Video Games & Nostalgia

I haven't had much to do after the DMC Tournament. School has reopened for the Poly crowd, so I see less people at AMK. I have been trying to find means & ways to entertain myself while at home.

I was seriously considering getting a Nintendo DS, but after reading up on the Sony PSP, I think I will wait out. Both of them cost ridiculously expensive for now. I now feel like getting World of Warcraft, but Chris has sold out, and I think the whole island has a shortage of the game, too.

Back to console games for me, I guess.

While randomly surfing around the net for games, I came across Capcom Fighting Jam for the PS2 at Capcom's official JPN site. It's a fighting game featuring 20+ characters from several Capcom games. Aside from the StreetFighter & Vampire series, I was rather alarmed that it actually had characters from the totally obscure 1996 arcade fighting RPG, Warzard. I remember how I used to play it in FunLand Bedok and that I brought slips of paper to copy down the password that saved my character's level/EXP.



I went to read up more on Capcom Fighting Jam and realized that it got pretty bad reviews (very small character roster, old-school/outdated gameplay, etc). A forum topic at GameFAQs informed me that FunLand AMK has a machine. Oh, good. It's an arcade port, so I can try it out.

I tried it once and felt it was not totally crap. (Maybe cos' I didn't play a Capcom fighter for months already.) The music is pretty neat; there was even one with Japanese lyrics that blared loudly in the arcade. The comic-book style endings are gorgeous, too.

I decided that I would just get the game anyway, just for nostalgia's sake and that fact that I like at least half of the cast. The PS2 version came with a Master's Disc containing a history of the various derived games as well as some neat combos. It's all cool, but nothing beats the feeling of nostalgia by playing as some of my old favorite Warzard & Vampire characters.