About
Why Oldschool Hard?
Because ‘Nintendo Hard’ = Nintendo sues.
What’s Oldschool Hard all about?
Old video games were often uneven, arbitrary, sometimes painfully difficult, with rudimentary graphics. New games are often good-looking, able to be finished by anyone with enough time, and highly polished. And yet they make mistakes all of their own.
Oldschool Hard pines a little for the simpler times and asks the question: why are we replacing mistakes with new mistakes?
I’m not looking for gaming’s Citizen Kane. But I don’t think it’s too much to ask that we have a little bit more creativity in the video game industry, and try to fix things before we break more things.
Who are you?
My pseudonym is Eddie Bax. It’s not that I’m afraid to reveal my name – it’s that my real name is ridiculously common, and yet googling ‘Eddie Bax’ gives me the top position. It’s all about the google-fu. Before other stuff got in the way, I used to write over at WoW Drama.
Believe it or not, I actually have a Journalism degree. And a graduate degree in Editing. Yes, they offer those, and yes, kiddies, you too can waste years in university and still come out with writing and editing this awful.
How often will you update this thing?
Originally, I said: “Two or three times a week, until I run out of ideas.” Now? Pretty much when I feel like it.
I want to give you money, a job, or more likely, a piece of my mind. Where do I do this?
Email: oldschoolhard (at) gmail.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/oldschoolhard
Xbox Live: Eddie Bax US
Steam: Eddie Bax
