I've always been a Nintendo child. With an NES, born and raised, with Mario is where I spent most of my days. (Had to do it... sorry) Okay, I think it was a Game Boy... I don't remember. As the years went by, as systems broke and gave out and I upgraded, I stayed a Nintendo child at heart. So here are some lists for the best Nintendo games I've played.
Here are my top 10 games for the Nintendo Entertainment System:
1. Super Mario Bros. 3
2. The Legend of Zelda
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. Baseball
5. Batman
6. Super Mario Bros.
7. Duck Hunt
8. Ghostbusters (I enjoy this game, actually)
9. 1942
10. Double Dragon II
My top 10 Nintendo Game Boy games:
1. Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
2. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
3. Animaniacs
4. Pokemon Gold/Silver
5. Donkey Kong
6. Tetris
7. Centipede/Millipede
8. Super Mario Land
9. Dr. Mario
10. Kirby's Block Ball
My top 10 Nintendo GameCube games:
1. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
2. Luigi's Mansion
3. Sonic Heroes
4. Super Mario Sunshine
5. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom
6. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
7. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
8. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
9. Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
10. Pokemon Colosseum
My top 10 Nintendo Game Boy Advance games:
1. Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen
2. DragonBall Z: The Legacy of Goku II
3. Sonic Battle
4. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
5. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords
6. Super Mario World/Mario Bros. Arcade
7. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
8. Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
9. Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog
10. Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
I have only played one game on the Wii, and that is Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. And I have only played three games on the DS: Pokemon Pearl, Pokemon Ranger, and a demo of Fossil Fighters.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600
Gameplay: 2/5
Graphics: 2/5 (It's an Atari 2600, not an Xbox, but still)
Replay Value: 1/5 (just to finish it)
Challenge: 3/5
Pros:
- It's E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.
- It's on the Atari 2600, one of the longest living consoles in the history of gaming.
- Simple control scheme
Cons
- The pits. Oh dear GOD the pits. (Every joke you could make with THIS IS ET/SPARTA/CRAPPY/any other variation of that joke will get old.)
- Clunky controls (RUN E.T. RUN!!! NO NOT STRETCH YOUR F*CKING NECK!!! RUN!!!!! FLOAT!!! GET OUT OF THE F*CKING PIT!!!!!!!!)
- Annoying enemies
- Life dwindling away with EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE!! (every bond you break, every step you take - I'll be watching you. Had to make a joke here)
- You can be resurrected 3 times after death. Normally, that's a good thing, but here...
The Review/Some Backstory
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was one of the first games based on a blockbuster film (the other I knew about was Raiders of the Lost Ark). However, the developers were only given 6 weeks to complete this game, as a normal Atari 2600 game took 3-4 months to develop and program. Scheduling was so bad, it took them the entire last week of the project to develop the title screen. THE TITLE SCREEN. And furthermore, there were more copies of the game made than there were Atari consoles to play it on.
Critically, E.T. on the Atari was a major failure. Sales were so bad, almost all of the copies they made were sent back to Atari. They couldn't sell their massive amounts of overstocked Atari games (nearly 4 million plus E.T. cartridges, several million Pac-Man cartridges, broken consoles, etc) in their warehouse in El Paso so they got a contract with a landfill, and crushed several million copies of E.T. and other games, encased them in concrete, and buried them in the middle of the New Mexico desert. (http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp)
Lovely. Now, I played this game on a web-based emulator (http://www.2600online.com/et.html), and the controls are simple, yet clunky and God-awful. The pits are a bigger nuisance than a cockroach infestation, yet you have to fall into the pits to find the 3 radio bits to help E.T. phone home. All the while, you have to face off against an FBI agent who apparently tries to make E.T. miserable because he TAKES YOUR RADIO BITS AND YOUR REESES PIECES!!!!!! Also, you have to face the scientist who drags you away to a building you can just walk out of. Did I mention you're dying slowly? Not just you personally, but E.T. himself is dying with every action you do. And when you get dragged away by the scientist, you lose health. And once you get to phone home, the scientist can still kidnap you before your ship picks you up, so you have to go and recollect the radio bits ('cause the FBI guy probably stole them). However, I didn't get that far, because I didn't even get two radio bits. Oh, and the whole "you can't die" thing? Once your life reaches 0, Elliot (the kid) comes and resurrects you for 1500 health. Okay, once you die three times, that's it.
I found myself bottling back some rage when I first played this, and I realize I shouldn't have 'cause I spent the next few hours raging about it. But this game is truly a test in torture. If you find a copy, and you're not a collector like I am, don't buy it. Don't even consider it.
Overall Verdict: 1/5. Deplorable. The very game that single-handedly killed the Atari 2600, according to Seanbaby, and I agree with him.
Graphics: 2/5 (It's an Atari 2600, not an Xbox, but still)
Replay Value: 1/5 (just to finish it)
Challenge: 3/5
Pros:
- It's E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.
- It's on the Atari 2600, one of the longest living consoles in the history of gaming.
- Simple control scheme
Cons
- The pits. Oh dear GOD the pits. (Every joke you could make with THIS IS ET/SPARTA/CRAPPY/any other variation of that joke will get old.)
- Clunky controls (RUN E.T. RUN!!! NO NOT STRETCH YOUR F*CKING NECK!!! RUN!!!!! FLOAT!!! GET OUT OF THE F*CKING PIT!!!!!!!!)
- Annoying enemies
- Life dwindling away with EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE!! (every bond you break, every step you take - I'll be watching you. Had to make a joke here)
- You can be resurrected 3 times after death. Normally, that's a good thing, but here...
The Review/Some Backstory
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was one of the first games based on a blockbuster film (the other I knew about was Raiders of the Lost Ark). However, the developers were only given 6 weeks to complete this game, as a normal Atari 2600 game took 3-4 months to develop and program. Scheduling was so bad, it took them the entire last week of the project to develop the title screen. THE TITLE SCREEN. And furthermore, there were more copies of the game made than there were Atari consoles to play it on.
Critically, E.T. on the Atari was a major failure. Sales were so bad, almost all of the copies they made were sent back to Atari. They couldn't sell their massive amounts of overstocked Atari games (nearly 4 million plus E.T. cartridges, several million Pac-Man cartridges, broken consoles, etc) in their warehouse in El Paso so they got a contract with a landfill, and crushed several million copies of E.T. and other games, encased them in concrete, and buried them in the middle of the New Mexico desert. (http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp)
Lovely. Now, I played this game on a web-based emulator (http://www.2600online.com/et.html), and the controls are simple, yet clunky and God-awful. The pits are a bigger nuisance than a cockroach infestation, yet you have to fall into the pits to find the 3 radio bits to help E.T. phone home. All the while, you have to face off against an FBI agent who apparently tries to make E.T. miserable because he TAKES YOUR RADIO BITS AND YOUR REESES PIECES!!!!!! Also, you have to face the scientist who drags you away to a building you can just walk out of. Did I mention you're dying slowly? Not just you personally, but E.T. himself is dying with every action you do. And when you get dragged away by the scientist, you lose health. And once you get to phone home, the scientist can still kidnap you before your ship picks you up, so you have to go and recollect the radio bits ('cause the FBI guy probably stole them). However, I didn't get that far, because I didn't even get two radio bits. Oh, and the whole "you can't die" thing? Once your life reaches 0, Elliot (the kid) comes and resurrects you for 1500 health. Okay, once you die three times, that's it.
I found myself bottling back some rage when I first played this, and I realize I shouldn't have 'cause I spent the next few hours raging about it. But this game is truly a test in torture. If you find a copy, and you're not a collector like I am, don't buy it. Don't even consider it.
Overall Verdict: 1/5. Deplorable. The very game that single-handedly killed the Atari 2600, according to Seanbaby, and I agree with him.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Daybreakers
I went to see the newest vampire action flick, Daybreakers, and I was genuinely surprised. It was a good movie. It had a great premise, being that the whole world has been overrun by vampires (and no, not the prissy ones of Twilight though the main character is named Edward, but the Dracula-esque vampires, the ones who rip people apart for their blood) and the remaining 5 percent of the human population is being farmed for their blood. That's as far as I'm willing to go plot-wise.
Seeing how the characters evolved and seeing how some plot holes got resolved worked really well. However, I felt like some plot points were closed too cheaply, like the plot point with Sam Neill and his daughter in the movie.
Overall, I'm happy to say it's a good movie. Go see it.
Seeing how the characters evolved and seeing how some plot holes got resolved worked really well. However, I felt like some plot points were closed too cheaply, like the plot point with Sam Neill and his daughter in the movie.
Overall, I'm happy to say it's a good movie. Go see it.
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