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Community Manager for Tomopop.com.

Random gaming facts about Haxan

Legitimately beat Mike Tyson and went through Another World Circuit undefeated.

Beat the original Contra without dying. Twice.

Can land the damn plane in Top Gun and can also refuel in midair.

Can't beat Ghost & Goblins without the level select code and has never lied about it.

Thinks Friday the 13th is a great game even if the physics, controls and weapons are garbage.

Mario Paint caused him to buy a Super Nintendo and largely leave his Sega Genesis behind. He has played it more than most video games and wore down the mouse pad so that the grid only shows around the corners.

Has beaten Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers on the SNES on the hardest difficulty without losing a single round. Multiple times.

Is still friends with the girl who worked at a local game store and sold him Street Fighter II nearly 17 years ago.

Beat Final Fantasy 2 in a weekend when he was a kid, yet can't get through a role-playing game these days if his life depended on it.

Has never beaten Final Fantasy VII.

Prefers pads to sticks.

Likes the N64 controller.

Prefers the Duke to the S-controller.

Doesn't think that Super Mario 64 is all that great.

Got an Xbox mostly for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. And thinks it's a damn good game. Really.

Swore he would never buy a Game Boy Advanced SP, but immediately broke down once the NES edition came out. (And regarding the NES Classics series, true in-store dialogue: "Dude, are you serious?! They seriously expect people to pay 20 dollars a piece for games they can just downlo...Ooh! Zelda!")

Really liked the first Halo. (Well, there goes my dtoid cred.)

Can rock out Dynamite Rave in Dance Dance Revolution like it's nobody's business.

Played the hell out of Animal Crossing: Wild World and hid that fact from nobody.

Stomped Brad Nicholson at Street Fighter IV, but had to resort to the cheapest of tactics in order to do so. ;)

Thinks you're really, really, really smart. And pretty.

Top ten favorite games (in no particular order):

•The Legend of Zelda (NES)
•Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES)
•The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
•Phantom 2040 (SNES)
•Street Fighter II (any version)
•Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2)
•Final Fantasy 3/6 (SNES)
•Ico (PS2)
•Sin and Punishment (N64)
•Picross (DS)



(NVGR)

I love drawing, though I realize that I'm not very good. I figured early on that drawing my own header art would help my blogs stand out. Thanks to Destructoid, and to the scanner that Carollelogram got me for my birthday last year, I feel like I've developed a unique style that's distinctly my own.

Outside of games I've got a DVD collection that is exploding out of a 5'x6' shelf (over 400 titles). So suffice it to say that I love movies. I'm a huge horror fan and I host an annual Dusk Till Dawn Horror Movie Marathon nearly every October. My top ten favorite films in order are as follows:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cativo, 1966)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai, 1954)
4. The City of Lost Children (La Citι des enfants perdus, 1995)
5. The Apartment (1960)
6. Strings (2004)
7. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Music-wise, my top 3 bands are The Pixies, The Velvet Underground and Radiohead. I listen to damn near every genre of music (except modern country. I yearn for the days of Hank Williams, Sr. and Tammy Wynette). Hit random on my mp3 player and you'll get everything from darkwave to hip hop to 80's synthpop. I karaoke pretty regularly. I can't sing, but I surround myself with people who can. Still, you've not experienced all there is in life until you've seen me proper butcher True by Spandau Ballet.

Then, as for the literary interests, my love lies with pulp detective novels of the thirties and forties. Raymond Chandler is simply the greatest ever. And Dashiell Hammett is just fantastic. Lately, I've been reading through Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles at Carollelogram's recommendation. Two books in and I have to say they're astonishing.

If you do the Twitter thing, Haxan1 is my handle should you want to follow me.

Feel free to friend me to your console of choice should you ever want to play a game of Street Fighter. Just be sure to let me know that you're from Destructoid and you'll get the royal treatment.



Blogs I writed:


Reviews
•Virtual Console Review- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
•Review- Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

Front Page
•Other Worlds Than These: The citizens of the land of Termina
•Community spotlight: Haxan goes above and beyond for the community

Monthly Musings
•Instant Replay: Street Fighter II
•The Start of the Affair: Solomon's Key

Editorials and assorted articles
•Does the Wii have RROD-type issues of its own?
•Okay, Nintendo. I guess that we can be friends again.
•Niero, do you have any idea what in the lobster milkshake you have done?! (dtoid 3rd anniversary post)
•10 things you might not have known about Haxan (but really only 8)
•Why Destructoid is awesome: Nilcam is the greatest edition (I honestly can't give Nilcam enough props for this.)
•Christmas shopping: Non-gaming, priest dad-style
•Bad Dye Job: A Darius Pickman Story
•"Congraturation" RetroforceGO!
•Nintendon't what?! Now you tell me just what the %#@$ Nintendon't do!

Neat stuff I played a bit part in
•The Destructoid children's alphabet book

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Fap, fap, fap... Metroid 2 Remake... Fap, fap, fap
Haxan | 11:43 AM on 02.22.2008 16 comments


Okay, this is just really friggin' awesome! Like Unbelievably awesome. Like amazingly unbelievably awesome. Like, the sort of awesome that you only get the slightest glimpse of, but then that glimpse moves you to the point of obsession. An obsession that would lead you to mutilate all the contenders of the Puppy Bowl if it were asked of you, so long as you could see more.

Milton (the Magnificent [I call him that. He doesn't refer to himself as this {though he should, because he deserves it <at least he does should he be able to pull this off>}]) from Argentina has undertaken the task of recreating the GameBoy Mono classic Metroid 2 into the image of Metroid: Zero Mission!

Here's some comparison shots from his blog of the work in progress:













The country of Argentina should publicly declare this 27 year-old wunderkind a national treasure and give him his own holiday. Imagine, Milton the Magnificent Day, every January the 3rd (celebrating the day that he first went public with his work). Then the US should follow suit, and co-opt this very important day of celebration and make it its very own. A day of drinking. And video game playing. You know, what Christmas was meant to be!

Then the stone cold reality hits me. More often then not these projects amount to little in the end. Either because the IP-owners interfere with their cease-and-decist orders (like the 3D Chrono Trigger remake), or because the creators just didn't have it in them to see the project through to completion (to many examples to list) or because of death (the tragic loss of the creator of the 2D Ocarina of Time remake). So, could we actually see this become a reality? Well, it couldn't hurt to got to Mr. Magnificent's blog and cheer him on. Give him your support. Tell him what an amazing source of inspiration he is. Promise to name a child after him should he finish it (Milton's not a bad name after all, and not so very common [why, in High School I had a class with three other kids with my name- He'd never have that problem]). Hell, you could promise to give him your first born. I mean, if he can do this with ancient GameBoy Mono game, think of what he could do with the spawn of your loins... and, and um... some duct tape!



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BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:26
BlindsideDork
I am a ghey (or does that mean just straight, just call it a whore) for Metroid but I will believe it when I see it. And if he messes up the gameplay...the Omega Metroid would be the last thing he has to worry about.
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:31
Snaileb
Pretty cool.
The GHost's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:35
The GHost
It certainly looks the part. Here's hoping he nails the controls.
Dynamic Sheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:35
Dynamic Sheep
This is nice... I hope it plays like Super Metroid Zero Mission
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:38
Haxan
In his blog he goes over a bit about how he worked in the wall grab. It certainly looks promising.
nademagnet's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 12:40
nademagnet
God speed mister man, release it soon.
crackity jones's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 13:07
crackity jones
:O orgazim
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 13:17
Jetsetlemming
Metroid 2 was the first one I really got into, and loved, and seeing it done good in a remake would be just the best fucking thing ever.

BTW the 2D Ocarina of Time guy never actually died, I'm pretty sure. It was fake.
Projectexodus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 13:20
Projectexodus
Something tells me it wont see the light of day. Those projects never has...
BUT YES! MAKE IT COME!
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 13:24
Haxan
@Jetsetlemming,
Fer Realzies?! I heard there was an entire thing with a car and an impact and a dead developer. Did he fake his death just to get out of the bad press that quitting would have given him? And here I thought that Zeus (or whomever [Shiva,, maybe?]) hated me destroying the person who was adding the one thing that OoT needed to make it an awesome game: a negative amount of the third dimension.

(I apologize for adding the above Professor Layton puzzle. The answer is, of course: they're both 6 years old.)
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 13:46
Haxan
@Reaprar,
Oooooooh... If this is a repost then I humbly apologize. I even did a search to try and alleviate such a circumstance in advance and came up with nothing. If I am pissing all over a previous post, let me know and we'll get a link to the original going, or I'll even take this sucker off the air if I failed to add anything new to the discussion at all.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 14:32
king3vbo
Wow, now I want to post a blog with the sole purpose of seeing if Reaprar will piss all over it.

(PROTIP: I <3 my Reaprar)
Y0j1mb0's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2008 14:46
Y0j1mb0
Nice "Beat" Kitano Avatar.
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/23/2008 01:43
Haxan
@Y0j1mb0,
Nice Pei Mei avatar.
My happiest day around that time was hearing that Master Killer's Gordon Liu was going to be in Kill Bill Volume 1 as a random Kato clone. But seeing him as Pei Mei in Volume 2, holy shit! was that ever awesome!
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