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May. 29th, 2012 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedJacob had slept over two nights ago, and stuck around the whole day yesterday, actually expecting to go home early in the morning. With me, him, Brian, and Marie all here at home, I proposed we all watch the Nichijou OAV together, which we would have if nothing had gotten in the way. They went out and did shopping and other stuff together, I had several convos with Jake and John, Brian was tired when they finally came home just shortly before dinner, and after dinner the four of us went out to Friendly's to eat ice cream, and then Marie and Jacob had a train to catch going somewhere not even half an hour after we came home from there.
I should also note that Mom told me the other day about a Curry Club coupon that I currently have. During the day, I debated with her, Marie, and Jacob whether we should go there, go out for ice cream, or both, but we decided to settle for just ice cream.
Furthermore, it turns out that Marie and Jacob weren't that interested in the Nichijou OAV anyway, but were willing enough to watch it with me and Brian just to please me. I told them that I didn't really mean to make a big deal out of things, and that they didn't *have* to join us; just that it would have been nice to end Brian's visit here on a bang before he goes back to Oregon.
Then again, we still kinda did by going to Friendly's.
There, I ordered this dish with several scoops of chocolate and vanilla ice cream on top of a couple of brownies, with hot fudge and caramel on top.
While we were there, I asked Brian if he had looked through any of those Nintendo Power magazines that I ordered a few months ago. He says he did look at some of it, but wouldn't have time to read everything through. That I understand; I actually meant just glancing through them, which he says he did. I told him that some stuff in several volumes pertain to Earthbound, his favorite game of all time, and promised to bookmark the relevant sections for him today. Also told him about how I remember he actually hated that game for most of the few months that I was playing it back in 1996, and he said that while it is fun in its own right, too much of a good thing can make one sick. (Coincidentally, I also remember seeing an ad that has exactly that as its punchline on Earthbound Central.)
So anyway, while I did tell him that Earthbound was my absolute favorite game during my last few months of 4th grade, my favorite one before that (and also to look back on when looking back to 4th) was/is Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. From there, we kinda trailed off onto stuff that came out a few years after the NP magazines in question were published. He says he remembers that game, and also its follow-up game Yoshi's Story, which we played on a rented Nintendo 64 on Spring Break of '98, just months before we bought our own N64 from Cousin David.
The time we played that game also doubles as our first time playing any copy of Snowboard Kids, which according to Wikipedia, actually has May 3, 1998 as its official North American release date. Brian found that to be as ironic as I first found it, and said that someone should change it if we actually first played it on April 13 of that year. I told him that what it is is actually a company's scheduled release date, and that it shouldn't surprise anyone that, given that games have to be shipped and can vary in how long they reach any given destination, it probably happens all the time that they end up in stores a few days or weeks earlier or later than planned.
Also talked somewhat about Pokemon. Brian says that while he did beat Pokemon Blue and a rented copy of Pokemon Stadium back in 2000 (and also Pokemon Snap months earlier), he never really got good at formulating a team to compete with other actual players, and kinda just lost interest in the franchise after that. I, on the other hand, was never really interested in battling other players to begin with, and didn't trade very much either, except for through the Global Trade Station/Global Terminal in Diamond and SoulSilver a whole decade later. The fact that these games are meant encourage kids to be social and includes stuff specifically for that purpose (such as the capture-the-flag game and several other things in the Underground in DPP), like I mentioned in a cut only a few entries ago, does not mesh well with introverted people like me, which is exactly one of the reasons why I wish to write Parasitic Trio.
Other games mentioned:
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (Game Boy): Told Brian about having played Jacob's copy, and beating it in only several days and about three tries. At first, he mistook this for Super Mario Bros. 2, which was on the Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World compilation pak that came with our Super NES, but I cleared that up for him. Also told him that that was also one of those games that Joel used to own for the original Game Boy, which I played one time, though I played the original Super Mario Land much more often.
Mario Party (Nintendo 64): Brian brought this one up before we started talking about Pokemon, and also mentioned how notorious it was for the story mode's insane difficulty (unlike the party mode, which is easy enough even on the Hard level). I told him about that copy I bought more than a year ago, which he was surprised to hear, and that I also own Mario Party 2 on the Wii Virtual Console.
So anyway, we came home, Marie looked at the train schedules on her laptop, and then I went with them as Brian drove them to Penn Station. She will be coming back to live with us again a week from now, though, now that she's all done with college.
Upon leaving, I told him that maybe we should watch the Nichijou OAV today, when we're more awake, and that I understand how Marie and Jacob weren't actively interested and how everything else we were doing kinda got in the way of it. On my part, I tend rarely to join my family and anyone else who might be visiting when they watch or go out to see movies (except for action films, though we don't watch those very often). Then again, and Brian did agree with me on this, 30 minutes is easier to sit through than 60 or 90. (I did enjoy watching ten-minute clips of Popeye on DVD, for example, when we were all watching those during the holidays of '07/'08.)
We also talked about that time we all watched A Wish For Wings That Work on the night before Brian returned to Ithaca in January 2007, ending that visit of his on a bang the same way I was hoping to end this one of his. We also discussed Opus in general, and while Mom and Dad told me before that Bloom County used to be in the newspaper comics, I never did read any of the comics when I was a kid, but ironically knew who Opus himself was when Mom suggested getting a compilation book for Dad for Christmas of '05. Chances are, it was probably some kind of TV commercial or something on which I saw him. Brian says he also remembers him from something prior to us getting that book, but I don't remember what he specified it as. (By the time I actually started reading newscomics other than The Far Side, which was probably during my teen years, that strip was long gone from our paper, but Grandma Barbara did start sending us Opus comics from her own paper a few years before the strip itself ended.)
I should also note that Mom told me the other day about a Curry Club coupon that I currently have. During the day, I debated with her, Marie, and Jacob whether we should go there, go out for ice cream, or both, but we decided to settle for just ice cream.
Furthermore, it turns out that Marie and Jacob weren't that interested in the Nichijou OAV anyway, but were willing enough to watch it with me and Brian just to please me. I told them that I didn't really mean to make a big deal out of things, and that they didn't *have* to join us; just that it would have been nice to end Brian's visit here on a bang before he goes back to Oregon.
Then again, we still kinda did by going to Friendly's.
There, I ordered this dish with several scoops of chocolate and vanilla ice cream on top of a couple of brownies, with hot fudge and caramel on top.
While we were there, I asked Brian if he had looked through any of those Nintendo Power magazines that I ordered a few months ago. He says he did look at some of it, but wouldn't have time to read everything through. That I understand; I actually meant just glancing through them, which he says he did. I told him that some stuff in several volumes pertain to Earthbound, his favorite game of all time, and promised to bookmark the relevant sections for him today. Also told him about how I remember he actually hated that game for most of the few months that I was playing it back in 1996, and he said that while it is fun in its own right, too much of a good thing can make one sick. (Coincidentally, I also remember seeing an ad that has exactly that as its punchline on Earthbound Central.)
So anyway, while I did tell him that Earthbound was my absolute favorite game during my last few months of 4th grade, my favorite one before that (and also to look back on when looking back to 4th) was/is Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. From there, we kinda trailed off onto stuff that came out a few years after the NP magazines in question were published. He says he remembers that game, and also its follow-up game Yoshi's Story, which we played on a rented Nintendo 64 on Spring Break of '98, just months before we bought our own N64 from Cousin David.
The time we played that game also doubles as our first time playing any copy of Snowboard Kids, which according to Wikipedia, actually has May 3, 1998 as its official North American release date. Brian found that to be as ironic as I first found it, and said that someone should change it if we actually first played it on April 13 of that year. I told him that what it is is actually a company's scheduled release date, and that it shouldn't surprise anyone that, given that games have to be shipped and can vary in how long they reach any given destination, it probably happens all the time that they end up in stores a few days or weeks earlier or later than planned.
Also talked somewhat about Pokemon. Brian says that while he did beat Pokemon Blue and a rented copy of Pokemon Stadium back in 2000 (and also Pokemon Snap months earlier), he never really got good at formulating a team to compete with other actual players, and kinda just lost interest in the franchise after that. I, on the other hand, was never really interested in battling other players to begin with, and didn't trade very much either, except for through the Global Trade Station/Global Terminal in Diamond and SoulSilver a whole decade later. The fact that these games are meant encourage kids to be social and includes stuff specifically for that purpose (such as the capture-the-flag game and several other things in the Underground in DPP), like I mentioned in a cut only a few entries ago, does not mesh well with introverted people like me, which is exactly one of the reasons why I wish to write Parasitic Trio.
Other games mentioned:
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (Game Boy): Told Brian about having played Jacob's copy, and beating it in only several days and about three tries. At first, he mistook this for Super Mario Bros. 2, which was on the Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World compilation pak that came with our Super NES, but I cleared that up for him. Also told him that that was also one of those games that Joel used to own for the original Game Boy, which I played one time, though I played the original Super Mario Land much more often.
Mario Party (Nintendo 64): Brian brought this one up before we started talking about Pokemon, and also mentioned how notorious it was for the story mode's insane difficulty (unlike the party mode, which is easy enough even on the Hard level). I told him about that copy I bought more than a year ago, which he was surprised to hear, and that I also own Mario Party 2 on the Wii Virtual Console.
So anyway, we came home, Marie looked at the train schedules on her laptop, and then I went with them as Brian drove them to Penn Station. She will be coming back to live with us again a week from now, though, now that she's all done with college.
Upon leaving, I told him that maybe we should watch the Nichijou OAV today, when we're more awake, and that I understand how Marie and Jacob weren't actively interested and how everything else we were doing kinda got in the way of it. On my part, I tend rarely to join my family and anyone else who might be visiting when they watch or go out to see movies (except for action films, though we don't watch those very often). Then again, and Brian did agree with me on this, 30 minutes is easier to sit through than 60 or 90. (I did enjoy watching ten-minute clips of Popeye on DVD, for example, when we were all watching those during the holidays of '07/'08.)
We also talked about that time we all watched A Wish For Wings That Work on the night before Brian returned to Ithaca in January 2007, ending that visit of his on a bang the same way I was hoping to end this one of his. We also discussed Opus in general, and while Mom and Dad told me before that Bloom County used to be in the newspaper comics, I never did read any of the comics when I was a kid, but ironically knew who Opus himself was when Mom suggested getting a compilation book for Dad for Christmas of '05. Chances are, it was probably some kind of TV commercial or something on which I saw him. Brian says he also remembers him from something prior to us getting that book, but I don't remember what he specified it as. (By the time I actually started reading newscomics other than The Far Side, which was probably during my teen years, that strip was long gone from our paper, but Grandma Barbara did start sending us Opus comics from her own paper a few years before the strip itself ended.)