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I don't actually watch the Super Bowl for the actual game. I watch it for the commercials (then again, plenty of people say the same thing). Then again, I'm not into watching football nor do I play Madden (and I tend not to really acknowledge that NFL game I got with the Dreamcast I bought off of eBay). I wouldn't really say there was much interesting commercials for it. However, I did see a commercial for a particular movie. Of course, I knew about it due to seeing a billboard of it when I went to Universal Studios last month. It was a movie for Battleship. Yes, a movie based around that board game. I see the commercial and it really looks ridiculous, considering the source material. This is reminding me of that one Robot Chicken skit where Hollywood is now going after board games to make movies off of, where Hungry, Hungry Hippo is a movie where the hippos are "hungry for justice", Chutes and Ladders is apparently a buddy cop movie, and Slip 'n Slide is a bank heist movie (I know that last one isn't a board game but yeah, the skit went that way). My comment in regards to that commercial for the Battleship movie? "Congratulations, Hollywood. You sunk my battleship!" (I was about to reference how there was actually a movie made out of the board game Clue and how at least that makes more sense since the game is pretty much a murder mystery. Apparently, they're doing a remake of that one too if Wikipedia there is correct. Yeah, no comment).
Anyway, that same weekend, I played The Simpsons arcade game, which was released on Xbox Live back on Friday (by the time you're reading this, it's bound to be on PSN). I'll admit that $10 is pricey for what I got but I don't regret it. That's also despite that I'm a PS+ subscriber and they're getting it for free. Okay, since Binky from Life is Hell made cameos in the Simpsons arcade game, I should be okay describing my purchase of the Simpsons arcade game on Xbox Live by referencing a certain other Matt Groening cartoon. You probably know what I'm talking about if I said, in regards to Konami releasing this port, "Shut up and take my money!"
Which leads me into the thing about nostalgia. I would think that I am above acting like everything in the past is so much better (if you think that sounds very snobby, well, I don't blame you since it does sound pretty snobby). When it comes down to Konami's beat 'em ups, one can say that they are mindless button mashers. Of course, it can be said for any other beat 'em ups (even if I use Guy or Cody in Final Fight and do infinite on those goons, which involves quickly punching the other way during the normal combo and back again repeatedly until they're dead). I just mentioned what I say because I did see Gamespot's review of the XBLA port and pretty much said it's bad because of what I described in regards to Konami's beat 'em ups. Of course, I read the comments and, as I expected, nostalgic people aren't taking it well.
Somehow, I actually enjoyed that half hour playthrough of the Simpsons arcade game more than I did, say, Castle Crasher (the most highly praised beat 'em up released and somehow, couldn't care about beating it). The same guy who doesn't treat the original 151 Pokémon as the only Pokémon in existence (my Chikorita plush sitting on my desk right now as I type this says, "Hi!", or should I say, "Chiko!" Besides, it's my favorite starter Pokémon), realized Bubsy was an annoying mascot character wishing he was Sonic the Hedgehog, even if he enjoyed it as a kid, and wasn't in such a fit over Lloyd Irving not sounding like Robin from Teen Titans in any other English Tales game he was in (and a certain Soul Calibur spin off I rather forget existed).
Maybe I tend to feel like I'm wanting to just toss my nostalgia to the curb due to how illogical it is. Yet, I'm not feeling like nostalgia is clouding it. Heck, I don't even have nostalgia for the X-Men arcade game and still enjoyed it (and I even managed to get 6 people to play it locally back in November and it was really something). I even feel like I should expect my nostalgia to always not hold up (i.e. I didn't know better back then).
Okay, tl;dr version: I'll never understand nostalgia, even when I say I'm above acting like stuff in the past were better than today.
Anyway, that same weekend, I played The Simpsons arcade game, which was released on Xbox Live back on Friday (by the time you're reading this, it's bound to be on PSN). I'll admit that $10 is pricey for what I got but I don't regret it. That's also despite that I'm a PS+ subscriber and they're getting it for free. Okay, since Binky from Life is Hell made cameos in the Simpsons arcade game, I should be okay describing my purchase of the Simpsons arcade game on Xbox Live by referencing a certain other Matt Groening cartoon. You probably know what I'm talking about if I said, in regards to Konami releasing this port, "Shut up and take my money!"
Which leads me into the thing about nostalgia. I would think that I am above acting like everything in the past is so much better (if you think that sounds very snobby, well, I don't blame you since it does sound pretty snobby). When it comes down to Konami's beat 'em ups, one can say that they are mindless button mashers. Of course, it can be said for any other beat 'em ups (even if I use Guy or Cody in Final Fight and do infinite on those goons, which involves quickly punching the other way during the normal combo and back again repeatedly until they're dead). I just mentioned what I say because I did see Gamespot's review of the XBLA port and pretty much said it's bad because of what I described in regards to Konami's beat 'em ups. Of course, I read the comments and, as I expected, nostalgic people aren't taking it well.
Somehow, I actually enjoyed that half hour playthrough of the Simpsons arcade game more than I did, say, Castle Crasher (the most highly praised beat 'em up released and somehow, couldn't care about beating it). The same guy who doesn't treat the original 151 Pokémon as the only Pokémon in existence (my Chikorita plush sitting on my desk right now as I type this says, "Hi!", or should I say, "Chiko!" Besides, it's my favorite starter Pokémon), realized Bubsy was an annoying mascot character wishing he was Sonic the Hedgehog, even if he enjoyed it as a kid, and wasn't in such a fit over Lloyd Irving not sounding like Robin from Teen Titans in any other English Tales game he was in (and a certain Soul Calibur spin off I rather forget existed).
Maybe I tend to feel like I'm wanting to just toss my nostalgia to the curb due to how illogical it is. Yet, I'm not feeling like nostalgia is clouding it. Heck, I don't even have nostalgia for the X-Men arcade game and still enjoyed it (and I even managed to get 6 people to play it locally back in November and it was really something). I even feel like I should expect my nostalgia to always not hold up (i.e. I didn't know better back then).
Okay, tl;dr version: I'll never understand nostalgia, even when I say I'm above acting like stuff in the past were better than today.
