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I remember the McDonald's Mac Tonight Moon Man!  In fact, when I was a kid, one year I wanted to be that for Halloween.  But the costume would've been too hard to make, so I went with a California Raisin instead since all that took was a garbage bag.  See that's how much of a hold advertising mascot characters had on us 80s kids.  I think I'm about as old as you guys are, maybe a little older.

Speaking of California Raisins, the same ad agency who made them also did The Noid.  They are still around today, but under a different name.  You know what they do now?  The modern day M&M's characters!

You know, I was in college in Austin from 1995 to 1999 and I remember going to Gamefellas stores in shopping malls all the time back then.  So if you were there during that time, we might've talked to each other and not even known it!  I also was writing for The Dallas Morning News back then, and for my reviews I needed release dates.  Since the Internet was still in its infancy, sometimes I would call stores to get release dates so you might've helped a beginner gaming journalist!  So thanks!  I also called EB Games for the same reason, but my roommate would always tease me that I just called and visited that store because I had a crush on the lady who worked there.  I denied that, but for some reason I still remember her name (Tess), so maybe I did.

I reviewed Chrono Cross for the newspaper back then.  I think it should've been it's own game rather than a Chrono Trigger sequel.  It felt like a cleverly disguised card game.  I Am Setsune feels more like a Chrono Trigger sequel than that.  Only thing that interests me about the Chrono Cross remaster is the included Radical Dreamers game.  I wish I could just buy that seperately, though.

Right now I'm playing the opposite of Elden Ring, which is Kirby and the Forgotten Land!

Tetris wins the cage match for no reason other than I said so.  I reviewed Chex Quest for the newspaper back then, too.  Would Mario Golf beat it?  Well it depends on which one.  If it's Toadstool Tour on the GameCube, then yeah.  

I hope you folks get a chance to listen to my podcast, too!  Just do a search for Pizza Pixel Podcast and you'll find it.  We just recorded another episode and I hope my brother Jeff gets to edit and post it soon.  At least before Mother's Day.  Our topic for this one is games our parents liked to play, and we even have our mom on the show as a guest!  So please pray for us that it gets posted soon!  --Cary

I don't think the game is like Mario Galaxy, but it is a pretty straightforward Kirby game.  Just in 3-D this time.

Yeah believe it or not, whether it be the games or other products, I like the ghost monsters just as much, if not more than, Pac-Man himself!

I FINALLY beat The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles!  Right on time, too, as the next day my copy of Kirby and the Forgotten Land came in, so that's what I've been playing mostly now.

If you can't get Pac-Man to move than you may want to check your JoyCon settings.  Those JoyCons kind of suck, by the way.

You have to play Pac-Man 99 a little differently than other Pac-Man games.  Concentrate on eating the bonus fruit that causes the ghost icons to appear on the sides of the maze.  then eat those to make ghost chains, then eat a power pellet and try to eat all the ghost chains you've made to send them to other players.  Only eat dots if you have to make more power pellets and fruit appear.

The Kirby game is called Kirby and the Forgotten Land.  I have the full game and just beat the main story and am doing the extra stuff now.  It has a good amount of replay value.

I got the first Mario vs. Rabbids game but didn't like it, so I'll skip out on the sequel.

Here's my Switch friend code: 1395 7159 9988

I know a lot of people that say they remember playing this back in the day, but I don't remember it in arcades as a kid at all!  And I remember playing other Taito games back then like Qix and Alpine Ski.  I never really liked Front Line, though.  Just felt like a clunky Ikari Warriors.  Right now I'm reviewing Taito Milestones and Front Line is on it.  The guy in Front Line is a helper character in Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders.

It's too bad that things that taste good aren't very good for you.  Luckily I'm not a big fan of sweets in general so that makes it a little easier on me.

I've already reviewed LEGO Builder's Journey.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2021/07/05/lego-builders-journey-switch-pc-apple-arcade/

The history of Tetris and all the folks who had rights to it is so varied and interesting.  You could probably make a whole movie about it!  Granted it wouldn't be a very action packed movie, but you could do it.  Actually the Video Game Historian has a video on the history of Tetris that is pretty neat.

A lot of people's first memory of Tetris is on the Game Boy, but I actually played it on computers several years before, so playing it on the Game Boy wasn't quite as special for me.  Plain ol' Tetris is still one of my top three favorite puzzle games, though. Right alongside Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and Puzzle Bobble.  The last time I went to PAX in Seattle, I went to a Tetris themed lounge bar they had set up, and I almost got to meet the creator of Tetris, but it didn't work out.