PixlBit

I got the N64 day one when I was in college.  Mario 64 blew us away and was truly revolutionary.  Other favorites include Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel, the Zelda games, Kirby 64, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, and so much more.  

However, the N64 was also the first console that caused me to buy a competitor's.  I was reviewing games for The Dallas Morning News then, and the sparse N64 release schedule wasn't cutting it.  So I bought a PlayStation and that was one of the best gaming purchases I ever made.  After that I was reviewing games on the PlayStation left and right.  Don't get me wrong, i still like the N64, I just ended up liking the PSOne more.

Space Invaders on the DS...are you talking about Space Invaders Extreme.  Oh I love that one!  Great modern update.  Taito's Arkanoid DS game was awesome, too.  Great music in that one.

Yeah it's odd that Space Invaders isn't as commonplace nowadays.  Thanks to Atari getting the license to put Space Invaders on consoles back in the day, we folks in the US actaully had more chances to play it than Japan did!

Zookeeper is great.  The main character isn't Mario, but Zeke instead.  His girlfriend you rescue is named Zelda.  Hmmm...  Did you know Zookeeper was actually made in the US?

I loved the Taito Legends compilations that were on the PS2.  I miss the days when companies were willing to put like, 50 plus games on a collection.  Nowadays if we get one, we're lucky if that range hits the double digits.

If you remember from my second podcast, the Xbox 360 is one of my top five favorite game consoles of all time.  I really liked the wide variety of games on it, no gimmicky Wii crap, and it was the first console I owned that did online right.  I haven't gotten an Xbox One or X/S yet.  I don't have anything against them, it's just there aren't enough games on those consoles for me to warrant a purchase.

So 1970s is your theme for September.  Seems pretty accurate.  You know someone in particular was born in September in the 1970s. :)

Who was this weird character you picked in Samurai Shodown 2?

I went back to Dave & Busters and played Minecraft Dungeons Arcade.  It's bascially just a beat 'em up with Gauntlet vibes.  The cool thing is you get a actual trading card through a dispenser each time you play, and you can scan them to get armor and weapons and such.  I thought that was kind of neat.  They had one like it for Marvel characters, too, where you could get a card.  But I didn't play that one.  Maybe if they had a She Hulk card. :)

I'm reviewing a lot of games.  I'm also trying to finish up Psychonauts 2 and chipping my way through The Great Ace Attorney.

You didn't happen to watch the recent Nintendo Direct, did you?  I'm so excited for the new Kirby game and ActRaiser Renaissance totally surprised me!

Well cool, looking forward to seeing what you're up to.

I knew that someone else composed most of the music for DKC, but I wasn't feeling like doing too much fact checking during the podcast or arguing so all I said to Ben was, "Are you sure?"

I went to two different Final Fantasy concerts.  I don't remember what they were called, but I'm pretty sure one of them was Distant Worlds.  Both played One Winged Angel as the encore.  Bleh.  Am I the only one who thinks Dancing Mad was so much better?  The second concert was especially cool becasue they played out the whole opera scene from FF6.  Dream came true that day.

Yeah I really want to go to the Nintendo area, too.  I may not want to leave...ever!  :)  By the way, Episode 4 is technically up, and Episode 5 is waiting to be edited and posted!

Yeah I remember Showbiz Pizza.  There's an interesting video on the history of Chuck E. Cheese that shows how both places were related.  It all depended on the region you were in.  But what's weird is that the region I was in had both Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz!

Yeah thinking about it, the DS didn't seem quite as gimmicky as the Wii, somehow.  Thanks for listening!