Hoi, allemaal! Ik ben de gamer_vrouw! (Hi, everyone! I'm the gamer_vrouw!)
Back in the day (Yes, I'm actually saying that, because I'm not a kid anymore), I would visit the arcade section of the Mayan Palace 14 movie theater. I remember playing many arcade games, including the 1996 first-person shooter The House of the Dead.
I remember spending so many quarters playing that game - I even went as far as getting past the first two monster bosses! (How many quarters was that? I don't know. LOL!)
Anyway, The House of the Dead was one of many nostalgic games that I've played in my youth. However, most recently (yesterday, April 14, 2021), I learned that the game was being remade for the Nintendo Switch - or, as IGN puts it a "zombie facelift."
I watched the minute-long trailer, and I was amazed. Not only was I amazed, but a flood of nostalgia took over. Those days of feeding quarters into an arcade machine, reloading the attached gun by shooting outside of the game's TV screen, and taking on waves and waves of monsters and zombies …
So, now that I've seen the trailer to the remake, there are many questions that I have so far:
- Will players have to use the Joy-Cons (the Switch controllers) to simulate the game's traditional gun peripherals, and have them aim the Joy-Cons outside of the screen to reload?
- When should we expect this remake? (Release date?)
- When can consumers pre-order the game (at the very least)?
Now, neither Nintendo or Forever Entertainment has announced a release date, other than posting that the game will be released sometime in 2021. But I'm hoping that The House of the Dead Remake is well-polished and bug-free before its release, so that fans like myself are happy for the anticipation. (Besides, we don't want another Cyberpunk 2077 incident.)
But until then ...
Ik ben de gamer_vrouw! (I'm the gamer_vrouw!)
Dag! (Bye!)
