METROID II REMAKE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!!

Click the link below.

Now.

http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/

It has been in development for YEARS (in fact, I mentioned it back on the page for Episode 15) and I was so excited this morning to download it and give it a play.

 

 

 I'm about halfway through the game, and it's everything I could want it to be and more.

If Nintendo was clever, they'd contact the genius who made this game and immediately get him to remove it before bringing him straight to Nintendo headquarters to work on porting the game to 3DS or NX officially. It really is as good as anything Nintendo itself could have made, and boy, is that saying something!

IRVY'S PACKING UP...

So I've decided to move houses, and this time I'm going to build! You can bet your butt I'm gonna make sure the new house has a sweet gaming den! In the meantime, I was a bit sad to pack my retro games up tonight so thought it was worth a blog post. I've got strangers coming to walk around my house tomorrow and I don't want them touching my games!! (Especially children...)

So into the big box they go.

How's everyone's gaming going? I blasted through Twilight Princess HD. Even though I'd finished it twice before, I just couldn't put it down. I love it so much; my favourite of the 3D Zeldas.

I finally finished Mega Man Legends a month back. After abandoning the game years ago when I simply could not beat the last boss, I thought it was time to conquer this unfinished game. And I did! (Though that last boss is still a nightmare)

Now I'm on to Legends 2. I think I'm about half way through it. I find myself torn with the Legends games. I quite enjoy playing them, but they really have not aged well, and mechanically they were clunky and outdated when they were first released. They're fun, but not classics. I don't get why people were so destroyed when Legends 3 got cancelled.

Anyway, I'll keep on packing. Stay cool people.

AN EXCITING DAY!

My retro-loving friends, I am a very happy man today. FINALLY, my collection of Super Play magazines is complete!

:-) :-) :-)

 
Super Play was - and is - the greatest 16-bit magazine ever created. But during the actual era, I only ever managed to collect 20 out of the 47 issues.

Over the last 5 or 6 years I have been keeping an ever-watchful eye on eBay, occasionally snapping up one of the issues I didn't own (and paying top-dollar for some of them...)

Now I have the complete set. So happy. So proud. If you'd like a reminder on how awesome this magazine was, click to the right to find some of the "Super Play Corner" posts I did on this blog.

(You can click on the images for a closer look)

In other news, I actually bought myself a Mega Drive! :-o
 I've been creating a sweet retro setup which I hope to show sometime in the near future, but I fear that my current house isn't big enough for it! >_< (Time to find a new house!)

Stay cool, people. :-)

O.M.G...

How... how the heck is this even possible?? o.O

  

CHECK OUT MY NEW C.D!

This C.D. arrived in my mail box from Amazon today!

It is (as expected) fantastic - I especially love the arrangements of "Not Alone" and "Roses of May" from FF9 - and it got me remembering the trip I took in the middle of 2011, while I was in the midst of blogging retro gaming. I drove all the way up to Sydney and saw the "Distant Worlds" concert at the Opera House with a meet-and-greet afterwards. I still can't believe that I actually got to shake Uematsu's hand! What an honour!

 

  

I highly recommend picking up all three "Distant Worlds" C.D.s if you like Final Fantasy music; they are brilliant!

OH WOW...

19 YEARS LATER...

I just finished Earthbound. Finally. That is all. ;-)