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What's it like to be me? Imagine a thousand people throwing a party inside of your head and you're stuck outside without a ticket.

I guess I'm more collector than gamer these days. Sure I still play my 360/Wii/DS/3DS and so on, and I love them all, but I just don't have the free time like I used to.

I started my gaming life on an old Atari 2600 that my dad bought us for Christmas. I used to frequent the local arcade (early 80's) and I have a passion for anything pinball.

You may not know this but I also help run the Xbox 360 FNF side of business here on Dtoid. You can always host or find games to play here: Friday Night Fights Forum Thread

As of this update (4.19.2012) I currently have:

31 Consoles
34 Handhelds
1306 physical copies of various games
147 digital copies of games
Tons of other video game related items

I'm also a huge comic book nerd, here are some of my all-time favorites, not in any particular order:


Cerberus the Aardvark


Groo the Wanderer


Howard the Duck

I also love music, all types really. If I had to pick a favorite album of all time I would have to go with:


The Cure: Disintegration. This album is perfect, from beginning to end.

My daughter is also a gamer of sorts, here she is lavishing in all of her Nintendo plushies:


Oh yea, did I mention that I love Pinball more than any other game ever? Because I totally do.


I also like to doodle when I'm bored, as seen below

I drew that when I was bored.

Sometimes, when I'm not gaming or collecting I'll post blogs, here are a couple recent ones:

ChillyBilly's Hidden Gems - Nano Assault

Tales from the Battlefield - Operation Rolling Hell

My Time so far with Battlefield 3

Take a gander at some of my previous haul blogs

Another ChillyBilly Haul - Occams the Enabler

Another ChillyBilly Haul. Lots and Lots of Nintendo

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Occams & Gareth & Law Oh My!

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles No Spam Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Spring Edition

Funktastic Sent Me A Package an Adventure in Awesome

My Mysterious Encounter with Lenigods Package

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Past 5 Months Part 2

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Past 5 Months Part One

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles This is Just Getting Stupid Now

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Atari Lynx! Atari Lynx!

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Summertime Collecting

Trading With Funktastic an Epic Tale

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles F.Y.E Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles April - May Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Florida Edition

The Very First "ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles"

My Post-Summer Christmas Haul

My Guide to Video Game Collecting

My Magnificent May Haul

My Epic Gaming Haul of Epicness

Sweet Goodwill Gaming Haul

My February - April Gaming Haul
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LostWinds - First Impressions
ChillyBilly | 7:24 PM on 05.12.2008 0 comments


So as most of you know by now Nintendo’s WiiWare officially launched today, and with it a plethora (well, maybe not a plethora) of new and unique games for everyone to download and enjoy (and pay for)..BUT ENJOY!!

I decided to go against the grain and opt out for the Final Fantasy game for now; instead I put my money behind the little guys over at Frontier Games.

So far my initial impressions are AMAZINGLY FANTASTIC! Lost Winds brings something to gaming that seems to have been lost, fun. Playing Lost Winds is like playing an old platformer on the NES/SNES, you know, once you start you can’t / don’t want to stop.

The story is about a little kid named Toku and his little Wind Spirit named Enril. I won’t give too much of the story away (Ok none of the story) because I don’t want to ruin the experience for anyone.



The controls are very tight and the animation is fluid. The game play is relaxed but fun, very addictive. You can easily jump from ledge to ledge with just a flick of the wrist.

So far I’ve made it to the third save point and collected four bags of gold; yes…you collect bags of GOLD!!

Sorry about the screenshots but I didn’t want to keep regurgitating the same one’s that have been around for a while now.



I’ll throw another post up once I’m further along. If you haven’t made a solid decision on what game to buy yet then you just may owe it to yourself to give Lost Winds a try.



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