2009 is already great!

Beside the joyful fact that in 2009 Pocket Town Hero will see the day of light, I just noticed that Secret of Mana was released on the Wii Virtual Console.

!fanboy alert, you can stop reading now!
As a Dutch seventies kid,  SNES and MSX ruled my teen years. And Secret of Mana was, and still is, in my top ten of best games ever. So after downloading and playing it for an hour or so does it still hold up? Surprisingly it does, I’m having heaps of fun and can hum all the melodies along, it is fantastic to relive the game in front of a television again.
Mind you, it is a game from another era and there are a few hardcore annoyances to deal with, but nostalgia and Wii’s ability to save and stop the game at any time compensates more than enough.

So does this have anything to do with the development of Pocket Town Hero? Of course it does! Since SoM is a personal favorite, I must’ve been influenced by it in some way, don’t I.

gr.jakko