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Thanks for listening and commenting.  Really means a lot to me.

I'm really hoping we'll have the next podcast up by the end of Labor Day weekend.  Jeff edits it, and he's a schoolteacher so right now he's really busy with the start of school.  But I've been pushing and encouraging him to get it done this weekend since there's an extra day for him in there.

Episode 4 is actually with me and another one of my brothers, Ben, as we talk about our favorite video game music composers.  Then after that, I hope to record Episode 5 with my brother Nathan, as we plan to talk about our favorite Disney characters and rides at the theme parks.

I liked the Mario Bros. style mini-game in Super Mario Bros. 3.  Back then, it wasn't quite as commonplace to see a nod to a classic arcade game like that, so I thought that was cool.  I also learned through this mode that you can be a real jerk in Mario Bros. if you want to!

I wonder how many kids back then knew that the song in the Mario Bros. commercial is just the tune to "Car 54, Where Are You?"

One time as a kid we went to Chuck E. Cheese and I was playing Mario Bros. when I felt someone come up beside me and try to play the game with me.  I didn't look over at first, but after they kept bumping into me and fumbling with putting the quarter in the slot, I was like, "What the heck?"  And when I looked over, it was the guy in the Chuck E. Cheese costume trying to play!

I named the original Psychonauts my Game of the Year back in 2005, and seeing how much story you need to know for the sequel, I would say you should make time to play the first one.  HOWEVER, I do understand the difficulty of finding time to play ALL the games out there.  I'd love to play Monster Hunter Stories 2, but there's no way that's going to happen.

I don't think I will write a blog about Psychonauts 2.  Lest I spoil it for anyone.

I played Limbo a long time ago on Xbox 360 and I don't think I got very far either.

I'm playing a lot of Psychonauts 2 as well.  How far are you in the game?

I went to Dave & Busters a few days ago and thought of you because I saw a Minecraft Dungeons arcade game!  I didn't play it, but maybe I will next time I go back.  I did play some other new games, though, like a Hungry, Hungry Hippos machine that was so huge you had to sit on the back of the hippo to play it!  I also played a new Pong game where the paddles and balls were actually physical pieces and were moved around by magnets I reckon.  Also played Centipede Chaos, which I had been wanting to play for a while.  That one has mushroom stools you sit on to play!  And a new Rampage game based on the movie.

Yes! Please do when you can, thanks.  Have you listened to the others?

No comments on that which I saw, but that's OK!  Hopefully you can check out the podcasts sometime!

Yeah being able to play as my favorite character, Estel, was great.

Haven't seen you in a while.  Did you know I have a podcast now?

https://anchor.fm/pizza-pixel-podcast

I tried to review Spirit Farer but they said they didn't have enough review codes.  So poop on them.

I thought of you yesterday because I was looking up a new manga based on Animal Crossing and I saw they have Minecraft manga!

Psychonauts 2 is already out?  I didn't think it would be released until the 25th.

I found out something bad about Psychonauts 2.  It's only getting a digital release.  That's a bummer!  I know that doesn't bother some people, but I'm just old fashioned I guess.  Even the Psychonauts VR game got a physical release!

While Kirby Super Star is better overall, I like to say that Super Star is a better two player game, and Dream Land 3 is a better single player game.  Also, even though Dream Land 3 uses crayon styled graphics, they pale in comparison to how it was done in Yoshi's Island, which was released two years prior.  Even so, Dream Land 3 is a great game.  Is there really such thing as a bad Kirby game?  No, not yet anyway.