Dracophile
22 October 2007, 08:21 AM
Over the weekend I had planned on working on an assignment for school, popped my professor an email on Friday evening, never heard back until later Sunday night. Wasted my entire weekend that I had planned to work on school. In the meantime I sad around and wrote up some stuff for the website while my buddy Jason took a trip to Onicon 2007. His ride up there was my ex, so I neglected to go along on the ride, I would not have enjoyed it at all.
Instead he brought me back some nice presents. As a joke he bought a copy of the sequel to the NES game "Kid Icarus", since the first one was so horrendously bad (http://rfshq.com/-/The_Game_Graveyard/kid-icarus). As it turns out the sequel (which is on the Game Boy) is surprizingly awesome! They fixed a LOT of the stupid bugs that ruined the NES version, most notably the fact that you cannot go DOWN on the screen once you go up without dying. Enemies also drop health pickups and stuff now. Overall it's a heck of a lot better of a game.
Jason has an incredibly ordinary look complimented with an "I <3 ANIME" shirt, and I have a great dragon shirt that is rather unmentionable on these forums. It may not seem like it, but we're actually a fairly ingenious duo, especially when it comes to video games. Jason picked me up a couple of Super Famicom (read: The Japanese Super NES system) games at the convention. Most of you would assume that a Japanese game wouldn't work at all on an American system, and you're right. There are two reasons why: There's two tiny pieces of plastic on the console that prevent you from inserting a Japanese game. One set of pliers and 10 seconds later, we successfully transformed my Super NES into a Super Play-Everything-Worldwide.
He brought me back a great Shin Chan game, and while we don't understand a single word on the screen, we ended up laughing like schoolgirls after we made Shin do his butt dance a few hundred times. The game's like a platformer and you can jump around and stuff. There's also a lot of minigames to play too. The second game was also a joke but we ended up spending most of the night playing it. It was Sailor Moon R. And, even though it's an anime about girls in skimpy outfits shooting laser beams at evil doers, the game is so freaking awesome. It's just like a Batman and Robin game, you run through the level and beat up on ninjas and stuff with punches, kicks, special weapons, lasers, etc.
His sister was so jealous of us. :cool:
Instead he brought me back some nice presents. As a joke he bought a copy of the sequel to the NES game "Kid Icarus", since the first one was so horrendously bad (http://rfshq.com/-/The_Game_Graveyard/kid-icarus). As it turns out the sequel (which is on the Game Boy) is surprizingly awesome! They fixed a LOT of the stupid bugs that ruined the NES version, most notably the fact that you cannot go DOWN on the screen once you go up without dying. Enemies also drop health pickups and stuff now. Overall it's a heck of a lot better of a game.
Jason has an incredibly ordinary look complimented with an "I <3 ANIME" shirt, and I have a great dragon shirt that is rather unmentionable on these forums. It may not seem like it, but we're actually a fairly ingenious duo, especially when it comes to video games. Jason picked me up a couple of Super Famicom (read: The Japanese Super NES system) games at the convention. Most of you would assume that a Japanese game wouldn't work at all on an American system, and you're right. There are two reasons why: There's two tiny pieces of plastic on the console that prevent you from inserting a Japanese game. One set of pliers and 10 seconds later, we successfully transformed my Super NES into a Super Play-Everything-Worldwide.
He brought me back a great Shin Chan game, and while we don't understand a single word on the screen, we ended up laughing like schoolgirls after we made Shin do his butt dance a few hundred times. The game's like a platformer and you can jump around and stuff. There's also a lot of minigames to play too. The second game was also a joke but we ended up spending most of the night playing it. It was Sailor Moon R. And, even though it's an anime about girls in skimpy outfits shooting laser beams at evil doers, the game is so freaking awesome. It's just like a Batman and Robin game, you run through the level and beat up on ninjas and stuff with punches, kicks, special weapons, lasers, etc.
His sister was so jealous of us. :cool: