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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BTW the 2D Ocarina of Time guy never actually died, I'm pretty sure. It was fake.
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BUT YES! MAKE IT COME!
(# 9) on 02/22/2008 13:24
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.)
(# 10) on 02/22/2008 13:46
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.
(# 11) on 02/22/2008 14:32
(PROTIP: I <3 my Reaprar)
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(# 13) on 02/23/2008 01:43
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!