HeyJaredNintendo is Great
a beautiful, trenchant journey through the depths of Nintendo's back catalog. We proceed (mostly) in chronological order. Currently playing: NES and Game Boy.
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No Deer For a Month! (opens the original)
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Hey there, friends.Pardon the random Simpsons quote in the title, but it felt weirdly appropriate for my current situation.Like Homer and his relationship with beer, I need a break from “Nintendo is Great. My relationship with Substack in general is not healthy, but I don’t really want to take one because I’m a bit unhealthily obsessed with the site and my metrics.That said, I’m forcing myself to take a month-long hiatus.Basi
Too Tired to Play: A Cautionary Tale (opens the original)
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Behold! A bunch of gaming-related thoughts that seemed like they might go together! Not sure how much they actually do, but here they are anyway. Fair warning: this gets a little rambly.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="480" src="htt
Platoon is a Travesty, and Rampage is a Power Fantasy (opens the original)
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My Grandparents Played an Extreme Amount of NES Games in the '90s (opens the original)
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Childhood is a wild ride. Everything seems at once very new, almost hyper-real and yet incredibly normal. Your world is the world of your family. Whatever world they inhabit or that they construct around you is what makes sense to you, it’s all you know. Only later when you go to school or to a friend’s house do you encounter new, often wildly different ecosystems that shatter your reality.For example, as an only child, I was intrigued by my friends who had siblings. I studied how they interacte
Othello Was My Grandma's Favorite Game, and Paperboy is Still a Hoot (opens the original)
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