On the Game Boy Advance, there’s Punch King…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS7vE0Llwkw

…and Wade Hixton’s Counter Punch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2VkguvyTs

I haven’t played either of them, so no promises that they’re good!

Metroid II is my all-time favorite game in the series. It introduces her ship, introduces her iconic look, and is the last game in the series to not include the “break this with this item” blocks. I just love everything about that game.

Justin Bailey Samus >>> Zero Suit Samus 👀

Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu

FYI we got this game when we we got our Switch and it sat, untouched, for YEARS, until I finally picked it up a few months ago. Honestly, I REALLY enjoyed it! BUT… the first 30 minutes to an hour are very poorly done, and are soooo boring. After that it hooked me.

As someone who’s favorite game in the series is the original Pokémon Red, I think this remake was quite well done. It looks great (much better than Sword / Shield in my opinion), and really trims out a lot of the fluff and grind of the classic games.

Also if he’s playing, you can use the second controller to join him and casually help him catch and battle Pokémon. It’s cute. :)

Let me know if you want any more in depth review or info.

YESSS.

Favorite character is Midna from Twilight Princess. Her design is just so weird but it works. She antagonistic towards the player but I can’t help but love her. Your friendship grows throughout the game until that one incredible shot together. And the surprise ending is both fun and tragic.

EDIT: this shot.

https://www.deviantart.com/hayato-01/art/Link-And-Midna-screenshot-TWILIGHT-PRINCESS-517986893

Favorite relationship is Marin from Link’s Awakening. She’s wonderful on her own, but then she shares so much about her life on the island and her dreams and grows even deeper as a character. I feel a stronger bond between her and Link than any incarnation of Zelda.

I recently discovered IsabelleChiming and I am in love. They do remakes of classic gaming soundtracks.

https://isabellechiming.bandcamp.com/album/the-legend-of-zelda-remade

https://isabellechiming.bandcamp.com/album/zelda-ii-the-adventure-of-link-remade

…and I wrote the soundtrack to the recent Game Boy Color homebrew game, Dangan GB2, if you’re interested… 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJduIfPzsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBm44oWwsk

I can’t see the name Apogee without hearing the fanfare.

I miss Wacky Wheels.

Holy cow you put a TON of effort into this! I actually JUST finished playing through DKC3 for the first time. It’s amazing how many non-fun stages there are right at the end.

The stage that I have the least fond memories of was climbing up a cliff side waterfall by jumping on top of floating barrels? Ugh, it took me FOREVER. XD

Does RSC have end to end encryption? Is it on by default?

Waaaait a minute… isn’t it called a variable because the contents are, you know, variable?

I came here to say the original NES Metroid game! Metroids still terrify me. 😆

But yeah, Metroid Fusion was so scary it caused me to take a three year break before I could finish it. 😅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ume5pSIcKE

It’s from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, if anyone else was as confused as I was. 😅

Quest for Camelot

Oh, interesting! It’s a top down Zelda-like action adventure game. It’s actually not too bad! It’s also one of the most common, absolute cheapest GBC cartridges you can buy. 😅

Yes, but I understand what you mean. So many business and schools have switched entirely to Google Docs and similar.

This article is strange… The author uses “being able to open Microsoft Office documents” as a common example of what an OS that claims to be easy to use should be able to do. Then says…

When people download Ubuntu 23.04 they get an OS that can do everything Windows 95 did - with 23.10 they don’t

No default installation of Microsoft Windows EVER opened Microsoft Office documents. If this was a simple oversight in the write-up it’d be fine, but the point is hammered over and over again.

I don’t have an opinion about Ubuntu including or not including more software in the default installation (my guess is it became too big to fit on a DVD?) but this article failed to make it’s point to me by making a comparison to Windows that isn’t true.

Also…

the world’s most popular desktop Linux operating system (that’s Ubuntu, for those of you playing dumb)

Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can’t tell. What metric of “most popular” is the author using?

Played 8 hours last night so this is a very early impression

HOLY CRAP it takes like 25 minutes to play through DuckTales on the NES, I guess I’m not used to modern games. 😆

Anyway, thanks for the great write-up!

I always find it fascinating when they have to make a trailer for an incredibly violent video game but still have it be approved for general audiences. It has to be edited to perfection, down to the frame, to show violence without any of the violence. 😅

To anyone reading this article, only the first quarter of it is about the beliefs and political stance of the developers. The rest of the article after that goes into more technical reasons.

It was years after the Switch came out that I finally decided to get one, and honestly the one game that combined me to get it was Link’s Awakening. I love that game so much!

Over the years, I ended up spending the most time playing Animal Crossing. I beat Mario Odyssey and it was nice. I really could not get into Breath of the Wild at all, or the sequel.