Good Morning Everyone!
Coming to you live from I-5. So, the Nintendo 3DS was released and you can find them in stores now. I pre-ordered mine before preordering was cool. Unfortunately for me, I will not get mine until Thursday night. But until then, let’s spend the next 3 or 4 days talking Nintendo. The only Nintendo gaming systems that my family and I have owned were the the original NES, the Gamecube, I gots the Wii, the original GameBoy, GameBoy Color and the Nintedo DS Lite. 4 systems in 4 days. Let’s rant:
I am not a gamer, but I do play video games. When we got our NES, we got the Deluxe Set that came with the zapper, R.O.B. the robot, Gyromite/Stack-Up and Duck Hunt. With those two games, we also got Seicross and Tiger Heli. Gyromite and Stack-Up took away too much time just to set-up (thank you R.O.B.) so they didn’t get much play. Duck Hunt was cute until that dog became annoying…which was quick.
Seicross made us hate rocks and Tiger Heli (much like Seicross) just kept on going…forever. But those were the classics. We didn’t have Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros 2. In fact our first Mario game was Super Mario Bros. 3 (the best NES game ever). Our second NES Mario game was Dr. Mario, which has the best soundtrack ever (screw other opinions…Fever and Chill are banging).
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out was an instant play-all-day game. I remember not eating the night the game was bought, because we just got past Glass Joe and we were trying to figure how to beat Von Kaiser. I’ll admit it, I was knocked-down by Glass Joe at first…I was slow. King Hippo took awhile. Stupid Bald Bull “bull charge.” But I did TKO Mike in the 1st round once in my life instead of the round3 decision.
I skipped school just to play Double-Dragon II…I’m a master of the super-knee kick thing. Make them fly! Chicago Bears in Tecmo Bowl. Walter Payton running forever. Mike Singletary getting the sacks. Going long to Willie Gault. Returning everything with Gentry. We can easily rack up 200 points on the Redskins or Cowboys.
We never flipped Metal Gear…we don’t know how to destroy the Super Computer. Let’s not talk about Ninja Gaiden. WTF? Punching dogs to death! Hiding in a box! Okay that’s actually pretty neat…but still damn game. How does Snake carry all that crap? Dude is a boss! A boss that can’t even pick a lock to a locked door. Got to find that card key.
Of course we eventually got the Zelda games. They were gold…love that. Star Tropics was hot. You had to wet the map to see 
the code! What? Instant classic. Thanks to my dad traveling, we’ve had the pleasure of owning classics which were rare to find in the states. Burai Fighter was a beautiful game, but hard as hell. How can I play on Ace when I can barely beat the game on Eagle?
Another game brought to us from overseas was Romance of the Three Kingdoms; the NES game based on the classic Chinese novel. Thanks to this game, the novel is one of my favorites. I love the game too. Who am I playing? Of course I’m going to start off as Liu Bei. Of couse I want Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on my sqaud. I’m a winner. What? But the game is a classic whoever you chose as ruler.
As AVGN has showed us, with every good NES game, there is a stupid amount of bad games. For example, one of our worst Deja Vu. Alligator in a sewer, which we can shoot with our pistol. An endless sewer. Being mugged by the same guy. The girl in the red dress. We played this game a million times and never knew how to pass it. Who would have known to dump all of our possession in the sewer? Balls! Bad Dudes and N.A.R.C. should only be played in the arcade. But all NES games should be played.
3D in 4 days! Next time: GameBoy.
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