Monday, July 18, 2005

1337 jokes are so last year.

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DDG- Me too. At least I got out of it with an excuse.

Mimmi- These cookies wouldn't have any.. Illegal substances in them, would the?

Ethan- Come on, those guys weren't that bad. Unless their whole conversation in the manga section of Borders was some sort of sarcasm that went over my head.

Tony- Once again, random message board people have failed me. I really need to stop listening to them..

Shin- And that is the story of how the Nintendo Heretic came to be.

satan665- To me, it screams "Pokeballs in Super Smash Bros." But I'm just optimistic, I guess.

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More of the same today.. According to a FAQ that I very briefly visited, I'm almost done with God of War. Four more "chapters," or whatever you want to call them.

It's been fun, but I'm glad I only rented it. It's way too short.

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There isn't much to talk about today, so I guess I'll just throw out a rant about my early days as a gamer.

I've talked about my NES before on myOtaku, I'm sure. I got it from my cousin when he got a Super Nintendo and figured he didn't need the old one anymore.. It's still in my garage, covered in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stickers, right next to a pile of crappy sports game (and Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda). One time we pulled it out and tried playing it, but the damn thing doesn't read the cartridges right.

But I don't consider that my first console. For my seventh birthday, I think it was, my parents got me a Super Nintendo packaged with Kirby Super Star. After my dad hooked it up, I started it up and began Wispy Woods (or whatever the "basic" Kirby game is called).

Ah, I remember it well. I moved the little pink guy forward, and found a challenge: A little hill that was not passable by mere walking. Oh, no, this was a special hill. It required you to jump and float over it.

And the concept of tapping the A button rhythmically was somehow beyond the capacity of my puny little seven-year-old mind. Needless to say, I got rather frustrated, and in a heated moment of anger I swore that I would never play video games again.

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Haha.

HA HA HA.

I went on to simply buy whatever I could find for the cheapest after that. I was a crappy gamer, actually. Half of my library consists of shitty Looney Toons games that I got for $15. I did manage to get some gems, though. Link to the Past, Megaman X, Super Mario RPG.. No Super Metroid, though. Sadness.

Things got marginally better by Nintendo 64 rolled around. I got one of those discount deals they had at Costco.. It came with Star Wars Episode I racer and Rogue Squadron, which was cool. But there's not much to say after that.

I'd better find something interesting to do with my time soon, or else you'll have to be exposed to more shit like this.
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