There’s really not too much to say here. This from an actual Nintendo Power (remember that magazine?) that this cool guy with the sweet mustache wrote into in the 1980’s. I snagged it from the amazing SeanBaby website. You can read more of his mustachioed misadventures here where the webmaster of SeanBaby found his address and began corresponding with him…
Thank you to “Crazy” Tom for showing me this gem way back in the 90’s
Some people think I’m crazy that I actually listen to this band in my free time and own both their albums… you know what, they are probably right. Never the less, The Advantage is a band that hails from California and only plays Nintendo songs. That’s right. Theme songs from 8 bit N.E.S. games, different boards, the end boss music…they do it all. Note for note renditions played by a live band, 2 guitars, bass and drums. They do all your favorites from Mario 3, Contra, that fucking level in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where you have to disable all the mines while your underwater and trying not to electrify yourself, Metroid, Zelda, Castlevania you fucking name it.
They even go on tour. You can visit their MySpace here or you can watch a live version of Megaman 2: Flashman Stage below:
Note that after awhile of non stop listening every song begins to sound like the band, Franz Ferdinand.
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TCM reader, Ben did a great write up over at www.dudusports.com about the top 5 hitters from the Nintendo game, Little League Baseball: Championship Series. The game didn’t make TCM’s Top Ten Nintendo list, but it just narrowly missed. If you’ve never played it, it’s worth tracking down. I’d consider it one of the better sports games released on the console.
You can read his article by clicking here
Note to readers: Never challange Captain Polish to a game of Street Fighter II. He will own your sorry ass.
I owned 4 systems if my life time. Nintendo, Super Nintendo, briefly a Sega Genesis (which was ultimately traded by my brother with an ex girlfriend for an acoustic guitar, upon break up) and a Sony Playstation that I had forgotten all about. Given to me for my birthday in 1997 I played a years worth of Tekken and Resident Evil 1 and than drifted away from it.
Last week I had the epiphany that an intact Playstation had been collecting dust at my parents house for the last decade. When I realized this I went right over and opened the cabinet doors which housed the console. I felt like Indiana Jones uncovering a relic of a past civilization.
I’m now the proud owner of a PS1, 1 controller, Final Fantasy 7 and Tomb Raider 1 (which I must have borrowed from someone and never given it back). My question to you dear reader, is what essential Playstation 1 games do I need to be checking out?
If you can’t tell by now, I like retro video games. Last night I saw something disturbing that I had never seen before. I popped in Mario All Stars for the Super Nintendo. This is the game that includes, Mario 1, Mario Lost Levels, Mario 2 and the ever popular Mario 3 with fully enhanced 16 bit graphics.
I gave Mario 3 a spin and happened to be playing with someone else which necessitated me having to be Luigi. When it cut to Luigi getting to choose which level he wanted to dominate, I stumbled upon something disturbing.
Could I be seeing things? Does Luigi share an uncanny likeness to Mr. Adolph Hitler? Surely if anyone knows the horror of WWII, Japan would be up there. This just begs the unfathomable question, why? He never looked Hitleresque in any other Mario games. Those 16 bits really seemed to help characterize his Jew hating mustache.
No, that’s not the name of porn Captain Yar starred in. Awhile back I did a tribute to two of the most popular arcade games of the early 90’s. Now I’d like to highlight a game that was not nearly as popular. In fact, I might be the only other person who has ever heard of it. We are talking about Lucky And Wild.
This game was briefly in the movie theater lobby at my local mall circa 1997. I played it once on a whim after a movie. I was so floored that I went back the next week with a friend and $10 in quarters so I could make that game my bitch. Good thing too, because a few months later it disappeared as eerily as it had arrived. I feel as if at some point later in my life I was lucky enough to play it at a random mall in a different state while on vacation. That memory could also have been completely fabricated due to intravenous drug use.
What could possibly draw a young Captain Flintheart to such a game? It combines two of the best arcade dynamics, driving games and gun games. The first player gets to drive and both players get a secured in place hand gun. It’s similar to Chase HQ or any of those other cop car games where you smash the shit out of your enemy’s car. Pure and simple, but Goddamn that shit is fun.
I really don’t have too much more to say, I just wanted to bring this game back to your attention and make you look at these drink serving bar back whores.
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