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For the past few years, we've been making "backlog resolutions" each year- choosing a list of games from our libraries that we keep telling ourselves "I'm gonna play that someday" and....playing them! What a concept! Well, we're playing most of them. In what's becoming a yearly tradition, I'm joined by some friends to discuss our experience throughout the year.

Guest info:

• CtrlAltNoob (she/her)- find her work at https://ctrlaltnoob.com/ and follow on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/ctrlaltnoob.bsky.social
• Taylor/Athunderheart (she/they)- Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/athunderheart/ and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/athunderheart.bsky.social
• Soccr (any/all)- Follow on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/soccr.bsky.social

TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 Title Card
• 0:11 Introductions
• 4:45 Stats from 2025's Resolutions
• 7:11 General Thoughts and Experiences
• 21:31 Resolutions Success Stories
• 53:33 Patron Thank-Yous
• 55:37 Why Didn't We Play Them All?
• 1:25:57 Lessons & Strategies for 2026
• 1:40:59 Sneak Peek at Our 2026 Lists
• 1:59:40 Closing Thoughts
• 2:10:37 Guest Plugs

Music used in the episode:

• Bless My Stars (Akitaka Tohyama - Beautiful Katamari OST)
• a forty-six story motel (RJ Lake - El Paso, Elsewhere OST)
• Mortol (Gameplay) (Eirik Suhrke - UFO 50 OST)
• Bionic Bay (Francisco Javier Pérez - Bionic Bay OST)

Check out Dave talking about NieR: Automata on Pixel Project Radio https://linktr.ee/pixelprojectradio
Check out the King of Games 1999 FINALE on Retro Hangover https://linktr.ee/retrohangover

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Cover art by Jack Allen- find him at https://linktr.ee/JackAllenCaricatures