Monday, March 08, 2004
HEEE-YAH!
Yesterday I made the final decision: I was going to purchase Ninja Gaiden at full price, despite my usual tendency to wait until I can find them used for a bit cheaper.
The original Ninja Gaiden, which came out for the NES in 1989, was one of my first true video game loves. I played the hell out of that game, and to this day can pick it up and play through the vast majority of it without practice; I still know where every enemy is, when to jump to avoid their weapons, and when to stop jumping to avoid running into them. When I started to pick up the guitar, my girlfriend told me that once I learned the chords my fingers would never forget them. Playing the original Ninja Gaiden is just like that for me.
So I have a long emotional connection to the game, and the weight of years made the pressure to buy the game quite powerful. Additionally, Blockbuster critically underestimated the game's popularity and bought only two copies of the game for each of its stores around here; that means they won't be likely to be selling them off anytime soon. Sometimes I wonder who decides which games they should buy, and how many, because there are far less popular titles of which they have a dozen copies.
Regardless, since my mind is, admittedly, a little sensitive to Ninja stuff these days, I noticed it when, by happenstance, I noticed a strange and forgotten link on my favorites toolbar: The Official Ninja Webpage, a.k.a. "Real Ultimate Power". While I've been enjoying my new game, I think I take its box's injunction to "Unleash your inner ninja" in a completely different way than would these fellows. This is not the place to go for real ninja information. Actually, I don't think it's the place to go for any kind of information at all. But they have a good time with it, and for some reason I find it easier to laugh at this than I do at any of the stuff from yesterday's post. There's a great deal to be said about knowing when you're acting juvenile....
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