Famous Game Quote Of the Week
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you"
-Mask Salesman (Majora's Mask / N64)
The classic one liner from Majora’s Mask on Nintendo 64. This quote basically defines the whole game and summarizes Link’s predicament right at the very beginning. Link get’s cursed by skull kid in a very bad way – his form get’s changed from a handsome, strapping young lad to a hideous nut-spitting deku scrub. Man that Skull Kid sure is a nasty piece of work isn’t he? But he isn’t just talking about that, what he says applies to whole situation that Link finds himself in. He has 3 days (72 hours) to save the town and possibly the entire world as he knows it from complete destruction.
Being turned into a deku scrub, as bad as that is, is actually the least of Link’s troubles as he has such a limited time to get the mask that Skull Kid took from the mask salesman. This mask is what has given Skull Kid his God-like powers that have made him megalomaniacal and indestructible. Of course that annoying kid is not using his newfound powers for good but for evil. He is hell bent on crashing the moon into the earth with the town being ground zero. Link has so much work to do and returning to his human form is just the beginning.
Luckily Link can actually travel back in time, but only as far as 3 days. So each time Link makes some progress he start’s again from the point that he first meets the mask salesman. This actually makes his quest possible to complete, but it’s not going to be easy. Can you return Link to human, take the magical mask back to the mask salesman and bring Skull Kid to justice? It’s one hell of a predicament to find yourself in and so… You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?
16 Bit Hottie of the week
Ms. Gina, Camp Counselor
-Camp Marvelous: Another Treasure Island (SNES)
Most western gamers are probably completely unaware of who this is, since Camp Marvelous: Another Treasure Island wasn’t released in English speaking regions. The game has since been translated by fans in the form of a patch which can be applied to the ROM, so the game can now be enjoyed fully in English. This game used the same engine as Zelda 3: A Link to the Past so seasoned Super NES gamers will feel right at home when they are playing this game.
Who is the 16 bit hottie in the picture? Well it’s Gina the teacher who is responsible for the children attending the camp including the trio of main characters Dion, Max and Jack. It’s no secret to anyone in the game that Gina is stunningly gorgeous. At the end of the game even the adonis P.E teacher Mr. Arnold blushes when sees that Gina is impressed by his muscles. Everybody loves Ms. Gina and who can blame them when she is so gorgeous and lovely. Even though she is just a 16-bit depiction, there is something real about her.
The pixel artist must have based his image from a real woman because there is definitely a certain quality of this image, that makes you imagine what she would look like in real life. She likes the boys who end up rescuing her after she get’s kidnapped by pirates. In fact she likes them so much she even lets them play with her boobs! I am not kidding either see the image at the top. Now who can ask for a better Camp Counselor than her!
Above are more depictions of the lovely Ms. Gina. Have any more images for us, fan art or otherwise? Send it and we will post it.
Retro Gaming 90's Memory:
The Briefcase of SNES Cartridges
As regular reader’s of this website know I live in Australia, it’s where I was born and have lived all my life. When I was a born I was introduced to a household that had an Atari 2600 Jr. so my earliest memories involve seeing and playing simple 8 bit games on a CRT television. My dad was a gamer but he bought the cheapest gaming system that was available in 1985 (the year I was born) and that was the Atari 2600. By the time I became aware of the world around me my dad had accumulated quite 2600 games library, and I became familiar with every one of those games. Eventually I was in primary school and got introduced to the Sega Mega Drive and Master System at my friends house. About a year later my mum got a Super Nintendo with Super Mario World pack-in on layby at a department store.
It was the most amazing day of my life at the time when we setup the Super Nintendo for the first time. One day, (it may have been my birthday) my parents decided to buy me a game for the Super NES. Our neighbor was a massive tech-head, he had all the latest gadget’s for the time like a giant rear projection TV and a laser disc player. He was heavy into gaming and so he offered to come over with a range of cartridges that we try before we select what one to buy. This was an incredible day that remains in my memory to this day. It was unforgettable because when he rocked up to our house with his two kids who were my and my brother’s age, he came with a briefcase. When he opened this briefcase it was crammed full of Super Nintendo cartridges! I couldn’t believe my eyes! It was the equivalent of an adult seeing a briefcase full of cocaine or marijuana. I was only about 7 or 8 years old and being able to play all these different SNES games in one day was completely amazing. That was an awesome day, it was a long time ago so I can’t remember all the games we played but I do remember what I chose.
As I mentioned my dad was a keen gamer too so he played the games with us and I remember that he liked Starfox the most and he wanted me to choose that. But I had the final say, after all it was a present meant for me so I got to choose what game my parents would buy. Being a child of the 90’s TMNT was my favorite cartoon, I absolutely loved the turtles, my favorite character was Donatello. Obviously TMNT left a lasting impression on me because as an adult I learned Kobudo so I learned to use nunchaku, bo, sai and the sword all the weapons the teenage mutant ninja turtles used. So you can probably guessed what game I chose. I remember playing TMNT IV: Turtles in Time with my friend Jeremy who was over at the time as he was the son of Italo (the guy who brought the games over). I had so much fun playing this game with him and he urged me to choose that game which I wanted the most anyway. So it was a no brainer for me, that’s the game I chose and that’s the game my parents bought me. I was over the moon and I played the heck out of that game.
Later on in my childhood life my parents bought a UFO Super Drive Pro 6 disk copier system from Italo. That beast of technological marvel cost them a whopping $800 AUD, which was a lot of money at the time. Because it cost so much, they sold all our cartridge games to recoup the cost as this machine lets you dump cartridge games and save them to disk. So technically we didn’t need our old cartridges, except for one that had to be inserted in the top for it to operate. Unfortunately they didn’t choose to keep TMNT IV but instead kept our first game – Super Mario World. This was unfortunate because, as you are probably aware, TMNT skyrocketed in value both the PAL and NTSC versions. However it was included in 200+ disks that we got with the disk copier device. I’ll talk about this device another time, it was a staple of my childhood gaming experiences and I still have it even to this day and it still works. One thing I will tell you is the very first game I loaded up the night we got it was E.V.O. I had no idea what the game was I just picked a random game. After it finished it’s loading countdown a message came up, we saw there was another disk labelled E.V.O disk 2 so we figured this is what was needed so we put it in the disk drive and pressed B and it continued loading. When it was done the E.V.O greeted us on our TV screen, it was magic!
