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In the last weekend of May, Nintendo held a new Nintendo World Championships at Best Buy stores around the country.  Participants played the championship mode on the 3DS NES Remix game, and winners will play in the finals in LA during the week of E3!  You may have read about many people on the Internet getting all excited over all this.  But why?  What’s the big deal?  Well, it’s because for people who grew up in the NES generation, the original Nintendo World Championships 1990 was such a monumental event for those who attended it.  Including me.  So in this blog, I’m going to share with you my experiences with that original event, and how it shaped me as a game reviewer today!

Many of the games in this batch of reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com aren’t necessarily retro games, but they do have a retro feel to them.  There are a couple of Galaga clones, a couple of video pinball games, a puzzler that’s similar to Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move, etc.  So please click on and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  Thanks!

One of the most popular mobile games right now is Puzzle & Dragons.  In it, you match up symbols like in Bejeweled which turn into elemental attacks for fighting monsters.  So it has a bit of a Puzzle Quest vibe to it, too.  Puzzle & Dragons has many imitators, some of which I’ve even reviewed.  Anyway, the cool thing is that Nintendo is going to be releasing a version of Puzzle & Dragons soon on the 3DS called Puzzle & Dragons Z.  Best of all is it’ll also have a separate game: a version of Puzzle & Dragons starring Mario characters!  That got me to thinking about how many other puzzle games feature Mario & friends, so here’s a blog about it!

Ignore the click-bait title; this is just another batch of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com.  I hope you get a chance to click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  But you just gotta read this blog if you want to find out who is marrying Farmer Man Cary, and who the heck is this guy, anyway?  And just what is my beef against the Angry Video Game Nerd?  Oh, the drama!  You just have to click to find out!

Nintendo just released some new Mario Kart 8 tracks, and it made me think about other fun Nintendo themed DLC and bonuses in games.  So I wrote a blog about it.  Enjoy!

Here’s another batch of games I’ve been reviewing lately over at GamerDad.com.  I promise this group of reviews is more interesting this time around, so please click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d really appreciate it.  Thanks!  OK let’s begin.

Hey folks, I’ve got some good news and some bad news.  First the bad news.  My request for getting a press pass into E3 this year got rejected.  That’s the third year in a row.  I probably won’t even try next year.  Three strikes and you’re out.  But I’m not going to complain about it.  Well, I might complain about it a little later on, but not right now.  You know, when something goes on that I don’t like, I try not to complain about it too much, but instead I try and DO something about it.  You know, like instead of griping about game award shows, I just make my own in a blog.  Which brings me to my good news.  I’ve decided to have my OWN convention.  It’ll be called CaryCon, and it’ll be held at The Colony Convention Center at the end of next month during the weekend of April 31^st.  Read on for full details and how YOU can get in for free!

Sorry I couldn’t think of a catchy title for this batch of reviews.  Anyway, here’s another blog with links to games I’ve reviewed lately over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it, thanks.

Recently I reviewed a one-on-one 2-D fighting game called Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late. That’s a really long name!  When I first started playing it, I thought the characters weren’t that interesting, because they all looked like typical anime stereotypes.  But as I kept playing, some of the characters ended up being a little more interesting than I thought.  And since I sometimes like to write about fighting game characters in blogs, I’ll do just that with this game right now.  Plus I don’t have any other blog ideas anyway.

Thank goodness February is over.  Never liked that month.  We’ll start off the new one with another batch of game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  Thanks.