[Zeke]

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Before our little server mishap, I said I was hoping to make last week a week of many fivers. That's no longer possible -- so you'll just have to settle for [iost_uid0]this[/iost_uid0] week being one.


Today I've got a new videogame fiver for you, and if you know me and 5MVG, you know it's Mega Man. This one is a fiver in one more sense than usual because it actually covers five games. Back when they were making Mega Man games for the original Nintendo, they did this thing of taking half the bosses from each pair of consecutive games and putting them in a smaller game for the Game Boy. For example, the first Mega Man Game Boy game featured four bosses from [iost_uid0]Mega Man 1[/iost_uid0] and four from [iost_uid0]Mega Man 2[/iost_uid0]. While each of the first four also had a new miniboss, there's just too much character repetition to make them fiver material. However, the [iost_uid0]fifth[/iost_uid0] was all original, and interesting to boot.


So rather than have only the fifth Game Boy game fived, I've done minifivers to cover the original parts of the first four, and a full fiver for the fifth. (Say that five times fast.) The result is Five-Minute [iost_uid0]Mega Man[/iost_uid0]: The Game Boy Games. I'm aware that the audience for these is pretty limited, but hey -- my little brothers love my Mega Man fivers, and that's enough for me. (Also, switching series once in a while keeps me creative. Think of this as practice for those Ent fivers I'm behind on.)


Finally, happy birthday to Sa'ar Chasm! You've heard that name here before -- Sa'ar is a five-time guest writer and prominent forumgoer. There's more to come from him, too.[/colorost_uid0]