{"id":4162,"date":"2014-03-05T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:23:58","slug":"big-plans-or-fairly-transparent-filler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"Big Plans -OR- Fairly Transparent Filler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, maybe that post title is a little too harsh. I don&#8217;t really <em>do<\/em> filler these days,\u00a0so it&#8217;s not like I need to poke fun at it the way I used to back when basically every post was filler.<\/p>\n<p>As for the subject at hand, I wanted to take a moment\u00a0to check in and talk about how the Year of Nintendo 64 is going. It&#8217;s largely a personal project, so it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m taking notes and sharing this stuff with everyone I know. I&#8217;m not even committed to writing a full article about every game I play. That said, I still want to sort of chart a course for the rest of the year here, as a reminder\u00a0to keep me on task, if nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>I spent January rounding up a few new games that I&#8217;ll be mixing into the lineup of games that I already own. Truth be told, I didn&#8217;t actually own enough &#8220;beatable&#8221; 64\u00a0games to get me through the year, so making some acquisitions was a must. I reserve the right to change this at any time, but here&#8217;s the breakdown of what I&#8217;ll be playing each month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>January &#8211; <strong>Goldeneye 007<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>February &#8211; <strong>Body Harvest<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>March &#8211; <strong>Jet Force Gemini<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>April &#8211; <strong>Star Wars: Rogue Squadron<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>May &#8211; <strong>Quest 64<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>June &#8211; <strong>Doom 64<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>July &#8211; <strong>Gauntlet Legends<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>August &#8211; <strong>Bomberman 64<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li>September &#8211; <strong>Donkey Kong 64<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>October &#8211; <strong>Army Men: Sarge&#8217;s Heroes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>November &#8211; <strong>The Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>December &#8211; ?????<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I&#8217;ve come up <em>slightly<\/em> short. I do have a few other games that I could pop in there, but they&#8217;re either so short (<strong>Pok\u00e9mon Snap<\/strong>) or I&#8217;ve played them recently enough (<strong>Banjo-Tooie<\/strong>) that I don&#8217;t feel like they&#8217;re a good fit for the project. They may still get some play, but they won&#8217;t be the main games. What really differentiates them? Nothing, I guess. My goal is one a month, I suppose that doesn&#8217;t mean I couldn&#8217;t play\u00a0two in\u00a0a month.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? Nuts to it. I&#8217;mma pop some quarterly titles in there, because it&#8217;s an excuse to make another list. I know that the first quarter is almost up, but I just\u00a0completed <strong>Super Mario 64 DS<\/strong>, and I&#8217;m willing to count that. Maybe I&#8217;ll play the original again anyway.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Q1 Bonus Round &#8211; <strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Q2 Bonus Round &#8211; <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Snap<\/strong><\/del><\/li>\n<li>Q3 Bonus Round &#8211; <strong>Mario Party 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Q4 Bonus Round &#8211; <strong>Perfect Dark<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There we go. Now if only I had social media&#8217;d this thing it might be more than me just concocting a weird excuse to play old games. I guess it&#8217;s still not too late, but I mean, we&#8217;re already in March. The hype phase is over. Whatever. My compulsion is to put words on a page, not to try to force people to read those words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, maybe that post title is a little too harsh. I don&#8217;t really do filler these days,\u00a0so it&#8217;s not like I need to poke fun at it the way I used to back when basically every post was filler. As for the subject at hand, I wanted to take a moment\u00a0to check in and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Plans -OR- Fairly Transparent Filler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,23,20,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-mario","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}