If you ask me, there simply is no one pils that fits all situations (except for my hometown Herrenhäuser of course). Pilseners usually have at least some remaining ties to the region they're from and reflect those places in some way, so let that be your guide. Flensburger is a great choice for rainy days while…

I grabbed the PC version of Little King's Story when the big patch arrived, but played Abzu and Ryse first to test my new-ish graphics card (it's a hand-me-down, but still three generations newer than what I had before).

Ooh, I've got one: Can you charge it with a power bank? Thanks.

But in the meantime you got really good at punching in that Lemonade Stand code listing!

I mean, maybe they're weird on paper, but Rekorderlig is wonderful and I've never heard anyone say anything else about it. Strawberry & lime is one of my favorites as well.

At least they opted for the upright instead of the cockpit version?

Hmm, I got the C64 when it was a bit older ('89ish), so maybe that's why I don't remember it like this https://youtu.be/t7ZA4gNtqnk but more like this https://youtu.be/ZekAbt2o6Ms and my impression at that time was that the older folks who were into SSI and MicroProse and such already preferred IBM-PCs.

I remember that! (Now that you mention it.)
I love that even though Gameological is no more, you guys still get to do your thing here every now and then.

That explains it, then. Also, thanks for reminding me I need to see Computer Chess some day.

Is that Atari Pitfall an early demonstration of the "consoles are for kids, computers are for adults" mentality? Because the C64 cartridge looked like this instead: https://s-media-cache-ak0.p… Not that the C64 was considered a serious computer for serious people, exactly…

Definitely, but there is some specificity to it. I mean, it's far from the teenage future/techno chic of Epyx but it also didn't go for artsy like Electronic Arts would. Other companies would sometimes tap into that style, but typically not as consistently as Atari. For companies like Mastertronic it was probably more…

Later on, the cover for Buggy Boy was just a photo of the arcade cabinet. I guess at this point video games were an established enough concept.

That's so common, it's almost a seperate category. Movies with Jackie Chan in a minor role do this all the time.

It's been a while since I had cognac and mostly go for Spanish and Portuguese brandy these days. For me, Cardenal Mendoza Solera Gran Reserva mops the floor with just about any spirit in its price range. I had some Adega Velha at a restaurant recently which I like even better, but I'm not sure which one it was—going…

My roommate, who thinks video games are categorically stupid, saw me playing this. She just sat down and watched in awe for twenty minutes or so, saying how sweet it looks and how cool the music is and asked me to show her more of its characters (she loved the termites on the tree planet) and then we mixed some tunes.

Exactly, they would. The thing is that German publications simply copy the "bokeh" spelling from presumably American sources most of the time, and since an "h" following a vowel typically represents a long and stressed vowel in German, readers will often get it wrong.

I didn't know that existed. What I do know is that the German dubbed version has a completely different intro - a slapstick supercut set to Walk of Life. Yes.

That is such a great, uhm, genre to love.

The mystery is non-English speakers just blindly borrowing those transliterations. Dear German writers, it's "boke", not "bokeh". You're just confusing people and making them pronounce it kinda like "bouquet".

Weird, I can find Andechser at damn near every place that isn't a discount store in Hamburg. I like it a lot, too, but my favorite is Simon, which so far I've only been able to find at one fairly low-rent Thai place in Hanover. I don't know if I'm blinded by its rarity but I remember it being incredibly aromatic.