PixlBit

When I was really little, my dad worked for Texas Instruments and Mostek, making chips for Atari cartridges.

I have to work on Black Friday.  Luckily I work in the plumbing section of a major hardware chain, so I probably won't have to deal with too many crowds since people usually don't buy toilets on Black Friday. :)

It actually follows the same plot almost exactly.  You visit a few more locations in the game that wouldn't fit as well with a action packed movie.  But I knew what was going to happen in the movie the whole way through because I had already played the game.  The game is pretty much Phoenix Wright for kids.

Yeah I heard about that WB Multi-versus game or whatever it's called.  I doubt Disney would do that with their characters because they are so picky about them.

Hey you know how you talk about the Arcade Archives games sometimes?  Well I just got one of them because it's a very significant game to me.  It's called Libble Rabble and I'll let you try and guess why it coming out on Arcade Archives is such a big deal.  At least to me anyway.

Detective Pikachu is a great movie.  The 3DS game it's based on is great, too.

Yes I love amiibo figures.  I just wish Metroid Dread wasn't so hard.  I can't defeat the last boss!

Congrats on a new job.  I have to work weekends most of the time.  Usually I don't mind it, but lately i feel like it cuts into my social life, what little I have.  At least it's better than when I was working nights.  That got old real fast.  Well I hope you can still visit here and blog and read our blogs and such.

About that...  One thing I miss about the old consoles is you just turned them on and boom, you could play a game.  Now you have to wait for it to load, show you the console's logo, then connect to the internet, then load a game, show all the companies that worked on it and what engies they used, etc.  It takes a good few minutes just to start a game anymore!

I like Fantasy Zone, but I don't remember seeing it in arcades when I was a kid.  I didn't play it much on consoles back then either, as I didn't have any SEGA consoles as a kid.  A friend of mine had a Master System and I played a lot of Fantasy Zone: The Maze on it.  The music in those games is so catchy!  I have a Opa-Opa figure on my desk!

I like how Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone take place in the same world.  In fact, in the newest Space Harrier game: Planet Harriers, Opa-Opa is a secret character!

For a while, Opa-Opa was even SEGA's mascot before Sonic!  I remember seeing him as an icon in games like Zillion and such.  More recently, he's appeared in the Sonic and SEGA All-Stars racing games, and in the Project X Zone games on 3DS, he teams up with Ulala to help her fight!

I'll try to list my favorites, but I'm sure there's more.  I'm just going by the top of my head:

1990: Lemmings, Little Nemo: The Dream Master

1991: Super Mario World, Final Fantasy 4

1992: Super Mario Kart

1993: Secret of Mana

1994: Donkey Kong Country, Final Fantasy 6

1995: Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island

1996: Super Mario 64, Super Mario RPG (this was also the year I started writing game reviews at the newspaper)

1997: This is where things get fuzzy.  It's the year I got a PlayStation.  So I know there was FF7, but maybe also Klonoa and the Namco Museums.

1998: Banjo-Kazooie: Ocarina of Time

1999: Super Smash Bros.