PixlBit

1. 1. How are you doing?
2. I'm OK.  Could be better, but probably could be a lot worse.  Just have to count my blessings.  That's all I can do.
4. 2. What are some YouTube recommendations?
5. I recommend "Slopes Game Room."  Especially the "Complete History Of..." whatever game he does.  I especially especially recommend his Complete History of Pac-Man videos, because I helped make them!
7. 3. In a fight to the death with someone your size and build you have the choice of a 6 inch knife or an aluminum bat. Which weapon do you choose, knowing that the one you don’t pick goes to your opponent?
8. I couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag.  But in some video games, you can swat the knife away with a bat, so I'd pick the bat.  But I'd rather just make friends with whoever I was fighting.
10. 4. What do you smell like (or think you smell like)?
11. After work I probably smell like plumbing supplies.  But overall I'd like to think I'm odorless.
13. 5. We’re going to McDonald’s; what do ya want?
14. I want a Happy Meal with a Pac-Man toy.  And have it served to me by the McDonald's Moon Man!
16. 6. What’s YOUR idea for a Stage Select?
17. So since you haven't done one in a while, I'm not sure what you do in your Stage Select topic.  Is it just a general topic to talk about?  How about your favorite cereal?  Favorite video game based cereal?  And what video games would you LIKE to have as a cereal?
18. And feel free to steal topics from my podcast, too.  I just did one on our parents favorite games and even had a special guest!
20. https://anchor.fm/pizza-pixel-podcast
22. 7. What video game fan fiction would you write (if you did)?
23. Probably one with all Namco characters.  Or a Final Fantasy story, since I think I can come up with a better story than Square can.  I've even had a couple of dreams about that.  One dream I was working for Namco, but mixed in with regular human employees were Namco video game characters.  I talked with the receptionist, Reiko Nagase, as well as Taizo Hori (Dig Dug), and walked past Gil from Druaga and Taki from Soul Calibur.  But when I got to my cubicle, I thought to myself, "Wait, what do I do here again?" And then I woke up.  I also had a pretty elaborate dream about me being in a Final Fantasy game (I was a White Mage).  I think I wrote a blog about that on 1up.com a long time ago!

I think the Krusty episode is probably more well known.

Someone at Film Roman must've had a problem with clowns since both Garfield and Friends and The Simpsons were done by them.  Binky the Clown was really only featured in the cartoons, not so much in the Garfield comics.  He first appeared in the Garfield Halloween special, which was really good.  Binky got pretty popular, too, as he even got his own shape in the Garfield Fruit Snacks.  Those fruit snacks were really good, too, by the way.  Can you tell I'm a Garfield fan?

Yeah Eastasiasoft can be pretty dicey sometimes.  One minute they're releasing family friendly Ayo the Clown, the next minute a Pretty Girls game or Marble Maid.  But they're pretty supportive of me so I will review most of what they put out.  Although even I have my limits.  I probably won't review Seven Pirates H for instance. :)

And what are you going to have for dessert? :)

I usually miss out on Free Comic Book Day.  I either have to work or it's too hard for me to get to a store.  But I don't mind too much since I'm not into comic books anyway.  In the past I've gotten Street Fighter and Transformers comics on that day.  I recently recorded a podcast about my brother's and my favorite comic book characters, so watch out for that in in the next couple of months hopefully!  Can you guess who some of my favorites are?

I have to say, I still do like trophies and achievements, and I wish Nintendo would adopt those, too.

So when you buy certain Nintendo games and do certain things online, you can earn virtual coins.  These coins can be traded in to get new avatars for your Switch icon, help pay for games, and even buy things at the Club Nintendo web site.  I recently used some coins to buy a Kirby shopping bag, for instance.

For some odd reason I don't remember this game.

Yeah I've played Bomberman multiplayer but it just didn't click for me for some reason.

That's one bad thing about the Switch is there are no achievements or trophies, but that might be a good thing in some cases, too.

You know, you'd think I would like Bomberman games since they're all about running around in mazes chasing after things, and I like those kinds of games.  But I've never been able to get into Bomberman much for some reason.

I did buy Super Bomberman back in the day, but mainly because I wanted the included SNES Multitap so I could play three player Secret of Mana.

I would like to play some of the side games, like the kart racers, mini-game collections, and puzzle gamess featuring Bomberman, but I never got around to it.  Can't play 'em all! 

I do think it's interesting that Nintendo shoehorned Wario into a Bomberman game once.  Also, Hudson MIGHT have copied the idea of Bomberman from a Namco game called Warp & Warp.

I hate it that Konami kind of squelched Hudson Soft.  Good thing most of the employees left to work at Nintendo!