PixlBit

Even though one of these is not in your timeline, I hope you get to play Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger.  FF6 is one of my top five favorite games of all time, and Chrono Trigger is not far behind that.

Super Mario RPG is also great.  The remake won my GOTY the year before last.  Such great memories playing this one.  Back in the day, my brother Jeff would always ask for me to play "Mario PG" and "Chwono Twigger."  But since he couldn't read yet, if I forget to read the text aloud, he'd yell out, "Tell it!"

I liked the PokeBall controller you could get to play Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee.  It only had one button so you could play the game with just one hand and make throwing motions with it to act like you're throwing Pokeballs.

One interesting fact about the Pokemon Stadium games is that the former president of HAL and Nintendo, Iwata, programmed these.  He pretty much saved Game Freak's butts on multiple occaisions.  Back when I was wriitng for The Dallas Morning News and covering everything Pokemon, Jeff and I went to a mall where they were doing a stage show showing off the new at the time Pokemon Stadium.  Since I was a press guest, they had me and Jeff go up on stage and play the game.  The audience down below kept cheering for our Pokemon and Jeff was grinning ear to ear!  He was about 6 at the time I think.

I reviewed The New Denpa Men.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/09/11/the-new-denpa-men-switch/

Don't listen to the reviews, Mario & Luigi Brothership is actually really good.

I should probably play Undertale at some point...

Aw, man!  Zack & Wiki!  That is such an awesome game.  For such an early Wii title, Capcom really got the motion controls right.  It's one of the last times I felt like I was playing a "classic" Capcom game.  Lots of secrets and references to other Capcom games as well.  But boy is it hard!  Probably one of the hardest games I've ever beaten.  That next to last level is so hard!  Mainly because it's really long and you have to do it all in one go!

By the way, I saw this video and though of you:

You don't need an app to play these games.  Just scan the QR code and it takes you there.  I imagine it's just browser based.

Since I wrote that Minecraft article, I've gotten a few more things from them so in a couple of weeks there will be another article with some new stuff!

You don't play as the whale in Skies Above.  You just ride atop it while defending it from robots.

Cozy Land is just a virtual dollhouse with no goals and objectives.  

Kirby and Klonoa are my favorites from your list.

I got a press release about that Lunar game.

I don't really consider DKC Returns a remake, but a whole new game.  It's way harder too.  I can't beat it, and I can bet the original three on SNES.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is probably the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island.  It's not as good as those games, but still good.

I reviewed Kao the Kangaroo

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/06/24/kao-the-kangaroo-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

Yooka-Laylee could've been a good spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie if it didn't have meandering levels and annoying bosses.  The 2D spinoff, The Impossible Lair, played more like Donkey Kong Country but also got way too hard.

Too bad you're doing turn based games for the SNES era console generation since those had some of my favorites (FF6, Chrono Trigger, etc.)

That can be arranged (kidding).

Retro games are getting expensive, too!

If you ever beat the first Klonoa game, just be prepared.  it has one of the saddest video game endings I've ever seen. Which is surprising for such a cutesy game.