• 4Jun 13

  Retro Games part 1: NES

  So as I mentioned in my last post, I'll be using this generation to collect retro games. More specifically, NES, SNES, and random titles for Sega Genesis, Gameboy Advance, and PS1 and PS2.

  I have 27 games on my NES wish list. Mostly from my childhood. Either games I once owned, games my aunt owned (she had a great collection), games my brothers and I rented, or games I always wanted to play. My goal is to create the ultimate retro collection. (Ultimate for me. I'm not going to turn into the AVGN here.) With that in mind, any suggestions are appreciated.

  Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers
  Darkwing Duck
  Duck Tales
  Duck Tales 2
  Galaga
  Gyromite
  Gyruss
  Kid Icarus
  The Legend of Zelda
  Lolo
  Lolo 2
  Lolo 3 
  Marble Madness
  Mario Bros.
  Mega Man
  Mega Man 2
  Mega Man 3
  Mega Man 4
  Mega Man 5
  Mega Man 6
  Punch-Out!!
  Super Mario Bros.
  Super Mario Bros. 2
  Super Mario Bros. 3
  TMNT 2: The Arcade Game
  TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project
  Tetris
  Yo Noid

  Edit: Added Gyruss to the list.

  • Posted Jun 4, 2013 5:03 pm GMT
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• 30May 13

  Cans of Beans

  So, some of you are probably wondering where I've been. And by some of you, I mean none of you. But that's okay. In late 2010, my life began a slow descent into horribleness. I won't bore you with details. The economy. Family stuff. Blah blah. Suffice it to say, I've had bigger fish to fry than posting blogs on an antiquated gaming site (Oh come on, admit it.)

  No, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Readjusting my priorities, that sort of thing. And I realized something gamey, which led to a few interesting decisions. I'm not interested in all this. This gamer culture.. thing.. that festers on sites like Gamespot. I'm just not a gamer.

  

  I traded in my PS3 the other day. I sold off all my games for it. All.. 6? The PS3 never had much that interested me. It was a blu-ray player, and a dusty one at that. So I made a bunch of money selling my games and my system and I bought an actual blu-ray player. Takes up a lot less space and uses a lot less power. And my blu-ray remote doesn't run out of power every time we have movie night.

  But yeah. I'm just not part of this culture anymore. I'm not a gamer. I still love Nintendo to bits. Got my Wii U and my Pikachu 3DS, looking forward to continued instalments of my favourite franchises. Wind Waker HD is high on my radar, as is the Wonderful 101. And I'll be taking the day off to watch the Nintendo Direct on the morning of E3. But after the reveal of the XBone and PS4, I'm just finding it hard to give a shite.

  Now my usual two-console home will not be Wii U and PS4 and it certainly won't be Wii U and XBone. Nope, I've gotten to work already on a much better investment. A RetroN 5. The thing plays NES, SNES, Genesis and GBA from all regions. Over HDMI. And has original controller ports. Here's my logic. I could buy a system that's always watching you with its creepy robot eyes, that won't play used games, isn't backwards compatible and forces you to check in like it's a minimum security prison. I could play the system that looks favourable by comparison. The one that also isn't backwards compatible, not that I kept any titles from its library anyway, and certainly isn't backwards compatible with the generation that had fun, innovative and experimental games. Or! I could get on eBay and start picking up games from a simpler time. An era when you put the game in the machine, turn it on, and BAM. There's your game. No menus. No online. No DLC. Just pure gaming, with all its pulpy difficulty.

  

  And frankly, if Microsoft and Sony and going to keep duking it out over raw power, raising the price of games another $10, removing features and adding tighter security, and promoting their consoles as home theatre management centers (just like McDonald's who wants to be Starbucks), I can't see the industry as we know it lasting very long. They'll take each other down, and they'll drag EA, Ubisoft, Activision and all those boutique developers down with them. Good time to stock up on games that work. Like cans of beans during the zombie apocalypse.

  • Posted May 30, 2013 7:46 pm GMT
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• 24Jan 13

  Wind Waker Multiplayer?

  So how about that Nintendo Direct?

  I've heard lots of speculation about what was shown, but I don't think nobody noticed one interesting tidbit. In the Wind Waker HD stills, both times you see Link, Tetra is there with him. They said they were planning on making a couple changes to Wind Waker. I wonder if they're adding multiplayer.

  Think about it.

  • Posted Jan 24, 2013 12:06 am GMT
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