Rule 32: Enjoy the little things in life.

A while ago I wrote a post on one of my favorite Super Nintendo games, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.  Not long after that, I asked on twitter and facebook what other people’s favorite SNES games were.  And boy did I get a response.  Before I get to the list, let me laud the SNES some more.

I got my SNES over a decade ago, it was a birthday gift from my friends, and somehow it still works.  It’s on of the original SNES with the two purple bars for power and reset.  These things were made to last.  A library made of greatness (as you’ll see later), it is still my favorite console.  For the record, PS2 is number two (one of the greatest library of games).  Games for the SNES are just flat out fun.  And to make sure it’s not just nostalgia speaking, I recently hooked mine up and played it for quite a while.  Lo and behold, most of the games are still quite fun.  Super Mario World is my favorite Mario game, (I just never could get the hang of 3d mario controls, and I prefer sidescrolling platformers anyways), Mega man X is totally awesome, Super Metroid defined the series, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past of one of the greatest games ever (my personal favorite Zelda, nothing against Ocarina, just a preference.)  Final Fantasy VI (3 in US) is my favorite FF ever,  etc.  So many classic on the system. So, so many.

Now for the list (in no particular order):

Secret of Mana – awesomeness.

Zelda: Link to the Past – maybe not the best, but my favorite Zelda.

Super Mario Kart – Still the best of the series. (many people agree with me)

Super Tecmo Bowl

Yoshi’s Island – One of the best platformers ever made.

Super Mario World – THE CLASSIC. (many, many, many people on this one)

Mega Man X – (X2 and X3 as well if they weren’t impossible to find)

Donkey Kong Country  (whole series. many, people on this one.)

Final Fantasy VI (III in America) – (IV is also very good, II in America) Also, my favorite Final Fantasy ever.  Terra FTW, Kefka FTW.

Battle Cars

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

Other games deserving mention:

Chrono Trigger – One of my favorite RPGs (and games) period. You must play this game.

Super Metroid

Bahamut Lagoon

Castlevania X

Tiny Tales: Buster busts loose – Don’t laugh! It’s a really fun game!

Turtles in Time: A Great beat-up em starring everyone’s  favorite mutant ninjas.

Super Star Wars, Empire, Jedi – These games.  Great games, hard as hell. Not sure if the’re more to say about ‘em other than that, really.

Super Mario All-Stars –  simply a must have collection

Pilot Wings – Surprisingly fun.

Aladdin – Great platformer, despite being a license game.

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest – Kidding! But I did enjoy it in middle school.

Please, let me know if I have left any off this list.  I will gladly add your in my celebration of the Super Nintento Entertainment System.  Goodbye everyone, and good gaming!

–theindiegeek out.

Now that 2009 is up and over, time for me to rant and rave about the crappiest movie of the year (that I actually saw).  Now, every year will have its stinkers, but you can usually tell most before you actually go to the show.  Others you expect to be mediocre but fun, and they are.  This one is a bit different.  It is a sequel from a big-name director, and I actually enjoyed the first one pretty much.  Wasn’t the biggest fan of the lead, and thought they could do with more of some things and less of others and had hoped for the sequel they’d listen to feed back and get it right.  Boy was I wrong.

The movie, incase you haven’t guessed it yet, is Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

This movie is shit.  There’s no way around it.  It’s a pile of crap.  The only redeeming thing about it is that it has Optimus Prime in it, but (SPOILERS!) they kill him off halfway through the movie.  They kill Optimus Prime.

They. kill.  Optimus.  Freakin’.  Prime.  WTF?

Seriously?  In favor of what?  More screen time for Shia LaBeouf?  Dude was one of the reasons Indy 4 tanked, although that was unsalvageable from the get-go.  Also, the McGuffin (that is, the mystical plot device that will save everybody from the unspeakable evil, AKA, the thingie)  is called the Matrix of Leadership.  C’MON!  That’s one of the lamest things I’ve ever heard.  Should we call in Morpheus?  Or perhaps Agent Smith?  Mouse?

Really, the movie is one big pile of filth from the start to the end.  Sure the robots look cool, until they talk.  Sure the action is nice, all couple minutes of it.  Megan Fox isn’t bad looking, but there’s tons of better looking actresses who can actually act.  I’ll have to agree with a friend that a burning piece of cardboard would be a suitable replacement:  It’s hotter and a better actor.

Really, if you’re desperate to see robots smash each other, go watch the first one, or better off, Gundam.  Just not this movie.  If you just want a decent movie to watch, I can name you dozens.  Zombieland, Dr. Strangelove, The Assassination of Jesse James, and Brick come to mind off hand.

That is all. theindiegeek out.

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Other movies in 2009 friends hated:

G.I. Joe

Angels and Demons

The Orphan

Ninja Assassin

Star Trek

Transformers 2