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Community Post: The Embarrassing Joys of Lost Kingdoms II

Image from Flickr User: Migue Alcaino
Image from Flickr User: Migue Alcaino

Thanks to an idea from Chip of “Games I Made My Girlfriend Play”, the admins and contributors of UWG will be posting a series of community posts over the next span of days on the topic of our “guilty pleasure” games in celebration of April Fool’s Day. And it looks as if the Duck gets the honor of starting things off. And on April Fool’s Day, of all days! Score!

Well, we all have some games we’re rather embarrassed to admit that we like, right? And if you deny it, I’ll only assume that you have a game in mind you’re just keeping secret from me…. Well, I have some of these games, as well. I often have pretty decent taste in games, or so I like to believe. I love “The Legend of Zelda” and “Kingdom Hearts” and “Halo”, but I also have some games I enjoy that I’m less eager to tell you about. But, I will. Now, I have already written a post on a rather goofy game I enjoy called “Bomberman Generation” on my own blog, and so I decided to write about something different this time. And as I thought about what to discuss, yet another GameCube game came to mind because, frankly, I have a lot of bad GameCube games. This game is actually part of a very small series, of which I think there are only two games, “Lost Kingdoms II”. (And notice how it is so very unpopular, I couldn’t even get an image for it, so enjoy this photo of the console it’s played on instead.)

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Today in Gaming History: 10/1/2013

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Greetings readers! We here at UWG are happy to announce the start of a new daily series call Today in Gaming History. Each day you’ll see a post here under that title containing a snippet from the grand, culminated history of video games! These posts will represent a mix of gaming-related events that occurred on specific days or in a given month or year. (And you’ll just have to check back each day to find out which one it is!) Please share any thoughts you have about the series, the posts, or gaming history in general in the comment section — feedback is always welcome! So, without further ado, let’s get on with the first post!

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