You should know by now, dear listeners, that today is Chad Concelmo's birthday. As such, there's a pretty good chance he won't be on the show tonight, as he is obligated to make his annual return to the undersea dolphin kingdom he once called home. You see, before he became an Associate Editor here at Destructoid, the greatest podcast co-host ever was the ruler of a vast and secret land, hidden far beneath the briny depths where no mortal dare venture. A place called Chadlantis.
It wasn't until last January that we discovered him. Caught in one of our tuna nets on the company fishing trip, there was much debate as to whether he should be brought ashore or left to rule the sea. What would the dolphins do without their leader? More importantly, could mankind truly handle such awesomeness if he were to walk among us? It was a risk Niero was willing to take. After the signing of the great Robot-Dolphin Treaty of 2007, in which the creatures of the deep agreed to lend us their king 364 days out of the year in exchange for head-mounted laser cannons, we had a new editor.
Chad's final instruction to his bottlenosed followers was to continue their time-honored practice of transporting Japanese-only releases to the hardcore gamers of North America. If you've ever experienced the joy of impossibly hard shmups or batsh*t insane rhythm games, you owe these dolphins your grattitude and respect. So, have you? Tonight's show is all about import gaming. Did you break the tabs off of your SNES? Use a Game Genie to play Asian Genesis titles? Play a bunch of stuff most people have never even heard of? We sure did. Hit up the comments and tell us how hardcore you really are.
A big "Happy birthday" and a ton of less-than-threes to our amazing Mr. Concelmo.
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4:09 PM on 09.16.2007
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True that! Expect to find one of those in your mailbox this week, Chad.
I'm thinking about finding Super Mario Bros. 2 JPN for GBA (the Lost Levels.) There's not a whole boatload of import games I want that don't end up finding there way here. Oh, Tingle's Balloon Fight and the EU version of Freshly Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland are two more on my radar.
I never had to import a game because everything I ever wanted from Japan had been brought over here. Except Oendan, although EBA is fun. Might have to get Oendan though...
Wait... well, this might not count. I recently bought a copy of Metroid II in the original box from the UK. Does that count?
Do you mean, like, translated and all? I wouldn't hold my breath on it. The Lost Levels was probably pretty easy to bring over, since there isn't much text involved. On the other hand, I'd think that a game like Fire Emblem would be too cumbersome and costly to localize just to release it on the virtual console.
... that's it. Just happy birthday.
I didn't do any of that, now i feel left out =(
So... somewhere out there, there could possibly exist a snes fire emblem in english? Or Mother 3?
My mind just exploded. It sounded like pop rocks.