Saturday, October 9, 2010

Video Game Nostalgia

Back in the day (2004-ish), my friend had the game Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube. Recently, I hooked up the Wii and got all nostalgic and have been using it to play GameCube games on.
The spark for this was in an episode of Scrubs, where the ending montage song was "Everybody's Changing" by Keane. There are parts in that song where the piano is prevalent and it sounds akin to the Clock Tower music in Majora's Mask. This made me start playing Majora's Mask again, as it is one of my favorite Zelda games.
Then, thinking of Kirby Air Ride, I went and bought it at the local GameStop. The thing that I like about the game is that it has this achievement board in which when you unlock one achievement, the adjacent achievements are then displayed -- giving goals to what would otherwise be a mundane Kirby racing game. And let's face it, if I just want to play any racing game I'm going to play Mario Kart 64, or maybe Diddy Kong Racing.