Over the past two and half weeks or so, I’ve been posting a story a day from a series of short anecdotes I crafted last fall. For those who have been keeping up with my posts, I wish to say thank you and I hope you enjoyed my indulgent trip down memory lane. In case…
A co-worker and I at a former job I once held mutually agreed that we wouldn’t want to be born at any other time. This came from sharing stories about being a kid when the NES came out and growing up with classics like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and countless other games…
In 1996, Nintendo released their third home console to the market, the Nintendo 64, a system four times more powerful than the measly 16-bit Super Nintendo. We argued a lot about numbers a lot back in the day like we knew what we were talking about or it actually meant something. “The PlayStation’s only 32-bit,…
Violence. Blood and gore. Martial arts. Ninjas. Cyborgs. Sorcerers. Four-armed half-dragon men. If this combination of words were presented as a clue on Jeopardy!, the correct response would be “What’s everything a kid in the ‘90’-s thought was totally rad?”. All of this and so much more were part of what endeared me to the…
As someone whose first console was an NES and didn’t have a PC at home until 1996, the concept of upgrading to a better, newer console was something that didn’t really cross my mind. But, suddenly I started seeing commercials on television for something called a Genesis – doing what Nintendon’t – and pieces in…
In Canada we have a holiday called Victoria Day, also referred to as the May 24th weekend or affectionately May 2-4, even though it often happens a week or so before the twenty-fourth of the month. In any case, it marks the start of the camping season, and people will tow their campers to RV…
Where I’m from, there are a lot of interconnected towns with very little to mark that you crossed over into a new one other than a sign welcoming you to a new place. A hub of sorts, though not that much larger than Harbour Grace, is Carbonear, a place where many come to get their…
There’s a scene in the Kevin Smith film Clerks where Randal Graves, a clerk at a mom and pop video store, goes to a Blockbuster-esque video store called Big Choice video to rent a movie – there’s a reason, you just have to see the film if you haven’t. Upon seeing the sheer amount of…
This past weekend, The Electric Playground published a video celebrating the legacy of the Nintendo 3DS, a video I was lucky enough to be included in. The Nintendo 3DS marks the companies last dedicated handheld, if you discount the fact that the Nintendo Switch now comes in a portable only variety. Though it had a bit of…
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, the first new entry in the MUA series since 2009, launched July 19th, 2019. Published by Nintendo as an exclusive for the mega popular Switch console, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 earned respectable reviews – it holds a score of 73 on Metacritic and the exact same score on OpenCritic – and was…
