One time when I was jamming in my old band Slow Intentional Damage, someone told me that I was like a little kid in a candy store while talking about the songs that we were writing. I showed all kinds of excitement when we were talking about what we could do at *such-and-such* part, or what we could do on the third stanza of *such-and-such* part. There have always been things that get me going like that, and NES development happens to be one of those things. Coming up with new ideas, even if I don’t make them happen on a game, makes my mind wander. I think it’s creating things that really grip my imagination. I probably get that from my father, who used to do things such as create his own armor for the Society of Creative Anachronism.

After finishing a game, every now-and-then shortly thereafter, I like to hit Google and see if there are any new things that turn up about the game on the web. I was pretty much done doing that, as I didn’t expect to find anything else on what was going to be the last time I did such a search. I released it at the end of April, so it’s getting close to six-months out, and there won’t be much new to read about what people might have to say about it. So you can imagine my surprise (and excitement) when I actually found something new on a blog called Irish Nintendo Fan (love the name of the site!):

One of the featured homebrew reviews [in Retro Gamer Magazine issue #93] I like was NES Virus Cleaner. I tried it for myself and it’s quite addictive but tough, avoiding things like you would in say, Frogger and collecting all the bits to complete a level.

Ah, good ol’ Retro Gamer Magazine! My game prior to NES Virus Cleaner, that being Pegs, actually appeared in there as well. It had a fair review from a guy named Jason Kelk, and though I can’t tell for sure, I believe he did the write-up this time around, too (the initials J.K. appear at the beginning of the article).

Once again, it is a solid write-up, and I’m grateful to have appeared in a magazine! It’s a cool feeling for sure. I’m definitely going to look into getting my hands on this issue, as I failed to get the Pegs issue last time. Here is a pic of it that a friend of mine, and also one of the lead testers of NES Virus Cleaner, took for me. Click to read it:

The new phonebook is here!

I don’t know if you still lurk around here, but I’d like to once again thank you, Jason, for the opportunity to be in the magazine! Oh, and you can rest easy knowing that I don’t hit the coffee as hard as I used to ; )

Bryant, Robert L… typical run-of-the-mill bastard