This week I’ve been obsessed with the Wii’s Virtual Console, where I have purchased a pile of games for the 8-bit Nintendo and the Super Nintendo. The wonderful thing about this is that my wife doesn’t mind me tossing money at the Nintendo — she loves these games as much as I do.
So I’ve rediscovered that fond feeling of being completely pissed off at a stupid game. Oh sure, I get pretty upset with the latest Wii games too, such as Super Mario Galaxy and MX vs ATV, but not like I got upset with 8- and 16-bit games. When I get pissed at these games, I’m brought to the point of doing something very irrational.
Like when I keep mistiming my punch against Bald Bull’s bull charge in Punch Out.
Or dying in World 1-1 in Super Mario 2.
Or being totally overcrowded with alien ships and bullets and fire and bubbles in Gradius III.
These are things that may just cause me to throw one of the end tables into my TV. Or burn the house down.
You know, I found that the 8-bit Mario games seemed easier for me than when I was a kid. Especially SMB2. But Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (errrr…. Punch Out) my skills topped out to where they were as a kid. I beat Super Macho Man maybe 1 time out of 10 and then get waxed by Mike Tyson (errr…. Mr Dream).
Either way, its a lot of fun.
Oh, but I also pwn FF1 in awesome new ways. 4 Fighters FTW. Of course that’s not on VC and sadly, probably never will.
SMB 2 is a hell of a lot easier than I remember. Punch Out is the same old frustrating Punch Out, as good as ever.
I’ve been playing FF 1 and 2 on the Game Boy, those can never get old.
At least they don’t have Pirates.
If I were to play Pirates on the Wii, the controller would have been thrown through the window by now.