{"id":1277,"date":"2004-04-04T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/04\/eek-oh\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:12:16","slug":"eek-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/04\/eek-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"Eek? Oh."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Today, between not killing myself on a bicycle and not killing myself by running face-first into a tree branch, I went to a used game shop. There, I found&#8230; games. I saw a loose cartridge of <i>Dynamite Headdy<\/i>, and one of <i>Rocket Knight Adventures<\/i>. I passed both over, as I do not accept Genesis games without cases if I can help it. I saw a copy of <i>The Adventure of Link<\/i>, gold cart, mostly unblemished, for five dollars. It rattled. <\/p>\n<p>I walked out of the store (collectively, over two vacancies over five minutes) with Tengen&#8217;s version of Sega&#8217;s <i>Alien Syndrome<\/i>, for the NES; Acclaim&#8217;s version of Toaplan&#8217;s <i>Tiger Heli<\/i>, for the NES; Capcom&#8217;s version of Capcom&#8217;s <i>P.N.03<\/i>, for the Gamecube; and <i>ICO<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230; think the above cost about fourteen dollars, in total.<\/p>\n<p>My only memory card is currently elsewhere. After plummeting twice off one or another high precipice, I have decided not to play too much of <i>ICO<\/i> until I have something to fall back on. Nevertheless, I will comment on what I have seen thus far:<\/p>\n<p>Damn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I need juice.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, between not killing myself on a bicycle and not killing myself by running face-first into a tree branch, I went to a used game shop. There, I found&#8230; games. 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