Thinking of other things other than other ladies 5

Hey folks, I'm back with yet another comic about my OCs in a lawyer-friendly version of the "Thinking about other women" meme.

While not as common as the Apple II's presence in Singapore, the Commodore C64 had moderate success in Singapore's home computer market in the 1980s. This means there is a possibility of Singapore having a community dedicated to the history of the Commodore C64 and its game library, with Jaleco's Rod Land being one of those games. The question is, if Singapore had the C64 port of Rod Land, how rare would that game be in that region?

Speaking of Singapore's home computer market in the 1980s, Japanese home computers were also marketed in Singapore. It's also possible that Singapore had the Sony MSX, the Fujitsu FM-7, and the NEC PC-8000, but they were less common than the Commodore C64.

MapleStory had multiple time-limited crossovers with other franchises, with the Japanese version having the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Crossover Event. Now that it's over, the next crossover event could have SAMG and Nexon come to an agreement to have the Teeniepings from Catch! Teenieping come to MapleStory in another time-limited event, and this event will be in the South Korean version and the Japanese version. After all, the Teenieping series hails from South Korea just like MapleStory.

Many regions where Nintendo consoles are marketed in can only have either the Famicom or the NES. Singapore, however, was one of the few regions where the video game stores had both the Famicom and the NES.

It's unknown if Rod Land's Rit or Princess Crown's Gradriel could survive the realm of Golden Axe. Maybe Golden Axe's brutal setting would be far too much for Rit, but Gradriel would probably end up destroying Death Adder in record time.

NES 40th Anniversary Tribute

Author's Note: All copyrights for the characters in this comic (except Spelunker) belong to Nintendo.

Can you believe that the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is now 40 Years Old? That's right. Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the video game console that resurrected an entire industry that was thought to be dead after the infamous 1983 North American Video Game Crash. To celebrate this joyous occasion, here is a picture of Link from The Legend of Zelda lifting up a Nintendo Entertainment System with Mario, Samus (in her Justin Bailey leotard) and Spelunker on top of it.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Nintendo Entertainment System! The video game industry would not have experienced its resurrection without you!

Swordtember 2025 (Part 3)

Part 3 of Neo Retro Union's Swordtember Special. Click here for Part 2.

The Master Sword was always an icon in the Legend of Zelda series. But it only made its debut in A Link to the Past for the SNES, meaning it made no appearances in the NES Zelda games. Then came the 8-Bit Link Amiibo, which featured what appeared to be an 8-Bit version of the Master Sword on Link's back. This inspired me to come up with the idea of what the Master Sword would have looked like if it was in the NES Legend of Zelda.

Fairfrozen is an iconic spear from MapleStory, so I decided to re-imagine this iconic spear as a Two-Handed Sword.

Does anyone still remember the Dragon Longsword from RuneScape in its present version or its Old School version? It was a badge of honor for RuneScape players who completed the Lost City quest. But when weapons with better DPS (damage per second) came around, the Dragon Longsword started to look less appealing to RuneScape players, and its popularity dwindled as a result.

Programmed Sentience

R.O.B. the NES Robot was initially an additional accessory for the NES specially designed for Gyromite and Stack-Up, and was therefore not sentient. However, all of that changed with the release of Mario Kart DS in 2005. Nintendo had to reprogram it to have sentience in order to make it a playable character in that handheld racing game. The sentience R.O.B. was programmed with carried on into the Super Smash Bros series starting with Super Smash Bros Brawl. Not bad for a robotic accessory that was specially designed for playing two NES games.

8-Bit Phenomenon

Can we all agree that the Famicom and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) are huge phenomena that still continue to capture our hearts even after four decades?

Sobbing Ice Climbers

Author's Note: Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the NES game Ice Climber. Unfortunately for the Ice Climbers, Nintendo has no intention to come up with a new Ice Climbers game. Not even one for the Nintendo Switch 2. Talk about disappointment...

In the NES game Ice Climber, the player character sob when he/she gets No Bonus in the Bonus Level. This became the Ice Climbers' losing pose in the Super Smash Bros series since Melee. It may be harsh, but Nintendo did try to make the Ice Climbers faithful to the game they originated from.

Mathematical Decline

If one must wonder why mathematical scores are on the decline in the United States of America, it's not the video games, although many educational video games are rather mediocre at best. Instead, we should blame the leftists' agenda for the declining mathematics scores.

Although Donkey Kong Jr Math will go down in the history of Nintendo as one of the worst NES games ever made, it was a decent attempt by Nintendo to create educational video games using whatever assets they have at that time. Unfortunately, neither the furniture item version featured in the GameCube Animal Crossing game nor the Virtual Console re-release versions on both the Wii and Wii U could vindicate that horrible history. But there are those who will ardently defend Donkey Kong Jr Math by stating that this current generation of school-goers will be unable to complete the game's Exercise Mode, which is unfortunately true, judging by whatever nonsense is being taught in school these days...

As for homeschooling being prohibited, it has not happened in America because Gab users are promoting it, but it has already happened in France, and it failed to rein in riots sparked by police brutality. Eventually, we will need God's divine intervention to replace our dysfunctional system with a new one.

Donkey Kong Jr Math © Nintendo.

The King of (Pre-Famicom) Kong

If there is any home console the Famicom and the NES had to owe their creation and success to, it's the ColecoVision. In fact, the ColecoVision version of Nintendo's Donkey Kong was the first home console version of the arcade game that transformed Nintendo into the video game industry powerhouse it is today, thanks to the ColecoVision version of Donkey Kong being a pack-in game that came with the ColecoVision, which obviously cemented Donkey Kong's place as the best-selling ColecoVision title.

Sadly, Coleco exited video games in 1985 amid the Video Game Crash of 1983, and eventually closed shop in 1989. Their legacy, however, was that the ColecoVision influenced the design of Nintendo's Famicom and NES consoles, which may have been the reason behind their runaway success. For a short-lived console like the ColecoVision to leave behind a long legacy is incredible indeed. A legacy that became a footnote in Nintendo's history.

Donkey Kong © Nintendo.

In Memory of Masayuki Uemura

It is with deep sadness that Masayuki Uemura's obituary was announced yesterday. Uemura passed away on the 6th of December, 2021. And the 6th of December was formerly the birthday of the late Satoru Iwata. 2021 has seen many major obituaries, including Kentaro Miura, Koichi Sugiyama, and Sir Clive Sinclair.

Masayuki Uemura was known for creating the Famicom, Super Famicom, and their international counterparts, the NES and SNES. He was also one of the co-creators of Nintendo's very first video game hardware, the Color TV Game, as well as the Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom. He retired from Nintendo in 2004 and became a professor in Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

Rest In Peace, Masayuki Uemura. Your legacy will live on in all the Nintendo hardware that you created from 1977 to the mid-1990s.

NES at 35

The Nintendo Entertainment System. The video game console that revived an industry that was thought to be dead as a result of the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, turns 35 on this very day. If not for this console, video games would not have experienced a renaissance, and pop culture would not have grown to become a huge part of our life.

Happy 35th Anniversary, Nintendo Entertainment System!

35 Years of Stomped Goombas

Today marks 35 years to the day Nintendo released Super Mario Bros in Japan. Super Mario Bros was often considered the most influential video game of the 1980s, and its legacy lives on to this day.

Super Mario Bros introduced players to a lot of Nintendo icons, such as Super Mushrooms, Goombas, Piranha Plants, and many, many more. Speaking of Goombas, Super Mario Bros was also the game that introduced us to Goomba stomping. Yes, these anthropomorphic shiitake mushrooms turned traitorous and became minor villains, but the reason for the villains' villainy could be justified by the possibility of the Toads harbouring a parasite that would be capable of killing off most of humanity if not for the Toads' incompetence or the villains' villainy.

Happy 35th Anniversary, Super Mario Bros! Nintendo would not be where they are today and video gaming would not have experienced a renaissance without you!

Super Mario Bros © Nintendo.

Up In Flames

Please avoid running or jumping into campfires. Getting burnt alive is not funny when your clothes get burnt up.

You have to give Hudson Soft credit for censoring private parts by making Master Higgins cover them when he gets burnt by a campfire. Especially when indecent exposure in video games can get any game designer into trouble with customers and game software rating organisations.