My son just got a cable to link his Gameboy Advance with his Gamecube. The purpose of this is to unlock goodies in certain games when their GBA counterparts are “linked” up. Normally, I would put this off as total corporate greed, since you have to buy twice as many games and their supporting hardware to access these goodies that are already included in the Gamecube game. However, all of that reasoning was completely washed away when I discovered Metroid.
You see, Nick has both the GBA and Gamecube versions of Metroid (Fusion and Prime, respectively). Well, if you’ve beaten Fusion (which he has, several times), and you link the GBA to the Gamecube, you can play the classic NES version of Metroid on the Gamecube. Not just some limited version, but the full Metroid in all it’s 8-bit glory. The sound and graphics are a perfect reproduction of the original. To top it off, you can save your status on the Gamecube’s memory card, instead of writing down 32-digit codes (was that a zero or an “O”?). I’m now getting a major NES jones, and am quickly running out of reasons to NOT run down to Gamestop and pick up a used NES console with about a dozen old games. The only thing stopping me at this point is my wife, who will be quite upset with me should I actually do this. I have no doubt that I will soon not worry about that, and just come home with one. Besides, once I get her hooked back onto Super Mario Bros, it’s all good.
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