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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Review

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Nintendo’s always finding new ways to reintroduce people to the NES library. Whether it’s putting them out on the Game Boy Advance, including them as bonuses in Animal Crossing, available for download on the Wii and Wii U, or available with the Nintendo Switch Online service, there’s almost always a way to play Super Mario Bros. on a Nintendo console. But those are always straight ports of the old games. They did do the NES Remix series on 3DS and Wii U, which changed things up a bit, but otherwise, it’s been the same thing. This year, Nintendo released Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, bringing with it a new way to experience these games.

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Random Game Wednesdays: Secret of Evermore (SNES)

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I’ve had a copy of Secret of Evermore in my Super Nintendo collection for a long time, but really never put much time into it. I had played it, but I don’t think I made any meaningful progress in it. It’s a pretty similar game to Secret of Mana, a game I love a lot, so it’s a little weird that this one didn’t hold my attention. But from seeing reviews on the internet, it does seem like most people consider this to be the lesser “Secret of” SNES game. That being said, the random number generator decided that it was time for me to take a closer look at it.

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Games That Only I Like

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Do you have any games that you love that you don’t think you could convince other people are any good at all? I have some. I guess this is kind of like a guilty pleasure, except that I don’t feel guilty about it at all. They’re just games that I think are good that I doubt people would agree with me about. I’m honestly not sure if this is something a lot of people experience or just kind of a “me” thing. The title of this post is kind of an exaggeration, but I had to make it something snappy. Anyway, here’s some games.

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How About That Direct? Super Nintendo World Direct (Donkey Kong Country) 11/11/24

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Today, Nintendo held another Nintendo Direct. This one was not about any games though. This isn’t the first time this has happened though. They did one for the Super Mario Bros. Movie, and they did one for the Super Nintendo World amusement park. Today’s is actually about the first expansion to Super Nintendo World, Donkey Kong Country. So what kind of stuff did they have to say?

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Digging Up Sea Of Thieves’ New Game Changers

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Yesterday I wrote about Animal Crossing, one of the games that I’ve been playing regularly for years. Today, I decided to write about the other one, Sea of Thieves. If you’re a long time reader of this blog, you know how much I like that game. It was my game of the year back in 2018 when it first came out and has only gotten better as more features have been added over the years. I thought I’d take a little time to talk about some of the newest stuff and what I thought of them.

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What I Want From The Next Animal Crossing

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I have played Animal Crossing: New Horizons every day since the day it came out. I’ve slowed down a lot since the early days, mostly just saying hi to all my neighbors and digging up all my fossils and little things like that lately. With the successor to the Nintendo Switch coming some time next year, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see in the next Animal Crossing game. So here’s a few things I’d like to see.

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Pokemon TCG Pocket First Impressions

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I don’t normally play a whole lot of mobile games, but I did grow up playing the Pokemon trading card game. So when a new Pokemon mobile game based on the trading card game became available, I thought it would be fun to give it a look. Will this be like most mobile games I play and I only stick with it for about a week, or will this be like Fire Emblem Heroes, where I’m still playing every day?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)

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Any time I get an RPG for Random Game Wednesdays, I feel a little bit of dread. I typically only play about half an hour of a game before writing about it for these posts, and that’s not a lot of time to get a good feel for them. Thankfully, I’m pretty familiar with Final Fantasy VIII. It’s actually always been one of my favorites in the series, however it’s also a game that came out when I was in middle school. Considering how much criticism the game gets, it’s definitely possible that my love for it is mostly nostalgia. But hey, let’s take a look at the beginning of Final Fantasy VIII and see what I think about it.

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This Was A Busy Day

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This was a very busy day for me. Plus there was, you know, an election that we’re anxiously awaiting the results of. So, my brain is pretty shot. However I still need to write something. But I never said in my original post that they had to be long posts. So hey, go play some video games and try to relax. Join me tomorrow for something a little more in depth.