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I cleaned up my old Mega Man wallpaper I cobbled together ages ago. It’s a blow-up of the Mega Man 2 title screen for the NES.

I removed the Roman numeral from the original, as I prefer this to be a ‘pure’ Mega Man wallpaper. Hard to believe I left some layer-scraps in the previous version. It should be correct this time around.

[update] I added an upgraded version to fit my native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

And it features a nifty tower on the left with a ‘surprise guest’.

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Some time ago a friend of mine mentioned how he still at times breaks out the Super Nintendo to play the game Hook, a platform game based on the movie by the same name. That actually ignited a pang of nostalgia; I myself immediately associated that with the Ocean range of platform games and as such with their (IMHO) greatest achievement, McDonaldland.

Known across the Atlantic as M.C. Kids curiously, it was one of the few games I rented at the local video rental store more than once. Not because like every kid back then you revered McDonald’s and you needed the Happy Meal toys as your life depended upon them, but rather because the game was actually good. Proper good. And now that I’m looking back on it, probably the best licensed game of its time. Which is rather amazing when you think about it (especially taking the NES’s games library into account).

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