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Ninja Gaiden definitely has good controls.  Only other company I can think of who had games with snappy controls like that is Capcom.  Ninja Gaiden was still way too hard, though.  The thing I remember most about that game was the song they play when you die.  "Dun dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun DUN!"

A lot of those 16-bit ones are good in the arcade, too.  Especially Magic Sword and Dungeon Magic!  Played a lot of the former in arcades with my friend back in the day.

Only game I know on here enough to talk about is Onechanbara.  It started out in a series of budget priced PS2 games in Japan.  But it gained enough fame for...reasons, that they went ahead and made it a series.  Most of them did not come to the US for...reasons, but I did get the one that came out on the 360.  The reason why the main character lady wears nothing but a cowboy hat, feather boa, boots, and bikini is that's all the things she had time to put on in a closet before she had to rush out and kill zombies.  It's goofy fun but still feels like a budget title.  Right now I'm playing kind of the total opposite of this game: Hello Kitty Island Adventures!  

Good to hear from you here!  Hopefully you can stick around and post some blogs and read some of mine, too!

I'm not really reading much of anything.  High school and college kind of drained the fun of reading out of me.  But in May, there is a book I'll be getting: The Official Pac-Man Cookbook.  Oh who am I kidding, I won't be reading that either, just looking at the pictures!

I've been reviewing lots of games, but I finally finished Ys X: Nordics the other day.  It's getting harder and harder for me to finish long games anymore.  At the end of this month, I'll be getting a physical copy of Hello Kitty: Island Adventures.  I'm such a MANLY gamer! It looked like Animal Crossing so I'm going to have to try it!

Not realy listening much of anything lately except for my usual 80s stuff.  

If you want some good point and click adventures, I highly recommend TellTale's pre-Walking Dead stuff if you can find it.  There's the Sam & Max games, Tales of Monkey Island, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures.

Yeah it was really cool to see David Crane in those interviews and looking how he did when I met him in person.  He told me some funny stories about A Boy and His Blob when I met him again at the museum.

There are lots of LEGO video game sets out there.  Mario, Sonic, Minecraft, etc.  I'd love to see Mega Man ones.

They are the smallest of the sets, though.

Those are some REALLY good platformers on your list.  Some of the best out there.  Especially stuff like Klonoa and Yoshi's Island!  And Kirby and Mega Man and...

I liked A Boy and His Blob as a kid.  And yes David Crane did design it.  I met David Crane twice in real life.  Once at E3 and another time at the opening of the National Videogame Museum.

I've played Magic Sword in many an arcade, but I never heard of Arabian Magic until the Taito collection.

Yeah that's why I only got the cheapest of the LEGO Animal Crossing sets.  13 and 10  bucks each.  And even then, I asked for the 13 dollar one for Christmas so I didn't pay for that one.  

I loved playing Magic Sword in the arcade with my friend back in the day.  Good mindless fun.

I remember playing Arabian Magic on the Taito collection and remembering how surprisingly good it was.  Neat character designs.  Same goes with Dungeon Magic.