Angry Birds, er… I mean Duck Hunt… was the game that no one wanted but everyone played, at least in North America.
Retro
“Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We’re just used to being the cat.”
-Dr. Henry Wu
“I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul.” -DW
“Some promises are meant to be broken.” -The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [tagline]
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
-Poppy Z. Brite
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
“These are two hungry dino-mights and they’ve got bubble fight’n fun down tight. You and…
Strip off your BVDs and throw your pants back on because today we’re running with Captain Commando and his “Commando Companions”. I kid you not, that’s canon.
When was the last time you saw the 1987 NES boxing-classic Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! in…
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” -Lord John Dalberg-Acton
“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?”
-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve been through two PlayStation One’s that stopped working because of lens problems, two PlayStation 2’s, a slim and a regular black one, that just decided they had had enough, an Xbox that cried itself to sleep, a Gamecube that became a paperweight, and a PS3 that’s rapidly deteriorating and recently refuses indomitably to run even its own PS Store.
But you know what? My Super Nintendo still works. In fact, it works just fine. Works better than my PS3.
“I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”
-Robin Williams
“Xavier and his X-men wanted us to build bridges between man and mutant! But we can fly and swim and leap! We will have no need for bridges!”
-Magneto, X-Men #146
To be clear, I do, but I actually prefer the term “classic” over “retro”. Here’s why.
“Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe–share their world at all costs.”
-Hideo Kojima
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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