Ovaltine
Smash Master
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The bear and bird have finally made it to Smash Brothers. It's been a horrible and torturous wait, but it's all been well worth it. These two have meant so much to all of us here, and I am definitely no exception. I'm elated that they've finally come back home... and now, I want to revisit some old memories with y'all. I'm sure everyone else has plenty of nice memories to share, as well, so let's go on a trip down nostalgia lane and reminisce.
I was around six, seven years old when B-K came out. I remember seeing the old commercial for it (that I think has still since been lost to time) with the dudes on a picnic, getting 'assaulted' by a bear, that bear being Banjo. That's what my memories tell me, but I don't know for sure if that's really what it was. I wish that thing could be found, because that hits my right in my little ol' heart, let me tell you.
Whatever the case, I'd wanted it as soon as I saw them. I thought they were cool and cute in my simple, young mind, and seeing it as a platformer like Super Mario 64, I knew I'd love it. I got it on my birthday after its release, I think, or some time or another around that. I played that game for hours and hours on end, often getting into trouble with the parentals because I'd play past bed time, haha. The day I finally beat Grunty, rescued Tooty, and sent the witch to her rocky grave, I was ecstatic. I doodled all sorts of B-K art in my big ol' construction paper pad with crayons and crappy pastels from some cheap, general art kit I had as a wee one. I wore pigtails in celebration, pretending to be Tooty. It was wild.
A funny story with them, too, is when I'd witnessed B-K freeze. The console must have overheated is my guess, given I was playing for hours prior to the crash, and the game came to a halt after I'd left it to eat dinner. I came back to find Banjo in Click Clock Wood's hub room, completely still. The game was dead silent with no cheery music playing. Everything had just halted. Children are scared of the tiniest things, let me tell you, and that scared the heck out of little me. I restarted my game and prayed that it'd be fine, and indeed, it was. I never left a game idle unpaused again during my childhood, and I was reluctant to do so even WITH pausing. Needless to say, that left my parents none-too-pleased if I refused to listen to any orders because my game was on. I was too scared of it crashing again.
Man, that last one is hilarious to look back on, all things considered. Now I love to dig into gaming code and mess around with what makes it tick. Crashes are not unfamiliar to me, and in fact, they're EXTREMELY common, especially if you enjoy corrupting the games intentionally. What a change.
So, any great memories, weird memories, cute memories, or funny memories? Let's take a little trip downstream, you and I. I'll play my banjo while we talk among the river waters and the buzzing bees.
I was around six, seven years old when B-K came out. I remember seeing the old commercial for it (that I think has still since been lost to time) with the dudes on a picnic, getting 'assaulted' by a bear, that bear being Banjo. That's what my memories tell me, but I don't know for sure if that's really what it was. I wish that thing could be found, because that hits my right in my little ol' heart, let me tell you.
Whatever the case, I'd wanted it as soon as I saw them. I thought they were cool and cute in my simple, young mind, and seeing it as a platformer like Super Mario 64, I knew I'd love it. I got it on my birthday after its release, I think, or some time or another around that. I played that game for hours and hours on end, often getting into trouble with the parentals because I'd play past bed time, haha. The day I finally beat Grunty, rescued Tooty, and sent the witch to her rocky grave, I was ecstatic. I doodled all sorts of B-K art in my big ol' construction paper pad with crayons and crappy pastels from some cheap, general art kit I had as a wee one. I wore pigtails in celebration, pretending to be Tooty. It was wild.
A funny story with them, too, is when I'd witnessed B-K freeze. The console must have overheated is my guess, given I was playing for hours prior to the crash, and the game came to a halt after I'd left it to eat dinner. I came back to find Banjo in Click Clock Wood's hub room, completely still. The game was dead silent with no cheery music playing. Everything had just halted. Children are scared of the tiniest things, let me tell you, and that scared the heck out of little me. I restarted my game and prayed that it'd be fine, and indeed, it was. I never left a game idle unpaused again during my childhood, and I was reluctant to do so even WITH pausing. Needless to say, that left my parents none-too-pleased if I refused to listen to any orders because my game was on. I was too scared of it crashing again.
Man, that last one is hilarious to look back on, all things considered. Now I love to dig into gaming code and mess around with what makes it tick. Crashes are not unfamiliar to me, and in fact, they're EXTREMELY common, especially if you enjoy corrupting the games intentionally. What a change.
So, any great memories, weird memories, cute memories, or funny memories? Let's take a little trip downstream, you and I. I'll play my banjo while we talk among the river waters and the buzzing bees.
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