a blog about video games and culture from a guy stuck in the 90s!
If you've been a long-time visitor of Nostalgia Trigger, this is going to sound very unlike me - but I completely forgot that the SNES Classic Edition came out this past Friday. Let me rephrase - I knew the date that it was being released, but I completely forgot that the calendar had somehow moved to September …
Continue reading SNES Classic Edition: Unboxing and First Impressions!
Ahh - the video game manual! Never has something so great been accompanied by something even greater. Peanut butter and jelly? Ha! Total snooze-fest! Steak and potatoes? Yeah, ok, like that ever caught on! But the video game and the video game manual? Folks, we have our winner. In 2017 it really is a lost art form, …
Continue reading Let’s Talk Video Game Manuals, and 3 of my Favorites!
Following my 3 hour marathon completion of Pokemon Yellow of which I barely scraped by, I quickly switched gears back to Earthbound and decided I would wrap this one up next. Earthbound and Xenoblade Chronicles are so vastly different in terms of playstyle that I was having trouble bouncing back and fourth, and decided I would …
Continue reading Nearing the End of Earthbound! Some Thoughts on End-Game
In this feature, I talk a bit about the company Rareware and share some of my favorite tracks from their games.
I picked up Earthbound on release day a few weeks back, thinking it would be like another amazing SNES RPG adventure that I'd become accustomed to. Now, I realize that this is a very quirky game, one based on Japan's view of the United States at the time, so I went into it pretty open …
Continue reading Earthbound Has Officially Made Me Feel Retarded
Zelda games are basically drugs to me. I don't know what it is about them exactly but they bring me right back to my younger years. It's easy to get overwhelmed as a kid with so much free time and so many video games to choose from: this is still the case now just as it was when …
