{"id":450,"date":"2010-01-30T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/thexder-neo-a-k-a-jon-is-cool\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T04:46:00","slug":"thexder-neo-a-k-a-jon-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/thexder-neo-a-k-a-jon-is-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Thexder Neo (A.K.A. Jon is cool)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBack when I was young (hard for me to remember that far back, but I’ll try) I had moved to New Jersey<\/a>. Now, don’t get me wrong, I really like New Jersey. Now. But then again, I also have a fond spot in my heart for Texas, and we all know what they say about Texas (Beers, Steers, and what now?)\n<\/p>\n

\nAnyway, I was young, and a new kid in a new place. By the chance alphabetization of last names, I quickly befriended Jon, a great guy with a great last name. Anyway, I remember that Jon had an Apple IIGS<\/a>. It was a great computer. I was jealous. My family had an Apple \/\/e<\/a> but that couldn’t come close to matching the amazing 320×200 (well, 640×200 under special circumstances) graphics on that thing.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne of the games Jon had was Thexder<\/a>. It was amazing. Great sound. Great graphics. And a giant robot. At the time my friends and I were all into Robotech<\/a> (uh, Macross<\/a>, sorry I forgot no true Anime fan would ever<\/b> watch Robotech!) so this game where you could change from a jet (just like Robotech!) to a Robot (just like Robotech!) was awesome!! The game was hard. I don’t know that any of us ever beat level 2. But we sure did play a lot of level 2. And the music. The music was great. To this day Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata<\/a> is one my favorite classical songs. (It doesn’t hurt that it was also the B-side for Little 15<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n

\nSo, for a good portion of my life I was convinced that Jon was cool because Thexder was cool. It is the transitive property of coolness and “my friend has a cool computer”. Actually, truth be told that is still why I think Jon is cool. I imagine him hanging out in Tonetown, having Tass Times<\/a> even now with Sabrina in tow.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnyway, I decided today to browse the PS3 network on my Japanese account and see what they had. Mostly I wanted to buy Flower for the PS3<\/a> (I did, and got Lumines Supernova<\/a> while I was at it) but then I saw Thexder NEO<\/a>. What what what??\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is a remake for PSP and PS3 I suppose. I downloaded the demo. It was exactly how I remember it: really hard and frustrating with amazing graphics (now updated and 3d) and sound (still old and 8bit and awesome.)\n<\/p>\n

\nI checked around, and it seems to be getting uniformly awful<\/a> reviews<\/a> (even on blogs!<\/a>) That is too bad. I mean, I agree with the criticisms, but come on!\n<\/p>\n

\nJon is still cool!!\n<\/p>\n


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