“The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge”.
Let me tell you a true story, readers: I was a staff writer at Imagine Publishing circa 2006, and we had to make some sort of short list of Game Boy games, a Top 6 or something, for either GamesTM or Retro Gamer magazine, I forget which. One of the editors was despondent, lamenting: “There’s just nothing on the system! Apart from Tetris, Mario, Metroid, and Zelda.”
I interjected that the monochrome handheld had over a thousand games, while the Game Boy Color had nearly as many again, depending on how you counted the dual-system titles. With well over a thousand available across both, there were plenty to fill a list without even trying. “Yeah, but none of those are well known!” came the reply. “You just like obscure shit, John. Maybe we can list Motocross Maniacs – do you think readers will know Motocross Maniacs? Let’s put Motocross Maniacs on, because I just can’t think of anything else other than Motocross Maniacs!”
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“The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge”.
Let me tell you a true story, readers: I was a staff writer at Imagine Publishing circa 2006, and we had to make some sort of short list of Game Boy games, a Top 6 or something, for either GamesTM or Retro Gamer magazine, I forget which. One of the editors was despondent, lamenting: “There’s just nothing on the system! Apart from Tetris, Mario, Metroid, and Zelda.”
I interjected that the monochrome handheld had over a thousand games, while the Game Boy Color had nearly as many again, depending on how you counted the dual-system titles. With well over a thousand available across both, there were plenty to fill a list without even trying. “Yeah, but none of those are well known!” came the reply. “You just like obscure shit, John. Maybe we can list Motocross Maniacs – do you think readers will know Motocross Maniacs? Let’s put Motocross Maniacs on, because I just can’t think of anything else other than Motocross Maniacs!”
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