Generational Gap

September 22, 2008 at 4:30 pm (Game Reviews) (, , , , , , , , )

I’ve always been an X fan myself. This is perhaps simply because I almost completely missed out on the NES era. I wasn’t really into gaming as much at the time, and a $10/week allowance was just not enough to buy games. I think the only NES game I ever owned was Super Mario Bros. 3, and I never beat it. Damn, what did I do for the first ten years of my life?

Needless to say, I hopped on board for the SNES era (thanks, Blockbuster!) Mega Man X was my first experience with the games, and I loved it. I did play through the original Mega Mans eventually, and I even rented Mega Man 7 one time, but they just didn’t stick with me. Broadly, the same holds true for these remakes of the original games in both series.

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