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Superman is Lame

I almost won an auction for a Superman Famicom cartridge on eBay recently. For those who don’t know, Famicom is the Japanese version of the NES. Boy, am I glad I didn’t win. I found a site that has an NES emulator and several ROMs. It has different screen sizes and works pretty well.Here is the Superman one. I’ve also added a perma-link to the sidebar for http://www.1980-games.com/.

Superman NES Screenshot

The only piece of advice I can give to anyone who enjoys Superman is this: Don’t ever buy the NES/Famicom game. Superman can’t even fly. And he looks like a Weeble Wobble. The music is also incredibly lame.

I was surprised to learn that the NES version of Galaga is actually not that bad…

Galaga

Enjoy.

Posted by on December 27, 2005 at 8:58 am
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Finding Zelda

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.

Posted by on December 11, 2005 at 11:06 am
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Taito Legends

Well I was at lunch today… and the little 9 pin connector in the back of my head made me go into Toys-R-Us. When I woke up, I was in the video game section where I found this:

Available for the Xbox, PS2 and I think the Gamecube. For full game listings, pictures and a pretty neat website go here: http://www.taitolegends.com/ There are 29 games on the disc.

Battle Shark
Bubble Bobble
Colony 7
Continental Circus
Electric Yo-Yo
Elevator Action
Exzisus
Gladiator
Great Swordsman
Jungle Hunt
Ninja Kids
The New Zealand Story
Operation Thunderbolt
Operation Wolf
Phoenix
Plotting
Plump Pop
Rainbow Islands
Rastan
Return of the Invaders
Space Gun
Space Invaders
Space Invaders part 2
Super Qix
Thunderfox
Tokio
Tube It
Volfied
Zoo Keeper

You get ’em all for $20.

Posted by on November 29, 2005 at 3:30 pm
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More on the Nintendo Revolution

revolution-colors

Specifications:

  • Stylized shell about the thickness of three DVD cases stacked flatly on top of each other
  • May come in five different colors including a sleek, glossy black and an Apple-esque white
  • Backward compatible. Plays both GameCube optical discs and proprietary 12cm discs, the latter of which may be dual-layered for upward of 8GBs storage capacity
  • Slot-loading drive with stylized blue light
  • One proprietary component/digital out located on the rear of the system
  • Two USB 2.0 ports located on the rear of the system
  • No Ethernet jack; Revolution connects to the Internet using 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi wireless
  • GameCube docking station features inputs for four GCN controllers and two Memory Paks
  • Two front slots for 512MB flash memory, likely SD Card compatible
  • Utilizes wireless controllers
  • Custom-built IBM CPU, codenamed Broadway; speed and architecture undetermined at this time
  • Custom-built ATI-GPU, codenamed Hollywood; speed and architecture undetermined at this time
  • MoSys-developed 1T-SRAM solution; unknown amount of memory at this time
  • Nintendo download service: connect online and download classic NES, S-NES and N64 games

An excellent article on Nintendo’s philosophy on the next generation in console games.

Question for you: Have you ever tried putting a 3″ CD into a regular CD slot drive?

Posted by on November 28, 2005 at 1:59 pm
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Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed

I thought this was a joke at first… It looks like an iPod or a remote for the new Front Row feature on the iMac. I did some research and the following is an actual representation of the remotes to be sold with the Nintendo Revolution…

Nin-Rev-Small

It looks like ergonomics took a hike.

Posted by on November 22, 2005 at 3:48 pm
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