As many of you know I had my tonsils out a week and a half ago. So for a long period of time I had nothing to do but eat soft foods, drink a lot of water, pop and juice–and play video games.

Awhile back I bought Gameboy Advance because they had recently started releasing old skool NES carts for it. Among them were Metroid, Zelda, The Adventures of Link, Excitebike, Bomberman, Ice-Climber, Super Mario Bros. Castlevania and Donkey Kong.

I’m proud to announce during my voice outage I was able to complete Zelda! This is the first time I’ve ever completed Zelda. Even when I was a kid and we had the game I could never get myself to sit there long enough to beat it. It was fairly satisifying–I must say. I do have to admit I did look at this resource two times during gameplay. After all, I’m not 15 with weeks to figure this stuff out on my own.

Now I’m on to Metroid. Which I find more daunting than Zelda. We’ll see how I fare against the Metroids and their Minibosses.