NeonPeon

Since I now have a working Vectrex again (YES!!), last night I revisited my original Youtube streaming style that I started doing in March 2020. It is called "Saturday Night Vectrex in the Dark." Like the title suggests, I play Vectrex games...in the dark!

I had so much fun and the stream was heavily watched by my small channel's standards! I will definitely do this again. I'm thinking of doing it the first Saturday of every month. Love that unique and crazy machine.

A glimpse at my Youtube stats shows how much more popular this stream was compared to my other videos/streams, in terms of hours watched! I've been over the moon today after the stream's success. Which is good because otherwise I'd be "blah" because I have to go back to work after two weeks off. ?

My sist--errr I mean Santa Claus got me a neat Neo Geo-related gift today for Christmas: it's the Magician Lord Original Soundtrack on vinyl by Wayô Records. Magician Lord features one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time, and I've been bitten by the vinyl-collecting bug recently, so that works out nicely. Thanks Santa. ?

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Youtube sent me my 2021 stats for my small gaming Youtube channel, Mark W and Rob Bob Present. Most of my content consists of livestreams: I play emulated retro games on Mondays at about 9:00pm - that stream is called "Monday MAME," and a random PC gaming stream (new and old games) typically played with my son known as Rob Bob, called "Saturday Night Gaming" also at around 9:00pm. Other than that I have some videos of random kinds of gaming, even non-video games such as Tunnels & Trolls gamebooks. I also have uploaded two videos of the game show I was on in 1991, Video Power.

I look at the "Thank you for your 502 likes, 233 comments" stats and think, probably about 50 of each of those numbers are from our very own @Charlie Cat ! I always get comments from him a day or two after my livestreams, as he watches the archives, and he always leaves such a nice comment that makes me feel good about what I'm doing here! So huge thanks to Anthony and anyone else here who might watch and interact. For me it's all about just that - the fun and interaction. I have no delusions about making it big and I don't ever plan to monetize with ads. (BTW, sometimes Youtube throws in ads anyway and only they make money from them!)

Ah well, at any rate here are some of the neat stats!

I introduced my almost-three-year-old daughter to Intellivision yesterday and today. She had seen me play before, but hadn't tried playing herself until now. Her favorite seems to be World Championship Baseball so far, as she loves cackling with glee whenever the batter makes contact with the ball. She yells "BAM!" every time, imitating me the first time I got a hit. ? She can't utilize the controller too well yet but she's trying. I feel like I'm passing down the awesome to another generation. ? My son (13) likes playing with me as well, especially Utopia.