12:38 PM on 12.01.2007
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Nex
The Internet is too cynical.
Sure, that's as ironic as my saying the Internet relies too heavily on obtuse references to the key figures of the second World War, but any of you disagreeing with me will only further prove my point. So there!
Am I the only one who remembers a time when gaming instilled a child-like wonder in my generation? A time when we would discuss the events of crudely rendered, pixellated stories with the same gravitas Brian Williams uses when relaying news of roadside bombs in Mosul? Based on that clip up there -- Little Miss Gamer's review/nostalgia-trip for StarTropics -- I'm thinking I'm not alone in my fondness for the old days.
Not only does the video assign the same kind of reverence to the game that early issues of Nintendo Power -- from the era in which it was still readable -- were so famous for, it does so in a completely unironic fashion. The sense of glee in discovering the game's various nooks and bits of fan service is palpable and LMG never relies on terrible humor or hyper-cynical apathy to appeal to the modern gamer; a group as defined by their desperate insistence of vitality and cultural relevance as they are by the fact that they play video games (and have terrible skin). Instead, the video almost enshrines the forgotten classic and in doing so actually manages to provide positivity that is lacking from everything else you'll read/watch/listen to regarding gaming today.
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together!
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And I was just whining about this very topic on Rev's review of Mass Effect. Good show, Nex!
To put it another way, how much fun are we really having if we have to rely on cute girls to soliloquize on 17-year-old games made for consoles we might have stuffed under our beds or in the back of our closets, if we're lucky? I remember StarTropics, but I'm not going to break out a ROM and re-play it just because everyone's too busy navel-gazing to realize that there's still fun to be had, and that's really all anyone could ever ask for.
Plus, that video loads like ass.
I would like more light-hearted games, but they all seem to be for the Wii, and most of the people here aren't likely to think they're fun or play them for long. But, then, can you imagine a light-hearted FPS?
It's about as hard to come up with a gee-golly happy way to look at the world, unless you're willing to flirt with chirpy saccharine cuteness, which to me is just as likely to be objectionable.
But I used to love this game, so no hard feelings anywhere :)
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She's does a character on a kids show.
Hell, I still do.
Star Tropics was an awesomely hard game.
Where's my Virtual Console release Nintendo?! *Shakes Fist*
As far as Little Miss Gamer herself goes, she acted as though she was talking to a crowd of pre-schoolers, pretty annoying...
And Star Tropics is coming to the Wii VC any day now.
Epileptic Gaming and Zero Punctuation FTW!!!
Live Journal.. lol