First, we got a microwave oven in 1999, and now, in the glorious year of 2004, I am finally the proud owner of a Game Boy Color system.
While all of you other rotten BitSmackers prattle on and on about your GBA SP’s connected to your GameCubes connected to each other over your high-speed internet connections connected to your Xboxes and PS2’s and a zillion other gamers around the world, I’m playing…
(…dramatic pause…)
Kirby’s Dream Land!
Oh, I’m not jealous. I enjoy playing dippy little Nintendo titles in simulated color (since this game is a B&W game for the original Game Boy). I enjoy living in the past. I enjoy playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the zillionth time. Why would I want something new, with all that crappy 3-D and full-frame-rate video and beautiful sound?
OK, maybe I am a little bitter. I’d love to have the money to have all these new games, and the time to play them… but I don’t. So, this Kirby game suits me perfectly. I can sneak in a few levels while I’m on the crapper, and I can win the thing in way less than an hour. Plus, Kirby positively cracks me up! Sucking in bad guys and spitting them back out… a classic Nintendo acid trip!
I’ll be expanding my GBC library over the next few months. Be sure to check out my reviews here on BitSmack. (BTW, do I still need to finish the games before writing a review?)
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What can I say? I wouldn’t be bitter about Kirby…If I count the times I played through that game on my Super Game Boy on my SNES, wow, what memories!
Kirby came with me to college when many other games fell through the cracks.
Rock on, pink dude!
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