Here is a collection of things I liked and bookmarked during September 2026. (The date beside the link is the date I bookmarked the link, not the publication date of the original post or article. This page is an h-feed) Bobby Hiltz liked: Webmention Receipt Fixed? (29 September 2026) Bobby Hiltz liked: Wonders of...

Has this ever happened to you? You check your private messages and emails and have one that says: Your site doesn’t show up on Bing! “Hmmm… that can’t be true”, you think to yourself, but when you check… It is, in fact, true. You’ve been de-Bing’d! Oh, the shame… Well, folks, don’t dispair. I’ve been where you are....

When it comes to video games, if there is one era that I missed out on (besides the one before my birth) it is the 32-bit era. Much about that period I could only glean from magazines, which I read rather frequently. My brother had a friend that came over once with a PlayStation and played Grand Turismo and a little...

Fresh off of credit feeding my way through a batch of Toaplan hits, I’m back with another explosive and ridiculously low-priced shmup for your collection. Super XYX is a love letter to Toaplan that you can easily sink a few hours into. This game reminded me of so many things, though, not just Toaplan. It’s almost as...

Played on Nintendo Switch Reviews TL;DR Slap Fight (1986) Truxton (1988) Hellfire (1989) Twin Hawk (1989) Zero Wing (1989) Vimana (1991) Truxton II (1992) Grind Stormer (1993) Conclusion Links & References It took me some time to get around to writing this. Volume 1 of this collection is one of the best purchases...

Played on Nintendo Switch Apidya‘ Special is a weird game with a weird history. Inspired by other weird shoot-‘em-ups of the time, notably Gradius and R-Type, Kaiko, a German software developer, created Apidya. Released on 20 April 1992 (that’s 4/20!), the game weirdly featured Japanese text on the main menu, and...

At the end of May I made a list of 12 games and decided that I should complete at least 5 of them. Here is what happened… 5/12 completed! The minimum requirements of the challenge were met. To be honest, I’m content with having completed the challenges, but I could have given myself something harder to do. 1CC for...

For less than the price of a coffee I acquired a digital copy of a remake of a game from 1982. On the surface, it is just another Unity game with a nice colour palette and some geometric shapes. Once you get into, though, it is an addictive experience. Yars: Recharged, from the Recharged series of releases was my...

In the early days of high school, I knew what I wanted to do as a job. I had a hobby, though, and figured that it could be developed into a type of thing I would do on the side. You see, like most 15-year-olds, my taste in music was so much better than yours or anyone else’s, that I regarded my opinion on the matter...

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Another internet challenge! Joel is doing this (see Summer Game Challenge 2026) and tried to rope me into it too. As a rather casual gamer, I too have a handful of games that need completing. I didn’t bother looking at the official rules, but based on my work schedule I will give myself a deadline of before my first...

Scratch, scratch, scratch… Dig, dig, dig… Breathe in…and blow the lid off… Sometimes, it is right under your nose. You can practically smell it. The top note is soft and sweet, maybe refreshing. It draws you in, lingers for a moment, and fades away revealing something more complex: its heart. By now your emotions...