NintendoNarp Recap! (finally :p )

Yeah I know it's a bit late, but as I'm preparing for a new job ( gonna start my own company this month ),
setting up a mariage AND organising the next EURONARP, I've been pretty busy the last few weeks :-)

SO as a small appetiser for the BIG euroNARP coming up in exactly a month from now, here's the recap of
the NintendoNarp we did a few weeks back ( 10th of July ). As this was just a 'miniNARP', it only lasted 1
night ( "BIG" one is 2 nights and 3 days ). But what a night it was...

It all started on friday, I couldn't wait to get away from work so I left about 2 hours early to pick up Po0ky and
Poele at Po0ky's place. My car was loaded with games, peripherals, camera-equipment, chips, glorious
belgian beer, energy drinks and a whole bunch of cookies. Since I'm the guy who built "Teh Lair³", it was
quite important we got there first so we raced from Po0ky's place to "Teh Lair³" for a night where there's
nothing but games and a very fine haze...

We got to Teh Lair³ about an hour later and started unwrapping right away. Since we only come here once
every few months, everything is "neatly" covered in dust-blankets, and most controllers/cabling/lightguns and
other shit is stashed away in carboard boxes under the seatcovers.

We just finished setting up the first Wii when it was time to pick up ZUbZub from the trainstation, so we
headed out, picked him up, stopped on the way back at a supermarket to stock up some more for the long
night, and picked up some of the legendary french fries from the local "Frituur" ( fries-shop :p ).

What followed was once again a whirlwind of games, cable-madness, mind-altering experiences and just
jolly good fun :-)

We went through all the classics, since we had every nintendo-console ever sold in EUrope ( except for the
virtual-boy ), we could basically experience anything we wanted from Nintendo's past, provided someone
brought the cartridge :-) For instance, we couldn't play the crowd-pleaser 'Goldeneye 64' since Poele didn't
bring it, so we threw in some 007-MP-Madness from the GameCUbe-era, and as it turns out, it wasn't half as
bad as we had feared. If course, there had to be some Mario Kart, but as nobody had brought the
cartridge/cds for that one either, we played the N64-version on the Wii with the Gamecube-controllers...
that's 3 generations at the same time!


EuroNARPs are being held in Teh Lair³ for 1 reason, its where I store my collection, so there's always weird
stuff to try out that you never had a chance to try before... like playing Tetris with a Wii Balance Board:


What I especially liked about this specific Narp was that we put the NES and the Wii right next to each other
and then compared games from the 2 most diverse eras in Nintendo's history. Here you can see "Umbrella
Chronicles" next to "Duck Hunt" ( sorry, the rest of the pictures was majorly blurry since I didn't notice my
camera was still on 'manual focus' ).


the games might look totally different, they both pull in their players soo much that not one of the 3 is looking
at me taking a picture :-) ( though Po0ky does seem to be very into the game :-) )


Later in the night ZubZub and Poele played the original Prince Of Persia for about an hour and got to level 4/5,
I don't really remember exactly...


And I don't even have a clue which game they're playing here since this was the stage of the night where
we found a SNES-emulator on the XBOX and started trying out all games that we had never had a chance to
play or never even heard of... ( like I never had a clue there was a "Theme Park" on SNES or Wolf3d on SNES
)

Do you know?


and finally after a long night of gaming ( from 6pm to 6am ), we all went to bed, but I was up first and got this
shot of Po0ky and Poele waking up just 4 hours after we went to bed, just to start playing again until noon :-)


so now it's on to the BIG EURONARP...

starting the 4th of September and ending the 6th of September at the usual place :-)

see you all there!