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Fitness: Back down to 204.4 already! It’s only Wednesday! I guess doing cardio until I near tipped over a couple three times yesterday was worth it. Time to go go go to Nintendo-A-GoGo! |
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If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you might realize that I like to write about any new project that I launch. That’s going to be the topic of the day, though this isn’t a new project by any means – Nintendo-A-GoGo’s been around since June of 2000. However, I’ve decided to approach it in a new and different way this time around.
The Lead-up I started Nintendo-A-GoGo up about a year and a half after getting back into the “NES Renaissance” as it had been dubbed. I found a couple of used games at Fred Meyer on December 6th, 1998, hooked up my Nintendo again on my 19th birthday (December 10th, 1998), and started playing again until February rolled around. That’s when I went nuts. I started buying tons of used games at great prices, got a toploader NES with all the fixin’s for $40, and had a blast going down to the University District here in Seattle to look for used games every weekend. There was also a FuncoLand nearby that I frequented for games, and their online ordering system was handy as well. I remember I spent over $100 on an order of 16 cartridges back in 1999, two of which were a couple of my all-time favorite games – The Battle of Olympus and Destiny of an Emperor. I had quite a few games by then and I’d already done a few reviews for my site, but I wanted to start something a little more focused. It took a little while for this to happen, though – the game buying spree went from early to late 1999. The Beginning and the Development I got my Associate’s degree and cut ties with a terrible relationship in March of 2000. After graduating, I went to Tennessee for a week then came back home and stagnated for a couple of months. I needed a new project. I had been playing my Nintendo at the time, so it seemed like a great idea to fire it up again and go to town. I started Nintendo-A-GoGo in June 2000 after spending about a month immersed in the system (when I wasn’t at work), and I got a few things done in the three-month span between then and yet another Tennessee trip. This trip lasted two and a half months, but I got going on things again after I got back. 2001 was a better year for the site, as I was very proactive with reviews, articles, NES Scene-related material and message boards. I kept up with my involvement in the site and the scene through 2004, but I could tell things around the scene were starting to slow down a bit. The Flameout It was 2005 – the NES Scene was starting to break up and people were closing down or taking down their sites. I wanted to keep going with mine, but the stagnation of the site intertwined with my increased involvement with The Shizz and the WCS. I had a group review site going at that time that burned out after six months, and I tried to keep updating my NES site, but I was too busy with work and doing covers of NES and SNES songs at the time. After a while, I put up a message saying that the site wasn’t going anywhere – which it didn’t. I also said that it wasn’t too likely that I’d update it any more – which I didn’t until recently, of course. The Rebirth I got it in my head a few months back that I wanted to bring back Nintendo-A-GoGo bigger and better than ever. The old scene is starting to rekindle a bit and a lot of the old sites have gone out to pasture or disappeared completely, so there’s more of a need for opinions and material focused on the NES and SNES. I knew that it would take tons of time to re-review everything, so I decided to run with the one page that was ready to publish (that being my [River City Ransom] page) and go from there. Everything from the old site will be cleaned up for the new site in due time and I’ll likely add brand new material as well. I’m fully aware that the site design needs some serious polish as well, because what works for my other sites doesn’t really work for this one so much. I’ve already started working on the cleanup, and now is definitely the best time as the site is still rather minimal in its design. With what I’ve got in mind, I may be able to shrink things a bit more before expanding them out. The Future I’m not sure where the future will take the site – my rekindled interest in writing will certainly be helpful in keeping the site active, as will the joy that I find in spreading information and helping people learn about the quality of these games. With that in mind, why don’t you take a look around the site? [http://www.nintendo-a-gogo.com] Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on February 10th, 2010. |
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