So Dan informs me that today is Super Joe Day, as foretold by the ending of the NES version of Bionic Commando:
Unfortunately I kind of feel like today didn’t feel very Super-y or very Joe-y. Kind of even a bigger letdown than Crystalis‘s THE END DAY, over a decade ago:
At the rate we’re going, 20xx is gonna suck.
The END DAY is my favorite day!
Gunpei Yokoi died October 4, 1997.
Coincidence? I think not.
Finding out that there were other people who celebrated The End Day was one of my greatest internet joys. ^_^
I wanted to play Bionic Commando yesterday in honor of this, but I just wound up playing StarCraft II instead. I like to imagine that SC2 takes place in the same continuity, only 500 years later. It might be true!
Apparently, though, there was a Bionic Commando album put out for Super Joe Day.