaying the next LGR video, with two of them I was working on currently unable to be completed. One of them because old hardware is old and...
2025-03-18 23:55:31 +0000 UTC
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The next LGR Wrap Up for 2025 is now up for viewing! Including some more updates on the house rebuild and some footage of the progress. Let's get into all that, plus going over the month's videos and all your questions!
Feel free to leave your questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. And thank you as always for your ongoing support.
2025-03-14 02:57:58 +0000 UTC
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Sorry that I couldn't post this episode of LGR early like usual! This is a new product (still technically unreleased publicly) so the press embargo I was under prevented any coverage until today.
That said, I really hope y'all enjoy this look at the Minisforum AI X1 Pro. Because I really enjoyed making the video! Sometimes new stuff is a fun change of pace from all the endless items f...
2025-03-06 20:03:01 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, all!
I've had a number of folks asking if I'll be able to attend any conventions this year, what with the post-hurricane home repairs and all the nonsense that came with that.
The answer is yes! Although not as many as I'd like.
At the moment I'm confirmed to attend three shows:
VCF East: April 4-5 in Wall, New Jersey
Southeast Game Exchange: July 19 in Greenville, South Carolina
VCF Mid...
2025-02-23 18:00:23 +0000 UTC
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While I can't say I played with Tamagotchis or any of the other electronic keychain pets back in the day, I've come to appreciate virtual pets in the years since. And I very clearly remember the hype and how ubiquitous Tamagotchi toys were for a time. So when I came across this PC CD-ROM version, my curiosity got the better of me! And it sent me down a whole rabbit hole of these things...
2025-02-21 21:07:55 +0000 UTC
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Got a classic LGR computer retrospective here! And this time it's something that is a tad bizarre to cover, seeing as it was genuinely my most current computer when I started the show in 2009...
Yep we're taking a look at the HP Mini 1000, one of the more popular netbooks from the wildly short-lived era of the netbook! If you could even call it an era, that is. In hindsight, it w...
2025-02-14 01:27:03 +0000 UTC
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The first LGR Wrap Up for 2025 is now available! This time with quite the welcome update on the house and some footage of the progress. Let's get into all that, plus the videos from the month and your questions!
Feel free to leave your questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you for your ongoing support, it is deeply appreciate...
2025-02-07 23:55:15 +0000 UTC
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The rumors were true! EA actually went and re-released the first two Sims games for Windows PCs to mark the 25th birthday of the series. And they even fixed them up to work on modern PCs!
Kinda! Sorta! Almost! Ehh, an attempt was made. A valiant one, I'd say, as these games have always been held together with toothpicks and duct tape and getting them to run on anything beyond an ...
2025-02-03 18:33:01 +0000 UTC
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Trust me, you do remember at least one of the screensavers covered here.
This is an episode I've thought of doing for years, and my current situation kind of pushed me towards finally making it happen! To PC users of a certain ilk, the Marine Aquarium screensavers are perhaps most well known by the cut-down releases distributed with certain packs and v...
2025-01-22 22:23:26 +0000 UTC
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Got another CC episode here!
Lemme know your thoughts! After the Christmas Computer Chronicles episode of LGR, a whole buncha folks asked for more along those lines. So here's more! This time we're looking at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show of 1993. Since CES 2025 just happened this was ...
2025-01-13 21:30:52 +0000 UTC
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The final LGR Wrap Up for 2024 is now up for viewing! Annoyingly not a huge amount to update y'all on but I appreciate that I still have the opportunity to do so. Let's get into the videos from the month as well as your questions!
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you deeply for your ongoing support...
2025-01-11 15:02:35 +0000 UTC
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Happy 2025!
And the first LGR video this year is a review of two nifty little retro Windows 98 computers from Pixel x86: the DX and the Mini. Very much inspired by projects like the WeeCee I've covered before, these two systems make use of Vortex86 SoCs and aim to provide an authentic late 90...
2025-01-04 17:06:53 +0000 UTC
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I'm calling it, folks! For a multitude of reasons which I go into at the end of the video, this is the final "donations unboxing" thing on LGR.
I will still do individual vids on special items that trickle in through the mail over on LGR Blerbs, but these long mailbag videos are done for the foreseeable future on LGR. Hopefully the reasons I provide in the video make sense!
2024-12-20 00:20:11 +0000 UTC
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The November 2024 LGR Wrap Up episode is now up for yooooouuuu! Still in the temporary rental location that I'll be in for the next however many months. So let's dive into the few videos from the past month as well as your questions!
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you deeply for your ongoing supp...
2024-12-12 19:01:56 +0000 UTC
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Got a bit of a different LGR thing here for this Christmas season!
It's a laid-back, cozy time with the wonderful Computer Chronicles TV show. Watching and commenting on the 1985 Christmas buyer’s guide episode, looking up archives and trivia along the way, and generally just enjoying the comfy vintage vibes. (And eggnog.)
I hope you enjoy, and do lemme know your...
2024-12-08 21:39:10 +0000 UTC
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Greetings! I have been trying to get some LGR videos made for December, but ideas have mostly been elusive and so far nothing's come together quite yet. It's made especially tricky since 99% of the collection is in storage and I don't have my usual setup going anymore while the house is being fixed up... Though I do have two in the pipeline finally, so we'll see what happens there.
In the meantime, I put together some videos for LGR Blerbs to get the creative juices flowing and induce t...
2024-12-04 22:42:58 +0000 UTC
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This is part 2 of the unboxing/cleaning/assessing water damaged and moldy items affected by the hurricane. And it's focused on what's left! The weird mouse collection, random pieces of odd hardware and vintage goodies, as well as my modern gaming and A/V items that were affected upstairs.
I'll also be testing a number of the devices out to see if they still work, so if you'd like...
2024-11-22 20:09:02 +0000 UTC
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The October 2024 Wrap Up episode is now up for LGR supporters, now in the new temporary rental location that I'll be in for the next... amount of time. So let's dive into the videos from the past month as well as your questions!
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you so much for your ongoing...
2024-11-21 16:58:29 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Added some footage about the console's launch day, a bit about the manual not matching the system, a bit about Swap Magic 3, and trimmed many small things here and there to make it all flow a little tighter.
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Greetings! It's been over two months since the last real LGR video (the Voodoo 3 3500 TV episode) and I'm finally back with some...
2024-11-17 22:22:31 +0000 UTC
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We're really breaking the mold with this episode! Because the past 6 weeks around here have been utterly ridiculous. Hurricanes, man.
So yeah, this is something completely different while I continue to get back on my feet after the storm! Since I was already going through my damaged retro computer items anyway, I took the opportunity to set up my camera and record the pr...
2024-11-07 21:06:55 +0000 UTC
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The September 2024 LGR Wrap Up episode is now up for viewing, after finally get a little downtime to record and edit this in between all the, uh... *flails arms gesturing towards hurricane damage*
So let's dive into the videos from the past month as well as your questions!
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post.
2024-10-20 20:08:40 +0000 UTC
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Greetings all, this will likely go public in a day or two but I wanted to post it here while it’s processing. Thankfully it’s overall a good report!
Some shelves of vintage items sure got soaked and nasty, the arcade machines got pretty gross, and I lost a bunch of modern stuff it looks like. But overall I am extremely fortunate in how much survived fully intact. I’d say 95% of ...
2024-10-15 20:09:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks.
Unfortunately LGR will be postponed for a good while I feel.
More details to follow but the hurricane has done *incredible* damage to my place, I won’t be able to live there for a bit. Many folks I know have it much worse than I do too so please keep Asheville in your thoughts.
I am safe, my family and friends are safe.
More details at some point but I mean… with no exaggeration this is worse than imagined it could’ve gotten :/
2024-09-27 13:30:44 +0000 UTC
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Bit of a different one here! A quickly-made rant/ramble video about the state of The Sims 4 and the recent news that The Sims 5 is not in active development.
No early access for the one, as it was just a bit of filler to go up while I continue working on the next main LGR videos.
Back sometime soonish with whichever one is done first. Thank you as always for your support!
2024-09-23 20:57:14 +0000 UTC
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The August 2024 LGR Wrap Up video is now available for viewing, so let's dive into the videos (all 2 of them, lulz) from the past month as well as your submitted questions.
Feel free to leave any questions for next month's video in the comment section below this post. Thank you so much for your ongoing support, I wouldn't be able to keep LGR going as it is without i...
2024-09-17 17:02:43 +0000 UTC
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Got one here I've been meaning to do ever since posting this unboxing some years back! Taking a look at the Voodoo 3 3500 TV, the top of 3dfx's Voodoo3 line of GPUs back in 1999. It's largely an exploration of its media playback/capture capabilities and the software it came with, but of course ends...
2024-09-10 23:56:11 +0000 UTC
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Finally done with each of the videos from my time at LI Retro in August!
This one is in addition to my travel vlog on LGR Blerbs. It's an overview of the show itself, what it's like attending and exhibiting, and of course a tour of everything they had on display there this year. Being he...
2024-09-04 00:28:39 +0000 UTC
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So this is a bit different! Normally I don't post my vlogs/Blerbs videos on here, but this time there's an extended cut available. Perhaps not one to watch with the youngins as it includes content not found in the public YouTube edit – including all of our profanity and crass jokes, as well as a *bit* of adult content that verges on being 18+ due to the, uh... location we stayed at in New...
2024-08-30 17:09:53 +0000 UTC
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