ONM Remembered – #325
“21: The number of days before the premiere of Pokémon when Ash’s sidekick, Clefairy, was replaced by Pikachu.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 116 (May 2002)
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ONM Remembered – #324
“… along with new weirdoes such as Rabbid the giant, scooter-riding rabbit who thinks he’s Norman Bates, and Claw Capaldi, the evil mobster lobster with a huge chip on his shoulder.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 59 (August 1997)
(big ups to OldGameMags for the scans!)
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History trembles with unbearable anger
So, how about that F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu, huh? Its coverage finished on Random Action Hour way back in April, if you missed it! It got a hastily-made characters page and everything!
I got around six emails during that period about what people want to see on Random Action Hour, which was actually pretty nifty! It’s neat to see folks still expressing interest in the site, and I appreciate the interest, though covering F-Zero was exhausting enough; I forgot how time-consuming that stuff can be! There’s a couple of shows I’d like to cover on it sometime in the future, but I can’t imagine it’d be any time soon. I need a break.
And having essentially watched the series two and a half times by now, I need to get it off my chest: my big dumb opinions on F-Zero: The Legend of Falcon can be found beneath the cut!
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ONM Remembered – #323
“A game that gives the great Mazza a run for his money.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 62 (November 1997)
(big ups to OldGameMags for the scans!)
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ONM Remembered – #322
“FIRST LOOK AT… DIE HARD“
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 121 (October 2002)
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ONM Remembered – #321
“… letting you feel every red-hot bullet penetrating Bond’s soft flesh.”
from 64 Magazine volume 9 (1998)
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“What? Corny? My clothes? You need a lesson!”
It’s a pity to lose one of my favourite running gags, but it had to happen sometime – the Puchi Carat shrine has finally gotten updated! There’s newly translated information for each of the characters, a lot more research into the game pages, plus a big dumb wiki-like glossary page that involved less writing and more deciphering pixelated place names.
This wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t suddenly gotten two or three very nice emails about the shrine near the end of August; it tickles me knowing the game means a lot to folks out there, and that my dumb ol’ coverage of the site meant something to them. So I thought, dang it, let’s put my back into it again and get something done! To the Puchi Carat fans out there, thank you for your patience, hugs and kisses for your kind emails, and hopefully the update has been worth the wait. (and if not, shoot me an email or tweet me and tell me what it needs – feedback makes it all worthwhile!)
Mind you, since I’ve been living and breathing that game for weeks on end I can’t even tell what I’ve added to the site. I keep thinking to myself, “is that it? Is that all I’ve done? Wasn’t there more?” I probably remember the late nights more than what I did during them. Don’t make a website, kids.
ONM Remembered – #320
“We think she’s on to ‘thumbthing’.”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 116 (May 2002)
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ONM Remembered – #319
“GO WILD! On Your Game Boy Advance”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 123 (December 2002)
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ONM Remembered – #318
“You’ll never meet a more heroic band of game reviewers than these fellows.”
from N64 Magazine issue 8 (November 1997)
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