Nostalgia

Ah yes...nostalgia for games can be the second best thing in gaming next to playing a highly anticipated new game. Returning to the NES, SNES or maybe Genisis (if you are a Sega man) every once in awhile can be really fun and it's good to return to some games you may have missed in the past. Even if they are poorly rated games but you just want to try them anyway, just the "oldness" of the game brings back some nostalgic feeling.

Emulators right now are my best friend, especially since I have 8 months left in Iraq, now when I'm a little tired of my DS I can replay some old classics I missed out on like Super Metroid. But what I was saying earlier about a poor game still being fun and nostalgic I was playing the Gameboy Color emulator with Billy Bob's Hunting and Fishing, the game is terrible, but it's so terrible it's funny. It pains me to recommend such a terrible game but if you get a chance to play it go for it. It's basically just a series of mini games where you (you guessed it) hunt and fish but be careful while fishing because you're so fat you sink your own boat in time. The story in a nutshell is hunting and fishing for specific animals or fish for this woman "Daisy" who requests them to eat.  It's highly ridiculous.

Back to good games; I'm enjoying Super Metroid, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Mario Paint (for the music maker). If you are feeling some summer draught of new games, go plug in the old consoles, maybe go to a used game store and stock up on some oldies and feel that nostalgia of the 8-bit, 16-bit era. Fun times to be had. What are some other oldies you would recommend? Maybe some poor games that are actually fun?