{"id":1554,"date":"2012-10-31T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:13:08","slug":"my-top-100-57-little-nemo-the-dream-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #57 – Little Nemo: The Dream Master"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1990 – Capcom (NES)<\/p><\/div>\n

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“NES hard” is a term that I’ve heard thrown around a bit over the last few years.\u00a0 It’s definitely applicable to some of the games we played as little ones, and we were somewhat oblivious to\u00a0the difficulty of some of what that era had to offer.\u00a0 Games were hard, and this was the way they were meant to be played.\u00a0 There was no alternative, so we didn’t question it – we just soldiered on, and beat some incredibly challenging games at a young age.<\/p>\n

One winter night in the early 90’s, I got to rent a new Capcom game that had great box art.\u00a0 At the time, I didn’t know that it was based on an animated movie from Japan, but if the box art was good, then surely the game must have been good too!\u00a0 I headed home with the game, only to realize that my sister,\u00a0my sitter for the evening,\u00a0was bringing me to Oromocto for a hockey game of some sort.\u00a0 Maybe it was an RCMP game with a bunch of her co-workers, I don’t quite know…\u00a0 all I can visualize is coming out of the rink, seeing the yellow-lit sign of the rink through a light snowfall, and getting into my sister’s red Pontiac Sunbird.<\/p>\n

Aw, man, that car’s tape deck was awesome.\u00a0 You hit the fast-forward button once, and it would stop fast-forwarding at the end of the song, just like a CD player’s Skip button.\u00a0 Amazing technology!!!<\/p>\n

Anyway, the snow wasn’t that bad that night, but I was quick to run to the living room TV so I could play\u00a0the game\u00a0when I got home.<\/p>\n

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