James Galvin

It must be the laziest day of the year. I hooked up the Nintendo Wii and downloaded a few old NES games:

• Excite Bike

  Browsing through the titles, I was hit by nostalgia for the excite bike theme tune. Turns out the game is not very exciting. Don’t think I played it much to begin with. Waste of credits.

  

• Megaman

  I couldn’t believe it - I beat Megaman from start to finish in under 2 hours. How could I have spent weeks (months?) struggling with this game as a nine year old. Today I beat Iceman without losing a life! I always assumed that kids were as good if not better than adults at console games, but I must have spent every waking hour playing the NES in 1988-1991 and still I would die time after time trying to get past the first part of Gutsman’s level. I confess, I did cheat twice in the final stages just like in the old days (keep pausing and unpausing really quickly to do extra damage), just to save a bit of time.

  

• Punchout

  What a classic - I was disappointed that they didn’t have Super Punchout in the Wii store, since that is even better than the original. Can’t believe I lost to Piston Honda…

  

• Ice Hockey

  I think back to all the fun I had playing this at my friends house. Choosing your team - a mixture of fat guys for strength and skinny guys for speed. Not quite as good as I remembered.

  

• Zelda II

  Still one of the greatest games of all time. Can’t wait to get back into this one. Didn’t have time to play it today, because Zelda always requires commitment. Maybe, like Megaman, the game will be much easier this time around. It feels a bit weird playing Zelda II on the Wii when I never even made it out of the village in the current Wii version.

  

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