Nostalgia

I had, and still have, grand visions of writing much more on this thing than I do. Unfortunately, I think of lots of good stuff to write about, but I rarely take the time to write it. I don't think that's going to change any time soon, but I'll try to be a little more proactive about it.

In the meantime, they recently made a brand new Mega Man game. Remember those? They had about a zillion of them on the old NES, and I had a couple of them, which I played over and over again. You had two buttons on those old controllers, and that gave you two options: jump and shoot. As a result of the technical limitations of the day, the game designers had to rely on creative and interesting level design to make the games fun, and they WERE fun. Simple, and occasionally frustrating, but fun.

Well, Mega Man 9 just came out on the 360, and it's a brand new game that looks, sounds, feels, and plays just like the old ones. They even made it so that if you get too many sprites on the screen at one time, they flicker. And you know what? It's still fun! It's really, really hard, but all the gameplay elements are just like they were--the running, the jumping, the shooting guys with your little arm cannon that looks like it's shooting eggs. They didn't update it at all and I'm really glad.

What they need to do is put all those old games on one disc, add some speed run objectives, online leaderboard features, and achievements, but don't update anything about the games themselves(!) and I'd definitely pay, like, $20-$30 for it. Someone let me know if they decide to do this.