I've been thinking for a bit about starting a blog. Maybe they aren't so popular anymore (I dunno!) but I think I still want to do it. A few reasons are:
- I love retro games, and retro gaming. I love going back and replaying the NES and SNES games I grew up with, finding new ones I hadn't seen before, hearing the familiar chiptunes, all that stuff! When new/indie games come out that have some sort of retro throwback like pixel graphics or whatever, they instantly catch my eye and I want to check them out.
- I often think about ways these games could be ported to modern systems (like Nintendo's Virtual Console), ways the game could be "updated" (change the graphics a little, maybe add some new quests or something, but keep the main game as close to the original as possible), and ways some games could be totally redone (as in, a whole new game in the "series" or whatever).
- I certainly don't expect companies to take and use my thoughts or ideas, but I really want to share them somewhere...maybe get a few "likes" and hear some other ideas. Unfortunately, I don't really have any friends to share these thoughts and feelings with or anywhere to go with them. Most of the people I used to play games with when growing up have grown out of gaming in some way.
- My sister blogged for a short time, and the way she wrote about things she liked and did seemed to be exactly what I want to do with my love for games, especially retro games.
Does anyone here have any suggestions or advice? In my mind, I imagine titles being written in a boxy, 8-bit style font, and pages being decorated with 8-bit sprites...basically the background looking like an old-school video game. I have no idea how to achieve such a thing though, and don't know where to even start looking. (I imagine I'll want/need to design my own sprites, since it would probably be copyright infringement to copy/paste Mario and Link et. al. on my blog?)
Can anyone help a guy out?!
Anything free would be best right now (upcoming hospital and baby bills).