Mar
2017
ONM Remembered is OVER!!!
Over five hundred entries over the course of nearly five years. I,
uh, honestly wasn't expecting this silly little column to run for that long!
Somebody should probably have intervened.
Like I said all the way at the
beginning, the
idea to scan these came about as a first step to finally chucking the old things
out... and all this time later, even after moving house, they're still lying
around. I think this column only made me more attached to the stupid things!
They're funny little relics, game magazines; a more tangible step into the past
than the Wayback Machine can ever amount
to, when people were hyped as hell over totally forgotten games or had no better
ways of expressing their ill-conceived anger than writing it on paper and
putting it in a letterbox. I could wax nonsense about "simpler times" but I've
been putting off this epilogue for weeks - months, even! - and the last thing I
need is more beating about the bush.
Official Nintendo Magazine and its ilk were a lot of fun to look back on, and I
think it's given me a complex about archiving old magazines now, so thanks for
that. ONM Remembered was also a fun exercise in writing scheduled content and
admittedly getting blood from a stone at times, but I tried to keep it a breezy
mish-mash of content that hopefully didn't get too by-the-numbers. Feel free to
tell me how wrong I was.
On the subject of speaking your mind, what's the verdict? Is scheduled blog
content something you want to see more of, or do you prefer Random Hoo Haas when
crap just shows up whenever? Not that I'm in a rush to go starting even more
projects, but let's throw the suggestion into the void, why not.
Hey! Metal Slug: Missing in Action updated! The crux of its new content is scans from old game magazines; how's that for thematic relevance! I also finally finished off Some Games I Played in 2015 so you can read about how dismal Brilliant Bob is. I still have placeholder images in there, but I'm tired. I'll replace them later.