Painted Pixel's personal site and blog https://paintedpixels.xyz/ The art page is up, with more being added soon https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry1 post-1 Fri 12 Dec 2025, 11:00:00 -0500 New blog post: Pokemon Legends Z-A - my thoughts. https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry2 post-2 Tues 16 Dec 2025, 21:30:00 -0500 New blog post is up, about the New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market recap! Check it out on the blog page! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry3 post-3 Mon 29 Dec 2025, 11:00:00 -0500 Happy New Year! I've got a new blog post briefly talking about the latest TMNT show, Tales of the TMNT. Check it out on the blog page! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry4 post-4 Fri 02 Jan 2026, 11:00:00 -0500 New review post on the blog! Europa for PC! Check it out on the blog page! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry5 post-5 Sun 01 Feb 2026, 15:00:00 -0500 Not calling it a review this time, just my impressions. Check it out on the blog! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry6 post-6 Sun 08 Feb 2026, 14:00:00 -0500 Playing catchup on the blog! A quick runthrough of games I was plyaing in February through March! Check it out on the blog! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry7 post-7 Tues 07 April 2026, 10:00:00 -0500 Added a few items to the Art page https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry8 post-8 Thurs 30 April 2026, 13:00:00 -0500 New blog post going over my gaming for April '26! Pokopia, Vampire Crawlers, Super Mario Advance and more! Check it out on the blog page! https://paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entry9 post-9 Sun 10 May 2026, 11:00:00 -0500 If I’ve been keeping up with my new Backloggd account I mentioned last month, and I think that I have, I have not played a large number of games this month. But that’s because most of them are so darn addictive I just haven’t had time to play anything else!!! https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/what-im-playing-april-2026-edition post-10 Mon 11 May 2026, 11:00:00 -0500 Years and years ago, back when the original DS was absolutely huge, the Nintendo World store in New York offered a pretty cool feature where you could pay to have them engrave something on your DS! This is going back quite a ways now, so my memory on the whole thing is a bit fuzzy, but at least when I had it done, the process only took about a half hour. They had a binder of... https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/nintendo-stores-lost-feature-ds-engraving post-11 Mon 13 July 2026, 11:00:00 -0500 New blog post, come read about one of the weirdest choices to make a game from a movie, as I marvel what they heck I was doing with this game as a kid! https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/weirdest-movie-to-game-adaptation-porkys-on-atari-2600 post-12 Wed 28 July 2026, 15:00:00 -0500 Working on my first new game in a while, an homage to Paperboy named Ice Cream Man. Read about it on the blog! https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/working-on-a-new-game-ice-cream-man post-13 Fri 07 August 2026, 12:00:00 -0500 I got a new (well new to me) retro handheld to replace my Pocket Go S30, the Miyoo Mini Plus! Read about it on the blog! https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/my-new-retro-handheld post-14 Tues 18 August 2026, 09:45:00 -0500 It looks like I haven’t been very good with keeping the monthly ‘what I’ve been playing’ post going! I’m really bad at logging what I’m playing. But I guess the long and short of it has been more Pokopia, especially now that the DLC has been released, UFO 50 for Switch, which my wife got me for my birthday (the physical special edition with the guide!), and Super Mariomon, a romhack of Pokemon Emerald. Read more on the blog! https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/super-mariomon-impressions post-15 Sun 30 August 2026, 12:00:00 -0500 If you’ll turn your attention to the upper right corner of the main page, you’ll notice there’s now a music player there! Hooray! So I’m pretty happy with this particular one, both in terms of look and function. It’s from loveberry, which is an amazing site you should check out for fun snippets of things. Check out the blog post for more on the player and the current playlist, and what I might do with it in the future. https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/new-music-player post-16 Sun 06 September 2026, 10:00:00 -0500 This is a short browser based game made by Satchmo1991 that I found through a Mastadon post two weeks ago. It’s a short puzzle game with lovely monster pixel art. In this game, your movements affect every monster on the screen, both yours and the enemy’s. Each monster has a number below them, essentially hit points. If you combine your monsters by having them run into each other, the numbers add together for the newly formed monster. But the same happens when you ram two enemy monsters together... https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/you-should-play-this-monster-mash post-17 Sun 06 September 2026, 15:00:00 -0500 So I feel like things are happening on my website lately. The blog has been more active, I added the music player, and I embedded the guestbook into the main page so you don’t need to navigate away. I’m really liking having my own little space on the web that I can put whatever I want and decorate it however I want. But the blog has never quite sat right with me on this new website. So I’m making another change, though this one won’t be apparent for a while. Read full post on the blog... https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/blog-update post-18 Fri 11 September 2026, 08:30:00 -0500 Anyone that knows me fairly well probably knows I have a passion for physical media, especially when it comes to things like video. I still have all my DVDs and Blu Rays, and while I have a few VHS tapes here and there, I’m sorry to say that I did get rid of most of them a long time ago in an effort to clear up some much needed space (trying to keep things tidy and also wanting to keep physical media sometimes are at odds with each other). (Read more in the blog...) https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/visiting-wall-to-wall-sound-and-video-in-2026 post-19 Wed 16 September 2026, 20:00:00 -0500 quick note: I wrote this blog post before Meta’s Connect 2026 event. I’ll most likely make a short followup regarding that soon! Man, oh man. Sigh. Well, I’ve done two previous versions of this post, talking in 2024 and 2025 about the state of VR as a gamer. So I figured I would continue the now annual tradition. Will this be the last one? Only time will tell! (Read more in the blog...) https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/state-of-vr-2026-edition post-20 Fri 25 September 2026, 20:00:00 -0500 A funny thing happened at the last show that I was a vendor at. First of all, it was the worst of the shows that I’d done so far, attendance was low as it was at a college but during spring break, and it was the first show where I didn’t at least break even. But one person that came to our table noticed the Gritty 3D print I had made, and remarked on it and said that she was one of the people that helped design and create Gritty. My wife and I, being big fans of Gritty, were pretty excited. It turns out this person is a puppeteer and makes puppets and had a table not far from ours. (Read more in the blog...) https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/falling-down-the-puppetry-rabbit-hole post-21 Wed 30 September 2026, 20:00:00 -0500 I can't believe the 30th anniversary of the N64 just happened a couple days ago! That seems crazy to me. It’s especially surreal since, as I’ve mentioned previously, I’m in the middle of moving and reformatting all of my old blog posts over to a different blog, and just this week I’m moved my 5-part N64 week posts, which were celebrating the 10th anniversary of the N64! So now it feels doubly weird, since it’s been 30 years since the N64, and it’s been 20 years since I wrote those darn blog posts! Geez! (Read more in the blog...) https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/n64-memories-on-the-30th-bday post-22 Thurs 01 October 2026, 14:00:00 -0500 Every year I try to do a little bit of gaming specifically tied to the Halloween season. Usually this consists of retro games that fit the theme, and this year is certainly no different, but I’ve been playing or plan to play a handful of newer titles, and some newer indie games as well. So without further adieu, here’s what’s been on my Halloween gaming playlist so far! (Read more in the blog...) https://blog.paintedpixels.xyz/halloween-gaming-2026 post-23 Sunday 11 October 2026, 16:00:00 -0500