PixlBit

I might have seen a Super Pac-Man machine from time to time. I had the Atari 8-bit version of Super Pac-Man, and now I have it on Namco Museum Volume 2.

I've switched from Netflix to Hulu. All the content I liked on Netflix is going to Hulu, and Netflix is losing more content than it's gaining. The only thing on Netflix I would really want to keep it for is F is for Family, and that gets new seasons so sporadically that it isn't worth it anymore.

I'm really loving my Switch. I haven't been this excited about a new game console in ten years, but this is almost like when I first got my SNES, which was the first home console I actually had. Breath of the Wild is amazing, and one little gem I'm enjoying is the arcade version of Mario Bros, which has never been officially released before.

I'm rolling my eyes at Phil the Groundhog. I live in Arizona, and other than a couple of cool days, it's like summer never ended here this year. We were already back in the 80s in January.

Fantasy games were really a niche item back then. The only real mainstream success as far as fantasy games went at the time was Zelda. I've always liked swords and sorcery fantasy games, though ironically, I was never a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings.

How is Nights of Azure 2? I really liked the first game. I was thinking of getting the second game on the Switch.

That's true. And they actually willingly accepted Ms. Pac-Man at the time since it was making them a lot of money. It was all the later stuff like Jr. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, and Professor Pac-Man that ticked them off. It's kind of weird how they seem to be phasing out Ms. Pac-Man now.

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.