Nostalgia

I've talked before about what makes games valuable, and I talked a little about nostalgia...

Nostalgia is amazing. Nothing like reminiscing about your past, and the things you loved about it. Nostalgia has been escaping me a lot recently, so I want to take some time and delve into my adolescent youth and play some games that I played growing up.

Basically what this made me realize was how difficult it actually can be to make a good video game. There's not just the fact that you have to make it playable, enjoyable, if it's online it needs longevity, and there's creating that connection from game to gamer that really isn't an easy feat to accomplish.

The reason I'm blogging shortly, and specifically about it is how much the L4D Kokiri Forest map made me remember how much I loved Ocarina of Time.

What I'm going to try to get to work is streaming some N64 Ocarina of Time some time soon. I'll be hitting up some SNES games as well, more than likely. Hopefully with a friend to make things a bit more interesting.

Now I don't have a setup to get my N64 to play over the net, so I have an emulator and a ROM, which actually makes things a bit easier. Right now there's a couple bugs I need to figure out to get the emulator and rom to work, but that shouldn't take too long.

Ocarina of Time will always be my all time number one favorite Zelda game. It's actually probably one of my top favorite games of all time.

So I apologize for how hastily this was entry was written, but I'm just so excited to start this game again!