Luck To Heaven

I have been revisiting my son`s childhood. Making the poor blighter pull out all of this old videogames and play them for me. Then I record the game play for my class. I don`t know what he is going to tell his analyst.



Fusajiyo Yamauchi establishes the Marufuku Company in 1889 to manufacture and distribute Hanafucla, Japanese playing cards. He made a fortune out of selling cards to Yakuza gambling houses. This was the beginning of Nintendo.

Most artists get screwed over, Yanauchi-san bought the Emperor`s summer palace and made it his family seat. The NES games are still fun all these years later.

In animation if you have a good story people will watch again and agian. In games it is gameplay. It is not really story so much as interactive role playing, becoming part of the story. Being given the chance to create the story through your own actions.

That is why I still pay the NES games. That is why my son still plays them even without me forcing him to for my class project. Leave luck to heaven.

BattleToads 1991