I was born in August, 1990. To be perfectly honest, I don’t remember much of my life before 1995. That’s understandable - not a lot of people do. An infant’s brain can’t handle much in terms of keeping track of ...

On the 28th of September, the southwestern part of Florida was hit by Hurricane Ian. This storm was a massive Category 4 storm (two miles below Category 5 at its peak) that absolutely wrecked the entirety of Southwest Florida. Seriousl...

This isn't completely gaming-related. More gaming-tangential. I figured that the DTOID blog peeps would enjoy reading about a soft drink. I hope you do. On Friday, I had to go to the Emergency Room becaust I couldn't breathe. I was dia...

Hi, Limited Run Games. We need to talk. My name is Titannel. That's not my real name, silly. Either way, I've been a fan of yours for a while, now. I collect games for a number of retro consoles. How many? Too many. It'll be easier to ...

Tetris is amazing. I’m not exactly making a progressive statement by stating that, of course. Tetris is ubiquitous these days. It’s on everything. Seriously. Every single piece of hardware that has the capability to accept ...

It's almost the most wonderful time of the year: We're just 2 months away from Star Wars: The Force Awakens! I am on this hype train like no other hype train before it.But two whole months is a long way away, and the Star Wars: Battlefront ...

When i was a kid, nothing was quite as awesome as the local mall. Everyone remembers the local shopping mall, I'm sure, since in the 1980s and 1990s it was an epicenter of culture that it just isn't today. Back then, if you needed something...

I first saw the Nintendo 64 in-person at a friend’s house at the young age of six. They had managed to get one near the launch, and I was infinitely jealous, like any child would have been. It’s a very annoying feeling. Sudden...

Today, more than any other time, we are closer to the future than we ever have been. That's not really true from a physical sense, of course. We can't go into the future because the goal posts are always moving. Our future will be the ...

The night of May 28th was a bad night to be out in Fort Myers, Florida. There was a fire on the northwest side of town, which ensured that the night air was not only full of fog, but was also full of smoke in addition to the smell of b...

So, last week I had the pleasure of going to Walt Disney World to the first Star Wars Weekend of the year. What is Star Wars Weekend? Essentially, it's Disney's way of celebrating the awesomeness that is Star Wars by having tons of spe...

Konami is dead. Well, it may as well be. Like my other posts about dead companies, here is a brief retrospective on the once-great video game company that was Konami. Konami started making machines for video arcades in Japan in the ea...

Oh, didn't see you there. Hi, I'm Titannel. You might remember me from such blog posts as "The Process: Part One", "5 Songs That Need To Be In Rock Band 4", and "Remembering Bullet Proof Software." I also own a Game Boy Kiosk. Anyway,...

May The 4th Be With You! Today's a fun day. It's the one day where I have an excuse to marathon through everything from my favorite intellectual property. What have I been doing today? Well, I've been playing Star Wars video games, of ...

So, uh, it seems like Destructoid exploded the other day. That's unfortunate. Negativity all around. Kinda awful. I have enough negativity in my life. Between job hunting, a poor diet, a lousy sleep schedule, and a metric ton of writer...

(the video above is not mine: it is from someone else. I didn't get a Greninja. Boo!) So this is pretty much bullshit. I got to Toys R Us pretty early. How early? 8 AM. This was the line that greeted me: Well, this is a bit misleadin...

Remember this post? You do? Liar! Anyway, I've been sick. It's annoying - A whole week of my life, gone! I had to miss out on a job fair on Thursday because I was too congested to speak properly. I've started my days the same way: putt...

I tried to make it a goal to write a blog post every day in April. That didn't work out quite the way I intended, but no matter. Somehow, after I got back on Saturday evening and after hanging out with friends on Sunday, I got sick. I ...

I just got back from Orlando. Not even wasting any time to "relax" or "breathe." I just spent an obscene amount of money on merchandise, food and a multi-day pass to Megacon. What is Megacon? Basically a huge comic book convention tha...

Hey yo. I go to Megacon in Orlando, FL every year. It's kind of a tradition that I've been doing since 2004, and I have no real intention to stop. This year, I'm going to be walking around in one of my awesome Destructoid t-shirts. I'm...

I've said it before: I friggin' love Rock Band. I don't even want to know how much I spent on downloadable content for that game. I know I got a ton of Microsoft Points for free, which paid for about half of my library, but there was s...

My favorite Easter Eggs in video games are ones that are more than just an image or a line of dialogue. I like ones that go beyond a simple shout-out. Anyone can reference pop culture or a meme. Hell, people have established careers ou...

In addition to my video game collecting, I also do a fair bit of toy collecting. I never really "grew out" of buying action figures, mostly because I freaking love them. They're fun as all hell, and their quality has only gotten better...

A shorter post this time. Figured I'd do a quick writeup of a From Software experience that doesn't make me feel horrible, like what I feel when I play Demon's Souls or Bloodborne (never did play Dark Souls 1 or 2).   My dad got m...

You think you've been in the shit, son? I was there when this whole war started. The first wave was alright, only three of those damn Alphas were hard to find. Then supply got scarce. People got screwed. This was the 4th wave of these ...

I kind of fell in love with the amazing HD remake of Super Mario 64's Bob-Omb Battlefield level. That stuff is fantastic, and not only because it shows an iconic level from a landmark game in glorious high-definition graphics for the w...

Wrestlemaniaaaaaa! One thing I friggin' love other than video games or music is pro wrestling. Stay with me, here. This genre of television is essentially Days Of Our Lives with dudes, but the displays of athleticism are so much more ...

GAME COM ACTIVE. Tiger Electronics was more or less the bane of my childhood in terms of consumer electronics. These bastards were responsible for some of the worst games I have ever played. If you can believe it, I played the handhel...

I've written thirty-something blog posts here. Figured now was as good as any time to do an introduction post, since when I started posting at DTOID I kinda-sorta jumped right into the stuffs about the video games. So, here goes: The n...

I love music, man. I love all kinds of that stuff. When I'm rockin' the ear buds on my way to the gym, or when I'm pounding back Heinekens with my buds at TGI Fridays, I always listen to that shit. Rock Band is totally friggin' cool, ...