PixlBit

I had a pretty good size collection of Infocom text adventures in the 80s. Zork I and II, Enchanter (a spinoff of Zork), Cutthroats, Suspect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which was actually my introduction to the series, when I showed this game to my sister, she got me the books), and The Leather Goddesses of Phobos, which was of a decidedly adult nature - the first part of the game, you had to pee and the restroom you picked determined what sex you and your companion were, just to give you an idea if you've never played this.

All of the Infocom games came with little toys and maps - "feelies" -like you see in collectors' editions of video games these days, and in a lot of cases, the added extras were clues to the game or served as a form of copy protection, as you couldn't win the game (in the pre-Internet era) without the information from the feelies. For example, Leather Goddesses had "scratch and sniff" points which were gross, as well as a comic book which told you how to solve a certain puzzle.

Now you can buy an iOS app from Activision that lets you play all of the Infocom games (except Hitchhiker's Guide due to licensing), and the feelies are included in the app. Well, except for Leather Goddess's scratch 'n' sniff stuff.

I actually did too. The only games I really wanted from the original Xbox were Ninja Gaiden/Black and Panzer Dragoon Orta, and the former game ended up on PS3 as Ninja Gaiden Sigma.

I forgot about Fire Emblem. I enjoyed Path of Radiance (and Radiant Dawn on Wii.)

Namco used to let you play games like Galaxian and Pac-Man on the loading screens of the first Ridge Racer and Tekken games on PS1.

2011 was kind of a lean year of gaming for me. The only games I really played that year were Dragon Quest VI DS, Mortal Kombat, Catherine, and Skyward Sword.

I celebrated my 21st birthday with a legal beer and Xenogears. A few days later I got the flu and was out of work for 2 weeks, so I finished Xenogears.

They're pretty interesting. They had BASIC built into them, and you could get a keyboard for them, although you could type BASIC commands using the numeric keypad the same way you could type text messages on an old cell phone. The cartridges were meant to look and fit into the machine like cassette tapes, and the machine had a storage bin for cartridges. The controller was kind of weird, being shaped like a pistol grip with paddles on the ends for Pong-style games. But back then, I'd probably have rather had an Astrocade than a 2600.

Daaaaaamn... I feel like I would be responsible for your mother being sold if this thing actually came out, LOL.

There were actually two of the 1970s "Scooby-Doo Movies" which had Scooby-Doo teaming up with Batman and Robin. I think the B&R movies were actually the pilots of the movie series. Batman and Robin were modeled after their appearance in the Hanna-Barbera "Superfriends" cartoon, and Robin was voiced by Casey Kasem (who also did Shaggy).

I think that the hard "good/evil" dichotomy is a product of the three Abrahamic religions.

KFC is actually considered to be fine dining in Japan and China. In Africa, eating at KFC is considered to be a status symbol.

I started in '07. Right before I finally found a Wii.