ONM Remembered – #419
“There’s evil afoot, deep within the ancient pyramid. Go get ’em, fat boy!”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 94 (July 2000)
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ONM Remembered – #418
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but large hooks will kill you”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 123 (December 2002)
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Can you escape from Robotnik’s island of traps?
Here’s a pile of stuff – so much stuff I’m going to bust out some bulletpoints! It’s probably unnecessary, but what the heck!
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The Legend of Zelda playthrough is finally finished! Well, I completed the game last year and only wrote a conclusion this week. I’m bad at being punctual.
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Some Games I Played In 2015 is a thing. It’s still unfinished, but I figured there’s enough waffling in there to put it up early.
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I dug up some unused graphics from SegaSonic Arcade. I also have no idea where you find this page. It’s buried in General Writings somewhere, right?
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Metal Slug: Missing in Action has some odds and sods, mostly for the first game.
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And the Totally Bombastic Bomberman Shrine Place pretends it has an update because it’d feel sad if it were left out.
I feel like I’ve said this multiple times by now (I last said it only six months ago!), but ONM Remembered will be wrapping up in a few months, probably around March. Only when it’s nearing the end do I realise there was stuff I wanted to highlight or topics I wanted an excuse to talk about! Ah well. It’s not like I have a blog where I can waffle about anything whenever I want.
I admit the schedule system is a double-edged sword – it’s rewarding to know I’ve got some form of content lined up for months ahead, but the unrelenting nature of its output is probably tough for folks to keep up with; I know if I weren’t writing it I’d find it hard to keep up. I haven’t checked on GameWTFs in ages because it’s like, crap, I missed a month! That’s gonna be a lot to catch up on! So rather than just popping in now and then or working my way backwards or something, I put it off until I have time to binge-read my way from where I left off to now… which only gets more monumental with each missed update. Someday, I swear!
The thought of doing more scheduled blog content in future sounds nifty, probably just a bi-weekly ramble on some topic or another. But that also sounds like hard work so I wouldn’t count on it.
That’s another thing – I meant to take a break from the site this year! I though it’d do me good to just focus on new projects and not worry about deadlines or pleasing an invisible audience… but then working on new projects was just too weird and stressful when farting about with Bomberman research is so much easier. I have bizarre comfort zones.
I always have stuff I’d like to be working on for the site: there’s plenty of Bomberman stuff I want to cover, which would also give me fodder for Random Action Hour. There’s some games I’d love to gush about; I’d like a hub for my game playthrough videos; I’m itching to give the place another makeover… but I’d also like to make time for other crap I wanna do.
I’m pretty sure I said the exact same thing last year and nothing came of that, but I like the illusion of giving myself options.
Until the next update!
ONM Remembered – #417
“If you drive off-road for more than three seconds, you get told off. Thanks, mum.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 07 (September 2006)
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ONM Remembered – #416
“Baywatch Pam in videogame outburst fury row type thing”
from Computer & Video Games issue 168 (November 1995)
ONM Remembered – #415
“Please go now. We’re not calling the police! My mum’s phone number is 999 as well! Hello? HELP US!”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 132 (September 2003)
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ONM Remembered – #414
“Noddy counts the cash he’s made from the game spin-off of his cartoon!”
from Nintendo Pro issue 33 (2000)
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ONM Remembered – #413
“Bomberman Plays With A PlayStation”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 66 (March 1998)
ONM Remembered – #412
“Dom watches in misery as the errant skateboard rolls away, leaving him looking rather foolish.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 116 (May 2002)
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ONM Remembered – Wallop Week, day 7
“Still, all the best games filch the best elements from films, and Mace’s character design is no exception. Well, at least they left the ‘Knights Who Say Nee’ out. Thankfully.”
from N64 Magazine issue 9 (December 1997)
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