“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
—World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Ode
Game Critique
Video game review
“To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.”
-Eugene Jarvis
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
― Neil Armstrong
“The fact that I, myself, do not understand the meaning of my paintings at the time that I am painting them does not mean that they have no meaning.” – Salvador Dali
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
Kirby is celebrating his 24th anniversary, in America, today. His first game was released in April twenty-four years ago, but didn’t get released in America until the first of August. I know. Little Kirby is in his mid-twenties already. They grow up so fast.
“This is how it happened… This is how the Batman died.”
-Commissioner James Gordon
Super Mario 64 was one of the defining games of its generation, system, and genre, but do its inner mechanisms hold up under scrutiny?
“Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
-President Whitmore, Independence Day
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
Nothing like playing a game based on a game that’ll make you start worrying about yourself.
“It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming…”
-Masahiro Sakurai
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
-Mark Amidon
“Japan was the first country to successfully make bipedal robots. They’re still the best in the field of robotics.”
-Hal ‘Otacon’ Emmerich
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Macho, macho man,
I gotta be a macho man!”
-Village People
“Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.”
-Shinichi Suzuki
“To me, Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry.”
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
“I don’t wanna look like a weirdo. I’ll just go with a muumuu.”
[Homer Simpson]
-King-Size Homer (SE7 EP7)
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney
That’s right NPC’s, it’s time for a review of the beloved classic: Marvel vs Capcom 2! I have fond memories of this game. I used to play it with my cousins and uncle on the Playstation 2 all the time. We had a insane amount of fun with it.
