Wow stusue!  You certainly shop enough places!  I like games like DREAM INN: DRIFTWOOD but I didn't like that one.  The innkeeper drove me up the wall.  I'll have to keep an eye out for DARK ANGEL.

Anki -- I haven't played PHANTOM as yet.  Good to know you both loved it!

oscar -- I kept forgetting to change from the hammer too.  I feel your pain about the discrepancy.  I go nuts when I can't balance my checkbook.

I haven't finished anything yet.  I'm close in the 2nd CATE WEST.  I like the gameplay but the areas you search are so depressing -- peeling paint, rusted stuff, rotting garbage.  I'll have to find a nice bright Christmas game to play next.

sunshinej wrote:

stusue...You know I was thinking of getting a Gamehouse funpass starting January and still keep my BF membership for the games Gamehouse don't get.  Like the ERS and Elephant and Blue Tea games.  I'll have to see about it though because like you I would be making my list of games to be played longer.

What I meant by the date is do Canadians go by month - date - year like we do here in America or by date - month - year like they do in Europe.

Gotcha, sunshinej!  Silly me.    But don't forget that we Aussies go by day-month-year, too! 

As for the GameHouse FunPass, I was lucky enough to get a year's subscription for about $5.80 a month, which includes unlimited play of all bar a few Platinum games AND an SE game coupon every month.  And, considering their SEs are only $5.99 ($1 cheaper than BFG), I get an SE and unlimited play of all those games for less than the price of one SE!  You seriously can't beat that and saves you having to buy so many games from BFG!  And I get to play all those games that I don't want to buy or that I'd only want to play once, like all the HOPAs.  So it's a win-win situation.    And, even though that was a special deal, I still think the normal price is worth it, especially a yearly subscription.  And, like the Dark Angels game that I just finished, had I just demoed the beginning I wouldn't have got the game and I would have missed out on a really fun game.

You also have their new Rewards Program.  Just like BFG, with 6 punches you get a free SE game - 1 punch per SE, 3 per CE.  However, unlike BFG, their SE games are $1 cheaper and you have 6 months to fill any punch card from the date of your first punch.  None of this having to fill a punch card by the end of the month or you lose all your punches.  And, when your punches roll over to a new card, the 6 months start from that date.  Plus, if you have a subscription, your first 2 punches on each card are filled automatically!  So you only have to actually pay for 4 SEs and you get a free game.  But yes, you need to be a BFG member at least during a BOGOF sale to get all the CEs/SEs that GameHouse doesn't get.  But GameHouse gets some CEs that BFG only offers as SEs, like Apothecarium and Questerium.

And, even though my game list gets longer and longer as I keep on adding all the GameHouse games I play, the number of unplayed games doesn't get longer and the ratio of played/unplayed games actually goes up! 

oscar66 wrote:

....unless I get that job.

Fingers crossed, Oscar!!!!!    Don't forget to let us know!

Wow, yet another email from BFG with yet more FTP info.  There's a new version of Found with "Exclusive holiday quests available now!".

That is weird, Stusue.  I always thought they were missing the mark on their bundle sale.  I would offer a CE bundle when a CE releases and SE bundle when that releases.

Just finished Mystery Legends Phantom of the Opera.  Quite a bit of backtracking towards the end but the opera house was easy to navigate and I've seen much worse.  Too many HOs for my taste, and they were kinda bleary.  Like maybe you thought you were clicking on a ring and it was actually a boxing glove.  The hint button was painfully slow so I tried real hard to find the stuff.  I wasn't a fan of the ending but I really liked the game.  I remembered one floor but when I got to the other floors they weren't familiar so I've played it before, but not all the way through.
I'm still working on perfects in Zombie Solitaire.  I try to only use the tombstone cards and not the powerups, I only use them if it's a really tough board.
I've done Phantom and Dire Grove as old games, tomorrow I will treat myself to something newer.  Has anyone tried the new Christmas game?  I didn't have a "Try It" button today, some days I do, some I don't.  I'm not really enthusiastic about it;  I already have a Scrooge game that I will probably replay and of course, The Nutcracker.  Ooh, maybe I'll do Mountains of Madness or Mystery, whatever it is.  Horror themed, not Christmas, but lots of snow.