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This weekend was a doozy. I had my birthday celebration, and I decided to use that to go and buy some exciting games, that I may be using later on in the blog. Let me make you a list of everything I decided to get:

• 1 Nintendo 64 (lightly used, in black)
• 2 N64 controllers (not Nintendo brand, but some off brand stuff like Mad Catz)
• 3 games for the Nintendo 64 (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64 and Pokémon Stadium)
• Pokémon Yellow Version for the Game Boy Color

 Oh yes, this is quite the hall. I was torn between getting the original Silver version or Yellow, but seeing that I did have Silver for a long time, I decided to give Yellow a try. I haven’t used Yellow version quite yet, but I plan on trying it out on my DS, hopefully the internal batter hasn’t run dead quite yet.

With the N64, I have to say that it was a bit more... odd. I bought the N64 from a local game shop, and as such, they only had one N64 in stock, which was no big deal. However, they didn’t have the normal RCA setup (the ye olde Red White Yellow set-up you may remember from your GameCube’s original cords on the Xbox 360, in case you’ve forgotten since the big HDMI update)  this had a coax converter. For the younger one the audience out there, a coax wire is your standard cable, which you use to get cable TV. The N64 spanned a generation, with some of the TV’s in the family not with the standard RCA plug-ins, mine came with an adaptor. Luckily, I don’t watch TV; I play games. The other problem was in the coax-in slot on the back of the flat screen. Mine only had one, and it was threaded, to help keep a cable on. I had about ¼ inch of the wire on the coax slot, and decided to try my luck. Who knew? It had the tip on, as long as no sudden Earthquake hit, it should be just fine.

 No Earthquakes hit. Having Ocarina in as the first game to play test, I soon found out that the Graphics were stretched a bit, and give it a grainy look (not too surprising from a game 15 years old on a HD TV 50 inches wide) but much to my pleasure, I found that Navi was just as annoying at this resolution as she is on a normal sized TV for that day and age. From here, I checked the other games, and found that all of them worked fine, and that Pokémon Stadium had a few Pokémon uploaded by a kind, previous owner. I was in luck. Metwo beats a Psyduck any day.

 

So, in the future expect more reviews of some classic Nintendo games, that is, if there is a future. This signifies the last week of required blogging. This blog has turned out to be much better of an experiment that I could have ever hoped. This is my question to you, the readers though: is this something you want to see continue on? I’ve posted a poll, and made it last to the end of the month, and plan on blogging until then regardless. If I do continue to blog, I will most likely turn on AdSense, as tis is taking up a lot more time that I originally believed to be the case. But, if the blog continues on, I’m more open to conduct the blog how I wish. So, in accordance with that, if you have any suggestion on how you want to see introduced, then leave a comment, I will respond. In any case, thanks for the near 5,000 views.

 

--Santa