Hey, guys!
Welcome back to another pickups video!
So, in the last 60 days I managed some interesting stuff for my game room:
games,
books,
hardware,
you name it!
So, come along with me and enjoy the ride!
Let's take a look!
So, let's start with a few shoutouts, like
this amazing dust cover for my Amiga 600, that was a gift from Riggz
from Retro Protect.
Riggz makes dust covers for all sorts of consoles and computers, so, if you're interested,
just email him and he will get back to you with solutions for your own projects.
Thank you very much, Rigzz!
I absolutely love my dust cover!
Thank you so much!
Secondly, Andy Remic was kind enough - hugely kind - to send me a review copy of his latest film
"Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict".
It's a really well-made documentary about the amazing days of the ZX Spectrum that,
if you're a fan and if you grew up with the machine, it's a must have and must see!
If you haven't already seen my review,
click on the annotation and I'll also leave a link below in the description of this video
for everyone that is interested in grabbing a copy of this amazing documentary.
Please do!
In third, I have to thank Vitor, from the channel "Uncle Vitor",
for sending my way the physical release of DiRT Rally for PC.
He knows that I own the digital version of the game and that this one was the only one from
the series that I didn't have the physical release.
He kept the steam key for himself and kindly offered me the box and its contents!
Again, thank you so much, Vitor!
You rule!
Truly appreciate it!
And last, but not least, my friend from the channel "Kappa-Games", approached me
and ask if I owned the physical release of the very first Call of Duty!
Yeah! The very first Call of Duty!
I have all games that followed, but didn't owned that particular one.
So, here it is!
And still sealed!
Amazing stuff!
But, that wasn't all!
Along with Call of Duty came another older PC game: Soulbringer.
Kind'a obscure stuff to me...
Do you recall playing it back in around 2000?
It's from Infogrames.
This game, this Soulbringer game
that didn't get the attention it deserved back in 2000:
It was developed by Gremlin Graphics, a studio that was acquired by Infogrames
a year prior.
Kappa, thank you so much for your gesture!
Truly appreciated it!
The links for "Uncle Vitor" and "Kappa-Games" will be in the description below.
Check them out!
Jumping right into the PS4, You know that I've purchased through PlayAsia
Cursed Castilla, this cursed item
that it was held in customs here in Portugal for around three months and that I had to
pay an extra fee of 22 Euros.
So, instead of 30 Euros for the game, including shipping, I paid 52.
Check my dedicated video about that sort of curse that Cursed Castilla
brought into my life!
Besides that, this physical and exclusive PS4 release is freakin' amazing!
And, for all you guys out there that love Ghosts & Goblins and Ghouls & Ghosts, this
is a must have!
Highly addictive!
And, as they say,
"for the glory of the arcade times".
I've also picked up for the PS4 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, that was an obvious pickup for me,
and... that also brought a digital copy of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.
As I said, this was an obvious acquisition for me, 'cause, as you know, I absolutely love this style,
this genre!
Adventure, exploration and…
driving off-road!
This was one of the most enjoyable things to do in Uncharted 4, so I'm glad that
the driving around plays a major part in Lost Legacy!
The game is beautifully crafted and seems that Lara Croft has, now, a new and strong
contender!
Now, a title that I simply had to grab day one was BAJA: Edge of Control HD, for the PlayStation 4!
That was released in the 14th of September.
I pre-ordered it back in March and I'm having a blast with it!
It's nothing more than a facelift of the 2008 original for Xbox 360 and PS3, which
shows a significant step up in graphical richness, a renewed user interface and a new split screen
multiplayer mode up to 4 players simultaneously.
Not many titles have this feature nowadays.
I can only recommend it to everyone that enjoyed the Xbox 360 original and to PS3 owners that
always wanted to play Baja with smooth framerates.
I have all those versions, as you know
and I'm truly loving this new HD version / remaster
HD...
the other ones were HD! What the hell, man?
Baja: Edge of Control HD!
The original versions from 2008 were HD!
This was supposed to be Baja: Edge of Control Remaster not HD, ok?
Now, also for the PS4 and also a racing game / driving game
is WRC 7! What an amazing game this is!
And I just had to grab it day one!
The closer we got to its launch, more and more positive previews were popping out all
over the place.
And I must say that Kylotonn Games completely nailed it!
Graphically it's a beauty and extremely playable on the PS4, and I don't think that
the courses are that narrow.
It just feels right, you know?
Adds an extra boost in the realistic side of things!
And I love it for that!
And have I mentioned the Epic Stages?
No?
Well, prepare for a huge challenge, then!
On action packed stages, with 18 and over 20 kilometers long!
And flying through the Portuguese landscape is simply overwhelming!
Highly recommended and the best from the WRC franchise, no doubt!
Sorry, DiRT 4!
You're history!
Now, what we have here for the 360?
For instance, Alan Wake! This amazing Limited Collector's Edition!
So freakin' amazing! Check this out, man!
You're obviously familiar with this version!
Amazing stuff!
I already have American Nightmare on the PC, that came bundled with a magazine a few years
back, but never had the chance to grab the original.
So, instead of the normal release, I was lucky enough to get the Collector's Edition
of this game!
This beautiful Edition includes a few perks, like the soundtrack
in CD, a book titled "The Alan Wake Files", and also features a developer commentary,
besides other digital content for Xbox 360, like Avatar clothes and themes.
This game was on my wish list for far too long and I finally have it!
Awesome!
Another game that was on my wish list for, since it was announced was Max Payne 3.
Finally I have it in my hands!
I still haven't played it, but I know that my Brazilian brothers criticized
the São Paulo depiction within the game.
Rockstar painted it like Rio and that led to some unfavorable reactions from the Brazilian
specialized press and reviewers.
Rockstar even hired Portuguese actors, not Brazilian actors, to voice its characters!
Rockstar, please do your homework, first!
People will notice the fake accent!
Even so, I'm glad to finally have this one in my collection and I want to play it soon!
Now, let's jump right into a franchise that I'm absolutely loving, 'cause I've been
playing it, slowly playing it.
So, I'm completely immersed in Assassin's Creed III, 'cause I've been playing it
with Stereoscopic 3D support.
But, this time around, I managed to grab another title from this amazing series:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
Yeah, pirates are kind of fashionable these days, so it was the perfect time to pickup
Black Flag that seems to have inspired a couple games that are going to be released soon.
This one was launched back in 2013 and was criticized, by a couple of reviewers, that it was more
of a pirate game than an Assassin's Creed game, because of its high focus in the golden
era of Pirates.
Played just a bit of the beginning of this game and I was totally blown away by its fast
pacing that places us right in the middle of the action in just a few minutes!
Amazing stuff!
Can't wait to continue playing it!
Have still to finish the third chapter, though.
Also, I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the beginning
of the marvelous Arkham series!
This franchise had been kind of left aside, 'cause I wanted to start playing it with
this first entry in the series.
But, even so, I played, and loved, Arkham City and is simply one of my favorites on
the console, mainly 'cause Batman is also my favorite DC character!
I've heard so many great things about this first game, that ended up winning several
awards when it came out, around 2009.
I have, now, all 4 games of the main series, so I can now immerse myself into the dark
alleys of Gotham.
During this period, I also had the chance to get my hands on the very first…
not first, but...
On Dark Souls!
I know that there's Demon's Souls, exclusively for the PS3, prior to this one.
But that game is really hard to find at a good and acceptable price.
In the meanwhile, I'm trying to grab all the others from the series, including Bloodborne.
Miyazaki, the series creator, said that FromSoftware is moving forward to create new things
and not continue on making Souls and Bloodborne games.
I kind'a foresee a future without a Dark Souls 4.
As for Bloodborne, I guess that a second one will probably be announced soon.
What do you think?
Please share your thoughts below!
Travelling back to the 6th generation of consoles, and to the PS2 in particular,
I was able to grab:
Taito Legends! I love this type of compilations!
And this one was released back in 2005 and was also available for Xbox and PC.
It features a bunch of awesome Taito classics from the arcades, such as Space Invaders 1 and 2,
Elevator Action, Bubble Bobble, Operation Wolf and Thunderbolt, Rastan, Rainbow Islands
and The New Zealand Story, Continental Circus.
the amazing Plotting, one of my favorite arcades games, etc, etc, and etc!
A must have for all fans of the good old days of the arcades and these compilations are
always welcome in my collection.
Now, for the original Xbox, I was intrigued by Tetris Worlds
that I simply had to bring home!
And, you know what, I became totally addicted!
And it plays like a dream on the 360!
It's an early title on the Xbox's library, released in 2002 alongside the GameCube.
The PS2 version was released first and, prior to that one, Windows PCs and the Game Boy
Advance also had their own version of Tetris Worlds.
It features both a story and arcade modes, and this Xbox version, being the last to come
out, along with the one for the GameCube, has the "easy spin" feature disabled,
a feature that was highly criticized on all the other versions of the game that allowed
rotation of the pieces even after they had touched the bottom of the screen.
That's not Tetris, if you ask me!
So, if you're interested on getting also Tetris Worlds, grab the Xbox version or the
one for the GameCube.
Now, moving on to Hardware, you know that recently had the chance to get a Sinclair
ZX Spectrum 128K +3, in the box and in mint condition.
Well, sort of!
The disk drive wasn't reading the disks, 'cause the 29 years old belt melted completely.
It's a normal thing to happen.
And, as you also know, ordered a new belt and brought the Speccy back to life!
It can now happily read the also 29 years old 3-inch disks!
So happy that it turned out ok!
I'm now thinking on getting a DivIDE thing.
What do you think?
I'm curious to know what you guys have to say about that...
Now, and to improve my PC setting to be able to continue to bring more awesome stuff
for you guys to watch,
I've purchased a new monitor:
an HP monitor,
this beast, this 27 inch monitor from HP,
model... model....
27es, yeah!
27es that you can see in action back there, the one... that one
is the 27 inch,
and this one, from this side,
is my old 22
21,5... 22 inch, 22 inch
HP also.
It's ultra-slick, really slim, LED IPS monitor with one VGA and two HDMI inputs.
So, I didn't want to spend money on a 144Hz screen, yes, it's a 60Hz panel.
I'm not a professional PC gamer and my specs are just average.
Nowadays I use my PC essentially to capture and to put the show together, so as for this HP,
I'm really impressed by the image quality and, again, to work with Adobe Premiere, Photoshop
and Corel Draw is freakin' amazing!
So crisp and clear!
I'm loving it!
Even so, played a couple of games on it they look awesome as well!
It's not 4K also, only Full HD 1080p, and I went to HP 'cause it's a brand that
I trust and they work flawlessly and super quick when things go wrong under warranty.
As said, my old 22-inch monitor is also an HP and is now next to the new one to support me when I'm producing
my videos.
So, expect more awesome stuff in the future from It's a Pixel THING!
Talking about HP, a friend gave me this old PC...
that I'm... it's really heavy stuff!
Yeah, that
most of you will recognize this design
yeah, this was really popular back
back in the XP, Windows XP days!
with all these ports and, yeah!
All this stuff!
This is a drive bay, for an HD.. an HDD, Hard Disk Drive.
A DVD-ROM, another DVD-ROM
and a card reader!
Awesome!
Awesome stuff!
I'm loosing...
I'm loosing screws!
Not me! The computer!
So, he gave me this old PC that will bring memories for many of you, 'cause it was a model, or a
sort of template, for practically every single HP back in the Windows XP glory days!
So, I will restore this particular model exclusively for XP Gaming.
I already have a DOS machine that will play games from the 80s 'til mid-90s, and another
that plays late 90s 'til early 2000s.
This one will play stuff 'til around 2007/2008, and probably beyond that.
Have yet to figure out what components I have to get to make it as fast as possible for
an XP machine.
Guess I'm gonna check Phil, from PhilsComputerLab!
He's such a cool dude with so many awesome ideas and a complete encyclopedia when it
comes to building computers from scratch!
By the way, check his channel!
He's one of my favorites in all of YouTube!
For last, some random stuff, like:
"The Story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels", by Chris Wilkins and Roger M. Kean!
Yeah, Chris Wilkins is such an amazing dude!
And Roger Kean was the one behind Crash Magazine!
So, I've backed through Kickstarter project back in 2016.
Arrived a couple weeks back, and is so awesomely well written, as usual!
You can't go wrong with Chris Wilkins!
He always delivers amazing stuff for all of us, children of the 70s and 80s!
Superb quality in all respects, the writing, paper, the printing quality, the perks…
Talking about perks, and besides the book in PDF format also, it came with this
Amiga pin and pen, and an audio CD with 10 iconic tunes composed by David Whittaker
for a handful of Amiga games, now reimagined by the awesome Allister Brimble.
Gorgeous stuff to listen!
This whole package is highly recommended to all Amiga fans!
Talking about books and, why not, magazines
I also managed to grab the number 65
of PushStart magazine, the Portuguese retrogaming magazine,
and this one features an article, written by myself, about Ocean Software.
Besides that article, there's a lot other even more impressive articles to read, like
the one about the ill-fated CDTV, and another from the history of the amazing Commodore 64.
The link to order this issue will be in the description below.
Another shoutout that I simply have to send is to Miguel Freitas that developed a Kodi
add-on dedicated to It's a Pixel THING.
This is highly useful for viewers that only uses Kodi through a TV set for all sorts of
media content, and the YouTube add-on can be really painful to navigate.
With this exclusive add-on, you'll be taken directly to all my videos and playlists.
Thanks for your work and dedication, Miguel!
Truly appreciate it!
Also, and along with the release of DiRT 4 back in June,
this Crash Kings compilation came bundled with the game!
It was sent later due to lack of stock, but now I have it!
I was always a fan of this sort of compilations and I have a bunch in my collection,
in my DVD collection!
And finally, to conclude, I've created, in
a sort of secrecy, a second channel exclusively to store all the raw gameplay footage that
I capture for my main show.
I was starting to have huge storage problems, 'cause I simply didn't want to get rid
of the tons of hours that I capture while gaming for the videos that I create for Pixel
THING's main channel.
So, instead of spending over a hundred euros on a 3 or 4 terabyte hard disk, I decided
to create "Pixel THING Plays!", not only to upload that raw no commentary footage,
but also do occasional live streams in Portuguese and other different stuff that don't belong
in the main channel.
If you want to follow Pixel THING Plays, feel free to subscribe.
The link to the channel will also be in the description below!
Guys, that's it!
Thank you so much for sticking around 'til the end!
My latest episode about "Barbarian the Ultimate Warrior" brought a ton of new subscribers
to the channel, so, to all of you that are now starting to follow It's a Pixel THING,
please browse the channel, 'cause, there's a ton of history videos
just like the Barbarian one!
While you're at it, click on that bell icon so that you're notified when a new video
is uploaded!
And I highly recommend that you start by watching
my Lucasfilm/LucasArts 1 hour and 22 minutes documentary!
Or, why not, my 1 hour-long retrospective on the first 20 years of E3!
Either way, thank you so much for watching and…
I'll see you all in the next episode!
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