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There are a couple of games where you can kind of 'play cars.'  One is Simpsons Road Rage, where there is a mode that lets you explore the whole city of Springfield freely without having a time limit to pick up and drop off passengers.  This is neat because there are a lot of funny gags you wouldn't notice from a regular playthrough.  Like the movie theater is showing titles like, "A Popsicle Now."  

Another one is a PS2 game called Road Trip.  It's actually a Choro Q game in Japan and lets you travel around a world freely between races.  It really feels like you're on a road trip!

The PSP is one of my favorite non-NIntendo handhelds.  Some aspects of the PSP I like better than the Switch!  Some of my favorite PSP games include Ys Seven, Loco Roco 1 and 2, Gurumin, Work Time Fun, Mega Man: Powered Up, and many more!

I remember that Retro Atari Classics not being that great.  They took old Atari games and gave them graffiti styled graphics and I think they looked pretty ugly.

I know I'm going to get tomatoes thrown at me, but I didn't really like the first Sonic game.  Sure it looked really cool on TV, but once I played it at a demo station (remember those), I asked myself, "This is better than Super Mario World...HOW???"  Like you said, for a game all about speed, they sure do penalize you when you go fast.  For me, Sonic didn't get good, or at least halfway decent, until 3.  Sonic 2 made me take notice because I thought Tails was cool.  Tails and Ulala are my favorite SEGA characters.  

Yes please check those out when you can.  I'd like to play Monster Hunter Stories 2, but I have too much on my plate now and I never played the first one.  I'd like to get the Monster Hunter Stories 2 amiibo, though!

R-Type Final 2 got a physical release as well.  I would've bought it, but since it was so hard when I played it for my review, I decided to skip out on it unless it gets really cheap.  Should've done the same for Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX.

I know about this nowadays, but I never heard of this or saw it as a kid.

I would love to play it before the sequel comes out.  I did some research on the PSVR and it looks like a booger to hook up.

Maybe dedicate a month or two to handheld console generations?

My favorite console generations was 16-bit.  Also have a soft spot for 8-bit and 32-bit.

I think the only thing I'd want to do in that Assassin's Creed game is ride a camel.  I watched my brothers play some of those games.  I remember you could fall 20 stories into a pile of hay and be OK.  And in one of them, you could feed any animal in the village by magically summoning bread crumbs from your hand.  And that's my takeaway from Assassin's Creed.