Saturday, February 12, 2005 |
19:37 - Everything is on the Internet
http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/lockarm.html
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Okay, roll call: who remembers Lockarm?
It seems that in 1989, Nintendo Power held a contest for artists, which was to design up their own "Nintendo" games. My brother and I should have entered that contest. I rememeber spending day upon day "making" Mega Man 5, and my brother did the same with a Mario 5. I think we got rid of both of them by now, truely a great shame.
The winner of this contest was Jeffrey Scott Campbell, of Aurora Colorado. His game, Lockarm, had a storyline such as what follows...
Anybody raise their hand?
...Geek!
(Personally, I thought Lockarm won solely because of the pretty drawings, and the potential of the gameplay itself was lame beyond imagining—particularly when I pictured what it would have looked like in 8-bit graphics. I thought the judges were dazzled by the kid's preternatural drawing abilities and were blinded by it to all else in the proposal. ...Or maybe I was just bitter that they didn't choose the pathetic Metroid clone set in Loch Ness that I submitted...)
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