Posts Tagged ‘nostalgia’

You Never Forget Your First

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

This has been a long time coming. Though we met in the spring of her youth, we parted ways after a garish and ill-advised makeover. In the end, we had a last year together, when she was literally giving it away, but it could never be the same. She was enough like her old self to make me wistful for the past, but she was a withered husk—an echo of what she used to be.

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More Split Screen Please

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I’ve always done most of my gaming solo. Yes, there has been the occasional game that has inspired me to buy more controllers for a system, the last one being Smash Bros Melee. The current generation of consoles, however, has made me less likely to game with a group.

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Memory Card Lane: My First Love

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

In the beginning, there was Duck Hunt, well, for me at least. The Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo was the first game to appear in my household. The year was 1988 and nothing could have been more amazing to my four-year-old…

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Gamecenter CX: Certainly Xtraordinary

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Gamecenter CX, the DS game based off of the hilarious Japanese television show Retro Game Master, is truly an experience that every gamer should play. The show consists of Japanese Comic Shinya Arino playing a variety of video games (usually…

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Just a Typewriter? How Can You Say That?!

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

With the recent announcement that Resident Evil 5 will no longer include the typewriter save points I was a little surprised to realize that I cared.  Seriously, it’s a save point.  What possible impact could that have on the game…

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