Intro

   I was born in 1980.  I grew up with, played, and loved the Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy, SNES, Playstation, N64, and Playstation 2, and Game Boy Advance.  I've also played and enjoyed many other consoles such as Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafx 16, Xbox, Game Cube, Wii, DS, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Droid.

   To me, video games are about compelling gameplay and fun.  If you're not compelled to play, and you're not having fun, then why bother?

   I really got into the NES above any other system listed above.  It remains to this day my favorite console.  If you are familiar with its library, then you know how badly some of the games on it suck.  Probably more than half of NES games are shitty experiences not worth repeating.  Because I became familiar with this notion early in my life, I consider myself a game connoisseur.  I don't waste my time with junk.  I want the good stuff and only the good stuff.

   The real reason I'm writing this blog is because I want to design video games.  If I'm writing at least weekly about video games and their mechanisms, I'm going to learn what kind of systems and game mechanics make great games, bad games, and the whole spectrum in between.  I hope this helps my ability to design games.

   I don't like people who do bad things to people.  I love nice people.  I don't like to hurt and irreparably damage the Earth.  I hope we can all get on board with not doing that sooner than later.  I don't like whiny music.  The music I like is usually very heavy and has at least a bit of an aggressive edge, not necessarily heavy metal.  Drum n Bass is a good example of the type of music I enjoy most, though I love singing a good country song or doowop, too.  I love explosions, ninjas, cars, parties, science, fashion, Lady Gaga, and neon.  I love to draw images which are based in math.  I love mixing music.  I love the way that cats behave.  I particularly love my own cat.  Go figure.  I generally prefer pixel graphics to vector graphics.  I generally prefer 2d games to 3d games.

   At the time being, I've been going through a lot of the GBA library, most of which is really quite horrible.  I've been searching for really good web games, a few you'll probably read about.  I'm playing through Super Mario 3d Land on the 3DS, a great example of a contemporary game that's compelling and fun.  Chances are high that the NES is the system whose games I'm most going to write about.  NES reviews on the internet are redundant.  Straight up.  However, I intend to write about the way the games play, the mechanics that drive them along, how well those work, and what does and does not work.  I haven't read any reviews that do this, so I hope that makes my classic reviews still relevant today.  Hopefully, this blog will be as helpful to its readers as I think it will be for me.

   Thank you for stopping by.