lost & found vintage toys: how & why

Categories

ghost gamelinks..

ghost's top eleven rpg's:
#1 ~ down the rabbit hole... "here's a riddle.. when is a croquet mallet like a billy club? ..i'll tell you... whenever you want it to be..." cheshire cat to alice (american mcgee's alice: the original) this game is my favorite above all others...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you thank you mr mcgee for alice madness returns!!! (with the original i still rate these the best!)
#2 is primal, especially the wraith world where i felt right at home.. what a relief to play a strong female for a change, and with scree the gargoyle at my side... loved this game and want more!!!
#3 is fable/fable:lost chapters/fable 2.. get lost in this incredible world and determine your own fate... good or evil.. or somewhere in between... fable 3 is out!!!
#4 city of lost children.. based on the french movie of the same name.. you are miette, an orphan, use your thieving and sneaking skills to free the childrens' souls from the evil inventor who is stealing their dreams...
tied at #4 the kingdom hearts games (2).. disney meets final fantasy! play in disney worlds alongside jack skellington in halloweentown, jack sparrow in the caribbean or alice at the mad tea party..
#5 is van helsing.. if you liked the movie, play this gothic masterpiece and face werewolves, the frankenstein monster, mr hyde and count dracula himself...
#6 are all of the lord of the rings games, which are all worth mastering, including the hobbit game.. (watch out for the spiders!)
& the old classic snes lord of the rings.. (another good old favorite.. i spent forever lost in the barrow downs...)
#7 are all the ultima games.. my favorites were 'quest of the avatar' and 'the false prophet'.. but if you like the classics try out 'black gate' and 'exodus' and the other oldies..
#8 is the original nes game shadowgate.. the one that turned me into an rpg junkie in the first place all those years ago.. hunched over my controller in the dark in my camper in the middle of the night.. still a classic...
#9 is final fantasy, but i'm an old time gamer, so i mean the original final fantasy games on nes/snes like 1, 2, 3 + mystic quest.. still the best even without the graphics of the newer games...
#10 is lemony snickett's series of unfortunate events.. ok, so this game is not terribly hard..
(i was able to complete it even while fairly intoxicated..) it is still creative and fun if you enjoyed the movie, which i did...
i needed a #11 on my list for all the honorable mentions.. unforgettable games like wizardry, king arthur's world, tombs & treasures, deja vu, faxanadu, the immortal, breath of fire and the dragon warrior games.. also baldur's gate, the ren & stimpy games that wrecked my nerves, zombies ate my neighbors, fester's quest, maniac mansion!!! ...gasp... too many to remember... aargghh! all those years spent in the dark deep in some labyrinth scribbling cryptic notes and maps.. is that what is was that made me mad? or did they save me from madness...? the world may never know.. (p.s. i never made it without biting..)
!X! a bonus: i absolutely approve of the gamecube's eternal darkness: sanity's requiem.. lovecraftian & hallucinogenic.. i dare you!
the post-apocalyptic fallout games, F3, new vegas & F4 coming soon!
dante's inferno ~ go to hell!
gothic victorian lovecraftian bloodshed :D bloodborne!
i highly approve of the other from software games besides bloodborne, demon's souls & dark souls 1, 2 & 3.. not for the faint of heart, gotta get good for these!

other cool sites ~

September 2024

blog hits

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

how & why

library sale

10/07/2017

so what are you doing for #bookshopday? ~

i'm shopping for books at the fall friends of the multnomah county library book sale ~

what better way to spend a rainy day? ~

i always find good vintage kid's books here ~

but i also check psychology, supernatural & oregon books ~

as well as the collector's corner ~

golden books, children's treasury, alice, beatrix potter ~

coloring books, how & why, even comic books ~

it's still going through monday if you're in pdx ~

i never miss it ~

bren

Posted at 01:06 PM in alice, books, cats, comics, disney, how & why, little golden books, little red riding hood, scholastic, space & robots, tolkien, wizard of oz | Permalink | Comments (2)

09/11/2021

how & why ~ birds

back to oldschool ~

from my vintage how & why library ~

the world of birds ~

birding is fun ~

familiar friends ~

we have a wonderful variety of birds here ~

my kitties use to love to birdwatch from their high window nests ~

robins & sparrows ~

birds of woodland & forest ~

owls ~

visit our backyard bird album here ~

more how & why books to come ~

bren

Posted at 09:12 AM in birds, books, cats, how & why, old school | Permalink | Comments (2)

03/27/2020

flashback friday favorite ~ how & why: the moon

i really love vintage how & why books by wonder books ~

this one about the moon is one of my favorites ~

from 1967 during the apollo space project (& on toxic's 4th birthday she got to watch as man first walked on the moon!) ~

toxic had the one how & why book about insects & most school classrooms at the time had several, if not a virtual library of them..
(now i have a whole library of them myself) ~

there are how & why books on every subject you can think of ~

but i like the ones about science & nature most ~

every child of the 60's will remember these books ~

back cover ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from spring of 2013 ~

ghost & toxic

Posted at 09:10 AM in books, how & why, old school, science | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/23/2019

how & why ~ stars

another vintage how & why book today ~

from 1971 ~

all about stars ~

astronomy & astrology ~

the sun & the planets ~

earth & the moon & eclipses ~

i actually posted another version of this book here at the lost & found once before ~

this one has an alternate cover ~

you can click on how & why in the category list in the sidebar for more like this anytime ~

& check back here in september for another book month ~

bren

Posted at 09:05 AM in books, how & why, old school, space & robots | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/21/2019

how & why ~ the human body

i haven't posted a vintage how & why book in a while ~

here's the human body ~

from 1961 ~

i've always enjoyed vintage anatomy & physiology ~

& of course, skeletons ~

& brains ~

i even still have our mom's old 50s biology notebook full of her drawings & notes ~

i have a small library of how & why books that i've collected over the years ~

including one of toxic's original editions ~

if you like this you should check out some of my art albums in the ghost gallery: (sound up & be sure to use firefox or google chrome browsers, phones steal the music!)