“Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
-President Whitmore, Independence Day
Retro
How can I see things from a character’s point of view if they’re constantly breaking the fourth wall to spell out their point of view?
“It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming…”
-Masahiro Sakurai
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Macho, macho man,
I gotta be a macho man!”
-Village People
“To me, Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry.”
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
“I don’t wanna look like a weirdo. I’ll just go with a muumuu.”
[Homer Simpson]
-King-Size Homer (SE7 EP7)
“Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team”
-Pink Floyd
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Angry Birds, er… I mean Duck Hunt… was the game that no one wanted but everyone played, at least in North America.
“Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We’re just used to being the cat.”
-Dr. Henry Wu
“I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul.” -DW
“Some promises are meant to be broken.” -The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [tagline]
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
-Poppy Z. Brite
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
“These are two hungry dino-mights and they’ve got bubble fight’n fun down tight. You and…
Strip off your BVDs and throw your pants back on because today we’re running with Captain Commando and his “Commando Companions”. I kid you not, that’s canon.
When was the last time you saw the 1987 NES boxing-classic Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! in…
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” -Lord John Dalberg-Acton
“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?”
-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve been through two PlayStation One’s that stopped working because of lens problems, two PlayStation 2’s, a slim and a regular black one, that just decided they had had enough, an Xbox that cried itself to sleep, a Gamecube that became a paperweight, and a PS3 that’s rapidly deteriorating and recently refuses indomitably to run even its own PS Store.
But you know what? My Super Nintendo still works. In fact, it works just fine. Works better than my PS3.
