Get Equipped
The following is excerpted from an email I sent to Erin, who is in Austria and hence far removed from
the vibrant world of videogame obsession.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:39:17 -0800
From: dan sandler
To: erin sandler
Subject: Get Equipped!
OH. MY. GOD.
I was walking through Target and I happened to see something flash out
of the corner of my eye. Well, it wasn’t Flash so much as Bubble. Yeah,
it was Mega Man, clearly hopping from one platform to another, dodging
Bubble Man’s evil frogs. But this was on the GameCube demo unit!
The screen flashed again to some other 8-bit Mega Man scene I wasn’t
familiar with, then some more modern (that is, 16-bit) stuff, and so on.
Interspersed were titles: “CLASSIC PLATFORM GAMEPLAY”. “ORIGINAL
ARTWORK”. “DR. WILY”. etc.
Mega Man Anniversary Collection For GameCube —
Mega Man, the originals, 1 through 8, plus two arcade titles
(previously Japan-only). AWESOME. Expected release date: 5/11.
And …
Mega Man Anniversary Collection For GBA —
Mega Man Game Boy I-V. Not as exciting since they’re not the
original NES versions, but still tasty Mega Man To Go.
OK, on to Zelda news. First, _Four Swords_ is coming to the GCN in the
form of _Four Swords Adventures_ (we could play TOGETHER! wee!):
March 22, 2004 – Nintendo of America today announced that it would
release The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures on June 7 in the
US. The title for $49.99 comes packed with a GameCube Game Boy Advance
link cable.Four Swords, a top-down adventure, stars up to four players as
legendary hero Link and sets them out on an original quest filled with
magic and mayhem, battles and puzzles, and more. One person can play
the game with a GameCube controller or two, three or four players with
linked Game Boy Advance systems can enjoy it. The title’s many puzzles
lend themselves to very creative and satisfying teamwork.
One last little tidbit:
Game Industry Biz reports that Nintendo will also unveil the sequel
to Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker at its pre-E3 show event.Nintendo has previously announced that Wind Waker 2 would run on the
same game engine as the first and feature similar cel-shaded
graphics.
OK, enough game geeking.