Beeks!

Saturday night, hours before the new year, I beat Super Mario Bros for the very first time! I was tootin' around with my MiSTer and one thing led to another, and ta-daaa!

Now, I did use a handful of save states (fuck those exceptionally long jumps!) which of course means I'm not a TrveGamer™, but whatever. Princess Peach says otherwise.

like when she knocks something over I can be like "ma'am, please! you are making a scene." and she does not understand.

Day 30 - Credits music

I bought Rhythm Heaven for the DS in the summer of 2009, toyed around with it a little, and put it aside for other things. I then bought Rhythm Heaven Fever for the Wii in March 2012 for my birthday and got overly frustrated with it.

Fast forward to mid 2020. We're all stuck at home, every day there's more bad news, you remember. I had been playing some stuff on my 3DS and bought Rhythm Heaven Megamix on a whim. I got hooked. Then I dug out Rhythm Heaven Fever and cleared all of that. The problem back in 2012? A TV with heinous input lag, making rhythm games impossible. Then I found the original Rhythm Heaven and cleared through that. THEN I downloaded a Rhythm Tengoku rom and blew through that. I fell deep into the Rhythm Heaven hole, and still haven't gotten out. The first thing I did with my Steam Deck was install Emudeck and put Rhythm Heaven Fever on there for whenever I need it.

I still pick up and play a lil Rhythm Heaven Fever whenever I feel like. Heck, just yesterday I was trying to perfect Remix 9 on my Deck.

Day 29 - Final boss music

NOTE TO SELF: If you're doing one of these daily challenges, maybe don't do it in December, when the end of that month gets particularly busy?

Part of the reason this particular entry is so late is that I couldn't think of any particularly interesting final boss music. That's not to say that there isn't any good final boss music out there... I couldn't think of any because I often don't make it to the final boss of a game! I have a terrible habit of dropping games (even games I like) midway through and moving onto something else. I'm slowly kicking the habit, but until then there's a whole world of cool unheard final boss music out there for me.

But enough about that, let's talk about the first game I ever completely 100%'d: Kirby 64. I ate this game up with a dang spoon. I originally started trying to collect all the little trading cards in the game and had no real interest in getting every single crystal shard, but one thing lead to another and I got 'em all. I didn't know anyone else playing the game at the time and my internet access was fairly limited in 2000, so imagine my shock when all my collecting was rewarded with a... one-eyed blob angel? Years later I would go back to Kirby's Dreamland 3 and realize that freaky-deaky final bosses are pretty par for the course in Kirby games.