Nintendo annouced so many more amiibo in today's Direct video. My wallet is crying.
You know I wrote about those Pac-Man donuts a while back:
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2025/06/06/pac-man-donuts-at-krispy-kreme/
I like that tractor at the start of your video. I dunno, I just like tractors.
I never knew about the Bally console as a kid. I don't even remember seeing Wizard of Wor in arcades as a kid. I only started learning about those things after college when I would go to arcade auctions and read about things on the internet. Too bad the console game doesn't have those great Wizard of Wor voice clips!
I really miss going to conventions like E3 and PAX.
Arkanoid was one of the first games I got for my NES because it was a game I could get my dad to play and I thought the included paddle controller was cool.
I think I'm already on your Switch friend list. I'd love to play Fantasy Life if I didn't have to work and sleep and play other games.
One thing about Pressure Cooker, you really have to read the instructions to understand how to play the game properly. But once you do, it becomes amazing and a surprisngly complex yet still simple game on the 2600.
Yeah and there's a lot more recipes in the book like that.
Yeah DK Bananza was a great mix of old and new. And the finale is one of the best Nintendo has ever done. Definitely a GOTY contender.
Oh man, I would've loved to have gone to one of the Namco Wonder Eggs parks when they were open. They're all shut down now. You can even see Wonder Eggs theme park stuff in games like Tekken 3 and Ridge Racer Type 4. The big Galaxian 3 arcade game was at one of those Wonder Eggs parks. I think the only thing that's open now aside from arcades is that NamjaTown thing that is supposedly a couples' dating place. So all I need to do is go to Japan and get a date and go to that. Should be easy enough, right? :)
My public schools must've had really poor funding because we didn't get a computer lab until I was in middle school. And then it was a bunch of C64s. Keep in mind this was in the late 80s and early 90s. Those were already considered obselete by then. I remember one classroom in middle school also had a computer, and it was that TI computer that you were talking about in this video. It had some educational games on it, but I don't remember which ones it had. Heck, it took until I was in high school before we ever got any fairly revelant computers. Heck, my typing class in high school still used typewriters!
My only other memory of that TI computer that you were talking about was I think our next door neighbor owned one. I remember going to their house sometimes as a little kid and their mom would let me play on theirs. One time she even hooked it up on their big screen TV in their bedroom for me to play. I thought that was really cool. The only game I played on it was Munch Man, though. It was, of course, a Pac-Man clone.
The only other big things I remember Texas Instruments for was they made a lot of calculators. And when my dad was done with his time in the military in El Paso, we moved to Dallas and he had two job offers. One was with Texas Instruments and one was with Mostek. He took the Mostek job. But at Mostek he made and sold circuits that were used in Atari game cartridges. So I guess gaming runs in he family, kinda sorta.
The game that realy scared me in arcades as a kid was SiniStar.
My cousin and I played the Intellivision version of Frogs and Flies (Frog Bog) for what seemed like hours when we were kids.
I should hope that Galaxian plays like Galaga, since Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian.
Phoenix is great on the 2600. And I can't say that about too many arcade to 2600 ports.
Stampede is great, but my favorite Atari 2600 game from Activision is Pressure Cooker.
PIn-Bot on NES is pretty good, we're just spoiled from our pinball collections of today.
RBI Baseball is a very significant game because in Japan it's known as Family Stadium, or Famista for short, and was and is still huge in Japan.
Now go read my blog or else Chun-Li is going to come over to your house and roll you up like a basketball and dribble you around the house! So there!
I think that Picross Adventure game was done by the same folks who did the Story of Seasons and Rune Factory Picross games I reviewed.
