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I would remake A Link to the Past, with a full 3-D engine on the level of Breath of the Wild or at least Twilight Princess rather than the 2 1/2-D look of A Link Between Worlds or the upcoming Link's Awakening Remake. That's what the prototype Zelda 64 was shaping up to be, anyway.

Video game cage match:

Mortal Kombat has blown Street Fighter away since Mortal Kombat 9, so MKXL wins this, easily, and I'm sure MK11 will be even further above SFV. Admittedly even back in the early days of both series I was a MKII player rather than a SFII player, but still, Capcom seriously needs to up its game with Street Fighter. Even King of Fighters is putting out a more consistently good product. Maybe now that they're roling in money from Monster Hunter World and Resident Evil they can make SF6 a game that can actually compete with MK11. They were a little cash-strapped when they were making SF5.s

I might actually get this game. I enjoyed the N64 game. I remember all the animated blood. Sometimes if you killed a human enemy with a knife they'd make horrible choking noises like you'd slashed their throats. That was gruesome for any video game in 1997, let alone one on Nintendo console back then.

Between this and Final Fantasy VII, it's gonna be a 90s party on the Switch.

I have the comprehensive all-in-one collection on Switch. I didn't have a 5200. What I had was a 130XE, which was a computer that used the same hardware as the 5200, only with far more RAM. It was like what the 5200 would have been if it had been well-designed. So I've actually played a couple of these games.

Final Legacy was all right, I played a few completed games of it back in the day.

I spent a lot of time with the 8-bit version of Millipede. I kinda want to track down the NES version sometime. Centipede and Millipede are my favorite games that Atari actually made, and I still play them a fair bit.

I had the 8-bit version of Star Raiders. I actually beat the game on the hardest level one time. It was a lot easier to play with a full keyboard. The 2600 version was just weird and I never could figure it out. I got my first-person space dogfighting fix on the 2600 with Activision's StarMaster. Fun fact: Star Raiders is older than either Pac-Man or Mario. Or Activision for that matter. It first came out in 1979.

Never was really big into Asteroids.

And still no Solaris, which was probably the best 2600 game ever except maybe Yars' Revenge.

I agree with you on one thing: The best 5200/8 bit Atari games were licensed arcade games. The Atari 8-bit was, IMO, the second best gaming machine of the 80s after the NES. The 5200 version of Donkey Kong was better than Nintendo's official NES version did, partly because it had the Cement Factory level and music that sounded more like the arcade. I guess that's a moot point now since you can get the actual arcade Donkey Kong on Switch as an Arcade Archives game. I also really enjoyed Pengo. I thought the 8-bit version of Dig-Dug was pretty bad, though.

I'm most pumped about Dragon Quest, Fire Emblem, and FFXII on Switch. The way things are going, the Switch is going to be my favorite game system of all time.

That sounds exactly like my experience of the N64. Zelda was the only game I cared about on it after about 1997 or so.

I skipped it. I already had Mario Kart. And for me, it summed up everything that was wrong with the N64. The console was glutted with racing games beyond Mario Kart and they were pushing a kart-racing game that Rare had seemingly thrown together in a few months as their big game of the Christmas season. Nintendo's PR department was in full-on damage control mode over the game droughts and the huge success of Final Fantasy VII on PS1. Even the big boss, Hiroshi Yamauchi, was taking potshots at FFVII. With N64 games getting canned right and left in development hell, I could already see that Earthbound 64/Mother 3 was vaporware. So I bought a PS1 a few months later.

As a huge fan of Fallout: New Vegas, The Outer Worlds is definitely an attention-grabber for me.

Dragon Warrior was my first exposure to console RPGs, along with the NES version of Ultima III. Its reminded me a bit of Alternate Reality, an Atari 8-bit RPG, though that game was in first-person mode for exploring as well as fighting. I'm still a fan of the series.

Capcom considered the "real" RE3 to be Code: Veronica. RE3 was originally a spinoff, and was retitled as RE3 to satisfy an exclusivity agreement with Sony. Given that it was released when the PS1 was on its way out, and in the same time frame as the Dreamcast and bigger games like Final Fantasy VIII, RE3 kind of got lost in the shuffle.

I played the Adventurer's Edition of Pitfall II on Atari 8-bit. The second cavern was brutal.