So, maybe, Soccer, the simple black-box NES version, isn't the 46th best game ever made. I mean I'm looking at an ad for God of War Ragnarok on the TV right this moment, and it sure seems like that game has a lot more effort into it than this. This game is so primitive, even every FIFA game would be a better football experience than this is. Especially nowadays. But this is one of those games that hold a special place in my life, which only a tiny few can claim. In my early years of gaming, when technology was still a mysterious, dare I say, mythical thing and the most advanced thing in my whole family was my uncle's corded car-phone, all me and my cousin would play together was Duck Hunt, and Soccer. I'll see him again sooner or later but now almost 30 years later we went our own ways, but playing this game together still feels like it was yesterday.
Speaking of, Duck Hunt cannot be forgotten. This game has a bit of an advantage over Soccer. This game has aged much better for one, it is still fun and challenging to play. It's probably due to the character this game has. Both figuratively but also very much literally courtesy of the famous dog, probably gaming's most famous dog, later aptly named 'Duck Hunt Dog' by Super Smash Bros. The other advantage is, for me personally anyway, that this is probably the first game I ever played. Shooting ducks an the tv-screen with an actual gun was mind blowing for a young child. Of course, my parents rather had me playing the clay pigeon shooting mode. But that was no fun, like I said, the dog was all the character.
There's people that hate this game, and there's people that love this game. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground for Star Wars Shadows of the Empire. Obviously, I'm in the camp that loves it. I thought it was super cool, it was one of the first games in the Star Wars franchise I played that went beyond the movies, and introduced new characters and that was extremely interesting. Its atmosphere is gritty and dark, the Empire feels omnipresent and threatening. It has cool weapons, cool bosses and cool locations. And of course the Jetpack, and Jetpacks are cool. The music is cool, especially in the penultimate level; the intimidating Prince Xizor's Palace. By the Force this game's just cool. What wasn't cool though was how you didn't get to see the actual ending if you didn't complete the game at its highest difficulty setting (which you had to unlock first), but eh, that's why Youtube was invented.
