Geekmas Day 8: Eight Underloved Classics – A Listmas Detour

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classic game, listicle, listmas, nes, oldies, pc, retro

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Alright, so I’m going to be lame here, by my own admission.  I’m not writing about the listed topic for Geekmas with this post, which was about Battlestar Galactica, because I have no idea what the show is about.  I didn’t know anything about Steven Universe either, but that somehow was easier to follow up on than something like Battlestar.

Also, I am lame.

So that left me at an impasse…until I remembered Listmas was a thing, and thought up the idea to kill two initiatives with one post.  So, without further ado, here’s my list of eight underloved classic games.

Blaugust Day 15 – Happy Anniversary, Hunter

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badass, classic, heroine, hunter, metroid, metroid celebration, nintendo, retro, samus aran

I had mentioned in a previous blog posting that Samus Aran is my all-time favorite videogame heroine.  All time.  Higher than Jade, higher than Terra Branford…even that horrible freaking Other M game could not stop me from loving the character and from loving Metroid as a whole, because OTHER M NEVER HAPPENED DO YOU FREAKING HEAR ME? IT NEVER HAPPENED!!

As a game series, it has pretty much been a formula that likely made me fall in love with the latter Castlevania series as a result of it ripping of the design.  As a story, it never really got itself too deep but was a great enough story and setup that I was compelled to play through every game in the series.  As a character, though, Samus Aran is where it really came together for me.