Most cats love boxes… climbing in them, sleeping in them, squeezing into boxes that they shouldn’t be able to fit in…
But Jinx just likes to tear them apart:
Year: 2026
Home Arcade
Setting up a home video arcade…
Spoiler (click to reveal)
My brother’s response when I sent him this recording was fun:
Is that YOUR LIVING ROOM??!!!
Followed soon after by:
Oh! Faker! I was still watching this when I sent the first message.
I thought you’d bought a full cabinet game!
Pretty cool though. Although ExciteBike would be even better
If you don’t know already, this is Retrocade, as seen with the Vision Pro. (It’s also available on iOS and iPadOS but then you don’t get a full size game cabinet in your living room!) The cabinets are really the best part – they’re so well crafted and detailed. Note the simulated reflections from both the game graphics and from the windows and lights in my house reflecting on the cabinets and the “glass” screens.
Ah, but they need to allow placing more than one cabinet at a time and they need to let you leave them in place in your house while you use other apps, like how the VisionOS spatial widgets work.
Meanwhile… what do you do if a portal opens up to Half Life’s City 17 in your house? 🤓
And There Was Much Gaming
Another year of board gaming topped off with a gathering for New Year’s Day:
This gallery is from February 2025 through New Year’s Day of 2026 and includes SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Gentes, On the Underground: London/Berlin, Age of Rail: South Africa, Cloud Age, Arcs, Hollywood: 1947, Galactic Cruise, Bomb Busters, Gutenberg, Nucleum, Green Team Wins, Shackleton Base, Rings & Things, Dead by Daylight, Thunder Road: Vendetta, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Andromeda’s Edge, Polynesia, Steam Power, Revive, Ecos, Merchant of Venus, Endeavor: Deep Sea, Wildcatters, Photosynthesis, Smartphone, Inc., Cosmic Encounter, Clank! Catacombs, Artemis Odyssey, Panamax, Flip Toons, Hot Streak, 1930 – The Golden Age of Airlines, Dead Reckoning, First Flight, Skate Summer, Rocketmen, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, Speakeasy, Slide 5, FaeKin, Magical Athlete, Cosmic Encounter, Deck Chairs on the Titanic, Pandemic: Iberia
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