CHAPTER 10: NINTENDO 64

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,…

CHAPTER 2: MY ORIGIN STORY

With the proliferation of comic book movies in cinemas nowadays, everyone has seen there fair share of iconic origin stories: Peter Parker getting bitten by a radioactive spider, gaining fantastical abilities that through a twist of fate cost him the life of his Uncle Ben; a young Bruce Wayne witnessing his parents killed before his…

I’M NOT READY TO MAKE THE SWITCH…YET.

In my approaching thirty-three years of life, a lot of which has been parked in front of a screen with controller in hand, I never got to participate in the launch of a brand new console though I always wanted to. The way things always played out was that I either didn’t have the money…

WHY A LEGEND OF ZELDA LIVE-ACTION SERIES IS A TERRIBLE IDEA

As last week turned into the weekend the final big piece of entertainment news that started circulating everywhere was that Netflix was in talks with Nintendo to make a live-action The Legend of Zelda tv-series, described as Game of Thrones for the whole family. Between that time and the time that you’ll eventually see this article, I would…