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My first exposure to Pac-Man was actually through Ms. Pac-Man, as well as the infamous Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man is a better game, but Namco seems to be quietly ignoring it of late. They haven't put it in many of their recent collections, including the Switch collection.

Did you ever play Jr. Pac-Man or Baby Pac-Man? Those games and a couple of others made Namco management mad and that's when they took the license away from Midway. Jr. Pac-Man wasn't as good as Ms. Pac-Man, but it wasn't bad. I never saw Baby Pac-Man in the wild but I have an emulated version of it through a make-your-own-pinball-table program (it was a hybrid video game/pinball table.) Namco's "official" sequel to Pac-Man was Super Pac-Man.

I spent more time with SMB3 than SMW. When I got my SNES, it came bundled with A Link to the Past. Now that game I played the hell out of. I still do. Surprisingly, I've never played a F-Zero game.

I also tried Super Mario Run a couple of times. Ended up going back to the console games. :)

I actually did that with Valkyria Chronicles 2 when I first got my PSTV, since it wasn't compatible at first. Sony did make it available for Vita/PSTV later on, though. But my PS3 yellow-lighted, and it was a 60-gig fatty. :(

There probably will be 3DS stuff announced, Nintendo says they want to continue marketing the 3DS through at least next year, and it sold really well this last Christmas. I want to download Metroid: Samus Returns, but I also kind of hope that gets ported to the Switch.

The only AC game I played is the first game. I kind of dabbled around in it, and I liked making Resetti madder and madder. I changed the little jingle that plays when you talk to characters to the Westminster clock chime. I thought it was pretty clever at the time. Maybe I'll look into AC again when it hits Switch, as you know it will.

What you described about AC: Pocket Camp is a big reason why I hate the mobile gaming market and don't play games on my phone or iPad. With the freemium model, the developers all intentionally gimp the game or make playing through it very tedious in order to try to get you to spend money. It's like you're paying them not to play the game. And they're all like that, because nobody will spend money on a premium title on mobile devices anymore once they've gotten used to "free" as a price point. EA is trying to do the same thing on consoles with loot boxes, I did try the iOS version of Tales of Phantasia a few years back. Even though it was a port of the SNES game, it wouldn't work without an online connection and it would get impossibly hard unless you bought power-ups through microtransactions. And it ended up being pulled from the App store six months later, so you can't play it at all now. I wish they'd just have released it as a premium port (or better still, localized the PSP version!)

Most of them so far are Neo-Geo games. King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, World Heroes, Art of Fighting, Last Blade, and Metal Slug, plus a lot of other SNK games like Magician Lord.

My biggest wish if they do add Gamecube to the Virtual Console, is Tales of Symphonia.

There are a few others like Double Dragon, but I'm really looking forward to the Nintendo stuff more than anything. Even back then my favorite arcade games were Nintendo's arcade games. VS Balloon Fight is actually quite good and an improvement over the NES game, and the arcade Punch-Out! would be kind of an interesting game to have, even though I think the NES and Wii Punch-Out games are better. VS Super Mario Bros gets stupid hard after World 4, because a lot of the later levels were prototypes for SMB: The Lost Levels, and the last warp zone in 4 only lets you go to world 6, not world 7 or 8 as on the NES.

I wish the Capcom collection was compatible with Vita or PSTV.

I have never done BaD. I'm bad at BaD. I can usually manage one or two blogs though.

I enjoyed the Wii U while it lasted, a lot of times more than I did the PS4 in its early years. That said, I'm glad that they decided to move on to the Switch. I think that's more in line with what Nintendo's vision for the Wii U was in the first place.

And the Switch has already sold more in 9 months than the Wii U did in its lifetime. Wow.